1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable
2 release of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the
3 changes in each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.4.8.5 - 2023-08-30
6 Quick second release after the first stable few days ago fixing minor
7 annoying bugfixes creating log BUG stacktrace. We also fix BSD compilation
8 failures and PoW unit test.
10 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
11 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 30, 2023.
13 o Minor features (geoip data):
14 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
15 retrieved on 2023/08/30.
17 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, compilation):
18 - Fix compilation issue on NetBSD by avoiding an unnecessary
19 dependency on "huge" page mappings in Equi-X. Fixes bug 40843;
20 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
22 o Minor bugfix (NetBSD, testing):
23 - Fix test failures in "crypto/hashx" and "slow/crypto/equix" on
24 x86_64 and aarch64 NetBSD hosts, by adding support for
25 PROT_MPROTECT() flags. Fixes bug 40844; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
27 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
28 - Demote a relay-side warn about too many legs to ProtocolWarn, as
29 there are conditions that it can briefly happen during set
30 construction. Also add additional set logging details for all
31 error cases. Fixes bug 40841; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
32 - Prevent non-fatal assert stacktrace caused by using conflux sets
33 during their teardown process. Fixes bug 40842; bugfix
37 Changes in version 0.4.8.4 - 2023-08-23
38 Finally, this is the very first stable release of the 0.4.8.x series making,
39 among other features, Proof-of-Work (prop#327) and Conflux (prop#329)
40 available to the entire network. Several new features and a lot of bugfixes
43 o Major feature (denial of service):
44 - Extend DoS protection to partially opened channels and known relays.
45 Because re-entry is not allowed anymore, we can apply DoS protections
46 onto known IP namely relays. Fixes bug 40821; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
48 o Major features (onion service, proof-of-work):
49 - Implement proposal 327 (Proof-Of-Work). This is aimed at thwarting
50 introduction flooding DoS attacks by introducing a dynamic Proof-Of-Work
51 protocol that occurs over introduction circuits. This introduces several
52 torrc options prefixed with "HiddenServicePoW" in order to control this
53 feature. By default, this is disabled. Closes ticket 40634.
55 o Major features (conflux):
56 - Implement Proposal 329 (conflux traffic splitting). Conflux splits
57 traffic across two circuits to Exits that support the protocol. These
58 circuits are pre-built only, which means that if the pre- built conflux
59 pool runs out, regular circuits will then be used. When using conflux
60 circuit pairs, clients choose the lower-latency circuit to send data to
61 the Exit. When the Exit sends data to the client, it maximizes
62 throughput, by fully utilizing both circuits in a multiplexed fashion.
63 Alternatively, clients can request that the Exit optimize for latency
64 when transmitting to them, by setting the torrc option 'ConfluxClientUX
65 latency'. Onion services are not currently supported, but will be in
66 arti. Many other future optimizations will also be possible using this
67 protocol. Closes ticket 40593.
69 o Major features (dirauth):
70 - Directory authorities and relays now interact properly with directory
71 authorities if they change addresses. In the past, they would continue to
72 upload votes, signatures, descriptors, etc to the hard-coded address in
73 the configuration. Now, if the directory authority is listed in the
74 consensus at a different address, they will direct queries to this new
75 address. Implements ticket 40705.
77 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
78 - Fix a relay-side crash caused by side effects of the fix for bug
79 40827. Reverts part of that fix that caused the crash and adds additional
80 log messages to help find the root cause. Fixes bug 40834; bugfix on
83 o Major bugfixes (conflux):
84 - Fix a relay-side assert crash caused by attempts to use a conflux circuit
85 between circuit close and free, such that no legs were on the conflux
86 set. Fixed by nulling out the stream's circuit back- pointer when the
87 last leg is removed. Additional checks and log messages have been added
88 to detect other cases. Fixes bug 40827; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
90 o Major bugfixes (proof of work, onion service, hashx):
91 - Fix a very rare buffer overflow in hashx, specific to the dynamic
92 compiler on aarch64 platforms. Fixes bug 40833; bugfix on 0.4.8.2-alpha.
94 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
95 - Rotate to a new L2 vanguard whenever an existing one loses the Stable or
96 Fast flag. Previously, we would leave these relays in the L2 vanguard
97 list but never use them, and if all of our vanguards end up like this we
98 wouldn't have any middle nodes left to choose from so we would fail to
99 make onion-related circuits. Fixes bug 40805; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
101 o Minor features (geoip data):
102 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
103 retrieved on 2023/08/23.
105 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
106 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 23, 2023.
108 o Minor features (testing):
109 - All Rust code is now linted (cargo clippy) as part of GitLab CI, and
110 existing warnings have been fixed. - Any unit tests written in Rust now
111 run as part of GitLab CI.
113 o Minor feature (CI):
114 - Update CI to use Debian Bullseye for runners.
116 o Minor feature (client, IPv6):
117 - Make client able to pick IPv6 relays by default now meaning
118 ClientUseIPv6 option now defaults to 1. Closes ticket 40785.
120 o Minor feature (compilation):
121 - Fix returning something other than "Unknown N/A" as libc version
122 if we build tor on an O.S. like DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, OpenBSD
125 o Minor feature (cpuworker):
126 - Always use the number of threads for our CPU worker pool to the
127 number of core available but cap it to a minimum of 2 in case of a
128 single core. Fixes bug 40713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
130 o Minor feature (lzma):
131 - Fix compiler warnings for liblzma >= 5.3.1. Closes ticket 40741.
133 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay):
134 - Expose time until online keys expires on the MetricsPort. Closes
137 o Minor feature (MetricsPort, relay, onion service):
138 - Add metrics for the relay side onion service interactions counting
139 seen cells. Closes ticket 40797. Patch by "friendly73".
141 o Minor features (directory authorities):
142 - Directory authorities now include their AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr
143 config option in the consensus parameter section of their vote.
144 Now external tools can better predict how they will behave.
145 Implements ticket 40753.
147 o Minor features (directory authority):
148 - Add a new consensus method in which the "published" times on
149 router entries in a microdesc consensus are all set to a
150 meaningless fixed date. Doing this will make the download size for
151 compressed microdesc consensus diffs much smaller. Part of ticket
152 40130; implements proposal 275.
154 o Minor features (network documents):
155 - Clients and relays no longer track the "published on" time
156 declared for relays in any consensus documents. When reporting
157 this time on the control port, they instead report a fixed date in
158 the future. Part of ticket 40130.
160 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
161 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 01, 2023.
163 o Minor features (geoip data):
164 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
165 retrieved on 2023/06/01.
167 o Minor features (hs, metrics):
168 - Add tor_hs_rend_circ_build_time and tor_hs_intro_circ_build_time
169 histograms to measure hidden service rend/intro circuit build time
170 durations. Part of ticket 40757.
172 o Minor features (metrics):
173 - Add a `reason` label to the HS error metrics. Closes ticket 40758.
174 - Add service side metrics for REND and introduction request
175 failures. Closes ticket 40755.
176 - Add support for histograms. Part of ticket 40757.
178 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
179 - Automatically restart managed Pluggable Transport processes when
180 their process terminate. Resolves ticket 33669.
182 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
183 - Use OpenSSL 1.1 APIs for LibreSSL, fixing LibreSSL 3.5
184 compatibility. Fixes issue 40630; patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
186 o Minor features (relay):
187 - Do not warn about configuration options that may expose a non-
188 anonymous onion service. Closes ticket 40691.
190 o Minor features (relays):
191 - Trigger OOS when bind fails with EADDRINUSE. This improves
192 fairness when a large number of exit connections are requested,
193 and properly signals exhaustion to the network. Fixes issue 40597;
194 patch by Alex Xu (Hello71).
196 o Minor features (tests):
197 - Avoid needless key reinitialization with OpenSSL during unit
198 tests, saving significant time. Patch from Alex Xu.
201 - Fix compiler warnings in equix and hashx when building with clang.
204 o Minor bugfix (FreeBSD, compilation):
205 - Fix compilation issue on FreeBSD by properly importing
206 sys/param.h. Fixes bug 40825; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
208 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
209 - Right after compression/decompression work is done, check for
210 errors. Before this, we would consider compression bomb before
211 that and then looking for errors leading to false positive on that
212 log warning. Fixes bug 40739; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch
215 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
216 - Fix all -Werror=enum-int-mismatch warnings. No behavior change.
217 Fixes bug 40824; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
219 o Minor bugfixes (protocol warn):
220 - Wrap a handful of cases where ProtocolWarning logs could emit IP
221 addresses. Fixes bug 40828; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
223 o Minor bugfix (congestion control):
224 - Reduce the accepted range of a circuit's negotiated 'cc_sendme_inc'
225 to be +/- 1 from the consensus parameter value. Fixes bug 40569;
226 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
227 - Remove unused congestion control algorithms and BDP calculation
228 code, now that we have settled on and fully tuned Vegas. Fixes bug
229 40566; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
230 - Update default congestion control parameters to match consensus.
231 Fixes bug 40709; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
233 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
234 - Fix "initializer is not a constant" compilation error that
235 manifests itself on gcc versions < 8.1 and MSVC. Fixes bug 40773;
236 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha
238 o Minor bugfixes (conflux):
239 - Count leg launch attempts prior to attempting to launch them. This
240 avoids inifinite launch attempts due to internal circuit building
241 failures. Additionally, double-check that we have enough exits in
242 our consensus overall, before attempting to launch conflux sets.
243 Fixes bug 40811; bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
244 - Fix a case where we were resuming reading on edge connections that
245 were already marked for close. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
247 - Fix stream attachment order when creating conflux circuits, so
248 that stream attachment happens after finishing the full link
249 handshake, rather than upon set finalization. Fixes bug 40801;
250 bugfix on 0.4.8.1-alpha.
251 - Handle legs being closed or destroyed before computing an RTT
252 (resulting in warns about too many legs). Fixes bug 40810; bugfix
254 - Remove a "BUG" warning from conflux_pick_first_leg that can be
255 triggered by broken or malicious clients. Fixes bug 40801; bugfix
258 o Minor bugfixes (KIST):
259 - Prevent KISTSchedRunInterval from having values of 0 or 1, neither
260 of which work properly. Additionally, make a separate
261 KISTSchedRunIntervalClient parameter, so that the client and relay
262 KIST values can be set separately. Set the default of both to 2ms.
263 Fixes bug 40808; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
265 o Minor bugfix (relay, logging):
266 - The wrong max queue cell size was used in a protocol warning
267 logging statement. Fixes bug 40745; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
269 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
270 - Avoid ""double-quoting"" strings in several log messages. Fixes
271 bug 22723; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
272 - Correct a log message when cleaning microdescriptors. Fixes bug
273 40619; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
275 o Minor bugfixes (metrics):
276 - Decrement hs_intro_established_count on introduction circuit
277 close. Fixes bug 40751; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
279 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports, windows):
280 - Remove a warning `BUG()` that could occur when attempting to
281 execute a non-existing pluggable transport on Windows. Fixes bug
282 40596; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
284 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
285 - Remove a "BUG" warning for an acceptable race between a circuit
286 close and considering that circuit active. Fixes bug 40647; bugfix
288 - Remove a harmless "Bug" log message that can happen in
289 relay_addr_learn_from_dirauth() on relays during startup. Finishes
290 fixing bug 40231. Fixes bug 40523; bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
292 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
293 - Allow membarrier for the sandbox. And allow rt_sigprocmask when
294 compiled with LTTng. Fixes bug 40799; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
295 - Fix sandbox support on AArch64 systems. More "*at" variants of
296 syscalls are now supported. Signed 32 bit syscall parameters are
297 checked more precisely, which should lead to lower likelihood of
298 breakages with future compiler and libc releases. Fixes bug 40599;
299 bugfix on 0.4.4.3-alpha.
301 o Minor bugfixes (state file):
302 - Avoid a segfault if the state file doesn't contains TotalBuildTimes
303 along CircuitBuildAbandonedCount being above 0. Fixes bug 40437;
304 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
307 - Remove the RendPostPeriod option. This was primarily used in
308 Version 2 Onion Services and after its deprecation isn't needed
309 anymore. Closes ticket 40431. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
312 Changes in version 0.4.7.13 - 2023-01-12
313 This version contains three major bugfixes, two for relays and one for
314 client being a security fix, TROVE-2022-002. We have added, for Linux, the
315 support for IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT for relays using OutboundBindAddress.
316 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version considering the important
317 congestion control fix detailed below.
319 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
320 - Avoid incrementing the congestion window when the window is not
321 fully in use. Thia prevents overshoot in cases where long periods
322 of low activity would allow our congestion window to grow, and
323 then get followed by a burst, which would cause queue overload.
324 Also improve the increment checks for RFC3742. Fixes bug 40732;
325 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
327 o Major bugfixes (relay):
328 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
329 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
330 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
331 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
332 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
333 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
336 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
337 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
338 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
339 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
340 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
342 o Minor feature (authority):
343 - Reject 0.4.6.x series at the authority level. Closes ticket 40664.
345 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
346 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
348 o Minor features (geoip data):
349 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
350 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
352 o Minor features (relays):
353 - Set the Linux-specific IP_BIND_ADDRESS_NO_PORT option on outgoing
354 sockets, allowing relays using OutboundBindAddress to make more
355 outgoing connections than ephemeral ports, as long as they are to
356 separate destinations. Related to issue 40597; patch by Alex
359 o Minor bugfixes (relay, metrics):
360 - Fix typo in a congestion control label on the MetricsPort. Fixes
361 bug 40727; bugfix on 0.4.7.12.
363 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox, authority):
364 - With the sandbox enabled, allow to write "my-consensus-
365 {ns|microdesc}" and to rename them as well. Fixes bug 40729;
366 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
368 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
369 - Rely on actual error returned by the kernel when choosing what
370 resource exhaustion to log. Fixes issue 40613; Fix
371 on tor-0.4.6.1-alpha.
374 Changes in version 0.4.5.16 - 2023-01-12
375 This version has one major bugfix for relay and a security fix,
376 TROVE-2022-002, affecting clients. We strongly recommend to upgrade to our
377 0.4.7.x stable series. As a reminder, this series is EOL on February 15th,
380 o Major bugfixes (relay):
381 - When opening a channel because of a circuit request that did not
382 include an Ed25519 identity, record the Ed25519 identity that we
383 actually received, so that we can use the channel for other
384 circuit requests that _do_ list an Ed25519 identity. (Previously
385 we had code to record this identity, but a logic bug caused it to
386 be disabled.) Fixes bug 40563; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Patch
389 o Major bugfixes (TROVE-2022-002, client):
390 - The SafeSocks option had its logic inverted for SOCKS4 and
391 SOCKS4a. It would let the unsafe SOCKS4 pass but not the safe
392 SOCKS4a one. This is TROVE-2022-002 which was reported on
393 Hackerone by "cojabo". Fixes bug 40730; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
395 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
396 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on January 12, 2023.
398 o Minor features (geoip data):
399 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
400 retrieved on 2023/01/12.
403 Changes in version 0.4.7.12 - 2022-12-06
404 This version contains a major change that is a new key for moria1. Also, new
405 metrics are exported on the MetricsPort for the congestion control
408 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
409 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
410 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
411 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
412 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
414 o Minor feature (Congestion control metrics):
415 - Add additional metricsport relay metrics for congestion control.
418 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
419 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
421 o Minor features (geoip data):
422 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
423 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
425 o Minor bugfixes (cpuworker, relay):
426 - Fix an off by one overload calculation on the number of CPUs being
427 used by our thread pool. Fixes bug 40719; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
430 Changes in version 0.4.5.15 - 2022-12-06
431 This version has several major changes for directory authorities. And a
432 major bugfix on OSX. Again, we strongly recommend to upgrade to our 0.4.7.x
433 series latest stable. This series is EOL on February 15th, 2023.
435 o Directory authority changes (dizum):
436 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
438 o Directory authority changes (Faravahar):
439 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
440 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
442 o Directory authority changes (moria1):
443 - Rotate the relay identity key and v3 identity key for moria1. They
444 have been online for more than a decade and refreshing keys
445 periodically is good practice. Advertise new ports too, to avoid
446 confusion. Closes ticket 40722.
448 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
449 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
450 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
451 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
452 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
455 o Major bugfixes (relay):
456 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
457 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
459 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
460 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 06, 2022.
462 o Minor features (geoip data):
463 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
464 retrieved on 2022/12/06.
467 Changes in version 0.4.7.11 - 2022-11-10
468 This version contains several major fixes aimed at helping defend against
469 network denial of service. It is also extending drastically the MetricsPort
470 for relays to help us gather more internal data to investigate performance
473 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
474 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
476 o Directory authority changes (dizum, Faravahar):
477 - Change dizum IP address. Closes ticket 40687.
478 - Remove Faravahar until its operator, Sina, set it back up online
479 outside of Team Cymru network. Closes ticket 40688.
481 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
482 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
483 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network
484 allocations. We are updating the database to use the one generated
485 on August 9th, 2022. Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
487 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
488 - Set a much higher circuit build timeout for opened client rendezvous
489 circuit. Before this, tor would time them out very quickly leading to
490 unnecessary retries meaning more load on the network. Fixes bug 40694;
491 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
493 o Major bugfixes (OSX):
494 - Fix coarse-time computation on Apple platforms (like Mac M1) where
495 the Mach absolute time ticks do not correspond directly to
496 nanoseconds. Previously, we computed our shift value wrong, which
497 led us to give incorrect timing results. Fixes bug 40684; bugfix
500 o Major bugfixes (relay):
501 - Improve security of our DNS cache by randomly clipping the TTL
502 value. TROVE-2021-009. Fixes bug 40674; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
504 o Minor feature (Mac and iOS build):
505 - Change how combine_libs works on Darwin like platforms to make
506 sure we don't include any `__.SYMDEF` and `__.SYMDEF SORTED`
507 symbols on the archive before we repack and run ${RANLIB} on the
508 archive. This fixes a build issue with recent Xcode versions on
509 Mac Silicon and iOS. Closes ticket 40683.
511 o Minor feature (metrics):
512 - Add various congestion control counters to the MetricsPort. Closes
515 o Minor feature (performance):
516 - Bump the maximum amount of CPU that can be used from 16 to 128. Note
517 that NumCPUs torrc option overrides this hardcoded maximum. Fixes bug
518 40703; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
520 o Minor feature (relay):
521 - Make an hardcoded value for the maximum of per CPU tasks into a
523 - Two new consensus parameters are added to control the wait time in
524 queue of the onionskins. One of them is the torrc
525 MaxOnionQueueDelay options which supersedes the consensus
526 parameter. Closes ticket 40704.
528 o Minor feature (relay, DoS):
529 - Apply circuit creation anti-DoS defenses if the outbound circuit
530 max cell queue size is reached too many times. This introduces two
531 new consensus parameters to control the queue size limit and
532 number of times allowed to go over that limit. Closes ticket 40680.
534 o Minor feature (relay, metrics):
535 - Add DoS defenses counter to MetricsPort.
536 - Add congestion control RTT reset counter to MetricsPort.
537 - Add counters to the MetricsPort how many connections, per type,
538 are currently opened and how many were created.
539 - Add relay flags from the consensus to the MetricsPort.
540 - Add total number of opened circuits to MetricsPort.
541 - Add total number of streams seen by an Exit to the MetricsPort.
542 - Add traffic stats as in number of read/written bytes in total.
543 - Related to ticket 40194.
545 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
546 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on November 10, 2022.
548 o Minor features (geoip data):
549 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
550 retrieved on 2022/11/10.
552 o Minor bugfixes (authorities, sandbox):
553 - Allow to write file my-consensus-<flavor-name> to disk when
554 sandbox is activated. Fixes bug 40663; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
556 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth):
557 - Directory authorities stop voting a consensus "Measured" weight
558 for relays with the Authority flag. Now these relays will be
559 considered unmeasured, which should reserve their bandwidth for
560 their dir auth role and minimize distractions from other roles. In
561 place of the "Measured" weight, they now include a
562 "MeasuredButAuthority" weight (not used by anything) so the
563 bandwidth authority's opinion on this relay can be recorded for
564 posterity. Lastly, remove the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth
565 torrc option which never worked right. Fixes bugs 40698 and 40700;
566 bugfix on 0.4.7.2-alpha.
568 o Minor bugfixes (onion service client):
569 - A collapsing onion service circuit should be seen as an
570 "unreachable" error so it can be retried. Fixes bug 40692; bugfix
573 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
574 - Make the service retry a rendezvous if the circuit is being
575 repurposed for measurements. Fixes bug 40696; bugfix
578 o Minor bugfixes (relay overload statistics):
579 - Count total create cells vs dropped create cells properly, when
580 assessing if our fraction of dropped cells is too high. We only
581 count non-client circuits in the denominator, but we would include
582 client circuits in the numerator, leading to surprising log lines
583 claiming that we had dropped more than 100% of incoming create
584 cells. Fixes bug 40673; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
586 o Code simplification and refactoring (bridges):
587 - Remove unused code related to ExtPort connection ID. Fixes bug
588 40648; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
591 Changes in version 0.4.7.10 - 2022-08-12
592 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
593 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
594 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
597 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
598 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
599 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
600 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
601 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.7.9.
604 Changes in version 0.4.6.12 - 2022-08-12
605 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
606 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
607 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
610 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
611 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
612 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
613 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
614 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.6.11.
617 Changes in version 0.4.5.14 - 2022-08-12
618 This version updates the geoip cache that we generate from IPFire location
619 database to use the August 9th, 2022 one. Everyone MUST update to this
620 latest release else circuit path selection and relay metrics are badly
623 o Major bugfixes (geoip data):
624 - IPFire informed us on August 12th that databases generated after
625 (including) August 10th did not have proper ARIN network allocations. We
626 are updating the database to use the one generated on August 9th, 2022.
627 Fixes bug 40658; bugfix on 0.4.5.13.
630 Changes in version 0.4.7.9 - 2022-08-11
631 This version contains several major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
632 relays and possible side-channel. It also contains a major bugfix related to
633 congestion control also aimed at reducing memory pressure on relays.
634 Finally, there is last one major bugfix related to Vanguard L2 layer node
637 We strongly recommend to upgrade to this version especially for Exit relays
638 in order to help the network defend against this ongoing DDoS.
640 o Major bugfixes (congestion control):
641 - Implement RFC3742 Limited Slow Start. Congestion control was
642 overshooting the congestion window during slow start, particularly
643 for onion service activity. With this fix, we now update the
644 congestion window more often during slow start, as well as dampen
645 the exponential growth when the congestion window grows above a
646 capping parameter. This should reduce the memory increases guard
647 relays were seeing, as well as allow us to set lower queue limits
648 to defend against ongoing DoS attacks. Fixes bug 40642; bugfix
651 o Major bugfixes (relay):
652 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
653 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
654 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
655 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
656 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
657 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
658 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
660 o Major bugfixes (vanguards):
661 - We had omitted some checks for whether our vanguards (second layer
662 guards from proposal 333) overlapped. Now make sure to pick each
663 of them to be independent. Also, change the design to allow them
664 to come from the same family. Fixes bug 40639; bugfix
667 o Minor features (dirauth):
668 - Add a torrc option to control the Guard flag bandwidth threshold
669 percentile. Closes ticket 40652.
670 - Add an AuthDirVoteGuard torrc option that can allow authorities to
671 assign the Guard flag to the given fingerprints/country code/IPs.
672 This is a needed feature mostly for defense purposes in case a DoS
673 hits the network and relay start losing the Guard flags too fast.
674 - Make UPTIME_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE, MTBF_TO_GUARANTEE_STABLE,
675 TIME_KNOWN_TO_GUARANTEE_FAMILIAR WFU_TO_GUARANTEE_GUARD tunable
678 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
679 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
681 o Minor features (geoip data):
682 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
683 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
685 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control):
686 - Add a check for an integer underflow condition that might happen
687 in cases where the system clock is stopped, the ORconn is blocked,
688 and the endpoint sends more than a congestion window worth of non-
689 data control cells at once. This would cause a large congestion
690 window to be calculated instead of a small one. No security
691 impact. Fixes bug 40644; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
693 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
694 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
695 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
696 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
697 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
699 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
700 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
701 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
702 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
705 Changes in version 0.4.6.11 - 2022-08-11
706 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
707 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
708 stability or safety purposes.
710 This is the very LAST version of this series. As of August 1st 2022, it is
711 end-of-life (EOL). We thus strongly recommend to upgrade to the latest
712 stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
714 o Major bugfixes (relay):
715 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
716 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
717 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
718 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
719 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
720 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
721 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
723 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
724 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
726 o Minor features (geoip data):
727 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
728 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
730 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
731 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
732 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
734 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
735 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
736 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
737 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
738 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
739 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
741 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
742 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
743 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
744 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
745 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
747 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
748 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
749 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
750 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
752 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
753 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
754 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
755 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
756 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
758 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
759 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
760 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
762 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
763 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
764 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
765 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
766 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
767 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
769 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
770 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
771 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
772 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
775 Changes in version 0.4.5.13 - 2022-08-11
776 This version contains two major fixes aimed at reducing memory pressure on
777 relays and possible side-channel. The rest of the fixes were backported for
778 stability or safety purposes. We strongly recommend to upgrade your relay to
779 this version or, ideally, to the latest stable of the 0.4.7.x series.
781 o Major bugfixes (relay):
782 - Remove OR connections btrack subsystem entries when the connections
783 close normally. Before this, we would only remove the entry on error and
784 thus leaking memory for each normal OR connections. Fixes bug 40604;
785 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
786 - Stop sending TRUNCATED cell and instead close the circuit from which we
787 received a DESTROY cell. This makes every relay in the circuit path to
788 stop queuing cells. Fixes bug 40623; bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc.
790 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
791 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on August 11, 2022.
793 o Minor features (geoip data):
794 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
795 retrieved on 2022/08/11.
797 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
798 - Permit the clone3 syscall, which is apparently used in glibc-2.34
799 and later. Closes ticket 40590.
801 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
802 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
803 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
804 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
805 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
806 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
808 o Minor bugfixes (defense in depth):
809 - Change a test in the netflow padding code to make it more
810 _obviously_ safe against remotely triggered crashes. (It was safe
811 against these before, but not obviously so.) Fixes bug 40645;
812 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
814 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
815 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
816 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
817 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
819 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
820 - The MetricsPort line for an onion service with multiple ports are now
821 unique that is one line per port. Before this, all ports of an onion
822 service would be on the same line which violates the Prometheus rules of
823 unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
825 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
826 - Fix a fatal assert due to a guard subsystem recursion triggered by
827 the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
829 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
830 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
831 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
832 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
833 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
834 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
836 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
837 - Do not propagate either forward or backward a DESTROY remote reason when
838 closing a circuit in order to avoid a possible side channel. Fixes bug
839 40649; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha.
842 Changes in version 0.4.7.8 - 2022-06-17
843 This version fixes several bugfixes including a High severity security issue
844 categorized as a Denial of Service. Everyone running an earlier version
845 should upgrade to this version.
847 o Major bugfixes (congestion control, TROVE-2022-001):
848 - Fix a scenario where RTT estimation can become wedged, seriously
849 degrading congestion control performance on all circuits. This
850 impacts clients, onion services, and relays, and can be triggered
851 remotely by a malicious endpoint. Tracked as CVE-2022-33903. Fixes
852 bug 40626; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
854 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
855 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on June 17, 2022.
857 o Minor features (geoip data):
858 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
859 retrieved on 2022/06/17.
861 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
862 - Allow the rseq system call in the sandbox. This solves a crash
863 issue with glibc 2.35 on Linux. Patch from pmu-ipf. Fixes bug
864 40601; bugfix on 0.3.5.11.
866 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
867 - Demote a harmless warn log message about finding a second hop to
868 from warn level to info level, if we do not have enough
869 descriptors yet. Leave it at notice level for other cases. Fixes
870 bug 40603; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
871 - Demote a notice log message about "Unexpected path length" to info
872 level. These cases seem to happen arbitrarily, and we likely will
873 never find all of them before the switch to arti. Fixes bug 40612;
874 bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
876 o Minor bugfixes (relay, logging):
877 - Demote a harmless XOFF log message to from notice level to info
878 level. Fixes bug 40620; bugfix on 0.4.7.5-alpha.
881 Changes in version 0.4.7.7 - 2022-04-27
882 This is the first stable version of the 0.4.7.x series. This series
883 includes several major bugfixes from previous series and several features
884 including one massive new one: congestion control.
886 Congestion control, among other things, should improve traffic speed and
887 stability on the network once a majority of Exit upgrade. You can find more
888 details about it in proposal 324 in the torspec.git repository.
890 Below are all the changes of the 0.4.7.x series:
892 o Major features (congestion control):
893 - Implement support for flow control over congestion controlled
894 circuits. This work comes from proposal 324. Closes ticket 40450.
896 o Major features (relay, client, onion services):
897 - Implement RTT-based congestion control for exits and onion
898 services, from Proposal 324. Disabled by default. Enabled by the
899 'cc_alg' consensus parameter. Closes ticket 40444.
901 o Major features (directory authority):
902 - Add a new consensus method to handle MiddleOnly specially. When
903 enough authorities are using this method, then any relay tagged
904 with the MiddleOnly flag will have its Exit, Guard, HSDir, and
905 V2Dir flags automatically cleared, and will have its BadExit flag
906 automatically set. Implements part of proposal 335.
907 - Authorities can now be configured to label relays as "MiddleOnly".
908 When voting for this flag, authorities automatically vote against
909 Exit, Guard, HSDir, and V2Dir; and in favor of BadExit. Implements
910 part of proposal 335. Based on a patch from Neel Chauhan.
912 o Major features (Proposal 332, onion services, guard selection algorithm):
913 - Clients and onion services now choose four long-lived "layer 2"
914 guard relays for use as the middle hop in all onion circuits.
915 These relays are kept in place for a randomized duration averaging
916 1 week. This mitigates guard discovery attacks against clients and
917 short-lived onion services such as OnionShare. Long-lived onion
918 services that need high security should still use the Vanguards
919 addon (https://github.com/mikeperry-tor/vanguards). Closes ticket
920 40363; implements proposal 333.
922 o Major bugfix (relay, metrics):
923 - On the MetricsPort, the DNS error statistics are not reported by
924 record type ("record=...") anymore due to a libevent bug
925 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/1219). Fixes bug
926 40490; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
928 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
929 - Make Tor work reliably again when you have multiple bridges
930 configured and one or more of them are unreachable. The problem
931 came because we require that we have bridge descriptors for both
932 of our first two bridges (else we refuse to try to connect), but
933 in some cases we would wait three hours before trying to fetch
934 these missing descriptors, and/or never recover when we do try to
935 fetch them. Fixes bugs 40396 and 40495; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc
938 o Major bugfixes (client):
939 - Stop caching TCP connect failures to relays/bridges when we
940 initiated the connection as a client. Now we only cache connect
941 failures as a relay or bridge when we initiated them because of an
942 EXTEND request. Declining to re-attempt the client-based
943 connections could cause problems when we lose connectivity and try
944 to reconnect. Fixes bug 40499; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
946 o Major bugfixes (onion service, congestion control):
947 - Fix the onion service upload case where the congestion control
948 parameters were not added to the right object. Fixes bug 40586;
949 bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
951 o Major bugfixes (relay, DNS):
952 - Lower the DNS timeout from 3 attempts at 5 seconds each to 2
953 attempts at 1 seconds each. Two new consensus parameters were
954 added to control these values. This change should improve observed
955 performance under DNS load; see ticket for more details. Fixes bug
956 40312; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
958 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
959 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
960 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
961 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
962 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
963 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
964 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
966 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
967 - Do not trigger a general overload on DNS timeout. Even after
968 fixing 40527, some code remained that triggered the overload.
969 Fixes bug 40564; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
970 - Change the MetricsPort DNS "timeout" label to be "tor_timeout" in
971 order to indicate that this was a DNS timeout from tor perspective
972 and not the DNS server itself.
973 - Deprecate overload_dns_timeout_period_secs and
974 overload_dns_timeout_scale_percent consensus parameters as well.
975 They were used to assess the overload state which is no more now.
976 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
977 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
978 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
979 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
981 o Minor feature (authority, relay):
982 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.4.2.x, 0.4.3.x,
983 0.4.4.x and 0.4.5 alphas/rc. Closes ticket 40480.
984 - Reject End-Of-Life relays running version 0.3.5.x. Closes
987 o Minor feature (onion service v2):
988 - Onion service v2 addresses are now not recognized anymore by tor
989 meaning a bad hostname is returned when attempting to pass it on a
990 SOCKS connection. No more deprecation log is emitted client side.
992 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
993 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
995 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
996 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
997 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1000 o Minor features (bridge testing support):
1001 - Let external bridge reachability testing tools discard cached
1002 bridge descriptors when setting new bridges, so they can be sure
1003 to get a clean reachability test. Implements ticket 40209.
1005 o Minor features (compilation):
1006 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1007 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1008 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1009 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1012 o Minor features (control port):
1013 - Provide congestion control fields on CIRC_BW and STREAM control
1014 port events, for use by sbws. Closes ticket 40568.
1016 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1017 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on April 27, 2022.
1019 o Minor features (fuzzing):
1020 - When building with --enable-libfuzzer, use a set of compiler flags
1021 that works with more recent versions of the library. Previously we
1022 were using a set of flags from 2017. Closes ticket 40407.
1024 o Minor features (geoip data):
1025 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1026 retrieved on 2022/04/27.
1028 o Minor features (logging, heartbeat):
1029 - When a relay receives a cell that isn't encrypted properly for it,
1030 but the relay is the last hop on the circuit, the relay now counts
1031 how many cells of this kind it receives, on how many circuits, and
1032 reports this information in the log. Previously, we'd log each
1033 cell at PROTOCOL_WARN level, which is far too verbose to be
1034 useful. Fixes part of ticket 40400.
1036 o Minor features (portability):
1037 - Try to prevent a compiler warning about printf arguments that
1038 could sometimes occur on MSYS2 depending on the configuration.
1039 Closes ticket 40355.
1041 o Minor features (testing configuration):
1042 - When TestingTorNetwork is enabled, skip the permissions check on
1043 hidden service directories. Closes ticket 40338.
1044 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1045 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1046 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1047 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1048 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1049 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1050 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1051 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1052 fix for ticket 40337.
1053 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1054 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1055 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1057 o Minor features (testing):
1058 - We now have separate fuzzers for the inner layers of v3 onion
1059 service descriptors, to prevent future bugs like 40392. Closes
1062 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1063 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug
1064 40500; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1066 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1067 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1068 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1070 o Minor bugfix (pluggable transport):
1071 - Do not kill a managed proxy if one of its transport configurations
1072 emits a method error. Instead log a warning and continue processing
1073 method arguments. Fixes bug 7362; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
1075 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1076 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1077 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1080 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
1081 - When we don't yet have a descriptor for one of our bridges,
1082 disable the entry guard retry schedule on that bridge. The entry
1083 guard retry schedule and the bridge descriptor retry schedule can
1084 conflict, e.g. where we mark a bridge as "maybe up" yet we don't
1085 try to fetch its descriptor yet, leading Tor to wait (refusing to
1086 do anything) until it becomes time to fetch the descriptor. Fixes
1087 bug 40497; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
1089 o Minor bugfixes (cell scheduling):
1090 - Avoid writing empty payload with NSS write.
1091 - Don't attempt to write 0 bytes after a cell scheduling loop. No
1092 empty payload was put on the wire. Fixes bug 40548; bugfix
1095 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
1096 - Don't send STOP circuit padding cells when the other side has
1097 already shut down the corresponding padding machine. Fixes bug
1098 40435; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
1100 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1101 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1102 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1103 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1104 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1107 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1108 - Fix compilation error when __NR_time is not defined. Fixes bug
1109 40465; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1110 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1111 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1112 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1113 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1114 - Resume being able to build on old / esoteric gcc versions. Fixes
1115 bug 40550; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1117 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings):
1118 - Fix couple compiler warnings on latest Ubuntu Jammy. Fixes bug
1119 40516; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1121 o Minor bugfixes (congestion control, client side logs):
1122 - Demote a warn about 1-hop circuits using congestion control down
1123 to info; Demote the 4-hop case to notice. Fixes bug 40598; bugfix
1126 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1127 - Allows the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1128 sandbox is enabled. Makes SAVECONF keep only one backup file, to
1129 simplify implementation. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1130 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1132 o Minor bugfixes (controller, path bias):
1133 - When a circuit's path is specified, in full or in part, from the
1134 controller API, do not count that circuit towards our path-bias
1135 calculations. (Doing so was incorrect, since we cannot tell
1136 whether the controller is selecting relays randomly.) Resolves a
1137 "Bug" warning. Fixes bug 40515; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
1139 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth, bandwidth scanner):
1140 - Add the AuthDirDontVoteOnDirAuthBandwidth dirauth config parameter
1141 to avoid voting on bandwidth scanner weights to v3 directory
1142 authorities. Fixes bug 40471; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Patch by
1145 o Minor bugfixes (DNSPort, dormant mode):
1146 - A request on the DNSPort now wakes up a dormant tor. Fixes bug
1147 40577; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1149 o Minor bugfixes (fragile-hardening, sandbox):
1150 - When building with --enable-fragile-hardening, add or relax Linux
1151 seccomp rules to allow AddressSanitizer to execute normally if the
1152 process terminates with the sandbox active. This has the side
1153 effect of disabling the filtering of file- and directory-open
1154 requests on most systems and dilutes the effectiveness of the
1155 sandbox overall, as a wider range of system calls must be
1156 permitted. Fixes bug 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1158 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
1159 - Adjust the heartbeat log message about distinct clients to
1160 consider the HeartbeatPeriod rather than a flat 6-hour delay.
1161 Fixes bug 40330; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1163 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1164 - If a channel has never received or transmitted a cell, or seen a
1165 client, do not calculate time diffs against 1/1/1970 but log a
1166 better prettier message. Fixes bug 40182; bugfix on 0.2.4.4.
1167 - When we no longer have enough directory information to use the
1168 network, we would log a notice-level message -- but we would not
1169 reliably log a message when we recovered and resumed using the
1170 network. Now make sure there is always a corresponding message
1171 about recovering. Fixes bug 40496; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1173 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1174 - Add spaces between the "and" when logging the "Your server has not
1175 managed to confirm reachability for its" on dual-stack relays.
1176 Fixes bug 40453; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1178 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, onion service):
1179 - Fix the metrics with a port label to be unique. Before this, all
1180 ports of an onion service would be on the same line which violates
1181 the Prometheus rules of unique labels. Fixes bug 40581; bugfix
1184 o Minor bugfixes (onion service congestion control):
1185 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in the case where we fail to
1186 set up congestion control on a rendezvous circuit. This could
1187 happen naturally if a cache entry expired at an unexpected time.
1188 Fixes bug 40576; bugfix on 0.4.7.4-alpha.
1190 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1191 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1192 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1193 connections before uploading a new descriptor which leads to
1194 wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit path
1195 selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1196 - Fix a warning BUG that would occur often on heavily loaded onion
1197 service leading to filling the logs with useless warnings. Fixes
1198 bug 34083; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1200 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client):
1201 - Fix a rare but fatal assertion failure due to a guard subsystem
1202 recursion triggered by the onion service client. Fixes bug 40579;
1203 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1205 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, config):
1206 - Fix a memory leak for a small config line string that could occur
1207 if the onion service failed to be configured from file properly.
1208 Fixes bug 40484; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1210 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1211 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1212 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1213 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1214 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1215 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1216 - Note that due to #40476 which removes v2 support entirely, this
1217 log line is not emitted anymore. We still mention this in the
1218 changelog because it is a Low-severity TROVE.
1220 o Minor bugfixes (performance, DoS):
1221 - Fix one case of a not-especially viable denial-of-service attack
1222 found by OSS-Fuzz in our consensus-diff parsing code. This attack
1223 causes a lot small of memory allocations and then immediately
1224 frees them: this is only slow when running with all the sanitizers
1225 enabled. Fixes one case of bug 40472; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1227 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1228 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1229 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1230 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1231 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1233 o Minor bugfixes (relay, overload):
1234 - Decide whether to signal overload based on a fraction and
1235 assessment period of ntor handshake drops. Previously, a single
1236 drop could trigger an overload state, which caused many false
1237 positives. Fixes bug 40560; bugfix on 0.4.7.1-alpha.
1239 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1240 - Fix the sandbox on i386 by modifying it to allow the
1241 "clock_gettime64" and "statx" system calls and to filter the
1242 "chown32" and "stat64" system calls in place of "chown" and
1243 "stat", respectively. Fixes bug 40505; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1245 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1246 - Fix a fencepost issue when we check stability_last_downrated where
1247 we called rep_hist_downrate_old_runs() twice. Fixes bug 40394;
1248 bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1250 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1251 - Fix a bug that prevented some tests from running with the correct
1252 names. Fixes bug 40365; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1254 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1255 - Do not log "RENDEZVOUS1 cell with unrecognized rendezvous cookie"
1256 at LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. This warning can
1257 happen naturally if a client gives up on a rendezvous circuit
1258 after sending INTRODUCE1. Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix
1260 - Do not log "circuit_receive_relay_cell failed" at
1261 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN; instead log it at DEBUG. In every case where we
1262 would want to log this as a protocol warning, we are already
1263 logging another warning from inside circuit_receive_relay_cell.
1264 Fixes part of bug 40400; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
1266 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1267 - Lower the official maximum for "guard-extreme-restriction-percent"
1268 to 100. This has no effect on when the guard code will generate a
1269 warning, but it makes the intent of the option clearer. Fixes bug
1270 40486; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
1273 - Add links to original tor design paper and anonbib to
1274 docs/HACKING/README.1st.md. Closes ticket 33742. Patch from
1276 - Describe the "fingerprint-ed25519" file in the tor.1 man page.
1277 Fixes bug 40467; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1278 - Provide an improved version of the tor-exit-notice.html file for
1279 exit relays to use as a landing page. The text is unchanged, but
1280 the page design and layout are significantly modernized, and
1281 several links are fixed. Patch from "n_user"; closes ticket 40529.
1284 - Add unit tests for the Linux seccomp sandbox. Resolves
1287 o Code simplification and refactoring (rust):
1288 - Remove Rust support and its associated code. It is unsupported and
1289 Rust focus should be shifted to arti. Closes ticket 40469.
1291 o Documentation (man, relay):
1292 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1293 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1295 o Testing (CI, chutney):
1296 - Bump the data size that chutney transmits to 5MBytes in order to
1297 trigger the flow control and congestion window code. Closes
1301 Changes in version 0.4.6.10 - 2022-02-04
1302 This version contains minor bugfixes but one in particular is that relays
1303 don't advertise onion service v2 support at the protocol version level.
1305 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1306 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on February 04, 2022.
1308 o Minor features (geoip data):
1309 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1310 retrieved on 2022/02/04.
1312 o Minor bugfix (logging):
1313 - Update a log notice dead URL to a working one. Fixes bug 40544;
1314 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1316 o Minor bugfix (relay):
1317 - Remove the HSDir and HSIntro onion service v2 protocol versions so
1318 relay stop advertising that they support them. Fixes bug 40509;
1321 o Minor bugfixes (MetricsPort, Prometheus):
1322 - Add double quotes to the label values of the onion service
1323 metrics. Fixes bug 40552; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1326 Changes in version 0.4.6.9 - 2021-12-15
1327 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One important
1328 piece is the removal of DNS timeout metric from the overload general signal.
1329 See below for more details.
1331 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload):
1332 - Don't make Tor DNS timeout trigger an overload general state.
1333 These timeouts are different from DNS server timeout. They have to
1334 be seen as timeout related to UX and not because of a network
1335 problem. Fixes bug 40527; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1337 o Minor feature (reproducible build):
1338 - The repository can now build reproducible tarballs which adds the
1339 build command "make dist-reprod" for that purpose. Closes
1342 o Minor features (compilation):
1343 - Give an error message if trying to build with a version of
1344 LibreSSL known not to work with Tor. (There's an incompatibility
1345 with LibreSSL versions 3.2.1 through 3.4.0 inclusive because of
1346 their incompatibility with OpenSSL 1.1.1's TLSv1.3 APIs.) Closes
1349 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1350 - Regenerate fallback directories generated on December 15, 2021.
1352 o Minor features (geoip data):
1353 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1354 retrieved on 2021/12/15.
1356 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1357 - Fix our configuration logic to detect whether we had OpenSSL 3:
1358 previously, our logic was reversed. This has no other effect than
1359 to change whether we suppress deprecated API warnings. Fixes bug
1360 40429; bugfix on 0.3.5.13.
1362 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1363 - Reject IPv6-only DirPorts. Our reachability self-test forces
1364 DirPorts to be IPv4, but our configuration parser allowed them to
1365 be IPv6-only, which led to an assertion failure. Fixes bug 40494;
1366 bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1368 o Documentation (man, relay):
1369 - Missing "OverloadStatistics" in tor.1 manpage. Fixes bug 40504;
1370 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1373 Changes in version 0.4.6.8 - 2021-10-26
1374 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor. One
1375 highlight is a fix on how we track DNS timeouts to report general
1378 o Major bugfixes (relay, overload state):
1379 - Relays report the general overload state for DNS timeout errors
1380 only if X% of all DNS queries over Y seconds are errors. Before
1381 that, it only took 1 timeout to report the overload state which
1382 was just too low of a threshold. The X and Y values are 1% and 10
1383 minutes respectively but they are also controlled by consensus
1384 parameters. Fixes bug 40491; bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1386 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1387 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1390 o Minor features (testing):
1391 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1392 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1393 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1394 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1395 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1396 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1397 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1398 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1399 fix for ticket 40337.
1400 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1401 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1402 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1404 o Minor bugfix (onion service):
1405 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1406 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1407 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1408 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1409 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1410 - Improve logging when a bad HS version is given. Fixes bug 40476;
1411 bugfix on 0.4.6.1-alpha.
1413 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1414 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1415 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1417 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1418 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1419 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1420 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1421 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1424 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008):
1425 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1426 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1427 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1428 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1429 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1432 Changes in version 0.4.5.11 - 2021-10-26
1433 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1434 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1435 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1436 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1437 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1438 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1441 o Major feature (onion service v2):
1442 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1443 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1444 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1445 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1447 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1448 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1449 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1450 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1452 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1453 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1454 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1455 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1457 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1458 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1461 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.6.5):
1462 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1463 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1464 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1465 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1467 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1468 - On a testing network, relays can now use the
1469 TestingMinTimeToReportBandwidth option to change the smallest
1470 amount of time over which they're willing to report their observed
1471 maximum bandwidth. Previously, this was fixed at 1 day. For
1472 safety, values under 2 hours are only supported on testing
1473 networks. Part of a fix for ticket 40337.
1474 - Relays on testing networks no longer rate-limit how frequently
1475 they are willing to report new bandwidth measurements. Part of a
1476 fix for ticket 40337.
1477 - Relays on testing networks now report their observed bandwidths
1478 immediately from startup. Previously, they waited until they had
1479 been running for a full day. Closes ticket 40337.
1481 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1482 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1483 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1485 o Minor bugfix (onion service, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1486 - Do not flag an HSDir as non-running in case the descriptor upload
1487 or fetch fails. An onion service closes pending directory
1488 connections before uploading a new descriptor which can thus lead
1489 to wrongly flagging many relays and thus affecting circuit building
1490 path selection. Fixes bug 40434; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1492 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1493 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1494 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1495 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1496 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1499 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
1500 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1501 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1502 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1503 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1505 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, TROVE-2021-008, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1506 - Only log v2 access attempts once total, in order to not pollute
1507 the logs with warnings and to avoid recording the times on disk
1508 when v2 access was attempted. Note that the onion address was
1509 _never_ logged. This counts as a Low-severity security issue.
1510 Fixes bug 40474; bugfix on 0.4.5.8.
1513 Changes in version 0.3.5.17 - 2021-10-26
1514 The major change in this version is that v2 onion services are now
1515 disabled at the client, service, and relay: any Tor nodes running this
1516 version and onward will stop supporting v2 onion services. This is the
1517 last step in the long deprecation process of v2 onion services.
1518 Everyone running an earlier version, whether as a client, a relay, or
1519 an onion service, should upgrade to Tor 0.3.5.17, 0.4.5.11,
1522 o Major feature (onion service v2, backport from 0.4.5.11):
1523 - See https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline for
1524 details on how to transition from v2 to v3.
1525 - The control port commands HSFETCH and HSPOST no longer allow
1526 version 2, and it is no longer possible to create a v2 service
1528 - Tor no longer allows creating v2 services, or connecting as a
1529 client to a v2 service. Relays will decline to be a v2 HSDir or
1530 introduction point. This effectively disables onion service
1531 version 2 Tor-wide. Closes ticket 40476.
1533 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1534 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1535 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1536 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1538 o Minor features (fallbackdir):
1539 - Regenerate fallback directories for October 2021. Closes
1542 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.8):
1543 - Fix compatibility with the most recent Libevent versions, which no
1544 longer have an evdns_set_random_bytes() function. Because this
1545 function has been a no-op since Libevent 2.0.4-alpha, it is safe
1546 for us to just stop calling it. Fixes bug 40371; bugfix
1550 Changes in version 0.4.6.7 - 2021-08-16
1551 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1552 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1553 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1554 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1556 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1557 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1558 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1559 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1560 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1561 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1562 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1565 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1566 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1568 o Minor features (geoip data):
1569 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1570 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1572 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1573 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1574 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1576 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
1577 - Send back the extended SOCKS error 0xF6 (Onion Service Invalid Address)
1578 for a v2 onion address. Fixes bug 40421; bugfix on 0.4.6.2-alpha.
1580 o Minor bugfix (CI, onion service):
1581 - Exclude onion service version 2 Stem tests in our CI. Fixes bug 40500;
1582 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
1584 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1585 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW in
1586 order to reduce CPU load on the directory relays. Fixes bug 40301;
1587 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1589 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping):
1590 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1591 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1592 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1593 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1594 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1595 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1598 Changes in version 0.4.5.10 - 2021-08-16
1599 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1600 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1601 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1602 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1604 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1605 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1606 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1607 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1608 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1609 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1610 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1613 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1614 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1616 o Minor features (geoip data):
1617 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1618 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1620 o Minor features (testing):
1621 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the address set
1622 bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
1624 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1625 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1626 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1628 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1629 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1630 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1632 o Minor bugfixes (timekeeping, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1633 - Calculate the time of day correctly on systems where the time_t
1634 type includes leap seconds. (This is not the case on most
1635 operating systems, but on those where it occurs, our tor_timegm
1636 function did not correctly invert the system's gmtime function,
1637 which could result in assertion failures when calculating
1638 voting schedules.) Fixes bug 40383; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1640 o Minor bugfixes (warnings, portability, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1641 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some versions
1642 of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1645 Changes in version 0.3.5.16 - 2021-08-16
1646 This version fixes several bugs from earlier versions of Tor, including one
1647 that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. Everyone running an earlier
1648 version, whether as a client, a relay, or an onion service, should upgrade
1649 to Tor 0.3.5.16, 0.4.5.10, or 0.4.6.7.
1651 o Major bugfixes (cryptography, security):
1652 - Resolve an assertion failure caused by a behavior mismatch between our
1653 batch-signature verification code and our single-signature verification
1654 code. This assertion failure could be triggered remotely, leading to a
1655 denial of service attack. We fix this issue by disabling batch
1656 verification. Fixes bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. This issue is
1657 also tracked as TROVE-2021-007 and CVE-2021-38385. Found by Henry de
1660 o Minor feature (fallbackdir):
1661 - Regenerate fallback directories list. Close ticket 40447.
1663 o Minor features (geoip data):
1664 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database,
1665 as retrieved on 2021/08/12.
1667 o Minor bugfix (crypto):
1668 - Disable the unused batch verification feature of ed25519-donna. Fixes
1669 bug 40078; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by Henry de Valence.
1671 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.6.x):
1672 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW. Fixes
1673 bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1676 Changes in version 0.4.6.6 - 2021-06-30
1677 Tor 0.4.6.6 makes several small fixes on 0.4.6.5, including one that
1678 allows Tor to build correctly on older versions of GCC. You should
1679 upgrade to this version if you were having trouble building Tor
1680 0.4.6.5; otherwise, there is probably no need.
1682 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1683 - Fix a compilation error when trying to build Tor with a compiler
1684 that does not support const variables in static initializers.
1685 Fixes bug 40410; bugfix on 0.4.6.5.
1686 - Suppress a strict-prototype warning when building with some
1687 versions of NSS. Fixes bug 40409; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1689 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1690 - Enable the deterministic RNG for unit tests that covers the
1691 address set bloomfilter-based API's. Fixes bug 40419; bugfix
1695 Changes in version 0.4.6.5 - 2021-06-14
1696 Tor 0.4.6.5 is the first stable release in its series. The 0.4.6.x
1697 series includes numerous features and bugfixes, including a significant
1698 improvement to our circuit timeout algorithm that should improve
1699 observed client performance, and a way for relays to report when they are
1702 This release also includes security fixes for several security issues,
1703 including a denial-of-service attack against onion service clients,
1704 and another denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should
1705 upgrade to one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
1707 Below are the changes since 0.4.5.8. For a list of changes since
1708 0.4.6.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
1710 o Major bugfixes (security):
1711 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
1712 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
1713 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
1714 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
1715 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
1716 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
1718 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth):
1719 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
1720 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
1721 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
1722 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
1723 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
1724 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
1725 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
1727 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
1728 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
1729 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
1730 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
1731 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
1732 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
1733 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
1734 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
1735 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
1736 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
1737 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
1738 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
1739 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
1740 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
1741 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
1743 o Major features (control port, onion services):
1744 - Add controller support for creating version 3 onion services with
1745 client authorization. Previously, only v2 onion services could be
1746 created with client authorization. Closes ticket 40084. Patch by
1749 o Major features (directory authority):
1750 - When voting on a relay with a Sybil-like appearance, add the Sybil
1751 flag when clearing out the other flags. This lets a relay operator
1752 know why their relay hasn't been included in the consensus. Closes
1753 ticket 40255. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1755 o Major features (metrics):
1756 - Relays now report how overloaded they are in their extrainfo
1757 documents. This information is controlled with the
1758 OverloadStatistics torrc option, and it will be used to improve
1759 decisions about the network's load balancing. Implements proposal
1760 328; closes ticket 40222.
1762 o Major features (relay, denial of service):
1763 - Add a new DoS subsystem feature to control the rate of client
1764 connections for relays. Closes ticket 40253.
1766 o Major features (statistics):
1767 - Relays now publish statistics about the number of v3 onion
1768 services and volume of v3 onion service traffic, in the same
1769 manner they already do for v2 onions. Closes ticket 23126.
1771 o Major bugfixes (circuit build timeout):
1772 - Improve the accuracy of our circuit build timeout calculation for
1773 60%, 70%, and 80% build rates for various guard choices. We now
1774 use a maximum likelihood estimator for Pareto parameters of the
1775 circuit build time distribution, instead of a "right-censored
1776 estimator". This causes clients to ignore circuits that never
1777 finish building in their timeout calculations. Previously, clients
1778 were counting such unfinished circuits as having the highest
1779 possible build time value, when in reality these circuits most
1780 likely just contain relays that are offline. We also now wait a
1781 bit longer to let circuits complete for measurement purposes,
1782 lower the minimum possible effective timeout from 1.5 seconds to
1783 10ms, and increase the resolution of the circuit build time
1784 histogram from 50ms bin widths to 10ms bin widths. Additionally,
1785 we alter our estimate Xm by taking the maximum of the top 10 most
1786 common build time values of the 10ms histogram, and compute Xm as
1787 the average of these. Fixes bug 40168; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
1788 - Remove max_time calculation and associated warning from circuit
1789 build timeout 'alpha' parameter estimation, as this is no longer
1790 needed by our new estimator from 40168. Fixes bug 34088; bugfix
1793 o Major bugfixes (signing key):
1794 - In the tor-gencert utility, give an informative error message if
1795 the passphrase given in `--create-identity-key` is too short.
1796 Fixes bug 40189; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1798 o Minor features (bridge):
1799 - We now announce the URL to Tor's new bridge status at
1800 https://bridges.torproject.org/ when Tor is configured to run as a
1801 bridge relay. Closes ticket 30477.
1803 o Minor features (build system):
1804 - New "make lsp" command to auto generate the compile_commands.json
1805 file used by the ccls server. The "bear" program is needed for
1806 this. Closes ticket 40227.
1808 o Minor features (client):
1809 - Clients now check whether their streams are attempting to re-enter
1810 the Tor network (i.e. to send Tor traffic over Tor), and close
1811 them preemptively if they think exit relays will refuse them for
1812 this reason. See ticket 2667 for details. Closes ticket 40271.
1814 o Minor features (command line):
1815 - Add long format name "--torrc-file" equivalent to the existing
1816 command-line option "-f". Closes ticket 40324. Patch by
1819 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1820 - Add build informations to `tor --version` in order to ease
1821 reproducible builds. Closes ticket 32102.
1822 - When parsing command-line flags that take an optional argument,
1823 treat the argument as absent if it would start with a '-'
1824 character. Arguments in that form are not intelligible for any of
1825 our optional-argument flags. Closes ticket 40223.
1826 - Allow a relay operator to list the ed25519 keys on the command
1827 line by adding the `rsa` and `ed25519` arguments to the
1828 --list-fingerprint flag to show the respective RSA and ed25519
1829 relay fingerprint. Closes ticket 33632. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1831 o Minor features (compatibility):
1832 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
1833 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
1834 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
1837 o Minor features (control port, stream handling):
1838 - Add the stream ID to the event line in the ADDRMAP control event.
1839 Closes ticket 40249. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1841 o Minor features (dormant mode):
1842 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option to allow coarse-grained
1843 control over whether the client ever becomes dormant from
1844 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1845 - Add a new 'DormantTimeoutEnabled' option for coarse-grained
1846 control over whether the client can become dormant from
1847 inactivity. Most people won't need this. Closes ticket 40228.
1849 o Minor features (geoip data):
1850 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
1851 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
1853 o Minor features (logging):
1854 - Edit heartbeat log messages so that more of them begin with the
1855 string "Heartbeat: ". Closes ticket 40322; patch
1857 - Change the DoS subsystem heartbeat line format to be more clear on
1858 what has been detected/rejected, and which option is disabled (if
1859 any). Closes ticket 40308.
1860 - In src/core/mainloop/mainloop.c and src/core/mainloop/connection.c,
1861 put brackets around IPv6 addresses in log messages. Closes ticket
1862 40232. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1864 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic):
1865 - Log decompression failures at a higher severity level, since they
1866 can help provide missing context for other warning messages. We
1867 rate-limit these messages, to avoid flooding the logs if they
1868 begin to occur frequently. Closes ticket 40175.
1870 o Minor features (onion services):
1871 - Add a warning message when trying to connect to (no longer
1872 supported) v2 onion services. Closes ticket 40373.
1874 o Minor features (performance, windows):
1875 - Use SRWLocks to implement locking on Windows. Replaces the
1876 "critical section" locking implementation with the faster
1877 SRWLocks, available since Windows Vista. Closes ticket 17927.
1878 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1880 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
1881 - Close HAProxy connections if they somehow manage to send us data
1882 before we start reading. Closes another case of ticket 40017.
1884 o Minor features (tests, portability):
1885 - Port the hs_build_address.py test script to work with recent
1886 versions of python. Closes ticket 40213. Patch from
1889 o Minor features (vote document):
1890 - Add a "stats" line to directory authority votes, to report various
1891 statistics that authorities compute about the relays. This will
1892 help us diagnose the network better. Closes ticket 40314.
1894 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1895 - The configure script now shows whether or not lzma and zstd have
1896 been used, not just if the enable flag was passed in. Fixes bug
1897 40236; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
1899 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility):
1900 - Fix a failure in the test cases when running on the "hppa"
1901 architecture, along with a related test that might fail on other
1902 architectures in the future. Fixes bug 40274; bugfix
1905 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1906 - Fix a compilation warning about unused functions when building
1907 with a libc that lacks the GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC constant. Fixes bug
1908 40354; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
1910 o Minor bugfixes (consensus handling):
1911 - Avoid a set of bugs that could be caused by inconsistently
1912 preferring an out-of-date consensus stored in a stale directory
1913 cache over a more recent one stored on disk as the latest
1914 consensus. Fixes bug 40375; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
1916 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox):
1917 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
1918 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
1919 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
1920 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
1921 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
1924 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, voting):
1925 - Add a new consensus method (31) to support any future changes that
1926 authorities decide to make to the value of bwweightscale or
1927 maxunmeasuredbw. Previously, there was a bug that prevented the
1928 authorities from parsing these consensus parameters correctly under
1929 most circumstances. Fixes bug 19011; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
1931 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
1932 - Allow non-SOCKSPorts to disable IPv4, IPv6, and PreferIPv4. Some
1933 rare configurations might break, but in this case you can disable
1934 NoIPv4Traffic and NoIPv6Traffic as needed. Fixes bug 33607; bugfix
1935 on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1937 o Minor bugfixes (key generation):
1938 - Do not require a valid torrc when using the `--keygen` argument to
1939 generate a signing key. This allows us to generate keys on systems
1940 or users which may not run Tor. Fixes bug 40235; bugfix on
1941 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1943 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
1944 - Emit a warning if an Address is found to be internal and tor can't
1945 use it. Fixes bug 40290; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
1947 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
1948 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
1949 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
1952 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, logging):
1953 - Downgrade the severity of a few rendezvous circuit-related
1954 warnings from warning to info. Fixes bug 40207; bugfix on
1955 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1957 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1958 - Reduce the compression level for data streaming from HIGH to LOW.
1959 This should reduce the CPU and memory burden for directory caches.
1960 Fixes bug 40301; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
1962 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD):
1963 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
1964 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
1967 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1968 - Remove the orconn_ext_or_id_map structure and related functions.
1969 (Nothing outside of unit tests used them.) Closes ticket 33383.
1970 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
1973 - Remove unneeded code for parsing private keys in directory
1974 documents. This code was only used for client authentication in v2
1975 onion services, which are now unsupported. Closes ticket 40374.
1976 - As of this release, Tor no longer supports the old v2 onion
1977 services. They were deprecated last July for security, and support
1978 will be removed entirely later this year. We strongly encourage
1979 everybody to migrate to v3 onion services. For more information,
1980 see https://blog.torproject.org/v2-deprecation-timeline . Closes
1981 ticket 40266. (NOTE: We accidentally released an earlier version
1982 of the 0.4.6.1-alpha changelog without this entry. Sorry for
1985 o Code simplification and refactoring (metrics, DoS):
1986 - Move the DoS subsystem into the subsys manager, including its
1987 configuration options. Closes ticket 40261.
1989 o Documentation (manual):
1990 - Move the ServerTransport* options to the "SERVER OPTIONS" section.
1992 - Indicate that the HiddenServiceStatistics option also applies to
1993 bridges. Closes ticket 40346.
1994 - Move the description of BridgeRecordUsageByCountry to the section
1995 "STATISTICS OPTIONS". Closes ticket 40323.
1997 o Removed features (relay):
1998 - Because DirPorts are only used on authorities, relays no longer
1999 advertise them. Similarly, self-testing for DirPorts has been
2000 disabled, since an unreachable DirPort is no reason for a relay
2001 not to advertise itself. (Configuring a DirPort will still work,
2002 for now.) Closes ticket 40282.
2005 Changes in version 0.4.5.9 - 2021-06-14
2006 Tor 0.4.5.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2007 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2008 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2009 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2011 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2012 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2013 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2014 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2015 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2016 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2017 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2019 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2020 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2021 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2022 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2023 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2024 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2025 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2026 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2028 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2029 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2030 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2031 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2032 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2033 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2034 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2035 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2036 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2037 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2038 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2039 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2040 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2041 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2042 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2044 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2045 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2046 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2047 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2050 o Minor features (geoip data):
2051 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2052 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2054 o Minor bugfixes (control, sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2055 - Allow the control command SAVECONF to succeed when the seccomp
2056 sandbox is enabled, and make SAVECONF keep only one backup file to
2057 simplify implementation. Previously SAVECONF allowed a large
2058 number of backup files, which made it incompatible with the
2059 sandbox. Fixes bug 40317; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch by
2062 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2063 - Fix a bug that made tor try to re-bind() on an already open
2064 MetricsPort every 60 seconds. Fixes bug 40370; bugfix
2068 Changes in version 0.4.4.9 - 2021-06-14
2069 Tor 0.4.4.9 fixes several security issues, including a
2070 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2071 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2072 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2074 Note that the scheduled end-of-life date for the Tor 0.4.4.x series is
2075 June 15. This is therefore the last release in its series. Everybody
2076 still running 0.4.4.x should plan to upgrade to 0.4.5.x or later.
2078 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2079 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2080 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2081 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2082 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2083 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2084 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2086 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2087 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2088 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2089 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2090 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2091 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2092 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2093 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2095 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2096 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2097 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2098 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2099 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2100 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2101 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2102 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2103 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2104 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2105 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2106 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2107 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2108 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2109 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2111 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2112 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2113 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2114 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2117 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2118 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2119 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2121 o Minor features (geoip data):
2122 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2123 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2125 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2126 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2127 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2128 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2130 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2131 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2132 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2135 Changes in version 0.3.5.15 - 2021-06-14
2136 Tor 0.3.5.15 fixes several security issues, including a
2137 denial-of-service attack against onion service clients, and another
2138 denial-of-service attack against relays. Everybody should upgrade to
2139 one of 0.3.5.15, 0.4.4.9, 0.4.5.9, or 0.4.6.5.
2141 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2142 - Don't allow relays to spoof RELAY_END or RELAY_RESOLVED cell on
2143 half-closed streams. Previously, clients failed to validate which
2144 hop sent these cells: this would allow a relay on a circuit to end
2145 a stream that wasn't actually built with it. Fixes bug 40389;
2146 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2147 003 and CVE-2021-34548.
2149 o Major bugfixes (security, defense-in-depth, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2150 - Detect more failure conditions from the OpenSSL RNG code.
2151 Previously, we would detect errors from a missing RNG
2152 implementation, but not failures from the RNG code itself.
2153 Fortunately, it appears those failures do not happen in practice
2154 when Tor is using OpenSSL's default RNG implementation. Fixes bug
2155 40390; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as
2156 TROVE-2021-004. Reported by Jann Horn at Google's Project Zero.
2158 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.6.5):
2159 - Resist a hashtable-based CPU denial-of-service attack against
2160 relays. Previously we used a naive unkeyed hash function to look
2161 up circuits in a circuitmux object. An attacker could exploit this
2162 to construct circuits with chosen circuit IDs, to create
2163 collisions and make the hash table inefficient. Now we use a
2164 SipHash construction here instead. Fixes bug 40391; bugfix on
2165 0.2.4.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2021-005 and
2166 CVE-2021-34549. Reported by Jann Horn from Google's Project Zero.
2167 - Fix an out-of-bounds memory access in v3 onion service descriptor
2168 parsing. An attacker could exploit this bug by crafting an onion
2169 service descriptor that would crash any client that tried to visit
2170 it. Fixes bug 40392; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This issue is also
2171 tracked as TROVE-2021-006 and CVE-2021-34550. Reported by Sergei
2172 Glazunov from Google's Project Zero.
2174 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2175 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2176 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2178 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.4.6.4-rc):
2179 - Remove an assertion function related to TLS renegotiation. It was
2180 used nowhere outside the unit tests, and it was breaking
2181 compilation with recent alpha releases of OpenSSL 3.0.0. Closes
2184 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2185 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2186 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2188 o Minor features (geoip data):
2189 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2190 retrieved on 2021/06/10.
2193 Changes in version 0.4.5.8 - 2021-05-10
2194 Tor 0.4.5.8 fixes several bugs in earlier version, backporting fixes
2195 from the 0.4.6.x series.
2197 o Minor features (compatibility, Linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2198 - Add a workaround to enable the Linux sandbox to work correctly
2199 with Glibc 2.33. This version of Glibc has started using the
2200 fstatat() system call, which previously our sandbox did not allow.
2201 Closes ticket 40382; see the ticket for a discussion of trade-offs.
2203 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2204 - Make the autoconf script build correctly with autoconf versions
2205 2.70 and later. Closes part of ticket 40335.
2207 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2208 - Regenerate the list of fallback directories to contain a new set
2209 of 200 relays. Closes ticket 40265.
2211 o Minor features (geoip data):
2212 - Update the geoip files to match the IPFire Location Database, as
2213 retrieved on 2021/05/07.
2215 o Minor features (onion services):
2216 - Add warning message when connecting to now deprecated v2 onion
2217 services. As announced, Tor 0.4.5.x is the last series that will
2218 support v2 onions. Closes ticket 40373.
2220 o Minor bugfixes (bridge, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2221 - Fix a regression that made it impossible start Tor using a bridge
2222 line with a transport name and no fingerprint. Fixes bug 40360;
2223 bugfix on 0.4.5.4-rc.
2225 o Minor bugfixes (build, cross-compilation, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2226 - Allow a custom "ar" for cross-compilation. Our previous build
2227 script had used the $AR environment variable in most places, but
2228 it missed one. Fixes bug 40369; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2230 o Minor bugfixes (channel, DoS, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2231 - Fix a non-fatal BUG() message due to a too-early free of a string,
2232 when listing a client connection from the DoS defenses subsystem.
2233 Fixes bug 40345; bugfix on 0.4.3.4-rc.
2235 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2236 - Fix an indentation problem that led to a warning from GCC 11.1.1.
2237 Fixes bug 40380; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
2239 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.4.6.1-alpha):
2240 - Fix a "BUG" warning that would appear when a controller chooses
2241 the first hop for a circuit, and that circuit completes. Fixes bug
2242 40285; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
2244 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, client, memory leak, backport from 0.4.6.3-rc):
2245 - Fix a bug where an expired cached descriptor could get overwritten
2246 with a new one without freeing it, leading to a memory leak. Fixes
2247 bug 40356; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2249 o Minor bugfixes (testing, BSD, backport from 0.4.6.2-alpha):
2250 - Fix pattern-matching errors when patterns expand to invalid paths
2251 on BSD systems. Fixes bug 40318; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha. Patch by
2255 Changes in version 0.3.5.14 - 2021-03-16
2256 Tor 0.3.5.14 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2257 in earlier versions of Tor.
2259 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2260 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2261 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2262 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2263 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2264 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2265 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2266 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2267 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2270 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2271 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2274 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2275 compatibility issue.
2277 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2278 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2279 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2280 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2281 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2282 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2283 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2284 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2285 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2288 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2289 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2290 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2291 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2292 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2293 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2294 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2295 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2298 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2299 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2300 Closes ticket 40309.
2303 Changes in version 0.4.4.8 - 2021-03-16
2304 Tor 0.4.4.8 backports fixes for two important denial-of-service bugs
2305 in earlier versions of Tor.
2307 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2308 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2309 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2310 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2311 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2312 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2313 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2314 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2315 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2318 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2319 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2322 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a
2323 compatibility issue.
2325 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2326 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2327 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2328 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2329 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2330 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2331 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2332 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2333 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2336 o Minor features (geoip data, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2337 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2338 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2339 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2340 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2341 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2342 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2343 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2346 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated, backport from 0.4.5.7):
2347 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2348 Closes ticket 40309.
2351 Changes in version 0.4.5.7 - 2021-03-16
2352 Tor 0.4.5.7 fixes two important denial-of-service bugs in earlier
2355 One of these vulnerabilities (TROVE-2021-001) would allow an attacker
2356 who can send directory data to a Tor instance to force that Tor
2357 instance to consume huge amounts of CPU. This is easiest to exploit
2358 against authorities, since anybody can upload to them, but directory
2359 caches could also exploit this vulnerability against relays or clients
2360 when they download. The other vulnerability (TROVE-2021-002) only
2361 affects directory authorities, and would allow an attacker to remotely
2362 crash the authority with an assertion failure. Patches have already
2363 been provided to the authority operators, to help ensure
2366 We recommend that everybody upgrade to one of the releases that fixes
2367 these issues (0.3.5.14, 0.4.4.8, or 0.4.5.7) as they become available
2370 This release also updates our GeoIP data source, and fixes a few
2371 smaller bugs in earlier releases.
2373 o Major bugfixes (security, denial of service):
2374 - Disable the dump_desc() function that we used to dump unparseable
2375 information to disk. It was called incorrectly in several places,
2376 in a way that could lead to excessive CPU usage. Fixes bug 40286;
2377 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. This bug is also tracked as TROVE-2021-
2378 001 and CVE-2021-28089.
2379 - Fix a bug in appending detached signatures to a pending consensus
2380 document that could be used to crash a directory authority. Fixes
2381 bug 40316; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2021-002
2384 o Minor features (geoip data):
2385 - We have switched geoip data sources. Previously we shipped IP-to-
2386 country mappings from Maxmind's GeoLite2, but in 2019 they changed
2387 their licensing terms, so we were unable to update them after that
2388 point. We now ship geoip files based on the IPFire Location
2389 Database instead. (See https://location.ipfire.org/ for more
2390 information). This release updates our geoip files to match the
2391 IPFire Location Database as retrieved on 2021/03/12. Closes
2394 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2395 - Now that exit relays don't allow exit connections to directory
2396 authority DirPorts (to prevent network reentry), disable
2397 authorities' reachability self test on the DirPort. Fixes bug
2398 40287; bugfix on 0.4.5.5-rc.
2400 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2401 - Fix a formatting error in the documentation for
2402 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6. Fixes bug 40256; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2404 o Minor bugfixes (Linux, relay):
2405 - Fix a bug in determining total available system memory that would
2406 have been triggered if the format of Linux's /proc/meminfo file
2407 had ever changed to include "MemTotal:" in the middle of a line.
2408 Fixes bug 40315; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
2410 o Minor bugfixes (metrics port):
2411 - Fix a BUG() warning on the MetricsPort for an internal missing
2412 handler. Fixes bug 40295; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2414 o Minor bugfixes (onion service):
2415 - Remove a harmless BUG() warning when reloading tor configured with
2416 onion services. Fixes bug 40334; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2418 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2419 - Fix a non-portable usage of "==" with "test" in the configure
2420 script. Fixes bug 40298; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2422 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2423 - Remove a spammy log notice falsely claiming that the IPv4/v6
2424 address was missing. Fixes bug 40300; bugfix on 0.4.5.1-alpha.
2425 - Do not query the address cache early in the boot process when
2426 deciding if a relay needs to fetch early directory information
2427 from an authority. This bug resulted in a relay falsely believing
2428 it didn't have an address and thus triggering an authority fetch
2429 at each boot. Related to our fix for 40300.
2431 o Removed features (mallinfo deprecated):
2432 - Remove mallinfo() usage entirely. Libc 2.33+ now deprecates it.
2433 Closes ticket 40309.
2436 Changes in version 0.4.5.6 - 2021-02-15
2437 The Tor 0.4.5.x release series is dedicated to the memory of Karsten
2438 Loesing (1979-2020), Tor developer, cypherpunk, husband, and father.
2439 Karsten is best known for creating the Tor metrics portal and leading
2440 the metrics team, but he was involved in Tor from the early days. For
2441 example, while he was still a student he invented and implemented the
2442 v2 onion service directory design, and he also served as an ambassador
2443 to the many German researchers working in the anonymity field. We
2444 loved him and respected him for his patience, his consistency, and his
2445 welcoming approach to growing our community.
2447 This release series introduces significant improvements in relay IPv6
2448 address discovery, a new "MetricsPort" mechanism for relay operators
2449 to measure performance, LTTng support, build system improvements to
2450 help when using Tor as a static library, and significant bugfixes
2451 related to Windows relay performance. It also includes numerous
2452 smaller features and bugfixes.
2454 Below are the changes since 0.4.4.7. For a list of changes since
2455 0.4.5.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
2457 o Major features (build):
2458 - When building Tor, first link all object files into a single
2459 static library. This may help with embedding Tor in other
2460 programs. Note that most Tor functions do not constitute a part of
2461 a stable or supported API: only those functions in tor_api.h
2462 should be used if embedding Tor. Closes ticket 40127.
2464 o Major features (metrics):
2465 - Introduce a new MetricsPort which exposes, through an HTTP
2466 interface, a series of metrics that tor collects at runtime. At
2467 the moment, the only supported output format is Prometheus data
2468 model. Closes ticket 40063. See the manual page for more
2469 information and security considerations.
2471 o Major features (relay, IPv6):
2472 - The torrc option Address now supports IPv6. This unifies our
2473 address discovery interface to support IPv4, IPv6, and hostnames.
2474 Closes ticket 33233.
2475 - Launch IPv4 and IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits on relays and
2476 bridges. Closes ticket 33222.
2477 - Relays now automatically bind on IPv6 for their ORPort, unless
2478 specified otherwise with the IPv4Only flag. Closes ticket 33246.
2479 - When a relay with IPv6 support is told to open a connection to
2480 another relay, and the extend cell lists both IPv4 and IPv6
2481 addresses, the first relay now picks randomly which address to
2482 use. Closes ticket 33220.
2483 - Relays now track their IPv6 ORPort reachability separately from
2484 the reachability of their IPv4 ORPort. They will not publish a
2485 descriptor unless _both_ ports appear to be externally reachable.
2486 Closes ticket 34067.
2488 o Major features (tracing):
2489 - Add event-tracing library support for USDT and LTTng-UST, and a
2490 few tracepoints in the circuit subsystem. More will come
2491 incrementally. This feature is compiled out by default: it needs
2492 to be enabled at configure time. See documentation in
2493 doc/HACKING/Tracing.md. Closes ticket 32910.
2495 o Major bugfixes (directory cache, performance, windows):
2496 - Limit the number of items in the consensus diff cache to 64 on
2497 Windows. We hope this will mitigate an issue where Windows relay
2498 operators reported Tor using 100% CPU, while we investigate better
2499 solutions. Fixes bug 24857; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
2501 o Major bugfixes (relay, windows):
2502 - Fix a bug in our implementation of condition variables on Windows.
2503 Previously, a relay on Windows would use 100% CPU after running
2504 for some time. Because of this change, Tor now require Windows
2505 Vista or later to build and run. Fixes bug 30187; bugfix on
2506 0.2.6.3-alpha. (This bug became more serious in 0.3.1.1-alpha with
2507 the introduction of consensus diffs.) Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2509 o Major bugfixes (TLS, buffer):
2510 - When attempting to read N bytes on a TLS connection, really try to
2511 read all N bytes. Previously, Tor would stop reading after the
2512 first TLS record, which can be smaller than the N bytes requested,
2513 and not check for more data until the next mainloop event. Fixes
2514 bug 40006; bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc.
2516 o Minor features (address discovery):
2517 - If no Address statements are found, relays now prioritize guessing
2518 their address by looking at the local interface instead of the
2519 local hostname. If the interface address can't be found, the local
2520 hostname is used. Closes ticket 33238.
2522 o Minor features (admin tools):
2523 - Add a new --format argument to -key-expiration option to allow
2524 specifying the time format of the expiration date. Adds Unix
2525 timestamp format support. Patch by Daniel Pinto. Closes
2528 o Minor features (authority, logging):
2529 - Log more information for directory authority operators during the
2530 consensus voting process, and while processing relay descriptors.
2531 Closes ticket 40245.
2533 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
2534 - When reporting bootstrapping status on a relay, do not consider
2535 connections that have never been the target of an origin circuit.
2536 Previously, all connection failures were treated as potential
2537 bootstrapping failures, including connections that had been opened
2538 because of client requests. Closes ticket 25061.
2540 o Minor features (build):
2541 - When running the configure script, try to detect version
2542 mismatches between the OpenSSL headers and libraries, and suggest
2543 that the user should try "--with-openssl-dir". Closes 40138.
2544 - If the configure script has given any warnings, remind the user
2545 about them at the end of the script. Related to 40138.
2547 o Minor features (configuration):
2548 - Allow using wildcards (* and ?) with the %include option on
2549 configuration files. Closes ticket 25140. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2550 - Allow the configuration options EntryNodes, ExcludeNodes,
2551 ExcludeExitNodes, ExitNodes, MiddleNodes, HSLayer2Nodes and
2552 HSLayer3Nodes to be specified multiple times. Closes ticket 28361.
2553 Patch by Daniel Pinto.
2555 o Minor features (control port):
2556 - Add a DROPTIMEOUTS command to drop circuit build timeout history
2557 and reset the current timeout. Closes ticket 40002.
2558 - When a stream enters the AP_CONN_STATE_CONTROLLER_WAIT status,
2559 send a control port event. Closes ticket 32190. Patch by
2561 - Introduce GETINFO "stats/ntor/{assigned/requested}" and
2562 "stats/tap/{assigned/requested}" to get the NTor and TAP circuit
2563 onion handshake counts respectively. Closes ticket 28279. Patch by
2566 o Minor features (control port, IPv6):
2567 - Tor relays now try to report to the controller when they are
2568 launching an IPv6 self-test. Closes ticket 34068.
2569 - Introduce "GETINFO address/v4" and "GETINFO address/v6" in the
2570 control port to fetch the Tor host's respective IPv4 or IPv6
2571 address. We keep "GETINFO address" for backwards-compatibility.
2572 Closes ticket 40039. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2574 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2575 - Add a new consensus method 30 that removes the unnecessary "="
2576 padding from ntor-onion-key. Closes ticket 7869. Patch by
2578 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
2579 Tor versions from the obsolete 0.4.1 series. Resolves ticket
2580 34357. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2581 - The AssumeReachable option no longer stops directory authorities
2582 from checking whether other relays are running. A new
2583 AuthDirTestReachability option can be used to disable these
2584 checks. Closes ticket 34445.
2585 - When looking for possible Sybil attacks, also consider IPv6
2586 addresses. Two routers are considered to have "the same" address
2587 by this metric if they are in the same /64 network. Patch from
2588 Maurice Pibouin. Closes ticket 7193.
2590 o Minor features (directory authorities, IPv6):
2591 - Make authorities add their IPv6 ORPort (if any) to the trusted
2592 servers list. Authorities previously added only their IPv4
2593 addresses. Closes ticket 32822.
2595 o Minor features (documentation):
2596 - Mention the "!badexit" directive that can appear in an authority's
2597 approved-routers file, and update the description of the
2598 "!invalid" directive. Closes ticket 40188.
2600 o Minor features (ed25519, relay):
2601 - Save a relay's base64-encoded ed25519 identity key to the data
2602 directory in a file named fingerprint-ed25519. Closes ticket
2603 30642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2605 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2606 - Include the total number of inbound and outbound IPv4 and IPv6
2607 connections in the heartbeat message. Closes ticket 29113.
2609 o Minor features (IPv6, ExcludeNodes):
2610 - Handle IPv6 addresses in ExcludeNodes; previously they were
2611 ignored. Closes ticket 34065. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2613 o Minor features (logging):
2614 - Add the running glibc version to the log, and the compiled glibc
2615 version to the library list returned when using --library-versions.
2616 Patch from Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40047.
2617 - Consider an HTTP 301 response to be an error (like a 404) when
2618 processing a directory response. Closes ticket 40053.
2619 - Log directory fetch statistics as a single line. Closes
2621 - Provide more complete descriptions of our connections when logging
2622 about them. Closes ticket 40041.
2623 - When describing a relay in the logs, we now include its ed25519
2624 identity. Closes ticket 22668.
2626 o Minor features (onion services):
2627 - Only overwrite an onion service's existing hostname file if its
2628 contents are wrong. This enables read-only onion-service
2629 directories. Resolves ticket 40062. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2631 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2632 - Add an OutboundBindAddressPT option to allow users to specify
2633 which IPv4 and IPv6 address pluggable transports should use for
2634 outgoing IP packets. Tor does not have a way to enforce that the
2635 pluggable transport honors this option, so each pluggable transport
2636 needs to implement support on its own. Closes ticket 5304.
2638 o Minor features (protocol, proxy support, defense in depth):
2639 - Respond more deliberately to misbehaving proxies that leave
2640 leftover data on their connections, so as to make Tor even less
2641 likely to allow the proxies to pass their data off as having come
2642 from a relay. Closes ticket 40017.
2644 o Minor features (relay address tracking):
2645 - We now store relay addresses for OR connections in a more logical
2646 way. Previously we would sometimes overwrite the actual address of
2647 a connection with a "canonical address", and then store the "real
2648 address" elsewhere to remember it. We now track the "canonical
2649 address" elsewhere for the cases where we need it, and leave the
2650 connection's address alone. Closes ticket 33898.
2652 o Minor features (relay):
2653 - If a relay is unable to discover its address, attempt to learn it
2654 from the NETINFO cell. Closes ticket 40022.
2655 - Log immediately when launching a relay self-check. Previously we
2656 would try to log before launching checks, or approximately when we
2657 intended to launch checks, but this tended to be error-prone.
2658 Closes ticket 34137.
2660 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
2661 - If Address option is not found in torrc, attempt to learn our
2662 address with the configured ORPort address if any. Closes
2665 o Minor features (relay, IPv6):
2666 - Add an AssumeReachableIPv6 option to disable self-checking IPv6
2667 reachability. Closes part of ticket 33224.
2668 - Add new "assume-reachable" and "assume-reachable-ipv6" consensus
2669 parameters to be used in an emergency to tell relays that they
2670 should publish even if they cannot complete their ORPort self-
2671 checks. Closes ticket 34064 and part of 33224.
2672 - Allow relays to send IPv6-only extend cells. Closes ticket 33222.
2673 - Declare support for the Relay=3 subprotocol version. Closes
2675 - When launching IPv6 ORPort self-test circuits, make sure that the
2676 second-last hop can initiate an IPv6 extend. Closes ticket 33222.
2678 o Minor features (safety):
2679 - Log a warning at startup if Tor is built with compile-time options
2680 that are likely to make it less stable or reliable. Closes
2683 o Minor features (specification update):
2684 - Several fields in microdescriptors, router descriptors, and
2685 consensus documents that were formerly optional are now required.
2686 Implements proposal 315; closes ticket 40132.
2688 o Minor features (state management):
2689 - When loading the state file, remove entries from the statefile
2690 that have been obsolete for a long time. Ordinarily Tor preserves
2691 unrecognized entries in order to keep forward-compatibility, but
2692 these entries have not actually been used in any release since
2693 before 0.3.5.x. Closes ticket 40137.
2695 o Minor features (statistics, ipv6):
2696 - Relays now publish IPv6-specific counts of single-direction versus
2697 bidirectional relay connections. Closes ticket 33264.
2698 - Relays now publish their IPv6 read and write statistics over time,
2699 if statistics are enabled. Closes ticket 33263.
2701 o Minor features (subprotocol versions):
2702 - Use the new limitations on subprotocol versions due to proposal
2703 318 to simplify our implementation. Part of ticket 40133.
2705 o Minor features (testing configuration):
2706 - The TestingTorNetwork option no longer implicitly sets
2707 AssumeReachable to 1. This change allows us to test relays' self-
2708 testing mechanisms, and to test authorities' relay-testing
2709 functionality. Closes ticket 34446.
2711 o Minor features (testing):
2712 - Added unit tests for channel_matches_target_addr_for_extend().
2713 Closes Ticket 33919. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2715 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
2716 - When circpad_send_padding_cell_for_callback is called,
2717 `is_padding_timer_scheduled` flag was not reset. Now it is set to
2718 0 at the top of that function. Fixes bug 32671; bugfix
2720 - Add a per-circuit padding machine instance counter, so we can
2721 differentiate between shutdown requests for old machines on a
2722 circuit. Fixes bug 30992; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2723 - Add the ability to keep circuit padding machines if they match a
2724 set of circuit states or purposes. This allows us to have machines
2725 that start up under some conditions but don't shut down under
2726 others. We now use this mask to avoid starting up introduction
2727 circuit padding again after the machines have already completed.
2728 Fixes bug 32040; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2730 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, handshake):
2731 - In the v3 handshaking code, use connection_or_change_state() to
2732 change the state. Previously, we changed the state directly, but
2733 this did not pass the state change to the pubsub or channel
2734 objects, potentially leading to bugs. Fixes bug 32880; bugfix on
2735 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2737 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2738 - Change the linker flag ordering in our library search code so that
2739 it works for compilers that need the libraries to be listed in the
2740 right order. Fixes bug 33624; bugfix on 0.1.1.0-alpha.
2741 - Fix the "--enable-static-tor" switch to properly set the "-static"
2742 compile option onto the tor binary only. Fixes bug 40111; bugfix
2745 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
2746 - Exit Tor on a misconfiguration when the Bridge line is configured
2747 to use a transport but no corresponding ClientTransportPlugin can
2748 be found. Prior to this fix, Tor would attempt to connect to the
2749 bridge directly without using the transport, making it easier for
2750 adversaries to notice the bridge. Fixes bug 25528; bugfix
2753 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2754 - Make sure we send the SOCKS request address in relay begin cells
2755 when a stream is attached with the purpose
2756 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_CONTROLLER. Fixes bug 33124; bugfix on 0.0.5.
2757 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2759 o Minor bugfixes (crash, relay, signing key):
2760 - Avoid assertion failures when we run Tor from the command line
2761 with `--key-expiration sign`, but an ORPort is not set. Fixes bug
2762 40015; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2764 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2765 - Avoid a spurious log message about missing subprotocol versions,
2766 when the consensus that we're reading from is older than the
2767 current release. Previously we had made this message nonfatal, but
2768 in practice, it is never relevant when the consensus is older than
2769 the current release. Fixes bug 40281; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
2770 - Remove trailing whitespace from control event log messages. Fixes
2771 bug 32178; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Based on a patch by
2773 - Turn warning-level log message about SENDME failure into a debug-
2774 level message. (This event can happen naturally, and is no reason
2775 for concern). Fixes bug 40142; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
2776 - When logging a rate-limited message about how many messages have
2777 been suppressed in the last N seconds, give an accurate value for
2778 N, rounded up to the nearest minute. Previously we would report
2779 the size of the rate-limiting interval, regardless of when the
2780 messages started to occur. Fixes bug 19431; bugfix
2783 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
2784 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion in certain edge-cases when
2785 establishing a circuit to an onion service. Fixes bug 32666;
2786 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
2788 o Minor bugfixes (rust, protocol versions):
2789 - Declare support for the onion service introduction point denial of
2790 service extensions when building with Rust. Fixes bug 34248;
2791 bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
2792 - Make Rust protocol version support checks consistent with the
2793 undocumented error behavior of the corresponding C code. Fixes bug
2794 34251; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
2796 o Minor bugfixes (self-testing):
2797 - When receiving an incoming circuit, only accept it as evidence
2798 that we are reachable if the declared address of its channel is
2799 the same address we think that we have. Otherwise, it could be
2800 evidence that we're reachable on some other address. Fixes bug
2801 20165; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2803 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance):
2804 - Use the correct key type when generating signing->link
2805 certificates. Fixes bug 40124; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2807 o Minor bugfixes (subprotocol versions):
2808 - Consistently reject extra commas, instead of only rejecting
2809 leading commas. Fixes bug 27194; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
2810 - In summarize_protover_flags(), treat empty strings the same as
2811 NULL. This prevents protocols_known from being set. Previously, we
2812 treated empty strings as normal strings, which led to
2813 protocols_known being set. Fixes bug 34232; bugfix on
2814 0.3.3.2-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
2816 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2817 - Add and use a set of functions to perform down-casts on constant
2818 connection and channel pointers. Closes ticket 40046.
2819 - Refactor our code that logs descriptions of connections, channels,
2820 and the peers on them, to use a single call path. This change
2821 enables us to refactor the data types that they use, and eliminates
2822 many confusing usages of those types. Closes ticket 40041.
2823 - Refactor some common node selection code into a single function.
2824 Closes ticket 34200.
2825 - Remove the now-redundant 'outbuf_flushlen' field from our
2826 connection type. It was previously used for an older version of
2827 our rate-limiting logic. Closes ticket 33097.
2828 - Rename "fascist_firewall_*" identifiers to "reachable_addr_*"
2829 instead, for consistency with other code. Closes ticket 18106.
2830 - Rename functions about "advertised" ports which are not in fact
2831 guaranteed to return the ports that have been advertised. Closes
2833 - Split implementation of several command line options from
2834 options_init_from_torrc into smaller isolated functions. Patch by
2835 Daniel Pinto. Closes ticket 40102.
2836 - When an extend cell is missing an IPv4 or IPv6 address, fill in
2837 the address from the extend info. This is similar to what was done
2838 in ticket 33633 for ed25519 keys. Closes ticket 33816. Patch by
2841 o Deprecated features:
2842 - The "non-builtin" argument to the "--dump-config" command is now
2843 deprecated. When it works, it behaves the same as "short", which
2844 you should use instead. Closes ticket 33398.
2847 - Replace URLs from our old bugtracker so that they refer to the new
2848 bugtracker and wiki. Closes ticket 40101.
2851 - We no longer ship or build a "tor.service" file for use with
2852 systemd. No distribution included this script unmodified, and we
2853 don't have the expertise ourselves to maintain this in a way that
2854 all the various systemd-based distributions can use. Closes
2856 - We no longer ship support for the Android logging API. Modern
2857 versions of Android can use the syslog API instead. Closes
2859 - The "optimistic data" feature is now always on; there is no longer
2860 an option to disable it from the torrc file or from the consensus
2861 directory. Closes part of 40139.
2862 - The "usecreatefast" network parameter is now removed; there is no
2863 longer an option for authorities to turn it off. Closes part
2867 - Add unit tests for bandwidth statistics manipulation functions.
2868 Closes ticket 33812. Patch by MrSquanchee.
2870 o Code simplification and refactoring (autoconf):
2871 - Remove autoconf checks for unused funcs and headers. Closes ticket
2872 31699; Patch by @bduszel
2874 o Code simplification and refactoring (maintainer scripts):
2875 - Disable by default the pre-commit hook. Use the environment
2876 variable TOR_EXTRA_PRE_COMMIT_CHECKS in order to run it.
2877 Furthermore, stop running practracker in the pre-commit hook and
2878 make check-local. Closes ticket 40019.
2880 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay address):
2881 - Most of IPv4 representation was using "uint32_t". It has now been
2882 moved to use the internal "tor_addr_t" interface instead. This is
2883 so we can properly integrate IPv6 along IPv4 with common
2884 interfaces. Closes ticket 40043.
2886 o Documentation (manual page):
2887 - Move them from doc/ to doc/man/. Closes ticket 40044.
2888 - Describe the status of the "Sandbox" option more accurately. It is
2889 no longer "experimental", but it _is_ dependent on kernel and libc
2890 versions. Closes ticket 23378.
2892 o Documentation (tracing):
2893 - Document in depth the circuit subsystem trace events in the new
2894 doc/tracing/EventsCircuit.md. Closes ticket 40036.
2896 o Removed features (controller):
2897 - Remove the "GETINFO network-status" controller command. It has
2898 been deprecated since 0.3.1.1-alpha. Closes ticket 22473.
2901 Changes in version 0.4.4.7 - 2021-02-03
2902 Tor 0.4.4.7 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2903 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2904 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2905 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2907 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2908 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2909 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2910 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2911 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2914 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2915 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2916 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2917 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2920 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2921 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2922 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2923 this. Closes ticket 40227.
2925 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
2926 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
2927 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
2928 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
2929 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
2931 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2932 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
2933 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
2934 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
2935 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
2936 weasel for diagnosing this.
2938 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
2939 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
2940 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
2941 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
2942 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
2943 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
2944 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
2946 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2947 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
2948 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
2949 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
2951 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2952 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
2953 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
2954 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
2956 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
2957 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
2958 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
2959 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
2960 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
2961 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
2962 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
2964 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
2965 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
2968 Changes in version 0.4.3.8 - 2021-02-03
2969 Tor 0.4.3.8 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
2970 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
2971 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
2972 DoS attacks harder to perform.
2974 Note that this is, in all likelihood, the last release of Tor 0.4.3.x,
2975 which will reach end-of-life on 15 Feb 2021.
2977 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
2978 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
2979 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
2980 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
2981 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
2984 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
2985 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
2986 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
2987 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
2988 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2990 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
2991 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
2992 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
2993 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
2996 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
2997 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
2998 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
2999 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3001 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3002 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3003 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3004 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3005 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3007 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3008 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3009 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3010 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3011 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3012 weasel for diagnosing this.
3014 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3015 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3016 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3017 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3018 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3019 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3020 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3022 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3023 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3024 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3026 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3027 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3028 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3029 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3031 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3032 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3033 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3034 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3036 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3037 - Fix the `config/parse_tcp_proxy_line` test so that it works
3038 correctly on systems where the DNS provider hijacks invalid
3039 queries. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3040 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3041 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3042 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3044 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3045 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3048 Changes in version 0.3.5.13 - 2020-02-03
3049 Tor 0.3.5.13 backports numerous bugfixes from later releases,
3050 including one that made v3 onion services more susceptible to
3051 denial-of-service attacks, and a feature that makes some kinds of
3052 DoS attacks harder to perform.
3054 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3055 - Stop requiring a live consensus for v3 clients and services, and
3056 allow a "reasonably live" consensus instead. This allows v3 onion
3057 services to work even if the authorities fail to generate a
3058 consensus for more than 2 hours in a row. Fixes bug 40237; bugfix
3061 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3062 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3063 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3064 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3065 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3067 o Major feature (exit, backport from 0.4.5.5-rc):
3068 - Re-entry into the network is now denied at the Exit level to all
3069 relays' ORPorts and authorities' ORPorts and DirPorts. This change
3070 should help mitgate a set of denial-of-service attacks. Closes
3073 o Minor feature (build system, backport from 0.4.5.4-rc):
3074 - New "make lsp" command to generate the compile_commands.json file
3075 used by the ccls language server. The "bear" program is needed for
3076 this. Closes ticket 40227.
3078 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.2-rc):
3079 - Disable deprecation warnings when building with OpenSSL 3.0.0 or
3080 later. There are a number of APIs newly deprecated in OpenSSL
3081 3.0.0 that Tor still requires. (A later version of Tor will try to
3082 stop depending on these APIs.) Closes ticket 40165.
3084 o Minor features (crypto, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3085 - Fix undefined behavior on our Keccak library. The bug only
3086 appeared on platforms with 32-byte CPU cache lines (e.g. armv5tel)
3087 and would result in wrong digests. Fixes bug 40210; bugfix on
3088 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to Bernhard Übelacker, Arnd Bergmann and
3089 weasel for diagnosing this.
3091 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3092 - Strip '\r' characters when reading text files on Unix platforms.
3093 This should resolve an issue where a relay operator migrates a
3094 relay from Windows to Unix, but does not change the line ending of
3095 Tor's various state files to match the platform, and the CRLF line
3096 endings from Windows end up leaking into other files such as the
3097 extra-info document. Fixes bug 33781; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3099 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-rc):
3100 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3101 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3103 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3104 - Fix a compilation warning about unreachable fallthrough
3105 annotations when building with "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" on
3106 some compilers. Fixes bug 40241; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
3108 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS5, backport from 0.4.5.3-rc):
3109 - Handle partial SOCKS5 messages correctly. Previously, our code
3110 would send an incorrect error message if it got a SOCKS5 request
3111 that wasn't complete. Fixes bug 40190; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3113 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.5.2-alpha):
3114 - Fix our Python reference-implementation for the v3 onion service
3115 handshake so that it works correctly with the version of hashlib
3116 provided by Python 3.9. Fixes part of bug 40179; bugfix
3118 - Fix the `tortls/openssl/log_one_error` test to work with OpenSSL
3119 3.0.0. Fixes bug 40170; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3122 Changes in version 0.4.4.6 - 2020-11-12
3123 Tor 0.4.4.6 is the second stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. It
3124 backports fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
3125 005, a security issue that could be used, under certain cases, by an
3126 adversary to observe traffic patterns on a limited number of circuits
3127 intended for a different relay.
3129 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3130 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3131 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3132 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3133 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3134 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3135 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3137 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3138 - Authorities now list a different set of protocols as required and
3139 recommended. These lists have been chosen so that only truly
3140 recommended and/or required protocols are included, and so that
3141 clients using 0.2.9 or later will continue to work (even though
3142 they are not supported), whereas only relays running 0.3.5 or
3143 later will meet the requirements. Closes ticket 40162.
3144 - Make it possible to specify multiple ConsensusParams torrc lines.
3145 Now directory authority operators can for example put the main
3146 ConsensusParams config in one torrc file and then add to it from a
3147 different torrc file. Closes ticket 40164.
3149 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3150 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3151 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3152 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3153 closes ticket 40133.
3155 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3156 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3157 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3159 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3160 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3161 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3163 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3164 - Fix compiler warnings that would occur when building with
3165 "--enable-all-bugs-are-fatal" and "--disable-module-relay" at the
3166 same time. Fixes bug 40129; bugfix on 0.4.4.1-alpha.
3167 - Resolve a compilation warning that could occur in
3168 test_connection.c. Fixes bug 40113; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
3170 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3171 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3172 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3174 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3175 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3176 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3179 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3180 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3181 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3182 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3185 Changes in version 0.4.3.7 - 2020-11-12
3186 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3187 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3188 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3189 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3191 Please be aware that support for the 0.4.3.x series will end on 15
3192 February 2021. Please upgrade to 0.4.4.x or 0.4.5.x before then, or
3193 downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will be supported until at least 1
3196 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3197 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3198 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3199 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3201 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3202 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3203 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3204 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3205 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3206 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3207 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3209 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3210 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3211 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3212 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3213 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3216 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3217 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3218 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3219 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3220 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3221 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3223 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3224 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3225 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3226 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3227 closes ticket 40133.
3229 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3230 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3231 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3232 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3234 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3235 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3236 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3238 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3239 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3240 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3242 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3243 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3244 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3245 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3246 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3248 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3249 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3250 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3252 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3253 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3254 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3255 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3256 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3257 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3258 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3260 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3261 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3262 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3265 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3266 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3267 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3268 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3269 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3270 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3273 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3274 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3275 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3276 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3278 o Minor bugfixes (v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3279 - For HSFETCH commands on v2 onion services addresses, check the
3280 length of bytes decoded, not the base32 length. Fixes bug 34400;
3281 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3283 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3284 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3285 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3287 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3288 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3291 o Removed features (backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3292 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3293 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3294 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3295 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3296 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3297 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030. ticket 40030.
3300 Changes in version 0.3.5.12 - 2020-11-12
3301 Tor 0.4.3.7 backports several bugfixes from later releases. It
3302 includes a fix for TROVE-2020-005, a security issue that could be
3303 used, under certain cases, by an adversary to observe traffic patterns
3304 on a limited number of circuits intended for a different relay.
3306 o Major features (fallback directory list, backport form 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3307 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3308 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3309 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3311 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3312 - When completing a channel, relays now check more thoroughly to
3313 make sure that it matches any pending circuits before attaching
3314 those circuits. Previously, address correctness and Ed25519
3315 identities were not checked in this case, but only when extending
3316 circuits on an existing channel. Fixes bug 40080; bugfix on
3317 0.2.7.2-alpha. Resolves TROVE-2020-005.
3319 o Major bugfixes (NSS, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3320 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3321 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3322 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3323 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3326 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3327 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3328 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3329 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3330 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3331 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3333 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
3334 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
3335 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
3336 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
3338 o Minor features (subprotocol versions, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3339 - Tor no longer allows subprotocol versions larger than 63.
3340 Previously version numbers up to UINT32_MAX were allowed, which
3341 significantly complicated our code. Implements proposal 318;
3342 closes ticket 40133.
3344 o Minor features (tests, backport from 0.4.4.5):
3345 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3346 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3347 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3349 o Minor features (tests, v2 onion services, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3350 - Fix a rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an underflow
3351 on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40125; bugfix
3353 - Fix another rendezvous cache unit test that was triggering an
3354 underflow on the global rend cache allocation. Fixes bug 40126;
3355 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3357 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3358 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3359 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3360 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3361 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3363 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3364 - Remove a debug logging statement that uselessly spammed the logs.
3365 Fixes bug 40135; bugfix on 0.3.5.0-alpha.
3367 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3368 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3369 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3370 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3371 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3372 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3373 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3375 o Minor bugfixes (relay configuration, crash, backport from 0.4.5.1-alpha):
3376 - Avoid a fatal assert() when failing to create a listener
3377 connection for an address that was in use. Fixes bug 40073; bugfix
3380 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability, backport from 0.4.4.3-alpha):
3381 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3382 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3383 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3384 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3385 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3388 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3389 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
3390 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
3391 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3393 o Minor bugfixes (tests, 0.4.4.5):
3394 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3395 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3396 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3398 o Minor bugfixes (windows, backport from 0.4.4.4-rc):
3399 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3400 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3402 o Deprecated features (onion service v2, backport form 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3403 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3406 Changes in version 0.4.4.5 - 2020-09-15
3407 Tor 0.4.4.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.4.x series. This
3408 series improves our guard selection algorithms, adds v3 onion balance
3409 support, improves the amount of code that can be disabled when running
3410 without relay support, and includes numerous small bugfixes and
3411 enhancements. It also lays the ground for some IPv6 features that
3412 we'll be developing more in the next (0.4.5) series.
3414 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
3415 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
3416 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
3417 that 0.4.4.x will be supported until around June 2021--or later, if
3418 0.4.5.x is later than anticipated.
3420 Note also that support for 0.4.2.x has just ended; support for 0.4.3
3421 will continue until Feb 15, 2021. We still plan to continue supporting
3422 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until Feb 2022.
3424 Below are the changes since 0.4.3.6-rc. For a complete list of changes
3425 since 0.4.4.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
3427 o Major features (Proposal 310, performance + security):
3428 - Implements Proposal 310, "Bandaid on guard selection". Proposal
3429 310 solves load-balancing issues with older versions of the guard
3430 selection algorithm, and improves its security. Under this new
3431 algorithm, a newly selected guard never becomes Primary unless all
3432 previously sampled guards are unreachable. Implements
3433 recommendation from 32088. (Proposal 310 is linked to the CLAPS
3434 project researching optimal client location-aware path selections.
3435 This project is a collaboration between the UCLouvain Crypto Group,
3436 the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and Princeton University.)
3438 o Major features (fallback directory list):
3439 - Replace the 148 fallback directories originally included in Tor
3440 0.4.1.4-rc (of which around 105 are still functional) with a list
3441 of 144 fallbacks generated in July 2020. Closes ticket 40061.
3443 o Major features (IPv6, relay):
3444 - Consider IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells valid on relays. Log a protocol
3445 warning if the IPv4 or IPv6 address is an internal address, and
3446 internal addresses are not allowed. But continue to use the other
3447 address, if it is valid. Closes ticket 33817.
3448 - If a relay can extend over IPv4 and IPv6, and both addresses are
3449 provided, it chooses between them uniformly at random. Closes
3451 - Re-use existing IPv6 connections for circuit extends. Closes
3453 - Relays may extend circuits over IPv6, if the relay has an IPv6
3454 ORPort, and the client supplies the other relay's IPv6 ORPort in
3455 the EXTEND2 cell. IPv6 extends will be used by the relay IPv6
3456 ORPort self-tests in 33222. Closes ticket 33817.
3458 o Major features (v3 onion services):
3459 - Allow v3 onion services to act as OnionBalance backend instances,
3460 by using the HiddenServiceOnionBalanceInstance torrc option.
3461 Closes ticket 32709.
3463 o Major bugfixes (NSS):
3464 - When running with NSS enabled, make sure that NSS knows to expect
3465 nonblocking sockets. Previously, we set our TCP sockets as
3466 nonblocking, but did not tell NSS, which in turn could lead to
3467 unexpected blocking behavior. Fixes bug 40035; bugfix
3470 o Major bugfixes (onion services, DoS):
3471 - Correct handling of parameters for the onion service DoS defense.
3472 Previously, the consensus parameters for the onion service DoS
3473 defenses were overwriting the parameters set by the service
3474 operator using HiddenServiceEnableIntroDoSDefense. Fixes bug
3475 40109; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
3477 o Major bugfixes (stats, onion services):
3478 - Fix a bug where we were undercounting the Tor network's total
3479 onion service traffic, by ignoring any traffic originating from
3480 clients. Now we count traffic from both clients and services.
3481 Fixes bug 40117; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3483 o Minor features (security):
3484 - Channels using obsolete versions of the Tor link protocol are no
3485 longer allowed to circumvent address-canonicity checks. (This is
3486 only a minor issue, since such channels have no way to set ed25519
3487 keys, and therefore should always be rejected for circuits that
3488 specify ed25519 identities.) Closes ticket 40081.
3490 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
3491 - Report more detailed reasons for bootstrap failure when the
3492 failure happens due to a TLS error. Previously we would just call
3493 these errors "MISC" when they happened during read, and "DONE"
3494 when they happened during any other TLS operation. Closes
3497 o Minor features (client-only compilation):
3498 - Disable more code related to the ext_orport protocol when
3499 compiling without support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33368.
3500 - Disable more of our self-testing code when support for relay mode
3501 is disabled. Closes ticket 33370.
3502 - Most server-side DNS code is now disabled when building without
3503 support for relay mode. Closes ticket 33366.
3505 o Minor features (code safety):
3506 - Check for failures of tor_inet_ntop() and tor_inet_ntoa()
3507 functions in DNS and IP address processing code, and adjust
3508 codepaths to make them less likely to crash entire Tor instances.
3509 Resolves issue 33788.
3511 o Minor features (continuous integration):
3512 - Run unit-test and integration test (Stem, Chutney) jobs with
3513 ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL macro being enabled on Travis and Appveyor.
3514 Resolves ticket 32143.
3516 o Minor features (control port):
3517 - If a ClientName was specified in ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD for an
3518 onion service, display it when we use ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW.
3519 Closes ticket 40089. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3520 - Return a descriptive error message from the 'GETINFO status/fresh-
3521 relay-descs' command on the control port. Previously, we returned
3522 a generic error of "Error generating descriptor". Closes ticket
3523 32873. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3525 o Minor features (defense in depth):
3526 - Wipe more data from connection address fields before returning
3527 them to the memory heap. Closes ticket 6198.
3529 o Minor features (denial-of-service memory limiter):
3530 - Allow the user to configure even lower values for the
3531 MaxMemInQueues parameter. Relays now enforce a minimum of 64 MB,
3532 when previously the minimum was 256 MB. On clients, there is no
3533 minimum. Relays and clients will both warn if the value is set so
3534 low that Tor is likely to stop working. Closes ticket 24308.
3536 o Minor features (developer tooling):
3537 - Add a script to help check the alphabetical ordering of option
3538 names in the manual page. Closes ticket 33339.
3539 - Refrain from listing all .a files that are generated by the Tor
3540 build in .gitignore. Add a single wildcard *.a entry that covers
3541 all of them for present and future. Closes ticket 33642.
3542 - Add a script ("git-install-tools.sh") to install git hooks and
3543 helper scripts. Closes ticket 33451.
3545 o Minor features (directory authority):
3546 - Authorities now recommend the protocol versions that are supported
3547 by Tor 0.3.5 and later. (Earlier versions of Tor have been
3548 deprecated since January of this year.) This recommendation will
3549 cause older clients and relays to give a warning on startup, or
3550 when they download a consensus directory. Closes ticket 32696.
3552 o Minor features (directory authority, shared random):
3553 - Refactor more authority-only parts of the shared-random scheduling
3554 code to reside in the dirauth module, and to be disabled when
3555 compiling with --disable-module-dirauth. Closes ticket 33436.
3557 o Minor features (directory):
3558 - Remember the number of bytes we have downloaded for each directory
3559 purpose while bootstrapping, and while fully bootstrapped. Log
3560 this information as part of the heartbeat message. Closes
3563 o Minor features (entry guards):
3564 - Reinstate support for GUARD NEW/UP/DOWN control port events.
3565 Closes ticket 40001.
3567 o Minor features (IPv6 support):
3568 - Adds IPv6 support to tor_addr_is_valid(). Adds tests for the above
3569 changes and tor_addr_is_null(). Closes ticket 33679. Patch
3571 - Allow clients and relays to send dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2
3572 cells. Parse dual-stack and IPv6-only EXTEND2 cells on relays.
3573 Closes ticket 33901.
3575 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, portability):
3576 - Allow Tor to build on platforms where it doesn't know how to
3577 report which syscall caused the linux seccomp2 sandbox to fail.
3578 This change should make the sandbox code more portable to less
3579 common Linux architectures. Closes ticket 34382.
3580 - Permit the unlinkat() syscall, which some Libc implementations use
3581 to implement unlink(). Closes ticket 33346.
3583 o Minor features (logging):
3584 - When trying to find our own address, add debug-level logging to
3585 report the sources of candidate addresses. Closes ticket 32888.
3587 o Minor features (onion service client, SOCKS5):
3588 - Add 3 new SocksPort ExtendedErrors (F2, F3, F7) that reports back
3589 new type of onion service connection failures. The semantics of
3590 these error codes are documented in proposal 309. Closes
3593 o Minor features (onion service v3):
3594 - If a service cannot upload its descriptor(s), log why at INFO
3595 level. Closes ticket 33400; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3597 o Minor features (python scripts):
3598 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python exists. Instead of using a
3599 hardcoded path in scripts that still use Python 2, use
3600 /usr/bin/env, similarly to the scripts that use Python 3. Fixes
3601 bug 33192; bugfix on 0.4.2.
3603 o Minor features (testing, architecture):
3604 - Our test scripts now double-check that subsystem initialization
3605 order is consistent with the inter-module dependencies established
3606 by our .may_include files. Implements ticket 31634.
3607 - Initialize all subsystems at the beginning of our unit test
3608 harness, to avoid crashes due to uninitialized subsystems. Follow-
3609 up from ticket 33316.
3610 - Our "make check" target now runs the unit tests in 8 parallel
3611 chunks. Doing this speeds up hardened CI builds by more than a
3612 factor of two. Closes ticket 40098.
3614 o Minor features (v3 onion services):
3615 - Add v3 onion service status to the dumpstats() call which is
3616 triggered by a SIGUSR1 signal. Previously, we only did v2 onion
3617 services. Closes ticket 24844. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3619 o Minor features (windows):
3620 - Add support for console control signals like Ctrl+C in Windows.
3621 Closes ticket 34211. Patch from Damon Harris (TheDcoder).
3623 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion service):
3624 - Consistently use 'address' in "Invalid v3 address" response to
3625 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH commands. Previously, we would sometimes say
3626 'addr'. Fixes bug 40005; bugfix on 0.4.3.1-alpha.
3628 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, buffers):
3629 - Fix a correctness bug that could cause an assertion failure if we
3630 ever tried using the buf_move_all() function with an empty input
3631 buffer. As far as we know, no released versions of Tor do this.
3632 Fixes bug 40076; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3634 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
3635 - Directory authorities now reject votes that arrive too late. In
3636 particular, once an authority has started fetching missing votes,
3637 it no longer accepts new votes posted by other authorities. This
3638 change helps prevent a consensus split, where only some authorities
3639 have the late vote. Fixes bug 4631; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
3641 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
3642 - Stop executing the checked-out pre-commit hook from the pre-push
3643 hook. Instead, execute the copy in the user's git directory. Fixes
3644 bug 33284; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
3646 o Minor bugfixes (initialization):
3647 - Initialize the subsystems in our code in an order more closely
3648 corresponding to their dependencies, so that every system is
3649 initialized before the ones that (theoretically) depend on it.
3650 Fixes bug 33316; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
3652 o Minor bugfixes (IPv4, relay):
3653 - Check for invalid zero IPv4 addresses and ports when sending and
3654 receiving extend cells. Fixes bug 33900; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3656 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, relay):
3657 - Consider IPv6 addresses when checking if a connection is
3658 canonical. In 17604, relays assumed that a remote relay could
3659 consider an IPv6 connection canonical, but did not set the
3660 canonical flag on their side of the connection. Fixes bug 33899;
3661 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3662 - Log IPv6 addresses on connections where this relay is the
3663 responder. Previously, responding relays would replace the remote
3664 IPv6 address with the IPv4 address from the consensus. Fixes bug
3665 33899; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
3667 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3668 - Fix a regression on sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall. The
3669 fix for bug 25440 fixed the problem on systems with glibc >= 2.27
3670 but broke with versions of glibc. We now choose a rule based on
3671 the glibc version. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 27315;
3673 - Makes the seccomp sandbox allow the correct syscall for opendir
3674 according to the running glibc version. This fixes crashes when
3675 reloading torrc with sandbox enabled when running on glibc 2.15 to
3676 2.21 and 2.26. Patch from Daniel Pinto. Fixes bug 40020; bugfix
3679 o Minor bugfixes (logging, testing):
3680 - Make all of tor's assertion macros support the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL
3681 and DISABLE_ASSERTS_IN_UNIT_TESTS debugging modes. (IF_BUG_ONCE()
3682 used to log a non-fatal warning, regardless of the debugging
3683 mode.) Fixes bug 33917; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
3684 - Remove surprising empty line in the INFO-level log about circuit
3685 build timeout. Fixes bug 33531; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
3687 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop):
3688 - Better guard against growing a buffer past its maximum 2GB in
3689 size. Fixes bug 33131; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
3691 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3 client):
3692 - Remove a BUG() warning that could occur naturally. Fixes bug
3693 34087; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3695 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, logging):
3696 - Fix a typo in a log message PublishHidServDescriptors is set to 0.
3697 Fixes bug 33779; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3699 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
3700 - Avoid a non-fatal assertion failure in certain edge-cases when
3701 opening an intro circuit as a client. Fixes bug 34084; bugfix
3704 o Minor bugfixes (protocol versions):
3705 - Sort tor's supported protocol version lists, as recommended by the
3706 tor directory specification. Fixes bug 33285; bugfix
3709 o Minor bugfixes (rate limiting, bridges, pluggable transports):
3710 - On a bridge, treat all connections from an ExtORPort as remote by
3711 default for the purposes of rate-limiting. Previously, bridges
3712 would treat the connection as local unless they explicitly
3713 received a "USERADDR" command. ExtORPort connections still count
3714 as local if there is a USERADDR command with an explicit local
3715 address. Fixes bug 33747; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3717 o Minor bugfixes (refactoring):
3718 - Lift circuit_build_times_disabled() out of the
3719 circuit_expire_building() loop, to save CPU time when there are
3720 many circuits open. Fixes bug 33977; bugfix on 0.3.5.9.
3722 o Minor bugfixes (relay, self-testing):
3723 - When starting up as a relay, if we haven't been able to verify
3724 that we're reachable, only launch reachability tests at most once
3725 a minute. Previously, we had been launching tests up to once a
3726 second, which was needlessly noisy. Fixes bug 40083; bugfix
3729 o Minor bugfixes (relay, usability):
3730 - Adjust the rules for when to warn about having too many
3731 connections to other relays. Previously we'd tolerate up to 1.5
3732 connections per relay on average. Now we tolerate more connections
3733 for directory authorities, and raise the number of total
3734 connections we need to see before we warn. Fixes bug 33880; bugfix
3737 o Minor bugfixes (SOCKS, onion service client):
3738 - Detect v3 onion service addresses of the wrong length when
3739 returning the F6 ExtendedErrors code. Fixes bug 33873; bugfix
3742 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
3743 - Fix the behavior of the rend_cache/clean_v2_descs_as_dir when run
3744 on its own. Previously, it would exit with an error. Fixes bug
3745 40099; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
3747 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
3748 - Remove a BUG() warning that could trigger in certain unlikely
3749 edge-cases. Fixes bug 34086; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
3750 - Remove a BUG() that was causing a stacktrace when a descriptor
3751 changed at an unexpected time. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3754 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
3755 - Fix a bug that prevented Tor from starting if its log file grew
3756 above 2GB. Fixes bug 31036; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3758 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3759 - Define and use a new constant TOR_ADDRPORT_BUF_LEN which is like
3760 TOR_ADDR_BUF_LEN but includes enough space for an IP address,
3761 brackets, separating colon, and port number. Closes ticket 33956.
3762 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3763 - Merge the orconn and ocirc events into the "core" subsystem, which
3764 manages or connections and origin circuits. Previously they were
3765 isolated in subsystems of their own.
3766 - Move LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN to app/config. Resolves a dependency
3767 inversion. Closes ticket 33633.
3768 - Move the circuit extend code to the relay module. Split the
3769 circuit extend function into smaller functions. Closes
3771 - Rewrite port_parse_config() to use the default port flags from
3772 port_cfg_new(). Closes ticket 32994. Patch by MrSquanchee.
3773 - Updated comments in 'scheduler.c' to reflect old code changes, and
3774 simplified the scheduler channel state change code. Closes
3776 - Refactor configuration parsing to use the new config subsystem
3777 code. Closes ticket 33014.
3778 - Move a series of functions related to address resolving into their
3779 own files. Closes ticket 33789.
3782 - Replace most http:// URLs in our code and documentation with
3783 https:// URLs. (We have left unchanged the code in src/ext/, and
3784 the text in LICENSE.) Closes ticket 31812. Patch from Jeremy Rand.
3785 - Document the limitations of using %include on config files with
3786 seccomp sandbox enabled. Fixes documentation bug 34133; bugfix on
3787 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
3790 - Our "check-local" test target no longer tries to use the
3791 Coccinelle semantic patching tool parse all the C files. While it
3792 is a good idea to try to make sure Coccinelle works on our C
3793 before we run a Coccinelle patch, doing so on every test run has
3794 proven to be disruptive. You can still run this tool manually with
3795 "make check-cocci". Closes ticket 40030.
3796 - Remove the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option attempted to
3797 randomly choose between IPv4 and IPv6 for client connections, and
3798 wasn't a true implementation of Happy Eyeballs. Often, this option
3799 failed on IPv4-only or IPv6-only connections. Closes ticket 32905.
3800 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
3801 - Stop shipping contrib/dist/rc.subr file, as it is not being used
3802 on FreeBSD anymore. Closes issue 31576.
3805 - Add a basic IPv6 test to "make test-network". This test only runs
3806 when the local machine has an IPv6 stack. Closes ticket 33300.
3807 - Add test-network-ipv4 and test-network-ipv6 jobs to the Makefile.
3808 These jobs run the IPv4-only and dual-stack chutney flavours from
3809 test-network-all. Closes ticket 33280.
3810 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
3811 - Run the test-network-ipv6 Makefile target in the Travis CI IPv6
3812 chutney job. This job runs on macOS, so it's a bit slow. Closes
3814 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed. Putting the slowest jobs
3815 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
3817 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
3818 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
3819 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
3820 - Test v3 onion services to tor's mixed IPv4 chutney network. And
3821 add a mixed IPv6 chutney network. These networks are used in the
3822 test-network-all, test-network-ipv4, and test-network-ipv6 make
3823 targets. Closes ticket 33334.
3824 - Use the "bridges+hs-v23" chutney network flavour in "make test-
3825 network". This test requires a recent version of chutney (mid-
3826 February 2020). Closes ticket 28208.
3827 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
3828 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
3830 o Deprecated features (onion service v2):
3831 - Add a deprecation warning for version 2 onion services. Closes
3834 o Documentation (manual page):
3835 - Add cross reference links and a table of contents to the HTML tor
3836 manual page. Closes ticket 33369. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
3837 Google Season of Docs.
3838 - Alphabetize the Denial of Service Mitigation Options, Directory
3839 Authority Server Options, Hidden Service Options, and Testing
3840 Network Options sections of the tor(1) manual page. Closes ticket
3841 33275. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
3842 - Refrain from mentioning nicknames in manpage section for MyFamily
3843 torrc option. Resolves issue 33417.
3844 - Updated the options set by TestingTorNetwork in the manual page.
3845 Closes ticket 33778.
3848 Changes in version 0.3.5.11 - 2020-07-09
3849 Tor 0.3.5.11 backports fixes from later tor releases, including several
3850 usability, portability, and reliability fixes.
3852 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3853 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3854 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3855 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3856 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3857 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3858 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3861 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3862 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3863 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3864 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3867 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3868 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3869 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3870 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3871 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3872 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3874 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3875 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3876 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3877 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3878 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3879 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3881 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3882 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3883 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3885 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3886 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3887 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3888 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3891 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3892 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3893 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
3894 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
3897 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
3898 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
3899 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
3900 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
3901 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
3903 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3904 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
3905 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
3907 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
3908 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
3909 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
3910 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
3911 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
3914 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3915 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
3916 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
3917 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
3918 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
3919 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
3921 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3922 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
3923 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
3924 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3926 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3927 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
3928 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
3929 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
3932 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3933 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
3934 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
3935 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
3936 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
3937 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
3938 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
3939 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
3943 Changes in version 0.4.2.8 - 2020-07-09
3944 Tor 0.4.2.8 backports various fixes from later releases, including
3945 several that affect usability and portability.
3947 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
3948 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
3949 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
3950 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
3951 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
3952 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
3953 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
3956 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3957 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
3958 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
3959 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
3962 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3963 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
3964 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
3965 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
3966 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
3967 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
3969 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control, backport form 0.4.3.4-rc):
3970 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
3971 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
3972 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
3973 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
3975 o Minor features (diagnostic, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3976 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
3977 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
3978 code. Closes ticket 33290.
3980 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
3981 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
3982 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
3983 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
3984 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
3985 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
3987 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
3988 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
3989 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
3991 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
3992 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
3993 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
3994 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
3997 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
3998 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
3999 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4000 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4003 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility, backport from 0.4.3.5):
4004 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4005 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4006 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4007 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4008 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4011 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4012 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4013 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4015 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4016 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4017 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4018 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4020 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4021 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4022 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4023 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4024 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4027 o Minor bugfixes (key portability, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4028 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4029 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4030 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4031 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4032 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4034 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-rc):
4035 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4036 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4037 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4038 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4040 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4041 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4042 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4043 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4045 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4046 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4047 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4048 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4050 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4051 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4052 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4053 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4056 o Testing (CI, backport from 0.4.3.4-rc):
4057 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4058 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4059 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4060 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4061 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4062 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4063 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4067 Changes in version 0.4.3.6 - 2020-07-09
4068 Tor 0.4.3.6 backports several bugfixes from later releases, including
4069 some affecting usability.
4071 This release also fixes TROVE-2020-001, a medium-severity denial of
4072 service vulnerability affecting all versions of Tor when compiled with
4073 the NSS encryption library. (This is not the default configuration.)
4074 Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause an affected Tor
4075 instance to crash remotely. This issue is also tracked as CVE-2020-
4076 15572. Anybody running a version of Tor built with the NSS library
4077 should upgrade to 0.3.5.11, 0.4.2.8, 0.4.3.6, or 0.4.4.2-alpha
4080 o Major bugfixes (NSS, security, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4081 - Fix a crash due to an out-of-bound memory access when Tor is
4082 compiled with NSS support. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4083 0.3.5.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2020-001
4086 o Minor bugfix (CI, Windows, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4087 - Use the correct 64-bit printf format when compiling with MINGW on
4088 Appveyor. Fixes bug 40026; bugfix on 0.3.5.5-alpha.
4090 o Minor bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4091 - Resume use of preemptively-built circuits when UseEntryGuards is set
4092 to 0. We accidentally disabled this feature with that config
4093 setting, leading to slower load times. Fixes bug 34303; bugfix
4096 o Minor bugfixes (compiler warnings, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4097 - Fix a compiler warning on platforms with 32-bit time_t values.
4098 Fixes bug 40028; bugfix on 0.3.2.8-rc.
4100 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, nss, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4101 - Fix a startup crash when tor is compiled with --enable-nss and
4102 sandbox support is enabled. Fixes bug 34130; bugfix on
4103 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Daniel Pinto.
4105 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.4.2-alpha):
4106 - Downgrade a noisy log message that could occur naturally when
4107 receiving an extrainfo document that we no longer want. Fixes bug
4108 16016; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4110 o Minor bugfixes (manual page, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4111 - Update the man page to reflect that MinUptimeHidServDirectoryV2
4112 defaults to 96 hours. Fixes bug 34299; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
4114 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4115 - Prevent an assert() that would occur when cleaning the client
4116 descriptor cache, and attempting to close circuits for a non-
4117 decrypted descriptor (lacking client authorization). Fixes bug
4118 33458; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4120 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4121 - Fix a portability error in the configure script, where we were
4122 using "==" instead of "=". Fixes bug 34233; bugfix on 0.4.3.5.
4124 o Minor bugfixes (relays, backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4125 - Stop advertising incorrect IPv6 ORPorts in relay and bridge
4126 descriptors, when the IPv6 port was configured as "auto". Fixes
4127 bug 32588; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4129 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.4.1-alpha):
4130 - Fix several doxygen warnings related to imbalanced groups. Closes
4134 Changes in version 0.4.3.5 - 2020-05-15
4135 Tor 0.4.3.5 is the first stable release in the 0.4.3.x series. This
4136 series adds support for building without relay code enabled, and
4137 implements functionality needed for OnionBalance with v3 onion
4138 services. It includes significant refactoring of our configuration and
4139 controller functionality, and fixes numerous smaller bugs and
4142 Per our support policy, we support each stable release series for nine
4143 months after its first stable release, or three months after the first
4144 stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. This means
4145 that 0.4.3.x will be supported until around February 2021--later, if
4146 0.4.4.x is later than anticipated.
4148 Note also that support for 0.4.1.x is about to end on May 20 of this
4149 year; 0.4.2.x will be supported until September 15. We still plan to
4150 continue supporting 0.3.5.x, our long-term stable series, until
4153 Below are the changes since 0.4.2.6. For a list of only the changes
4154 since 0.4.3.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
4156 o New system requirements:
4157 - When building Tor, you now need to have Python 3 in order to run
4158 the integration tests. (Python 2 is officially unsupported
4159 upstream, as of 1 Jan 2020.) Closes ticket 32608.
4161 o Major features (build system):
4162 - The relay code can now be disabled using the --disable-module-relay
4163 configure option. When this option is set, we also disable the
4164 dirauth module. Closes ticket 32123.
4165 - When Tor is compiled --disable-module-relay, we also omit the code
4166 used to act as a directory cache. Closes ticket 32487.
4168 o Major features (directory authority, ed25519):
4169 - Add support for banning a relay's ed25519 keys in the approved-
4170 routers file. This will help us migrate away from RSA keys in the
4171 future. Previously, only RSA keys could be banned in approved-
4172 routers. Resolves ticket 22029. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4174 o Major features (onion services):
4175 - New control port commands to manage client-side onion service
4176 authorization credentials. The ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_ADD command adds
4177 a credential, ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_REMOVE deletes a credential, and
4178 ONION_CLIENT_AUTH_VIEW lists the credentials. Closes ticket 30381.
4179 - Introduce a new SocksPort flag, ExtendedErrors, to support more
4180 detailed error codes in information for applications that support
4181 them. Closes ticket 30382; implements proposal 304.
4183 o Major features (proxy):
4184 - In addition to its current supported proxy types (HTTP CONNECT,
4185 SOCKS4, and SOCKS5), Tor can now make its OR connections through a
4186 HAProxy server. A new torrc option was added to specify the
4187 address/port of the server: TCPProxy <protocol> <host>:<port>.
4188 Currently the only supported protocol for the option is haproxy.
4189 Closes ticket 31518. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
4191 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service):
4192 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4193 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4194 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4195 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4196 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4197 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4198 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4199 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4201 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak):
4202 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4203 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4204 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4205 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4207 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
4208 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4209 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4210 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4211 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4213 o Major bugfixes (DoS defenses, bridges, pluggable transport):
4214 - Fix a bug that was preventing DoS defenses from running on bridges
4215 with a pluggable transport. Previously, the DoS subsystem was not
4216 given the transport name of the client connection, thus failed to
4217 find the GeoIP cache entry for that client address. Fixes bug
4218 33491; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
4220 o Major bugfixes (networking):
4221 - Correctly handle IPv6 addresses in SOCKS5 RESOLVE_PTR requests,
4222 and accept strings as well as binary addresses. Fixes bug 32315;
4223 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4225 o Major bugfixes (onion service):
4226 - Report HS circuit failure back into the HS subsystem so we take
4227 appropriate action with regards to the client introduction point
4228 failure cache. This improves reachability of onion services, since
4229 now clients notice failing introduction circuits properly. Fixes
4230 bug 32020; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4232 o Minor feature (heartbeat, onion service):
4233 - Add the DoS INTRODUCE2 defenses counter to the heartbeat DoS
4234 message. Closes ticket 31371.
4236 o Minor feature (sendme, flow control):
4237 - Default to sending SENDME version 1 cells. (Clients are already
4238 sending these, because of a consensus parameter telling them to do
4239 so: this change only affects what clients would do if the
4240 consensus didn't contain a recommendation.) Closes ticket 33623.
4242 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
4243 - Practracker now supports a --regen-overbroad option to regenerate
4244 the exceptions file, but only to revise exceptions to be _less_
4245 tolerant of best-practices violations. Closes ticket 32372.
4247 o Minor features (configuration validation):
4248 - Configuration validation can now be done by per-module callbacks,
4249 rather than a global validation function. This will let us reduce
4250 the size of config.c and some of its more cumbersome functions.
4251 Closes ticket 31241.
4253 o Minor features (configuration):
4254 - If a configured hardware crypto accelerator in AccelName is
4255 prefixed with "!", Tor now exits when it cannot be found. Closes
4257 - We now use flag-driven logic to warn about obsolete configuration
4258 fields, so that we can include their names. In 0.4.2, we used a
4259 special type, which prevented us from generating good warnings.
4260 Implements ticket 32404.
4262 o Minor features (configure, build system):
4263 - Output a list of enabled/disabled features at the end of the
4264 configure process in a pleasing way. Closes ticket 31373.
4266 o Minor features (continuous integration):
4267 - Run Doxygen Makefile target on Travis, so we can learn about
4268 regressions in our internal documentation. Closes ticket 32455.
4269 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4270 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4271 Closes ticket 33075.
4273 o Minor features (controller):
4274 - Add stream isolation data to STREAM event. Closes ticket 19859.
4275 - Implement a new GETINFO command to fetch microdescriptor
4276 consensus. Closes ticket 31684.
4278 o Minor features (debugging, directory system):
4279 - Don't crash when we find a non-guard with a guard-fraction value
4280 set. Instead, log a bug warning, in an attempt to figure out how
4281 this happened. Diagnostic for ticket 32868.
4283 o Minor features (defense in depth):
4284 - Add additional checks around tor_vasprintf() usage, in case the
4285 function returns an error. Patch by Tobias Stoeckmann. Fixes
4288 o Minor features (developer tools):
4289 - Remove the 0.2.9.x series branches from git scripts (git-merge-
4290 forward.sh, git-pull-all.sh, git-push-all.sh, git-setup-dirs.sh).
4291 Closes ticket 32772.
4292 - Add a check_cocci_parse.sh script that checks that new code is
4293 parseable by Coccinelle. Add an exceptions file for unparseable
4294 files, and run the script from travis CI. Closes ticket 31919.
4295 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from a 'check-cocci' Makefile
4296 target. Closes ticket 31919.
4297 - Add a rename_c_identifiers.py tool to rename a bunch of C
4298 identifiers at once, and generate a well-formed commit message
4299 describing the change. This should help with refactoring. Closes
4301 - Add some scripts in "scripts/coccinelle" to invoke the Coccinelle
4302 semantic patching tool with the correct flags. These flags are
4303 fairly easy to forget, and these scripts should help us use
4304 Coccinelle more effectively in the future. Closes ticket 31705.
4306 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4307 - Improve assertions and add some memory-poisoning code to try to
4308 track down possible causes of a rare crash (32564) in the EWMA
4309 code. Closes ticket 33290.
4311 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4312 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors from relays running
4313 Tor versions from the 0.2.9 and 0.4.0 series. The 0.3.5 series is
4314 still allowed. Resolves ticket 32672. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4316 o Minor features (Doxygen):
4317 - Update Doxygen configuration file to a more recent template (from
4318 1.8.15). Closes ticket 32110.
4319 - "make doxygen" now works with out-of-tree builds. Closes
4321 - Make sure that doxygen outputs documentation for all of our C
4322 files. Previously, some were missing @file declarations, causing
4323 them to be ignored. Closes ticket 32307.
4324 - Our "make doxygen" target now respects --enable-fatal-warnings by
4325 default, and does not warn about items that are missing
4326 documentation. To warn about missing documentation, run configure
4327 with the "--enable-missing-doc-warnings" flag: doing so suspends
4328 fatal warnings for doxygen. Closes ticket 32385.
4330 o Minor features (git scripts):
4331 - Add TOR_EXTRA_CLONE_ARGS to git-setup-dirs.sh for git clone
4332 customisation. Closes ticket 32347.
4333 - Add git-setup-dirs.sh, which sets up an upstream git repository
4334 and worktrees for tor maintainers. Closes ticket 29603.
4335 - Add TOR_EXTRA_REMOTE_* to git-setup-dirs.sh for a custom extra
4336 remote. Closes ticket 32347.
4337 - Call the check_cocci_parse.sh script from the git commit and push
4338 hooks. Closes ticket 31919.
4339 - Make git-push-all.sh skip unchanged branches when pushing to
4340 upstream. The script already skipped unchanged test branches.
4341 Closes ticket 32216.
4342 - Make git-setup-dirs.sh create a master symlink in the worktree
4343 directory. Closes ticket 32347.
4344 - Skip unmodified source files when doing some existing git hook
4345 checks. Related to ticket 31919.
4347 o Minor features (IPv6, client):
4348 - Make Tor clients tell dual-stack exits that they prefer IPv6
4349 connections. This change is equivalent to setting the PreferIPv6
4350 flag on SOCKSPorts (and most other listener ports). Tor Browser
4351 has been setting this flag for some time, and we want to remove a
4352 client distinguisher at exits. Closes ticket 32637.
4354 o Minor features (portability, android):
4355 - When building for Android, disable some tests that depend on $HOME
4356 and/or pwdb, which Android doesn't have. Closes ticket 32825.
4357 Patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4359 o Minor features (relay modularity):
4360 - Split the relay and server pluggable transport config code into
4361 separate files in the relay module. Disable this code when the
4362 relay module is disabled. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4363 - When the relay module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4364 ORPort, DirPort, DirCache, BridgeRelay, ExtORPort, or
4365 ServerTransport* options, rather than ignoring the values of these
4366 options. Closes part of ticket 32213.
4367 - When the relay module is disabled, change the default config so
4368 that DirCache is 0, and ClientOnly is 1. Closes ticket 32410.
4370 o Minor features (release tools):
4371 - Port our ChangeLog formatting and sorting tools to Python 3.
4372 Closes ticket 32704.
4374 o Minor features (testing):
4375 - The unit tests now support a "TOR_SKIP_TESTCASES" environment
4376 variable to specify a list of space-separated test cases that
4377 should not be executed. We will use this to disable certain tests
4378 that are failing on Appveyor because of mismatched OpenSSL
4379 libraries. Part of ticket 33643.
4380 - Detect some common failure cases for test_parseconf.sh in
4381 src/test/conf_failures. Closes ticket 32451.
4382 - Allow test_parseconf.sh to test expected log outputs for successful
4383 configs, as well as failed configs. Closes ticket 32451.
4384 - The test_parseconf.sh script now supports result variants for any
4385 combination of the optional libraries lzma, nss, and zstd. Closes
4387 - When running the unit tests on Android, create temporary files in
4388 a subdirectory of /data/local/tmp. Closes ticket 32172. Based on a
4389 patch from Hans-Christoph Steiner.
4391 o Minor features (usability):
4392 - Include more information when failing to parse a configuration
4393 value. This should make it easier to tell what's going wrong when
4394 a configuration file doesn't parse. Closes ticket 33460.
4396 o Minor bugfix (relay, configuration):
4397 - Warn if the ContactInfo field is not set, and tell the relay
4398 operator that not having a ContactInfo field set might cause their
4399 relay to get rejected in the future. Fixes bug 33361; bugfix
4402 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
4403 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4404 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4406 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
4407 - Fix "make autostyle" for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32370;
4408 bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4410 o Minor bugfixes (compiler compatibility):
4411 - Avoid compiler warnings from Clang 10 related to the use of GCC-
4412 style "/* falls through */" comments. Both Clang and GCC allow
4413 __attribute__((fallthrough)) instead, so that's what we're using
4414 now. Fixes bug 34078; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
4415 - Fix compilation warnings with GCC 10.0.1. Fixes bug 34077; bugfix
4418 o Minor bugfixes (configuration handling):
4419 - Make control_event_conf_changed() take in a config_line_t instead
4420 of a smartlist of alternating key/value entries. Fixes bug 31531;
4421 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4422 - Check for multiplication overflow when parsing memory units inside
4423 configuration. Fixes bug 30920; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
4424 - When dumping the configuration, stop adding a trailing space after
4425 the option name when there is no option value. This issue only
4426 affects options that accept an empty value or list. (Most options
4427 reject empty values, or delete the entire line from the dumped
4428 options.) Fixes bug 32352; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6.
4429 - Avoid changing the user's value of HardwareAccel as stored by
4430 SAVECONF, when AccelName is set but HardwareAccel is not. Fixes
4431 bug 32382; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4432 - When creating a KeyDirectory with the same location as the
4433 DataDirectory (not recommended), respect the DataDirectory's
4434 group-readable setting if one has not been set for the
4435 KeyDirectory. Fixes bug 27992; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4437 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
4438 - Remove the buggy and unused mirroring job. Fixes bug 33213; bugfix
4441 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
4442 - When receiving "ACTIVE" or "DORMANT" signals on the control port,
4443 report them as SIGNAL events. Previously we would log a bug
4444 warning. Fixes bug 33104; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4446 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4447 - In routerstatus_has_changed(), check all the fields that are
4448 output over the control port. Fixes bug 20218; bugfix
4451 o Minor bugfixes (developer tools):
4452 - Allow paths starting with ./ in scripts/add_c_file.py. Fixes bug
4453 31336; bugfix on 0.4.1.2-alpha.
4455 o Minor bugfixes (dirauth module):
4456 - Split the dirauth config code into a separate file in the dirauth
4457 module. Disable this code when the dirauth module is disabled.
4458 Closes ticket 32213.
4459 - When the dirauth module is disabled, reject attempts to set the
4460 AuthoritativeDir option, rather than ignoring the value of the
4461 option. Fixes bug 32213; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
4463 o Minor bugfixes (embedded Tor):
4464 - When starting Tor any time after the first time in a process,
4465 register the thread in which it is running as the main thread.
4466 Previously, we only did this on Windows, which could lead to bugs
4467 like 23081 on non-Windows platforms. Fixes bug 32884; bugfix
4470 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
4471 - Avoid sleeping before the last push in git-push-all.sh. Closes
4473 - Forward all unrecognised arguments in git-push-all.sh to git push.
4474 Closes ticket 32216.
4476 o Minor bugfixes (key portability):
4477 - When reading PEM-encoded key data, tolerate CRLF line-endings even
4478 if we are not running on Windows. Previously, non-Windows hosts
4479 would reject these line-endings in certain positions, making
4480 certain key files hard to move from one host to another. Fixes bug
4481 33032; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4483 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4484 - Stop truncating IPv6 addresses and ports in channel and connection
4485 logs. Fixes bug 33918; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4486 - Flush stderr, stdout, and file logs during shutdown, if supported
4487 by the OS. This change helps make sure that any final logs are
4488 recorded. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix on 0.4.1.6.
4489 - Stop closing stderr and stdout during shutdown. Closing these file
4490 descriptors can hide sanitiser logs. Fixes bug 33087; bugfix
4492 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4493 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4494 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4495 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4497 - When logging a bug, do not say "Future instances of this warning
4498 will be silenced" unless we are actually going to silence them.
4499 Previously we would say this whenever a BUG() check failed in the
4500 code. Fixes bug 33095; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
4502 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v2):
4503 - Move a series of v2 onion service warnings to protocol-warning
4504 level because they can all be triggered remotely by a malformed
4505 request. Fixes bug 32706; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
4506 - When sending the INTRO cell for a v2 Onion Service, look at the
4507 failure cache alongside timeout values to check if the intro point
4508 is marked as failed. Previously, we only looked at the relay
4509 timeout values. Fixes bug 25568; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by
4512 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3):
4513 - Remove a BUG() warning that would cause a stack trace if an onion
4514 service descriptor was freed while we were waiting for a
4515 rendezvous circuit to complete. Fixes bug 28992; bugfix
4517 - Relax severity of a log message that can appear naturally when
4518 decoding onion service descriptors as a relay. Also add some
4519 diagnostics to debug any future bugs in that area. Fixes bug
4520 31669; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
4521 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4522 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4523 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4525 - Properly handle the client rendezvous circuit timeout. Previously
4526 Tor would sometimes timeout a rendezvous circuit awaiting the
4527 introduction ACK, and find itself unable to re-establish all
4528 circuits because the rendezvous circuit timed out too early. Fixes
4529 bug 32021; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
4531 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
4532 - Do not rely on a "circuit established" flag for intro circuits but
4533 instead always query the HS circuit map. This is to avoid sync
4534 issue with that flag and the map. Fixes bug 32094; bugfix
4537 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, all):
4538 - In cancel_descriptor_fetches(), use
4539 connection_list_by_type_purpose() instead of
4540 connection_list_by_type_state(). Fixes bug 32639; bugfix on
4541 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
4543 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4544 - When receiving a message on standard error from a pluggable
4545 transport, log it at info level, rather than as a warning. Fixes
4546 bug 33005; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4548 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build):
4549 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4550 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4551 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4553 o Minor bugfixes (scripts):
4554 - Fix update_versions.py for out-of-tree builds. Fixes bug 32371;
4555 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
4557 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4558 - Use the same code to find the tor binary in all of our test
4559 scripts. This change makes sure we are always using the coverage
4560 binary when coverage is enabled. Fixes bug 32368; bugfix
4562 - Stop ignoring "tor --dump-config" errors in test_parseconf.sh.
4563 Fixes bug 32468; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
4564 - Our option-validation tests no longer depend on specially
4565 configured non-default, non-passing sets of options. Previously,
4566 the tests had been written to assume that options would _not_ be
4567 set to their defaults, which led to needless complexity and
4568 verbosity. Fixes bug 32175; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
4570 o Minor bugfixes (TLS bug handling):
4571 - When encountering a bug in buf_read_from_tls(), return a "MISC"
4572 error code rather than "WANTWRITE". This change might help avoid
4573 some CPU-wasting loops if the bug is ever triggered. Bug reported
4574 by opara. Fixes bug 32673; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-alpha.
4576 o Deprecated features:
4577 - Deprecate the ClientAutoIPv6ORPort option. This option was not
4578 true "Happy Eyeballs", and often failed on connections that
4579 weren't reliably dual-stack. Closes ticket 32942. Patch by
4583 - Provide a quickstart guide for a Circuit Padding Framework, and
4584 documentation for researchers to implement and study circuit
4585 padding machines. Closes ticket 28804.
4586 - Add documentation in 'HelpfulTools.md' to describe how to build a
4587 tag file. Closes ticket 32779.
4588 - Create a high-level description of the long-term software
4589 architecture goals. Closes ticket 32206.
4590 - Describe the --dump-config command in the manual page. Closes
4592 - Unite coding advice from this_not_that.md in torguts repo into our
4593 coding standards document. Resolves ticket 31853.
4596 - Our Doxygen configuration no longer generates LaTeX output. The
4597 reference manual produced by doing this was over 4000 pages long,
4598 and generally unusable. Closes ticket 32099.
4599 - The option "TestingEstimatedDescriptorPropagationTime" is now
4600 marked as obsolete. It has had no effect since 0.3.0.7, when
4601 clients stopped rejecting consensuses "from the future". Closes
4603 - We no longer support consensus methods before method 28; these
4604 methods were only used by authorities running versions of Tor that
4605 are now at end-of-life. In effect, this means that clients,
4606 relays, and authorities now assume that authorities will be
4607 running version 0.3.5.x or later. Closes ticket 32695.
4610 - Avoid conflicts between the fake sockets in tor's unit tests, and
4611 real file descriptors. Resolves issues running unit tests with
4612 GitHub Actions, where the process that embeds or launches the
4613 tests has already opened a large number of file descriptors. Fixes
4614 bug 33782; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Found and fixed by
4616 - Add more test cases for tor's UTF-8 validation function. Also,
4617 check the arguments passed to the function for consistency. Closes
4619 - Improve test coverage for relay and dirauth config code, focusing
4620 on option validation and normalization. Closes ticket 32213.
4621 - Improve the consistency of test_parseconf.sh output, and run all
4622 the tests, even if one fails. Closes ticket 32213.
4623 - Run the practracker unit tests in the pre-commit git hook. Closes
4626 o Code simplification and refactoring (channel):
4627 - Channel layer had a variable length cell handler that was not used
4628 and thus removed. Closes ticket 32892.
4630 o Code simplification and refactoring (configuration):
4631 - Immutability is now implemented as a flag on individual
4632 configuration options rather than as part of the option-transition
4633 checking code. Closes ticket 32344.
4634 - Instead of keeping a list of configuration options to check for
4635 relative paths, check all the options whose type is "FILENAME".
4636 Solves part of ticket 32339.
4637 - Our default log (which ordinarily sends NOTICE-level messages to
4638 standard output) is now handled in a more logical manner.
4639 Previously, we replaced the configured log options if they were
4640 empty. Now, we interpret an empty set of log options as meaning
4641 "use the default log". Closes ticket 31999.
4642 - Remove some unused arguments from the options_validate() function,
4643 to simplify our code and tests. Closes ticket 32187.
4644 - Simplify the options_validate() code so that it looks at the
4645 default options directly, rather than taking default options as an
4646 argument. This change lets us simplify its interface. Closes
4648 - Use our new configuration architecture to move most authority-
4649 related options to the directory authority module. Closes
4651 - When parsing the command line, handle options that determine our
4652 "quiet level" and our mode of operation (e.g., --dump-config and
4653 so on) all in one table. Closes ticket 32003.
4655 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
4656 - Create a new abstraction for formatting control protocol reply
4657 lines based on key-value pairs. Refactor some existing control
4658 protocol code to take advantage of this. Closes ticket 30984.
4659 - Create a helper function that can fetch network status or
4660 microdesc consensuses. Closes ticket 31684.
4662 o Code simplification and refactoring (dirauth modularization):
4663 - Remove the last remaining HAVE_MODULE_DIRAUTH inside a function.
4664 Closes ticket 32163.
4665 - Replace some confusing identifiers in process_descs.c. Closes
4667 - Simplify some relay and dirauth config code. Closes ticket 32213.
4669 o Code simplification and refactoring (mainloop):
4670 - Simplify the ip_address_changed() function by removing redundant
4671 checks. Closes ticket 33091.
4673 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
4674 - Make all the structs we declare follow the same naming convention
4675 of ending with "_t". Closes ticket 32415.
4676 - Move and rename some configuration-related code for clarity.
4677 Closes ticket 32304.
4678 - Our include.am files are now broken up by subdirectory.
4679 Previously, src/core/include.am covered all of the subdirectories
4680 in "core", "feature", and "app". Closes ticket 32137.
4681 - Remove underused NS*() macros from test code: they make our tests
4682 more confusing, especially for code-formatting tools. Closes
4685 o Code simplification and refactoring (relay modularization):
4686 - Disable relay_periodic when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4688 - Disable relay_sys when the relay module is disabled. Closes
4691 o Code simplification and refactoring (tool support):
4692 - Add numerous missing dependencies to our include files, so that
4693 they can be included in different reasonable orders and still
4694 compile. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4695 - Fix some parts of our code that were difficult for Coccinelle to
4696 parse. Related to ticket 31705.
4697 - Fix some small issues in our code that prevented automatic
4698 formatting tools from working. Addresses part of ticket 32764.
4700 o Documentation (manpage):
4701 - Alphabetize the Server and Directory server sections of the tor
4702 manpage. Also split Statistics options into their own section of
4703 the manpage. Closes ticket 33188. Work by Swati Thacker as part of
4704 Google Season of Docs.
4705 - Document the __OwningControllerProcess torrc option and specify
4706 its polling interval. Resolves issue 32971.
4707 - Split "Circuit Timeout" options and "Node Selection" options into
4708 their own sections of the tor manpage. Closes tickets 32928 and
4709 32929. Work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4710 - Alphabetize the Client Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4712 - Alphabetize the General Options section of the tor manpage. Closes
4714 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the
4715 COMMAND-LINE OPTIONS and DESCRIPTION sections. Closes ticket
4716 32277. Based on work by Swati Thacker as part of Google Season
4718 - In the tor(1) manpage, reword and improve formatting of the FILES,
4719 SEE ALSO, and BUGS sections. Closes ticket 32176. Based on work by
4720 Swati Thacker as part of Google Season of Docs.
4722 o Testing (Appveyor CI):
4723 - In our Appveyor Windows CI, copy required DLLs to test and app
4724 directories, before running tor's tests. This ensures that tor.exe
4725 and test*.exe use the correct version of each DLL. This fix is not
4726 required, but we hope it will avoid DLL search issues in future.
4727 Fixes bug 33673; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
4728 - On Appveyor, skip the crypto/openssl_version test, which is
4729 failing because of a mismatched library installation. Fix
4732 o Testing (circuit, EWMA):
4733 - Add unit tests for circuitmux and EWMA subsystems. Closes
4736 o Testing (Travis CI):
4737 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4738 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4739 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4741 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4742 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4743 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4744 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4745 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4748 Changes in version 0.4.2.7 - 2020-03-18
4749 This is the third stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4750 numerous fixes from later releases, including a fix for TROVE-2020-
4751 002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that affected all
4752 released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability,
4753 an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge amount of CPU,
4754 disrupting their operations for several seconds or minutes. This
4755 attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or by a directory
4756 cache against any client that had connected to it. The attacker could
4757 launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service
4758 or creating patterns that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue
4759 was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4761 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4762 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4763 as soon as packages are available.
4765 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4766 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4767 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4768 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4769 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4770 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4771 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4772 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4773 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4775 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4776 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4777 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4778 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4779 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4781 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4782 - Directory authorities will now send a 503 (not enough bandwidth)
4783 code to clients when under bandwidth pressure. Known relays and
4784 other authorities will always be answered regardless of the
4785 bandwidth situation. Fixes bug 33029; bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
4787 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4788 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4789 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4790 Closes ticket 33075.
4792 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4793 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4794 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4796 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4797 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4798 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4799 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4800 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4803 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4804 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4805 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4806 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4809 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4810 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4811 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4812 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4814 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4815 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4816 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4817 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4819 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4820 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4821 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4822 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4823 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4826 Changes in version 0.4.1.9 - 2020-03-18
4827 Tor 0.4.1.9 backports important fixes from later Tor releases,
4828 including a fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service
4829 vulnerability that affected all released Tor instances since
4830 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor
4831 instances to consume a huge amount of CPU, disrupting their operations
4832 for several seconds or minutes. This attack could be launched by
4833 anybody against a relay, or by a directory cache against any client
4834 that had connected to it. The attacker could launch this attack as
4835 much as they wanted, thereby disrupting service or creating patterns
4836 that could aid in traffic analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz,
4837 and is also tracked as CVE-2020-10592.
4839 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4840 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4841 as soon as packages are available.
4843 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4844 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4845 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4846 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4847 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4848 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4849 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4850 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4851 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4853 o Major bugfixes (circuit padding, memory leak, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4854 - Avoid a remotely triggered memory leak in the case that a circuit
4855 padding machine is somehow negotiated twice on the same circuit.
4856 Fixes bug 33619; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha. Found by Tobias Pulls.
4857 This is also tracked as TROVE-2020-004 and CVE-2020-10593.
4859 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4860 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4861 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4863 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4864 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4865 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4866 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4867 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4870 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4871 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4872 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4873 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4876 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4877 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4878 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4879 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4881 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4882 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4883 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4884 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4886 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4887 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4888 allow_failure), to speed up the build. Closes ticket 33195.
4889 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4890 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4893 Changes in version 0.3.5.10 - 2020-03-18
4894 Tor 0.3.5.10 backports many fixes from later Tor releases, including a
4895 fix for TROVE-2020-002, a major denial-of-service vulnerability that
4896 affected all released Tor instances since 0.2.1.5-alpha. Using this
4897 vulnerability, an attacker could cause Tor instances to consume a huge
4898 amount of CPU, disrupting their operations for several seconds or
4899 minutes. This attack could be launched by anybody against a relay, or
4900 by a directory cache against any client that had connected to it. The
4901 attacker could launch this attack as much as they wanted, thereby
4902 disrupting service or creating patterns that could aid in traffic
4903 analysis. This issue was found by OSS-Fuzz, and is also tracked
4906 We do not have reason to believe that this attack is currently being
4907 exploited in the wild, but nonetheless we advise everyone to upgrade
4908 as soon as packages are available.
4910 o Major bugfixes (security, denial-of-service, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4911 - Fix a denial-of-service bug that could be used by anyone to
4912 consume a bunch of CPU on any Tor relay or authority, or by
4913 directories to consume a bunch of CPU on clients or hidden
4914 services. Because of the potential for CPU consumption to
4915 introduce observable timing patterns, we are treating this as a
4916 high-severity security issue. Fixes bug 33119; bugfix on
4917 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz. We are also tracking this issue
4918 as TROVE-2020-002 and CVE-2020-10592.
4920 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4921 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4922 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4923 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4924 libseccomp <2.4.0 this lead to some rules having no effect.
4925 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4926 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
4927 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
4930 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4931 - Stop allowing failures on the Travis CI stem tests job. It looks
4932 like all the stem hangs we were seeing before are now fixed.
4933 Closes ticket 33075.
4935 o Minor bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4936 - Lowercase the configured value of BridgeDistribution before adding
4937 it to the descriptor. Fixes bug 32753; bugfix on 0.3.2.3-alpha.
4939 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
4940 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
4941 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
4942 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
4943 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
4945 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4946 - If we encounter a bug when flushing a buffer to a TLS connection,
4947 only log the bug once per invocation of the Tor process.
4948 Previously we would log with every occurrence, which could cause
4949 us to run out of disk space. Fixes bug 33093; bugfix
4952 o Minor bugfixes (onion services v3, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4953 - Fix an assertion failure that could result from a corrupted
4954 ADD_ONION control port command. Found by Saibato. Fixes bug 33137;
4955 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
4958 o Minor bugfixes (rust, build, backport from 0.4.3.2-alpha):
4959 - Fix a syntax warning given by newer versions of Rust that was
4960 creating problems for our continuous integration. Fixes bug 33212;
4961 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
4963 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4964 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
4965 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
4966 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
4967 Closes ticket 32629.
4968 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
4969 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
4970 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
4972 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4973 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
4975 o Testing (Travis CI, backport from 0.4.3.3-alpha):
4976 - Remove a redundant distcheck job. Closes ticket 33194.
4977 - Sort the Travis jobs in order of speed: putting the slowest jobs
4978 first takes full advantage of Travis job concurrency. Closes
4980 - Stop allowing the Chutney IPv6 Travis job to fail. This job was
4981 previously configured to fast_finish (which requires
4982 - When a Travis chutney job fails, use chutney's new "diagnostics.sh"
4983 tool to produce detailed diagnostic output. Closes ticket 32792.
4986 Changes in version 0.4.2.6 - 2020-01-30
4987 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. It backports
4988 several bugfixes from 0.4.3.1-alpha, including some that had affected
4989 the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows services. If you're running with
4990 one of those configurations, you'll probably want to upgrade;
4991 otherwise, you should be fine with 0.4.2.5.
4993 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
4994 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
4995 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
4996 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
4997 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
4998 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
4999 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5000 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5002 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5003 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5004 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5006 o Minor bugfixes (correctness checks, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5007 - Use GCC/Clang's printf-checking feature to make sure that
5008 tor_assertf() arguments are correctly typed. Fixes bug 32765;
5009 bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5011 o Minor bugfixes (logging, crash, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5012 - Avoid a possible crash when trying to log a (fatal) assertion
5013 failure about mismatched magic numbers in configuration objects.
5014 Fixes bug 32771; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5016 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5017 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, do not apply it to the
5018 test_practracker.sh script. Doing so caused a test failure. Fixes
5019 bug 32705; bugfix on 0.4.2.1-alpha.
5020 - When TOR_DISABLE_PRACTRACKER is set, log a notice to stderr when
5021 skipping practracker checks. Fixes bug 32705; bugfix
5024 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5025 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5026 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5028 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5029 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5030 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5031 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5032 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5033 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5034 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5035 Closes ticket 32629.
5037 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5038 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5041 Changes in version 0.4.1.8 - 2020-01-30
5042 This release backports several bugfixes from later release series,
5043 including some that had affected the Linux seccomp2 sandbox or Windows
5044 services. If you're running with one of those configurations, you'll
5045 probably want to upgrade; otherwise, you should be fine with your
5046 current version of 0.4.1.x.
5048 o Major bugfixes (linux seccomp sandbox, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5049 - Correct how we use libseccomp. Particularly, stop assuming that
5050 rules are applied in a particular order or that more rules are
5051 processed after the first match. Neither is the case! In
5052 libseccomp <2.4.0 this led to some rules having no effect.
5053 libseccomp 2.4.0 changed how rules are generated, leading to a
5054 different ordering, which in turn led to a fatal crash during
5055 startup. Fixes bug 29819; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch by
5057 - Fix crash when reloading logging configuration while the
5058 experimental sandbox is enabled. Fixes bug 32841; bugfix on
5059 0.4.1.7. Patch by Peter Gerber.
5061 o Minor bugfixes (crash, backport form 0.4.2.4-rc):
5062 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5063 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5064 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5065 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5067 o Minor bugfixes (windows service, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5068 - Initialize the publish/subscribe system when running as a windows
5069 service. Fixes bug 32778; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5071 o Testing (backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5072 - Turn off Tor's Sandbox in Chutney jobs, and run those jobs on
5073 Ubuntu Bionic. Turning off the Sandbox is a work-around, until we
5074 fix the sandbox errors in 32722. Closes ticket 32240.
5075 - Re-enable the Travis CI macOS Chutney build, but don't let it
5076 prevent the Travis job from finishing. (The Travis macOS jobs are
5077 slow, so we don't want to have it delay the whole CI process.)
5078 Closes ticket 32629.
5080 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.3.1-alpha):
5081 - Use zstd in our Travis Linux builds. Closes ticket 32242.
5084 Changes in version 0.4.2.5 - 2019-12-09
5085 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.2.x series. This series
5086 improves reliability and stability, and includes several stability and
5087 correctness improvements for onion services. It also fixes many smaller
5088 bugs present in previous series.
5090 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.2.x series for nine
5091 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.3.x:
5092 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
5093 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
5095 Below are the changes since 0.4.1.4-rc. For a complete list of only
5096 the changes since 0.4.2.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
5098 o Major features (directory authorities):
5099 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5100 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5101 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5103 o Major features (onion service v3, denial of service):
5104 - Add onion service introduction denial of service defenses. Intro
5105 points can now rate-limit client introduction requests, using
5106 parameters that can be sent by the service within the
5107 ESTABLISH_INTRO cell. If the cell extension for this is not used,
5108 the intro point will honor the consensus parameters. Closes
5111 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
5112 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5113 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close.
5114 Previously we could end up in the situation where a subsystem is
5115 notified of a circuit opening, but the circuit is still marked for
5116 close, leading to undesirable behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix
5119 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android):
5120 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
5121 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
5122 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
5123 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5124 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
5125 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
5126 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
5127 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5129 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor):
5130 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5131 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5132 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5134 o Major bugfixes (relay):
5135 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5136 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5137 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5138 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5139 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5140 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5141 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5143 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing):
5144 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5145 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5146 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5147 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5149 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5150 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5151 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5152 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5153 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5156 o Minor feature (onion services, control port):
5157 - The ADD_ONION command's keyword "BEST" now defaults to ED25519-V3
5158 (v3) onion services. Previously it defaulted to RSA1024 (v2).
5159 Closes ticket 29669.
5161 o Minor features (auto-formatting scripts):
5162 - When annotating C macros, never generate a line that our check-
5163 spaces script would reject. Closes ticket 31759.
5164 - When annotating C macros, try to remove cases of double-negation.
5165 Closes ticket 31779.
5167 o Minor features (best practices tracker):
5168 - Our best-practices tracker now integrates with our include-checker
5169 tool to keep track of how many layering violations we have not yet
5170 fixed. We hope to reduce this number over time to improve Tor's
5171 modularity. Closes ticket 31176.
5172 - Add a TOR_PRACTRACKER_OPTIONS variable for passing arguments to
5173 practracker from the environment. We may want this for continuous
5174 integration. Closes ticket 31309.
5175 - Give a warning rather than an error when a practracker exception
5176 is violated by a small amount, add a --list-overbroad option to
5177 practracker that lists exceptions that are stricter than they need
5178 to be, and provide an environment variable for disabling
5179 practracker. Closes ticket 30752.
5180 - Our best-practices tracker now looks at headers as well as C
5181 files. Closes ticket 31175.
5183 o Minor features (build system):
5184 - Make pkg-config use --prefix when cross-compiling, if
5185 PKG_CONFIG_PATH is not set. Closes ticket 32191.
5186 - Add --disable-manpage and --disable-html-manual options to
5187 configure script. This will enable shortening build times by not
5188 building documentation. Resolves issue 19381.
5190 o Minor features (compilation):
5191 - Log a more useful error message when we are compiling and one of
5192 the compile-time hardening options we have selected can be linked
5193 but not executed. Closes ticket 27530.
5195 o Minor features (configuration):
5196 - The configuration code has been extended to allow splitting
5197 configuration data across multiple objects. Previously, all
5198 configuration data needed to be kept in a single object, which
5199 tended to become bloated. Closes ticket 31240.
5201 o Minor features (continuous integration):
5202 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5203 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5204 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5205 - When running CI builds on Travis, put some random data in
5206 ~/.torrc, to make sure no tests are reading the Tor configuration
5207 file from its default location. Resolves issue 30102.
5209 o Minor features (debugging):
5210 - Log a nonfatal assertion failure if we encounter a configuration
5211 line whose command is "CLEAR" but which has a nonempty value. This
5212 should be impossible, according to the rules of our configuration
5213 line parsing. Closes ticket 31529.
5215 o Minor features (geoip):
5216 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5217 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5219 o Minor features (git hooks):
5220 - Our pre-commit git hook now checks for a special file before
5221 running practracker, so that practracker only runs on branches
5222 that are based on master. Since the pre-push hook calls the pre-
5223 commit hook, practracker will also only run before pushes of
5224 branches based on master. Closes ticket 30979.
5226 o Minor features (git scripts):
5227 - Add a "--" command-line argument, to separate git-push-all.sh
5228 script arguments from arguments that are passed through to git
5229 push. Closes ticket 31314.
5230 - Add a -r <remote-name> argument to git-push-all.sh, so the script
5231 can push test branches to a personal remote. Closes ticket 31314.
5232 - Add a -t <test-branch-prefix> argument to git-merge-forward.sh and
5233 git-push-all.sh, which makes these scripts create, merge forward,
5234 and push test branches. Closes ticket 31314.
5235 - Add a -u argument to git-merge-forward.sh, so that the script can
5236 re-use existing test branches after a merge failure and fix.
5237 Closes ticket 31314.
5238 - Add a TOR_GIT_PUSH env var, which sets the default git push
5239 command and arguments for git-push-all.sh. Closes ticket 31314.
5240 - Add a TOR_PUSH_DELAY variable to git-push-all.sh, which makes the
5241 script push master and maint branches with a delay between each
5242 branch. These delays trigger the CI jobs in a set order, which
5243 should show the most likely failures first. Also make pushes
5244 atomic by default, and make the script pass any command-line
5245 arguments to git push. Closes ticket 29879.
5246 - Call the shellcheck script from the pre-commit hook. Closes
5248 - Skip pushing test branches that are the same as a remote
5249 maint/release/master branch in git-push-all.sh by default. Add a
5250 -s argument, so git-push-all.sh can push all test branches. Closes
5253 o Minor features (IPv6, logging):
5254 - Log IPv6 addresses as well as IPv4 addresses when describing
5255 routerinfos, routerstatuses, and nodes. Closes ticket 21003.
5257 o Minor features (maintenance scripts):
5258 - Add a Coccinelle script to detect bugs caused by incrementing or
5259 decrementing a variable inside a call to log_debug(). Since
5260 log_debug() is a macro whose arguments are conditionally
5261 evaluated, it is usually an error to do this. One such bug was
5262 30628, in which SENDME cells were miscounted by a decrement
5263 operator inside a log_debug() call. Closes ticket 30743.
5265 o Minor features (onion service v3):
5266 - Do not allow single hop clients to fetch or post an HS descriptor
5267 from an HSDir. Closes ticket 24964.
5269 o Minor features (onion service):
5270 - Disallow single-hop clients at the introduction point. We've
5271 removed Tor2web support a while back and single-hop rendezvous
5272 attempts are blocked at the relays. This change should remove load
5273 off the network from spammy clients. Close ticket 24963.
5275 o Minor features (onion services v3):
5276 - Assist users who try to setup v2 client authorization in v3 onion
5277 services by pointing them to the right documentation. Closes
5280 o Minor features (stem tests):
5281 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
5282 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
5285 o Minor features (testing):
5286 - When running tests that attempt to look up hostnames, replace the
5287 libc name lookup functions with ones that do not actually touch
5288 the network. This way, the tests complete more quickly in the
5289 presence of a slow or missing DNS resolver. Closes ticket 31841.
5290 - Add a script to invoke "tor --dump-config" and "tor
5291 --verify-config" with various configuration options, and see
5292 whether tor's resulting configuration or error messages are what
5293 we expect. Use it for integration testing of our +Option and
5294 /Option flags. Closes ticket 31637.
5295 - Improve test coverage for our existing configuration parsing and
5296 management API. Closes ticket 30893.
5297 - Add integration tests to make sure that practracker gives the
5298 outputs we expect. Closes ticket 31477.
5299 - The practracker self-tests are now run as part of the Tor test
5300 suite. Closes ticket 31304.
5302 o Minor features (testing, continuous integration):
5303 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5304 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5305 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5307 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5308 Closes ticket 31859.
5309 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5310 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5312 o Minor features (token bucket):
5313 - Implement a generic token bucket that uses a single counter, for
5314 use in anti-DoS onion service work. Closes ticket 30687.
5316 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor continuous integration):
5317 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install
5318 step. Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5320 o Minor bugfixes (best practices tracker):
5321 - Fix a few issues in the best-practices script, including tests,
5322 tab tolerance, error reporting, and directory-exclusion logic.
5323 Fixes bug 29746; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5324 - When running check-best-practices, only consider files in the src
5325 subdirectory. Previously we had recursively considered all
5326 subdirectories, which made us get confused by the temporary
5327 directories made by "make distcheck". Fixes bug 31578; bugfix
5330 o Minor bugfixes (build system):
5331 - Interpret "--disable-module-dirauth=no" correctly. Fixes bug
5332 32124; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
5333 - Interpret "--with-tcmalloc=no" correctly. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix
5335 - Stop failing when jemalloc is requested, but tcmalloc is not
5336 found. Fixes bug 32124; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5337 - When pkg-config is not installed, or a library that depends on
5338 pkg-config is not found, tell the user what to do to fix the
5339 problem. Fixes bug 31922; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5340 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
5341 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
5343 o Minor bugfixes (chutney, makefiles, documentation):
5344 - "make test-network-all" now shows the warnings from each test-
5345 network.sh run on the console, so developers see new warnings
5346 early. We've also improved the documentation for this feature, and
5347 renamed a Makefile variable so the code is self-documenting. Fixes
5348 bug 30455; bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc.
5350 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3):
5351 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5352 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5353 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5354 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5355 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5357 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
5358 - Fix "make check-includes" so it runs correctly on out-of-tree
5359 builds. Fixes bug 31335; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5361 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
5362 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
5363 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
5364 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
5365 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
5367 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
5368 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
5369 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
5371 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
5372 - Invalid floating-point values in the configuration file are now
5373 treated as errors in the configuration. Previously, they were
5374 ignored and treated as zero. Fixes bug 31475; bugfix on 0.0.1.
5376 o Minor bugfixes (connections):
5377 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5378 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5379 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5381 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
5382 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
5383 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and
5384 ignored the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5386 o Minor bugfixes (coverity):
5387 - Add an assertion when parsing a BEGIN cell so that coverity can be
5388 sure that we are not about to dereference a NULL address. Fixes
5389 bug 31026; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. This is CID 1447296.
5390 - In our siphash implementation, when building for coverity, use
5391 memcpy in place of a switch statement, so that coverity can tell
5392 we are not accessing out-of-bounds memory. Fixes bug 31025; bugfix
5393 on 0.2.8.1-alpha. This is tracked as CID 1447293 and 1447295.
5394 - Fix several coverity warnings from our unit tests. Fixes bug
5395 31030; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha, 0.3.2.1-alpha, and 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5397 o Minor bugfixes (crash):
5398 - When running Tor with an option like --verify-config or
5399 --dump-config that does not start the event loop, avoid crashing
5400 if we try to exit early because of an error. Fixes bug 32407;
5401 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5403 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
5404 - Only log git script changes in the post-merge script when the
5405 merge was to the master branch. Fixes bug 31040; bugfix
5408 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
5409 - Return a distinct status when formatting annotations fails. Fixes
5410 bug 30780; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
5412 o Minor bugfixes (error handling):
5413 - Always lock the backtrace buffer before it is used. Fixes bug
5414 31734; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5415 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5416 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5417 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5418 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5419 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5420 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5421 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5422 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5423 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5426 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6):
5427 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
5428 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
5429 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
5432 o Minor bugfixes (git hooks):
5433 - Remove a duplicate call to practracker from the pre-push hook. The
5434 pre-push hook already calls the pre-commit hook, which calls
5435 practracker. Fixes bug 31462; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5437 o Minor bugfixes (git scripts):
5438 - Stop hard-coding the bash path in the git scripts. Some OSes don't
5439 have bash in /usr/bin, others have an ancient bash at this path.
5440 Fixes bug 30840; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5441 - Stop hard-coding the tor master branch name and worktree path in
5442 the git scripts. Fixes bug 30841; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5443 - Allow git-push-all.sh to be run from any directory. Previously,
5444 the script only worked if run from an upstream worktree directory.
5445 Closes ticket 31678.
5447 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
5448 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
5449 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
5450 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
5451 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
5453 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
5454 - Check for private IPv6 addresses alongside their IPv4 equivalents
5455 when authorities check descriptors. Previously, we only checked
5456 for private IPv4 addresses. Fixes bug 31088; bugfix on
5457 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5458 - When parsing microdescriptors, we should check the IPv6 exit
5459 policy alongside IPv4. Previously, we checked both exit policies
5460 for only router info structures, while microdescriptors were
5461 IPv4-only. Fixes bug 27284; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by
5464 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
5465 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5466 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5467 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5468 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5469 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5470 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5471 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5472 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5473 - When initialising log domain masks, only set known log domains.
5474 Fixes bug 31854; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5475 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
5476 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
5478 - Fix a code issue that would have broken our parsing of log domains
5479 as soon as we had 33 of them. Fortunately, we still only have 29.
5480 Fixes bug 31451; bugfix on 0.4.1.4-rc.
5482 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations):
5483 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5484 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5485 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5487 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API):
5488 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5489 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5490 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5491 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5494 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
5495 - Stop leaking a small amount of memory in nt_service_install(), in
5496 unreachable code. Fixes bug 30799; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch
5499 o Minor bugfixes (modules):
5500 - Explain what the optional Directory Authority module is, and what
5501 happens when it is disabled. Fixes bug 31825; bugfix
5504 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading):
5505 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5506 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5508 o Minor bugfixes (networking, IP addresses):
5509 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal DNS lookup API, reject
5510 IPv4 addresses in square brackets, and accept IPv6 addresses in
5511 square brackets. This change completes the work started in 23082,
5512 making address parsing consistent between tor's internal DNS
5513 lookup and address parsing APIs. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5515 - When parsing addresses via Tor's internal address:port parsing and
5516 DNS lookup APIs, require IPv6 addresses with ports to have square
5517 brackets. But allow IPv6 addresses without ports, whether or not
5518 they have square brackets. Fixes bug 30721; bugfix
5521 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
5522 - When purging the client descriptor cache, close any introduction
5523 point circuits associated with purged cache entries. This avoids
5524 picking those circuits later when connecting to the same
5525 introduction points. Fixes bug 30921; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5527 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
5528 - In the hs_ident_circuit_t data structure, remove the unused field
5529 circuit_type and the respective argument in hs_ident_circuit_new().
5530 This field was set by clients (for introduction) and services (for
5531 introduction and rendezvous) but was never used afterwards. Fixes
5532 bug 31490; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
5534 o Minor bugfixes (operator tools):
5535 - Make tor-print-ed-signing-cert(1) print certificate expiration
5536 date in RFC 1123 and UNIX timestamp formats, to make output
5537 machine readable. Fixes bug 31012; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5539 o Minor bugfixes (process management):
5540 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5541 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5543 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5544 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5545 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5547 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
5548 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5549 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5550 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5552 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
5553 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
5554 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5555 - Raise the minimum rustc version to 1.31.0, as checked by configure
5556 and CI. Fixes bug 31442; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
5558 o Minor bugfixes (sendme, code structure):
5559 - Rename the trunnel SENDME file definition from sendme.trunnel to
5560 sendme_cell.trunnel to avoid having twice sendme.{c|h} in the
5561 repository. Fixes bug 30769; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5563 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
5564 - Stop removing the ed25519 signature if the extra info file is too
5565 big. If the signature data was removed, but the keyword was kept,
5566 this could result in an unparseable extra info file. Fixes bug
5567 30958; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
5569 o Minor bugfixes (subsystems):
5570 - Make the subsystem init order match the subsystem module
5571 dependencies. Call windows process security APIs as early as
5572 possible. Initialize logging before network and time, so that
5573 network and time can use logging. Fixes bug 31615; bugfix
5576 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5577 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
5578 inconsistent timing sources. Fixes bug 31995; bugfix
5580 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5581 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5582 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5583 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5584 - Teach the util/socketpair_ersatz test to work correctly when we
5585 have no network stack configured. Fixes bug 30804; bugfix
5588 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS):
5589 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5590 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5592 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging):
5593 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5594 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5597 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services):
5598 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5599 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
5600 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
5601 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
5602 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
5604 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
5605 - When cleaning up intro circuits for a v3 onion service, don't
5606 remove circuits that have an established or pending circuit, even
5607 if they ran out of retries. This way, we don't remove a circuit on
5608 its last retry. Fixes bug 31652; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5610 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services):
5611 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
5612 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
5613 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
5614 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
5615 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5616 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
5617 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
5618 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
5619 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5621 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5622 - Refactor connection_control_process_inbuf() to reduce the size of
5623 a practracker exception. Closes ticket 31840.
5624 - Refactor the microdescs_parse_from_string() function into smaller
5625 pieces, for better comprehensibility. Closes ticket 31675.
5626 - Use SEVERITY_MASK_IDX() to find the LOG_* mask indexes in the unit
5627 tests and fuzzers, rather than using hard-coded values. Closes
5629 - Interface for function `decrypt_desc_layer` cleaned up. Closes
5633 - Correct the description of "GuardLifetime". Fixes bug 31189;
5634 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5635 - Make clear in the man page, in both the bandwidth section and the
5636 AccountingMax section, that Tor counts in powers of two, not
5637 powers of ten: 1 GByte is 1024*1024*1024 bytes, not one billion
5638 bytes. Resolves ticket 32106.
5639 - Document the signal-safe logging behaviour in the tor man page.
5640 Also add some comments to the relevant functions. Closes
5642 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5643 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5644 - The Tor source code repository now includes a (somewhat dated)
5645 description of Tor's modular architecture, in doc/HACKING/design.
5646 This is based on the old "tor-guts.git" repository, which we are
5647 adopting and superseding. Closes ticket 31849.
5648 - Improve documentation in circuit padding subsystem. Patch by
5649 Tobias Pulls. Closes ticket 31113.
5650 - Include an example usage for IPv6 ORPort in our sample torrc.
5651 Closes ticket 31320; patch from Ali Raheem.
5652 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
5653 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
5654 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
5657 - No longer include recommended package digests in votes as detailed
5658 in proposal 301. The RecommendedPackages torrc option is
5659 deprecated and will no longer have any effect. "package" lines
5660 will still be considered when computing consensuses for consensus
5661 methods that include them. (This change has no effect on the list
5662 of recommended Tor versions, which is still in use.) Closes
5664 - Remove torctl.in from contrib/dist directory. Resolves
5668 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU
5669 gcc extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition
5670 warnings. Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5671 Closes ticket 32500.
5672 - Run shellcheck for all non-third-party shell scripts that are
5673 shipped with Tor. Closes ticket 29533.
5674 - When checking shell scripts, ignore any user-created directories.
5675 Closes ticket 30967.
5677 o Code simplification and refactoring (config handling):
5678 - Extract our variable manipulation code from confparse.c to a new
5679 lower-level typedvar.h module. Closes ticket 30864.
5680 - Lower another layer of object management from confparse.c to a
5681 more general tool. Now typed structure members are accessible via
5682 an abstract type. Implements ticket 30914.
5683 - Move our backend logic for working with configuration and state
5684 files into a lower-level library, since it no longer depends on
5685 any tor-specific functionality. Closes ticket 31626.
5686 - Numerous simplifications in configuration-handling logic: remove
5687 duplicated macro definitions, replace magical names with flags,
5688 and refactor "TestingTorNetwork" to use the same default-option
5689 logic as the rest of Tor. Closes ticket 30935.
5690 - Replace our ad-hoc set of flags for configuration variables and
5691 configuration variable types with fine-grained orthogonal flags
5692 corresponding to the actual behavior we want. Closes ticket 31625.
5694 o Code simplification and refactoring (misc):
5695 - Eliminate some uses of lower-level control reply abstractions,
5696 primarily in the onion_helper functions. Closes ticket 30889.
5697 - Rework bootstrap tracking to use the new publish-subscribe
5698 subsystem. Closes ticket 29976.
5699 - Rewrite format_node_description() and router_get_verbose_nickname()
5700 to use strlcpy() and strlcat(). The previous implementation used
5701 memcpy() and pointer arithmetic, which was error-prone. Closes
5702 ticket 31545. This is CID 1452819.
5703 - Split extrainfo_dump_to_string() into smaller functions. Closes
5705 - Use the ptrdiff_t type consistently for expressing variable
5706 offsets and pointer differences. Previously we incorrectly (but
5707 harmlessly) used int and sometimes off_t for these cases. Closes
5709 - Use the subsystems mechanism to manage the main event loop code.
5710 Closes ticket 30806.
5711 - Various simplifications and minor improvements to the circuit
5712 padding machines. Patch by Tobias Pulls. Closes tickets 31112
5715 o Documentation (hard-coded directories):
5716 - Improve the documentation for the DirAuthority and FallbackDir
5717 torrc options. Closes ticket 30955.
5719 o Documentation (tor.1 man page):
5720 - Fix typo in tor.1 man page: the option is "--help", not "-help".
5721 Fixes bug 31008; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5723 o Testing (continuous integration):
5724 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5725 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5726 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5727 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5728 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5729 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5730 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5731 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5732 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5735 Changes in version 0.4.1.7 - 2019-12-09
5736 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
5737 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.6,
5738 including all relays relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5740 o Major features (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5741 - Directory authorities now reject relays running all currently
5742 deprecated release series. The currently supported release series
5743 are: 0.2.9, 0.3.5, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, and 0.4.2. Closes ticket 31549.
5745 o Major bugfixes (embedded Tor, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5746 - Avoid a possible crash when restarting Tor in embedded mode and
5747 enabling a different set of publish/subscribe messages. Fixes bug
5748 31898; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5750 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5751 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5752 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5753 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5754 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5755 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5756 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5757 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5759 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5760 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5761 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5762 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5763 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5765 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5766 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5767 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5768 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5769 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5772 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5773 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5774 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5775 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5777 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5778 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5779 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5781 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5782 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
5783 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
5785 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5786 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
5787 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
5788 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
5789 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
5790 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
5792 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
5793 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
5794 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
5795 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
5797 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5798 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
5799 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
5800 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5801 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
5802 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
5803 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5804 - When tor aborts due to an error, close log file descriptors before
5805 aborting. Closing the logs makes some OSes flush log file buffers,
5806 rather than deleting buffered log lines. Fixes bug 31594; bugfix
5809 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5810 - Add a missing check for HAVE_PTHREAD_H, because the backtrace code
5811 uses mutexes. Fixes bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5812 - Disable backtrace signal handlers when shutting down tor. Fixes
5813 bug 31614; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5814 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
5815 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
5816 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
5817 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5819 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5820 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
5821 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
5822 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5824 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5825 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
5826 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
5827 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
5828 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
5831 o Minor bugfixes (multithreading, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5832 - Avoid some undefined behaviour when freeing mutexes. Fixes bug
5833 31736; bugfix on 0.0.7.
5835 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5836 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
5837 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
5839 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
5840 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
5841 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5843 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5844 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
5845 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
5846 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5848 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5849 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
5850 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
5851 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
5852 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
5854 o Minor bugfixes (tests, SunOS, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5855 - Avoid a map_anon_nofork test failure due to a signed/unsigned
5856 integer comparison. Fixes bug 31897; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
5858 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5859 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
5860 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
5863 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5864 - Explain why we can't destroy the backtrace buffer mutex. Explain
5865 why we don't need to destroy the log mutex. Closes ticket 31736.
5867 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5868 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
5869 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
5870 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
5872 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
5873 Closes ticket 31859.
5874 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
5875 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
5877 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
5878 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
5879 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
5880 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
5881 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
5882 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
5883 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
5884 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
5885 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
5886 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
5888 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5889 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
5890 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
5891 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
5892 Closes ticket 32500.
5895 Changes in version 0.4.0.6 - 2019-12-09
5896 This is the second stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. This release
5897 backports several bugfixes to improve stability and correctness. Anyone
5898 experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.0.5, including all relays
5899 relying on AccountingMax, should upgrade.
5901 Note that, per our support policy, support for the 0.4.0.x series will end
5902 on 2 Feb 2020. Anyone still running 0.4.0.x should plan to upgrade to the
5903 latest stable release, or downgrade to 0.3.5.x, which will get long-term
5904 support until 1 Feb 2022.
5906 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
5907 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
5910 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
5911 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
5912 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
5913 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
5914 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
5915 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
5916 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
5917 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
5918 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
5919 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
5920 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5922 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5923 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
5924 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
5925 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
5926 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
5927 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
5929 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
5930 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
5931 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
5932 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
5933 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
5936 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5937 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
5938 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
5939 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
5940 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
5942 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
5943 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
5944 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
5945 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
5948 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5949 - Relays now respect their AccountingMax bandwidth again. When
5950 relays entered "soft" hibernation (which typically starts when
5951 we've hit 90% of our AccountingMax), we had stopped checking
5952 whether we should enter hard hibernation. Soft hibernation refuses
5953 new connections and new circuits, but the existing circuits can
5954 continue, meaning that relays could have exceeded their configured
5955 AccountingMax. Fixes bug 32108; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
5957 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5958 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
5959 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
5960 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
5961 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
5963 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
5964 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
5965 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
5966 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
5967 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
5970 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5971 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
5972 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
5974 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
5975 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
5976 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
5979 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5980 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
5981 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
5983 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
5984 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
5985 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
5986 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
5988 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
5989 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
5990 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
5991 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
5992 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
5994 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
5995 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
5996 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
5998 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
5999 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6000 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6003 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6004 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6005 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6007 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6008 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6009 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6011 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6012 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6013 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6015 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6016 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6017 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6020 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6021 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6022 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6023 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6024 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6025 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6027 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6028 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6029 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6030 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6031 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6033 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6034 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6035 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6038 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6039 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6040 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6042 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6043 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6044 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6045 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6047 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6048 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6049 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6050 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6052 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6053 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6054 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6055 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6057 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6058 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6059 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6060 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6062 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6063 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6064 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6065 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6066 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6067 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6068 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6070 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6071 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6072 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6073 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6075 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6076 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6077 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6078 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6080 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6081 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6082 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6085 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6086 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6087 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6088 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6089 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6090 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6091 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6093 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6094 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6095 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6096 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6099 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6100 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6101 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6102 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6103 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6105 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6106 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6107 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6108 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6109 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6111 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6112 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6113 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6116 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6117 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6118 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6119 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6120 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6122 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6123 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6124 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6125 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6127 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6128 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6129 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6130 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6131 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6134 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6135 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6136 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6139 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6140 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6141 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6142 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6144 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6145 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
6146 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
6147 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
6149 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6150 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6151 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6152 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6154 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6155 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6156 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6157 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6160 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6161 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6162 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6163 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6164 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6165 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6168 o Minor bugfixes (process management, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6169 - Remove overly strict assertions that triggered when a pluggable
6170 transport failed to launch. Fixes bug 31091; bugfix
6172 - Remove an assertion in the Unix process backend. This assertion
6173 would trigger when we failed to find the executable for a child
6174 process. Fixes bug 31810; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6176 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6177 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6178 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6179 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6181 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6182 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6183 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6185 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6186 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6187 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6188 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6189 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6191 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6192 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6193 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6196 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6197 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6198 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6199 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6200 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6201 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6202 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6203 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6204 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6205 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6207 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6208 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6209 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6210 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6212 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6213 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6214 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6215 Resolves issue 29702.
6217 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6218 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6220 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6221 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6222 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6223 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6226 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6227 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6228 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6229 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6231 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6232 Closes ticket 31859.
6233 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6234 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6236 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6237 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6238 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6239 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6240 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6241 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6242 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6243 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6244 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6245 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6247 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6248 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6249 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6250 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6251 Closes ticket 32500.
6254 Changes in version 0.3.5.9 - 2019-12-09
6255 Tor 0.3.5.9 backports serveral fixes from later releases, including
6256 several that affect bridge users, relay stability, onion services,
6259 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.4.1.5):
6260 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6263 o Major bugfixes (bridges, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6264 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6265 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6266 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6267 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6268 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6269 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6270 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6271 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6272 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6273 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6275 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6276 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6277 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6278 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6279 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6280 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6282 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6283 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
6284 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
6285 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
6286 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
6287 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6289 o Major bugfixes (Onion service reachability, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6290 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6291 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6292 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6293 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6296 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6297 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6298 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6299 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6300 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6302 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6303 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6304 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6305 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6308 o Major bugfixes (torrc parsing, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6309 - Stop ignoring torrc options after an %include directive, when the
6310 included directory ends with a file that does not contain any
6311 config options (but does contain comments or whitespace). Fixes
6312 bug 31408; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
6314 o Major bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6315 - Onion services now always use the exact number of intro points
6316 configured with the HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints option (or
6317 fewer if nodes are excluded). Before, a service could sometimes
6318 pick more intro points than configured. Fixes bug 31548; bugfix
6321 o Minor features (address selection, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6322 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
6323 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
6324 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
6325 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
6326 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
6327 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
6328 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6330 o Minor features (bandwidth authority, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6331 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
6332 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
6333 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
6334 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
6337 o Minor features (compile-time modules, backport from version 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6338 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6339 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6341 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6342 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
6343 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
6346 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6347 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
6348 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
6349 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
6351 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6352 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6353 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6356 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6357 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6358 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6360 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6361 - When building on Appveyor and Travis, pass the "-k" flag to make,
6362 so that we are informed of all compilation failures, not just the
6363 first one or two. Closes ticket 31372.
6365 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6366 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6367 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6368 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6369 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
6371 o Minor features (geoip, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6372 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
6373 Country database. Closes ticket 32685.
6375 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6376 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
6377 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
6378 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
6380 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6381 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6382 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6385 o Minor bugfixes (security, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6386 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
6387 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
6388 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
6389 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
6390 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
6391 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
6392 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
6393 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
6394 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
6395 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
6396 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
6397 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
6400 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6401 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
6402 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
6403 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
6404 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
6406 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
6407 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
6408 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6410 o Minor bugfixes (Appveyor CI, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6411 - Avoid spurious errors when Appveyor CI fails before the install step.
6412 Fixes bug 31884; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
6414 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6415 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6416 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6418 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6419 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
6420 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
6423 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6424 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
6425 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
6427 o Minor bugfixes (client, onion service v3, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6428 - Fix a BUG() assertion that occurs within a very small race window
6429 between when a client intro circuit opens and when its descriptor
6430 gets cleaned up from the cache. The circuit is now closed early,
6431 which will trigger a re-fetch of the descriptor and continue the
6432 connection. Fixes bug 28970; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6434 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6435 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
6436 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
6437 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
6438 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6440 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6441 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
6442 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix
6445 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6446 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
6447 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6449 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6450 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
6451 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6453 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6454 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6455 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6456 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6458 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6459 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
6460 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
6461 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6463 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6464 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
6465 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
6466 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
6468 o Minor bugfixes (connections, backport from 0.4.2.3-rc):
6469 - Avoid trying to read data from closed connections, which can cause
6470 needless loops in Libevent and infinite loops in Shadow. Fixes bug
6471 30344; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
6473 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6474 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
6475 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6476 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
6477 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6478 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
6479 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6481 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6482 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
6483 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
6484 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
6486 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.4.1.3-alpha):
6487 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
6488 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
6489 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
6491 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6492 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
6493 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
6496 o Minor bugfixes (error handling, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6497 - On abort, try harder to flush the output buffers of log messages.
6498 On some platforms (macOS), log messages could be discarded when
6499 the process terminates. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6500 - Report the tor version whenever an assertion fails. Previously, we
6501 only reported the Tor version on some crashes, and some non-fatal
6502 assertions. Fixes bug 31571; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6504 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6505 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6506 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6507 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6510 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6511 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6512 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6513 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6514 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6516 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
6517 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
6518 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6520 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6521 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
6522 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
6523 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
6524 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6525 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
6526 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
6527 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
6528 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
6529 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
6530 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6532 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6533 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
6534 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
6535 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
6536 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
6538 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6539 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6540 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6543 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6544 - Rate-limit the logging message about the obsolete .exit
6545 notation. Previously, there was no limit on this warning, which
6546 could potentially be triggered many times by a hostile website.
6547 Fixes bug 31466; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6549 o Minor bugfixes (logging, protocol violations, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6550 - Do not log a nonfatal assertion failure when receiving a VERSIONS
6551 cell on a connection using the obsolete v1 link protocol. Log a
6552 protocol_warn instead. Fixes bug 31107; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6554 o Minor bugfixes (mainloop, periodic events, in-process API, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6555 - Reset the periodic events' "enabled" flag when Tor is shut down
6556 cleanly. Previously, this flag was left on, which caused periodic
6557 events not to be re-enabled when Tor was relaunched in-process
6558 with tor_api.h after a shutdown. Fixes bug 32058; bugfix
6561 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6562 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
6563 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
6566 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, backport from 0.4.1.4-rc):
6567 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value
6568 from a download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug
6569 30894; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
6571 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6572 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
6573 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
6574 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6576 o Minor bugfixes (memory management, testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6577 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
6578 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6580 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6581 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
6582 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
6583 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6585 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6586 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
6587 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
6588 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
6591 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6592 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
6593 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
6594 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
6595 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
6596 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
6599 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.4.2.2-alpha):
6600 - Avoid crashing when starting with a corrupt keys directory where
6601 the old ntor key and the new ntor key are identical. Fixes bug
6602 30916; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6604 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.0.5):
6605 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
6606 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6608 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6609 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6610 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6612 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6613 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
6614 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
6615 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
6616 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
6617 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
6618 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
6620 o Minor bugfixes (stats, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6621 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
6622 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
6625 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6626 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
6627 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
6628 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
6629 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
6630 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
6631 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
6632 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6634 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.0.4-rc):
6635 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
6636 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
6637 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
6638 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
6639 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
6642 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6643 - When testing port rebinding, don't busy-wait for tor to log.
6644 Instead, actually sleep for a short time before polling again.
6645 Also improve the formatting of control commands and log messages.
6646 Fixes bug 31837; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
6648 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol, backport form 0.4.0.4-rc):
6649 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
6650 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
6651 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
6652 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
6653 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
6654 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
6655 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6657 o Minor bugfixes (tls, logging, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6658 - Log bugs about the TLS read buffer's length only once, rather than
6659 filling the logs with similar warnings. Fixes bug 31939; bugfix
6662 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6663 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6664 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6665 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6666 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6667 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6668 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6669 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6670 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6671 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6673 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI, backport from 0.4.0.3-alpha):
6674 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
6675 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
6676 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
6677 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
6678 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6680 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6681 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6682 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6683 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6685 o Testing (backport from 0.4.1.2-alpha):
6686 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
6687 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
6688 Resolves issue 29702.
6690 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.1-alpha):
6691 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6693 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.1.5):
6694 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and
6695 tail stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
6696 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary. Closes
6699 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.3-alpha):
6700 - Disable all but one Travis CI macOS build, to mitigate slow
6701 scheduling of Travis macOS jobs. Closes ticket 32177.
6702 - Run the chutney IPv6 networks as part of Travis CI. Closes
6704 - Simplify the Travis CI build matrix, and optimise for build time.
6705 Closes ticket 31859.
6706 - Use Windows Server 2019 instead of Windows Server 2016 in our
6707 Appveyor builds. Closes ticket 32086.
6709 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.4-rc):
6710 - Use Ubuntu Bionic images for our Travis CI builds, so we can get a
6711 recent version of coccinelle. But leave chutney on Ubuntu Trusty,
6712 until we can fix some Bionic permissions issues (see ticket
6713 32240). Related to ticket 31919.
6714 - Install the mingw OpenSSL package in Appveyor. This makes sure
6715 that the OpenSSL headers and libraries match in Tor's Appveyor
6716 builds. (This bug was triggered by an Appveyor image update.)
6717 Fixes bug 32449; bugfix on 0.3.5.6-rc.
6718 - In Travis, use Xcode 11.2 on macOS 10.14. Closes ticket 32241.
6720 o Testing (continuous integration, backport from 0.4.2.5):
6721 - Require C99 standards-conforming code in Travis CI, but allow GNU gcc
6722 extensions. Also activates clang's -Wtypedef-redefinition warnings.
6723 Build some jobs with -std=gnu99, and some jobs without.
6724 Closes ticket 32500.
6727 Changes in version 0.4.1.6 - 2019-09-19
6728 This release backports several bugfixes to improve stability and
6729 correctness. Anyone experiencing build problems or crashes with 0.4.1.5,
6730 or experiencing reliability issues with single onion services, should
6733 o Major bugfixes (crash, Linux, Android, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6734 - Tolerate systems (including some Android installations) where
6735 madvise and MADV_DONTDUMP are available at build-time, but not at
6736 run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed syscall
6737 and abort. Fixes bug 31570; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6738 - Tolerate systems (including some Linux installations) where
6739 madvise and/or MADV_DONTFORK are available at build-time, but not
6740 at run time. Previously, these systems would notice a failed
6741 syscall and abort. Fixes bug 31696; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6743 o Minor features (stem tests, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6744 - Change "make test-stem" so it only runs the stem tests that use
6745 tor. This change makes test-stem faster and more reliable. Closes
6748 o Minor bugfixes (build system, backport form 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6749 - Do not include the deprecated <sys/sysctl.h> on Linux or Windows
6750 systems. Fixes bug 31673; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
6752 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6753 - Add more stub functions to fix compilation on Android with link-
6754 time optimization when --disable-module-dirauth is used.
6755 Previously, these compilation settings would make the compiler
6756 look for functions that didn't exist. Fixes bug 31552; bugfix
6758 - Suppress spurious float-conversion warnings from GCC when calling
6759 floating-point classifier functions on FreeBSD. Fixes part of bug
6760 31687; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
6762 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
6763 - Fix the MAPADDRESS controller command to accept one or more
6764 arguments. Previously, it required two or more arguments, and ignored
6765 the first. Fixes bug 31772; bugfix on 0.4.1.1-alpha.
6767 o Minor bugfixes (FreeBSD, PF-based proxy, IPv6, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6768 - When extracting an IPv6 address from a PF-based proxy, verify that
6769 we are actually configured to receive an IPv6 address, and log an
6770 internal error if not. Fixes part of bug 31687; bugfix
6773 o Minor bugfixes (guards, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6774 - When tor is missing descriptors for some primary entry guards,
6775 make the log message less alarming. It's normal for descriptors to
6776 expire, as long as tor fetches new ones soon after. Fixes bug
6777 31657; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
6779 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6780 - Change log level of message "Hash of session info was not as
6781 expected" to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN. Fixes bug 12399; bugfix
6784 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6785 - Correctly exclude a redundant rust build job in Travis. Fixes bug
6786 31463; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
6788 o Minor bugfixes (v2 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6789 - Always retry v2 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6790 a 3-hop path. Previously, v2 single onion services used a 3-hop
6791 path when rendezvous circuits were retried after a remote or
6792 delayed failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug
6793 23818; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
6795 o Minor bugfixes (v3 single onion services, backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6796 - Always retry v3 single onion service intro and rend circuits with
6797 a 3-hop path. Previously, v3 single onion services used a 3-hop
6798 path when rend circuits were retried after a remote or delayed
6799 failure, but a 1-hop path for immediate retries. Fixes bug 23818;
6800 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6801 - Make v3 single onion services fall back to a 3-hop intro, when all
6802 intro points are unreachable via a 1-hop path. Previously, v3
6803 single onion services failed when all intro nodes were unreachable
6804 via a 1-hop path. Fixes bug 23507; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
6806 o Documentation (backport from 0.4.2.1-alpha):
6807 - Use RFC 2397 data URL scheme to embed an image into tor-exit-
6808 notice.html so that operators no longer have to host it
6809 themselves. Closes ticket 31089.
6812 Changes in version 0.4.1.5 - 2019-08-20
6813 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.1.x series. This series
6814 adds experimental circuit-level padding, authenticated SENDME cells to
6815 defend against certain attacks, and several performance improvements
6816 to save on CPU consumption. It fixes bugs in bootstrapping and v3
6817 onion services. It also includes numerous smaller features and
6818 bugfixes on earlier versions.
6820 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.1.x series for nine
6821 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.2.x:
6822 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
6823 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
6825 Below are the changes since 0.4.0.5. For a list of only the changes
6826 since 0.4.1.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
6828 o Directory authority changes:
6829 - The directory authority "dizum" has a new IP address. Closes
6832 o Major features (circuit padding):
6833 - Onion service clients now add padding cells at the start of their
6834 INTRODUCE and RENDEZVOUS circuits, to make those circuits' traffic
6835 look more like general purpose Exit traffic. The overhead for this
6836 is 2 extra cells in each direction for RENDEZVOUS circuits, and 1
6837 extra upstream cell and 10 downstream cells for INTRODUCE
6838 circuits. This feature is only enabled when also supported by the
6839 circuit's middle node. (Clients may specify fixed middle nodes
6840 with the MiddleNodes option, and may force-disable this feature
6841 with the CircuitPadding option.) Closes ticket 28634.
6843 o Major features (code organization):
6844 - Tor now includes a generic publish-subscribe message-passing
6845 subsystem that we can use to organize intermodule dependencies. We
6846 hope to use this to reduce dependencies between modules that don't
6847 need to be related, and to generally simplify our codebase. Closes
6850 o Major features (controller protocol):
6851 - Controller commands are now parsed using a generalized parsing
6852 subsystem. Previously, each controller command was responsible for
6853 parsing its own input, which led to strange inconsistencies.
6854 Closes ticket 30091.
6856 o Major features (flow control):
6857 - Implement authenticated SENDMEs as detailed in proposal 289. A
6858 SENDME cell now includes the digest of the traffic that it
6859 acknowledges, so that once an end point receives the SENDME, it
6860 can confirm the other side's knowledge of the previous cells that
6861 were sent, and prevent certain types of denial-of-service attacks.
6862 This behavior is controlled by two new consensus parameters: see
6863 the proposal for more details. Fixes ticket 26288.
6865 o Major features (performance):
6866 - Our node selection algorithm now excludes nodes in linear time.
6867 Previously, the algorithm was quadratic, which could slow down
6868 heavily used onion services. Closes ticket 30307.
6870 o Major features (performance, RNG):
6871 - Tor now constructs a fast secure pseudorandom number generator for
6872 each thread, to use when performance is critical. This PRNG is
6873 based on AES-CTR, using a buffering construction similar to
6874 libottery and the (newer) OpenBSD arc4random() code. It
6875 outperforms OpenSSL 1.1.1a's CSPRNG by roughly a factor of 100 for
6876 small outputs. Although we believe it to be cryptographically
6877 strong, we are only using it when necessary for performance.
6878 Implements tickets 29023 and 29536.
6880 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
6881 - Consider our directory information to have changed when our list
6882 of bridges changes. Previously, Tor would not re-compute the
6883 status of its directory information when bridges changed, and
6884 therefore would not realize that it was no longer able to build
6885 circuits. Fixes part of bug 29875.
6886 - Do not count previously configured working bridges towards our
6887 total of working bridges. Previously, when Tor's list of bridges
6888 changed, it would think that the old bridges were still usable,
6889 and delay fetching router descriptors for the new ones. Fixes part
6890 of bug 29875; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6892 o Major bugfixes (circuit build, guard):
6893 - On relays, properly check that a padding machine is absent before
6894 logging a warning about it being absent. Fixes bug 30649; bugfix
6896 - When considering upgrading circuits from "waiting for guard" to
6897 "open", always ignore circuits that are marked for close. Otherwise,
6898 we can end up in the situation where a subsystem is notified that
6899 a closing circuit has just opened, leading to undesirable
6900 behavior. Fixes bug 30871; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
6902 o Major bugfixes (onion service reachability):
6903 - Properly clean up the introduction point map when circuits change
6904 purpose from onion service circuits to pathbias, measurement, or
6905 other circuit types. This should fix some service-side instances
6906 of introduction point failure. Fixes bug 29034; bugfix
6909 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
6910 - Fix an unreachable bug in which an introduction point could try to
6911 send an INTRODUCE_ACK with a status code that Trunnel would refuse
6912 to encode, leading the relay to assert(). We've consolidated the
6913 ABI values into Trunnel now. Fixes bug 30454; bugfix
6915 - Clients can now handle unknown status codes from INTRODUCE_ACK
6916 cells. (The NACK behavior will stay the same.) This will allow us
6917 to extend status codes in the future without breaking the normal
6918 client behavior. Fixes another part of bug 30454; bugfix
6921 o Minor features (authenticated SENDME):
6922 - Ensure that there is enough randomness on every circuit to prevent
6923 an attacker from successfully predicting the hashes they will need
6924 to include in authenticated SENDME cells. At a random interval, if
6925 we have not sent randomness already, we now leave some extra space
6926 at the end of a cell that we can fill with random bytes. Closes
6929 o Minor features (circuit padding logging):
6930 - Demote noisy client-side warn logs about circuit padding to protocol
6931 warnings. Add additional log messages and circuit ID fields to help
6932 with bug 30992 and any other future issues.
6934 o Minor features (circuit padding):
6935 - We now use a fast PRNG when scheduling circuit padding. Part of
6937 - Allow the padding machine designer to pick the edges of their
6938 histogram instead of trying to compute them automatically using an
6939 exponential formula. Resolves some undefined behavior in the case
6940 of small histograms and allows greater flexibility on machine
6941 design. Closes ticket 29298; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
6942 - Allow circuit padding machines to hold a circuit open until they
6943 are done padding it. Closes ticket 28780.
6945 o Minor features (compile-time modules):
6946 - Add a "--list-modules" command to print a list of which compile-
6947 time modules are enabled. Closes ticket 30452.
6949 o Minor features (continuous integration):
6950 - Our Travis configuration now uses Chutney to run some network
6951 integration tests automatically. Closes ticket 29280.
6952 - When running coverage builds on Travis, we now set
6953 TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED, to avoid RNG-based coverage differences. Part
6955 - Remove sudo configuration lines from .travis.yml as they are no
6956 longer needed with current Travis build environment. Resolves
6958 - In Travis, show stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30234.
6960 o Minor features (controller):
6961 - Add onion service version 3 support to the HSFETCH command.
6962 Previously, only version 2 onion services were supported. Closes
6963 ticket 25417. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
6965 o Minor features (debugging):
6966 - Introduce tor_assertf() and tor_assertf_nonfatal() to enable
6967 logging of additional information during assert failure. Now we
6968 can use format strings to include information for trouble
6969 shooting. Resolves ticket 29662.
6971 o Minor features (defense in depth):
6972 - In smartlist_remove_keeporder(), set unused pointers to NULL, in
6973 case a bug causes them to be used later. Closes ticket 30176.
6974 Patch from Tobias Stoeckmann.
6975 - Tor now uses a cryptographically strong PRNG even for decisions
6976 that we do not believe are security-sensitive. Previously, for
6977 performance reasons, we had used a trivially predictable linear
6978 congruential generator algorithm for certain load-balancing and
6979 statistical sampling decisions. Now we use our fast RNG in those
6980 cases. Closes ticket 29542.
6982 o Minor features (developer tools):
6983 - Tor's "practracker" test script now checks for files and functions
6984 that seem too long and complicated. Existing overlong functions
6985 and files are accepted for now, but should eventually be
6986 refactored. Closes ticket 29221.
6987 - Add some scripts used for git maintenance to scripts/git. Closes
6989 - Call practracker from pre-push and pre-commit git hooks to let
6990 developers know if they made any code style violations. Closes
6992 - Add a script to check that each header has a well-formed and
6993 unique guard macro. Closes ticket 29756.
6995 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
6996 - Replace the 157 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.3.5.6-rc
6997 in December 2018 (of which ~122 were still functional), with a
6998 list of 148 fallbacks (70 new, 78 existing, 79 removed) generated
6999 in June 2019. Closes ticket 28795.
7001 o Minor features (geoip):
7002 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 10 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7003 Country database. Closes ticket 30852.
7004 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 13 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7005 Country database. Closes ticket 30522.
7007 o Minor features (HTTP tunnel):
7008 - Return an informative web page when the HTTPTunnelPort is used as
7009 an HTTP proxy. Closes ticket 27821, patch by "eighthave".
7011 o Minor features (IPv6, v3 onion services):
7012 - Make v3 onion services put IPv6 addresses in service descriptors.
7013 Before this change, service descriptors only contained IPv4
7014 addresses. Implements 26992.
7016 o Minor features (logging):
7017 - Give a more useful assertion failure message if we think we have
7018 minherit() but we fail to make a region non-inheritable. Give a
7019 compile-time warning if our support for minherit() is incomplete.
7020 Closes ticket 30686.
7022 o Minor features (maintenance):
7023 - Add a new "make autostyle" target that developers can use to apply
7024 all automatic Tor style and consistency conversions to the
7025 codebase. Closes ticket 30539.
7027 o Minor features (modularity):
7028 - The "--disable-module-dirauth" compile-time option now disables
7029 even more dirauth-only code. Closes ticket 30345.
7031 o Minor features (performance):
7032 - Use OpenSSL's implementations of SHA3 when available (in OpenSSL
7033 1.1.1 and later), since they tend to be faster than tiny-keccak.
7034 Closes ticket 28837.
7036 o Minor features (testing):
7037 - The circuitpadding tests now use a reproducible RNG implementation,
7038 so that if a test fails, we can learn why. Part of ticket 28878.
7039 - Tor's tests now support an environment variable, TOR_TEST_RNG_SEED,
7040 to set the RNG seed for tests that use a reproducible RNG. Part of
7042 - When running tests in coverage mode, take additional care to make
7043 our coverage deterministic, so that we can accurately track
7044 changes in code coverage. Closes ticket 30519.
7045 - Tor's unit test code now contains helper functions to replace the
7046 PRNG with a deterministic or reproducible version for testing.
7047 Previously, various tests implemented this in various ways.
7048 Implements ticket 29732.
7049 - We now have a script, cov-test-determinism.sh, to identify places
7050 where our unit test coverage has become nondeterministic. Closes
7052 - Check that representative subsets of values of `int` and `unsigned
7053 int` can be represented by `void *`. Resolves issue 29537.
7055 o Minor bugfixes (bridge authority):
7056 - Bridge authorities now set bridges as running or non-running when
7057 about to dump their status to a file. Previously, they set bridges
7058 as running in response to a GETINFO command, but those shouldn't
7059 modify data structures. Fixes bug 24490; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
7060 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7062 o Minor bugfixes (channel padding statistics):
7063 - Channel padding write totals and padding-enabled totals are now
7064 counted properly in relay extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 29231;
7065 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
7067 o Minor bugfixes (circuit isolation):
7068 - Fix a logic error that prevented the SessionGroup sub-option from
7069 being accepted. Fixes bug 22619; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7071 o Minor bugfixes (circuit padding):
7072 - Add a "CircuitPadding" torrc option to disable circuit padding.
7073 Fixes bug 28693; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7074 - Allow circuit padding machines to specify that they do not
7075 contribute much overhead, and provide consensus flags and torrc
7076 options to force clients to only use these low overhead machines.
7077 Fixes bug 29203; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7078 - Provide a consensus parameter to fully disable circuit padding, to
7079 be used in emergency network overload situations. Fixes bug 30173;
7080 bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7081 - The circuit padding subsystem will no longer schedule padding if
7082 dormant mode is enabled. Fixes bug 28636; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7083 - Inspect a circuit-level cell queue before sending padding, to
7084 avoid sending padding while too much data is already queued. Fixes
7085 bug 29204; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7086 - Avoid calling monotime_absolute_usec() in circuit padding machines
7087 that do not use token removal or circuit RTT estimation. Fixes bug
7088 29085; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7090 o Minor bugfixes (clock skew detection):
7091 - Don't believe clock skew results from NETINFO cells that appear to
7092 arrive before we sent the VERSIONS cells they are responding to.
7093 Previously, we would accept them up to 3 minutes "in the past".
7094 Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7096 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, standards compliance):
7097 - Fix a bug that would invoke undefined behavior on certain
7098 operating systems when trying to asprintf() a string exactly
7099 INT_MAX bytes long. We don't believe this is exploitable, but it's
7100 better to fix it anyway. Fixes bug 31001; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
7101 Found and fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7103 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warning):
7104 - Fix a compilation warning on Windows about casting a function
7105 pointer for GetTickCount64(). Fixes bug 31374; bugfix on
7108 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7109 - Avoid using labs() on time_t, which can cause compilation warnings
7110 on 64-bit Windows builds. Fixes bug 31343; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7112 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, unusual configurations):
7113 - Avoid failures when building with the ALL_BUGS_ARE_FATAL option
7114 due to missing declarations of abort(), and prevent other such
7115 failures in the future. Fixes bug 30189; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
7117 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, proxies):
7118 - Fix a bug that prevented us from supporting SOCKS5 proxies that
7119 want authentication along with configured (but unused!)
7120 ClientTransportPlugins. Fixes bug 29670; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
7122 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
7123 - Allow the test-stem job to fail in Travis, because it sometimes
7124 hangs. Fixes bug 30744; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7125 - Skip test_rebind on macOS in Travis, because it is unreliable on
7126 macOS on Travis. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7127 - Skip test_rebind when the TOR_SKIP_TEST_REBIND environment
7128 variable is set. Fixes bug 30713; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7130 o Minor bugfixes (controller protocol):
7131 - Teach the controller parser to distinguish an object preceded by
7132 an argument list from one without. Previously, it couldn't
7133 distinguish an argument list from the first line of a multiline
7134 object. Fixes bug 29984; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
7136 o Minor bugfixes (crash on exit):
7137 - Avoid a set of possible code paths that could try to use freed
7138 memory in routerlist_free() while Tor was exiting. Fixes bug
7139 31003; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
7141 o Minor bugfixes (developer tooling):
7142 - Fix pre-push hook to allow fixup and squash commits when pushing
7143 to non-upstream git remote. Fixes bug 30286; bugfix
7146 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7147 - Stop crashing after parsing an unknown descriptor purpose
7148 annotation. We think this bug can only be triggered by modifying a
7149 local file. Fixes bug 30781; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
7150 - Move the "bandwidth-file-headers" line in directory authority
7151 votes so that it conforms to dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 30316; bugfix
7153 - Directory authorities with IPv6 support now always mark themselves
7154 as reachable via IPv6. Fixes bug 24338; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7155 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7157 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7158 - Improve the documentation for using MapAddress with ".exit". Fixes
7159 bug 30109; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7160 - Improve the monotonic time module and function documentation to
7161 explain what "monotonic" actually means, and document some results
7162 that have surprised people. Fixes bug 29640; bugfix
7164 - Use proper formatting when providing an example on quoting options
7165 that contain whitespace. Fixes bug 29635; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
7167 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7168 - Do not log a warning when running with an OpenSSL version other
7169 than the one Tor was compiled with, if the two versions should be
7170 compatible. Previously, we would warn whenever the version was
7171 different. Fixes bug 30190; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7172 - Warn operators when the MyFamily option is set but ContactInfo is
7173 missing, as the latter should be set too. Fixes bug 25110; bugfix
7176 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
7177 - Avoid a minor memory leak that could occur on relays when failing
7178 to create a "keys" directory. Fixes bug 30148; bugfix
7180 - Fix a trivial memory leak when parsing an invalid value from a
7181 download schedule in the configuration. Fixes bug 30894; bugfix
7184 o Minor bugfixes (NetBSD):
7185 - Fix usage of minherit() on NetBSD and other platforms that define
7186 MAP_INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE} instead of INHERIT_{ZERO,NONE}. Fixes bug
7187 30614; bugfix on 0.4.0.2-alpha. Patch from Taylor Campbell.
7189 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7190 - Avoid a GCC 9.1.1 warning (and possible crash depending on libc
7191 implementation) when failing to load an onion service client
7192 authorization file. Fixes bug 30475; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7193 - When refusing to launch a controller's HSFETCH request because of
7194 rate-limiting, respond to the controller with a new response,
7195 "QUERY_RATE_LIMITED". Previously, we would log QUERY_NO_HSDIR for
7196 this case. Fixes bug 28269; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Patch by
7198 - When relaunching a circuit to a rendezvous service, mark the
7199 circuit as needing high-uptime routers as appropriate. Fixes bug
7200 17357; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7201 - Stop ignoring IPv6 link specifiers sent to v3 onion services.
7202 (IPv6 support for v3 onion services is still incomplete: see
7203 ticket 23493 for details.) Fixes bug 23588; bugfix on
7204 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7206 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, performance):
7207 - When building circuits to onion services, call tor_addr_parse()
7208 less often. Previously, we called tor_addr_parse() in
7209 circuit_is_acceptable() even if its output wasn't used. This
7210 change should improve performance when building circuits. Fixes
7211 bug 22210; bugfix on 0.2.8.12. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7213 o Minor bugfixes (out-of-memory handler):
7214 - When purging the DNS cache because of an out-of-memory condition,
7215 try purging just the older entries at first. Previously, we would
7216 always purge the whole thing. Fixes bug 29617; bugfix
7219 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
7220 - When checking whether a node is a bridge, use a fast check to make
7221 sure that its identity is set. Previously, we used a constant-time
7222 check, which is not necessary in this case. Fixes bug 30308;
7223 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7225 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7226 - Tor now sets TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE=1 for client transports as
7227 well as servers. Fixes bug 25614; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
7229 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7230 - Avoid crashing in our tor_vasprintf() implementation on systems
7231 that define neither vasprintf() nor _vscprintf(). (This bug has
7232 been here long enough that we question whether people are running
7233 Tor on such systems, but we're applying the fix out of caution.)
7234 Fixes bug 30561; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Found and fixed by
7237 o Minor bugfixes (probability distributions):
7238 - Refactor and improve parts of the probability distribution code
7239 that made Coverity complain. Fixes bug 29805; bugfix
7242 o Minor bugfixes (python):
7243 - Stop assuming that /usr/bin/python3 exists. For scripts that work
7244 with python2, use /usr/bin/python. Otherwise, use /usr/bin/env
7245 python3. Fixes bug 29913; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
7247 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
7248 - When running as a relay, if IPv6Exit is set to 1 while ExitRelay
7249 is auto, act as if ExitRelay is 1. Previously, we would ignore
7250 IPv6Exit if ExitRelay was 0 or auto. Fixes bug 29613; bugfix on
7251 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7253 o Minor bugfixes (static analysis):
7254 - Fix several spurious Coverity warnings about the unit tests, to
7255 lower our chances of missing real warnings in the future. Fixes
7256 bug 30150; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha and various other Tor versions.
7258 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7259 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including bandwidth usage
7260 statistics, GeoIPFile hashes, ServerTransportPlugin lines, and
7261 bridge statistics by country in extra-info documents. Fixes bug
7262 29018; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7264 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7265 - Call setrlimit() to disable core dumps in test_bt_cl.c. Previously
7266 we used `ulimit -c` in test_bt.sh, which violates POSIX shell
7267 compatibility. Fixes bug 29061; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7268 - Fix some incorrect code in the v3 onion service unit tests. Fixes
7269 bug 29243; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7270 - In the "routerkeys/*" tests, check the return values of mkdir()
7271 for possible failures. Fixes bug 29939; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
7272 Found by Coverity as CID 1444254.
7273 - Split test_utils_general() into several smaller test functions.
7274 This makes it easier to perform resource deallocation on assert
7275 failure, and fixes Coverity warnings CID 1444117 and CID 1444118.
7276 Fixes bug 29823; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7278 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
7279 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve that could happen if Tor gave it
7280 a malformed SOCKS response. (Memory leaks in tor-resolve don't
7281 actually matter, but it's good to fix them anyway.) Fixes bug
7282 30151; bugfix on 0.4.0.1-alpha.
7284 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7285 - Abstract out the low-level formatting of replies on the control
7286 port. Implements ticket 30007.
7287 - Add several assertions in an attempt to fix some Coverity
7288 warnings. Closes ticket 30149.
7289 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that checks
7290 for compress_state of dir_connection_t and automatically writes a
7291 string to directory connection with or without compression.
7292 Resolves issue 28816.
7293 - Make the base32_decode() API return the number of bytes written,
7294 for consistency with base64_decode(). Closes ticket 28913.
7295 - Move most relay-only periodic events out of mainloop.c into the
7296 relay subsystem. Closes ticket 30414.
7297 - Refactor and encapsulate parts of the codebase that manipulate
7298 crypt_path_t objects. Resolves issue 30236.
7299 - Refactor several places in our code that Coverity incorrectly
7300 believed might have memory leaks. Closes ticket 30147.
7301 - Remove redundant return values in crypto_format, and the
7302 associated return value checks elsewhere in the code. Make the
7303 implementations in crypto_format consistent, and remove redundant
7304 code. Resolves ticket 29660.
7305 - Rename tor_mem_is_zero() to fast_mem_is_zero(), to emphasize that
7306 it is not a constant-time function. Closes ticket 30309.
7307 - Replace hs_desc_link_specifier_t with link_specifier_t, and remove
7308 all hs_desc_link_specifier_t-specific code. Fixes bug 22781;
7309 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7310 - Simplify v3 onion service link specifier handling code. Fixes bug
7311 23576; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
7312 - Split crypto_digest.c into NSS code, OpenSSL code, and shared
7313 code. Resolves ticket 29108.
7314 - Split control.c into several submodules, in preparation for
7315 distributing its current responsibilities throughout the codebase.
7316 Closes ticket 29894.
7317 - Start to move responsibility for knowing about periodic events to
7318 the appropriate subsystems, so that the mainloop doesn't need to
7319 know all the periodic events in the rest of the codebase.
7320 Implements tickets 30293 and 30294.
7323 - Mention URLs for Travis/Appveyor/Jenkins in ReleasingTor.md.
7324 Closes ticket 30630.
7325 - Document how to find git commits and tags for bug fixes in
7326 CodingStandards.md. Update some file documentation. Closes
7330 - Remove the linux-tor-prio.sh script from contrib/operator-tools
7331 directory. Resolves issue 29434.
7332 - Remove the obsolete OpenSUSE initscript. Resolves issue 30076.
7333 - Remove the obsolete script at contrib/dist/tor.sh.in. Resolves
7337 - Specify torrc paths (with empty files) when launching tor in
7338 integration tests; refrain from reading user and system torrcs.
7339 Resolves issue 29702.
7341 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7342 - Clean up many of our shell scripts to fix shellcheck warnings.
7343 These include autogen.sh (ticket 26069), test_keygen.sh (ticket
7344 29062), test_switch_id.sh (ticket 29065), test_rebind.sh (ticket
7345 29063), src/test/fuzz/minimize.sh (ticket 30079), test_rust.sh
7346 (ticket 29064), torify (ticket 29070), asciidoc-helper.sh (29926),
7347 fuzz_multi.sh (30077), fuzz_static_testcases.sh (ticket 29059),
7348 nagios-check-tor-authority-cert (ticket 29071),
7349 src/test/fuzz/fixup_filenames.sh (ticket 30078), test-network.sh
7350 (ticket 29060), test_key_expiration.sh (ticket 30002),
7351 zero_length_keys.sh (ticket 29068), and test_workqueue_*.sh
7354 o Testing (chutney):
7355 - In "make test-network-all", test IPv6-only v3 single onion
7356 services, using the chutney network single-onion-v23-ipv6-md.
7357 Closes ticket 27251.
7359 o Testing (continuous integration):
7360 - In Travis, make stem log a controller trace to the console, and tail
7361 stem's tor log after failure. Closes ticket 30591.
7362 - In Travis, only run the stem tests that use a tor binary.
7363 Closes ticket 30694.
7366 Changes in version 0.4.0.5 - 2019-05-02
7367 This is the first stable release in the 0.4.0.x series. It contains
7368 improvements for power management and bootstrap reporting, as well as
7369 preliminary backend support for circuit padding to prevent some kinds
7370 of traffic analysis. It also continues our work in refactoring Tor for
7371 long-term maintainability.
7373 Per our support policy, we will support the 0.4.0.x series for nine
7374 months, or until three months after the release of a stable 0.4.1.x:
7375 whichever is longer. If you need longer-term support, please stick
7376 with 0.3.5.x, which will we plan to support until Feb 2022.
7378 Below are the changes since 0.3.5.7. For a complete list of changes
7379 since 0.4.0.4-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
7381 o Major features (battery management, client, dormant mode):
7382 - When Tor is running as a client, and it is unused for a long time,
7383 it can now enter a "dormant" state. When Tor is dormant, it avoids
7384 network and CPU activity until it is reawoken either by a user
7385 request or by a controller command. For more information, see the
7386 configuration options starting with "Dormant". Implements tickets
7388 - The client's memory of whether it is "dormant", and how long it
7389 has spent idle, persists across invocations. Implements
7391 - There is a DormantOnFirstStartup option that integrators can use
7392 if they expect that in many cases, Tor will be installed but
7395 o Major features (bootstrap reporting):
7396 - When reporting bootstrap progress, report the first connection
7397 uniformly, regardless of whether it's a connection for building
7398 application circuits. This allows finer-grained reporting of early
7399 progress than previously possible, with the improvements of ticket
7400 27169. Closes tickets 27167 and 27103. Addresses ticket 27308.
7401 - When reporting bootstrap progress, treat connecting to a proxy or
7402 pluggable transport as separate from having successfully used that
7403 proxy or pluggable transport to connect to a relay. Closes tickets
7406 o Major features (circuit padding):
7407 - Implement preliminary support for the circuit padding portion of
7408 Proposal 254. The implementation supports Adaptive Padding (aka
7409 WTF-PAD) state machines for use between experimental clients and
7410 relays. Support is also provided for APE-style state machines that
7411 use probability distributions instead of histograms to specify
7412 inter-packet delay. At the moment, Tor does not provide any
7413 padding state machines that are used in normal operation: for now,
7414 this feature exists solely for experimentation. Closes
7417 o Major features (refactoring):
7418 - Tor now uses an explicit list of its own subsystems when
7419 initializing and shutting down. Previously, these systems were
7420 managed implicitly in various places throughout the codebase.
7421 (There may still be some subsystems using the old system.) Closes
7424 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7425 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7426 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7427 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7428 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7429 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7430 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7431 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7433 o Major bugfixes (networking):
7434 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7435 username/password auth message and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7436 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7437 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7439 o Major bugfixes (NSS, relay):
7440 - When running with NSS, disable TLS 1.2 ciphersuites that use
7441 SHA384 for their PRF. Due to an NSS bug, the TLS key exporters for
7442 these ciphersuites don't work -- which caused relays to fail to
7443 handshake with one another when these ciphersuites were enabled.
7444 Fixes bug 29241; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7446 o Minor features (address selection):
7447 - Treat the subnet 100.64.0.0/10 as public for some purposes;
7448 private for others. This subnet is the RFC 6598 (Carrier Grade
7449 NAT) IP range, and is deployed by many ISPs as an alternative to
7450 RFC 1918 that does not break existing internal networks. Tor now
7451 blocks SOCKS and control ports on these addresses and warns users
7452 if client ports or ExtORPorts are listening on a RFC 6598 address.
7453 Closes ticket 28525. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7455 o Minor features (bandwidth authority):
7456 - Make bandwidth authorities ignore relays that are reported in the
7457 bandwidth file with the flag "vote=0". This change allows us to
7458 report unmeasured relays for diagnostic reasons without including
7459 their bandwidth in the bandwidth authorities' vote. Closes
7461 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain the
7462 bandwidth values that will be included in the next vote, serve
7463 this bandwidth file at /tor/status-vote/next/bandwidth. Closes
7466 o Minor features (bootstrap reporting):
7467 - When reporting bootstrap progress, stop distinguishing between
7468 situations where only internal paths are available and situations
7469 where external paths are available. Previously, Tor would often
7470 erroneously report that it had only internal paths. Closes
7473 o Minor features (compilation):
7474 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7475 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7476 Patches from "Mangix".
7478 o Minor features (continuous integration):
7479 - On Travis Rust builds, cleanup Rust registry and refrain from
7480 caching the "target/" directory to speed up builds. Resolves
7482 - Log Python version during each Travis CI job. Resolves
7484 - In Travis, tell timelimit to use stem's backtrace signals, and
7485 launch python directly from timelimit, so python receives the
7486 signals from timelimit, rather than make. Closes ticket 30117.
7488 o Minor features (controller):
7489 - Add a DROPOWNERSHIP command to undo the effects of TAKEOWNERSHIP.
7490 Implements ticket 28843.
7492 o Minor features (developer tooling):
7493 - Check that bugfix versions in changes files look like Tor versions
7494 from the versions spec. Warn when bugfixes claim to be on a future
7495 release. Closes ticket 27761.
7496 - Provide a git pre-commit hook that disallows committing if we have
7497 any failures in our code and changelog formatting checks. It is
7498 now available in scripts/maint/pre-commit.git-hook. Implements
7500 - Provide a git hook script to prevent "fixup!" and "squash!"
7501 commits from ending up in the master branch, as scripts/main/pre-
7502 push.git-hook. Closes ticket 27993.
7504 o Minor features (diagnostic):
7505 - Add more diagnostic log messages in an attempt to solve the issue
7506 of NUL bytes appearing in a microdescriptor cache. Related to
7509 o Minor features (directory authority):
7510 - When a directory authority is using a bandwidth file to obtain
7511 bandwidth values, include the digest of that file in the vote.
7512 Closes ticket 26698.
7513 - Directory authorities support a new consensus algorithm, under
7514 which the family lines in microdescriptors are encoded in a
7515 canonical form. This change makes family lines more compressible
7516 in transit, and on the client. Closes ticket 28266; implements
7519 o Minor features (directory authority, relay):
7520 - Authorities now vote on a "StaleDesc" flag to indicate that a
7521 relay's descriptor is so old that the relay should upload again
7522 soon. Relays treat this flag as a signal to upload a new
7523 descriptor. This flag will eventually let us remove the
7524 'published' date from routerstatus entries, and make our consensus
7525 diffs much smaller. Closes ticket 26770; implements proposal 293.
7527 o Minor features (dormant mode):
7528 - Add a DormantCanceledByStartup option to tell Tor that it should
7529 treat a startup event as cancelling any previous dormant state.
7530 Integrators should use this option with caution: it should only be
7531 used if Tor is being started because of something that the user
7532 did, and not if Tor is being automatically started in the
7533 background. Closes ticket 29357.
7535 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
7536 - Update the fallback whitelist based on operator opt-ins and opt-
7537 outs. Closes ticket 24805, patch by Phoul.
7539 o Minor features (FreeBSD):
7540 - On FreeBSD-based systems, warn relay operators if the
7541 "net.inet.ip.random_id" sysctl (IP ID randomization) is disabled.
7542 Closes ticket 28518.
7544 o Minor features (geoip):
7545 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 2 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7546 Country database. Closes ticket 29992.
7548 o Minor features (HTTP standards compliance):
7549 - Stop sending the header "Content-type: application/octet-stream"
7550 along with transparently compressed documents: this confused
7551 browsers. Closes ticket 28100.
7553 o Minor features (IPv6):
7554 - We add an option ClientAutoIPv6ORPort, to make clients randomly
7555 prefer a node's IPv4 or IPv6 ORPort. The random preference is set
7556 every time a node is loaded from a new consensus or bridge config.
7557 We expect that this option will enable clients to bootstrap more
7558 quickly without having to determine whether they support IPv4,
7559 IPv6, or both. Closes ticket 27490. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7560 - When using addrs_in_same_network_family(), avoid choosing circuit
7561 paths that pass through the same IPv6 subnet more than once.
7562 Previously, we only checked IPv4 subnets. Closes ticket 24393.
7563 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7565 o Minor features (log messages):
7566 - Improve log message in v3 onion services that could print out
7567 negative revision counters. Closes ticket 27707. Patch
7570 o Minor features (memory usage):
7571 - Save memory by storing microdescriptor family lists with a more
7572 compact representation. Closes ticket 27359.
7573 - Tor clients now use mmap() to read consensus files from disk, so
7574 that they no longer need keep the full text of a consensus in
7575 memory when parsing it or applying a diff. Closes ticket 27244.
7577 o Minor features (NSS, diagnostic):
7578 - Try to log an error from NSS (if there is any) and a more useful
7579 description of our situation if we are using NSS and a call to
7580 SSL_ExportKeyingMaterial() fails. Diagnostic for ticket 29241.
7582 o Minor features (parsing):
7583 - Directory authorities now validate that router descriptors and
7584 ExtraInfo documents are in a valid subset of UTF-8, and reject
7585 them if they are not. Closes ticket 27367.
7587 o Minor features (performance):
7588 - Cache the results of summarize_protocol_flags(), so that we don't
7589 have to parse the same protocol-versions string over and over.
7590 This should save us a huge number of malloc calls on startup, and
7591 may reduce memory fragmentation with some allocators. Closes
7593 - Remove a needless memset() call from get_token_arguments, thereby
7594 speeding up the tokenization of directory objects by about 20%.
7595 Closes ticket 28852.
7596 - Replace parse_short_policy() with a faster implementation, to
7597 improve microdescriptor parsing time. Closes ticket 28853.
7598 - Speed up directory parsing a little by avoiding use of the non-
7599 inlined strcmp_len() function. Closes ticket 28856.
7600 - Speed up microdescriptor parsing by about 30%, to help improve
7601 startup time. Closes ticket 28839.
7603 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
7604 - Add support for emitting STATUS updates to Tor's control port from
7605 a pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28846.
7606 - Add support for logging to Tor's logging subsystem from a
7607 pluggable transport process. Closes ticket 28180.
7609 o Minor features (process management):
7610 - Add a new process API for handling child processes. This new API
7611 allows Tor to have bi-directional communication with child
7612 processes on both Unix and Windows. Closes ticket 28179.
7613 - Use the subsystem manager to initialize and shut down the process
7614 module. Closes ticket 28847.
7616 o Minor features (relay):
7617 - When listing relay families, list them in canonical form including
7618 the relay's own identity, and try to give a more useful set of
7619 warnings. Part of ticket 28266 and proposal 298.
7621 o Minor features (required protocols):
7622 - Before exiting because of a missing required protocol, Tor will
7623 now check the publication time of the consensus, and not exit
7624 unless the consensus is newer than the Tor program's own release
7625 date. Previously, Tor would not check the consensus publication
7626 time, and so might exit because of a missing protocol that might
7627 no longer be required in a current consensus. Implements proposal
7628 297; closes ticket 27735.
7630 o Minor features (testing):
7631 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7633 - Allow a HeartbeatPeriod of less than 30 minutes in testing Tor
7634 networks. Closes ticket 28840. Patch by Rob Jansen.
7635 - Use the approx_time() function when setting the "Expires" header
7636 in directory replies, to make them more testable. Needed for
7639 o Minor bugfixes (security):
7640 - Fix a potential double free bug when reading huge bandwidth files.
7641 The issue is not exploitable in the current Tor network because
7642 the vulnerable code is only reached when directory authorities
7643 read bandwidth files, but bandwidth files come from a trusted
7644 source (usually the authorities themselves). Furthermore, the
7645 issue is only exploitable in rare (non-POSIX) 32-bit architectures,
7646 which are not used by any of the current authorities. Fixes bug
7647 30040; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Bug found and fixed by
7649 - Verify in more places that we are not about to create a buffer
7650 with more than INT_MAX bytes, to avoid possible OOB access in the
7651 event of bugs. Fixes bug 30041; bugfix on 0.2.0.16. Found and
7652 fixed by Tobias Stoeckmann.
7654 o Minor bugfix (continuous integration):
7655 - Reset coverage state on disk after Travis CI has finished. This
7656 should prevent future coverage merge errors from causing the test
7657 suite for the "process" subsystem to fail. The process subsystem
7658 was introduced in 0.4.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 29036; bugfix
7660 - Terminate test-stem if it takes more than 9.5 minutes to run.
7661 (Travis terminates the job after 10 minutes of no output.)
7662 Diagnostic for 29437. Fixes bug 30011; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7664 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust):
7665 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7666 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7667 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7669 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
7670 - Fix an unlikely memory leak in consensus_diff_apply(). Fixes bug
7671 29824; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. This is Coverity warning
7674 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew):
7675 - Bootstrap successfully even when Tor's clock is behind the clocks
7676 on the authorities. Fixes bug 28591; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7677 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7678 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7681 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
7682 - Silence a compiler warning in test-memwipe.c on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
7683 29145; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7684 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7685 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7686 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7688 o Minor bugfixes (directory clients):
7689 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
7690 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
7692 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
7693 - Even when a directory mirror's clock is behind the clocks on the
7694 authorities, we now allow the mirror to serve "future"
7695 consensuses. Fixes bug 28654; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7697 o Minor bugfixes (DNS):
7698 - Gracefully handle an empty or absent resolve.conf file by falling
7699 back to using "localhost" as a DNS server (and hoping it works).
7700 Previously, we would just stop running as an exit. Fixes bug
7701 21900; bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
7703 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
7704 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7705 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
7706 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
7708 o Minor bugfixes (guards):
7709 - In count_acceptable_nodes(), the minimum number is now one bridge
7710 or guard node, and two non-guard nodes for a circuit. Previously,
7711 we had added up the sum of all nodes with a descriptor, but that
7712 could cause us to build failing circuits when we had either too
7713 many bridges or not enough guard nodes. Fixes bug 25885; bugfix on
7714 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
7716 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
7717 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7718 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7719 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7722 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
7723 - Correct a misleading error message when IPv4Only or IPv6Only is
7724 used but the resolved address can not be interpreted as an address
7725 of the specified IP version. Fixes bug 13221; bugfix on
7726 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7727 - Log the correct port number for listening sockets when "auto" is
7728 used to let Tor pick the port number. Previously, port 0 was
7729 logged instead of the actual port number. Fixes bug 29144; bugfix
7730 on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7731 - Stop logging a BUG() warning when Tor is waiting for exit
7732 descriptors. Fixes bug 28656; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7733 - Avoid logging that we are relaxing a circuit timeout when that
7734 timeout is fixed. Fixes bug 28698; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7735 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
7736 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
7737 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
7738 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7739 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
7740 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
7741 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
7742 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
7743 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
7745 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7746 - Refactor the shared random state's memory management so that it
7747 actually takes ownership of the shared random value pointers.
7748 Fixes bug 29706; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7749 - Stop leaking parts of the shared random state in the shared-random
7750 unit tests. Fixes bug 29599; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7752 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7753 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
7754 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
7755 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
7756 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7758 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
7759 - Introduce additional checks into tor_addr_parse() to reject
7760 certain incorrect inputs that previously were not detected. Fixes
7761 bug 23082; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7763 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client):
7764 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7765 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7766 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7767 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7768 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7770 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
7771 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
7772 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
7774 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
7775 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
7776 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
7778 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
7779 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
7780 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
7781 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
7783 o Minor bugfixes (periodic events):
7784 - Refrain from calling routerlist_remove_old_routers() from
7785 check_descriptor_callback(). Instead, create a new hourly periodic
7786 event. Fixes bug 27929; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
7788 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
7789 - Make sure that data is continously read from standard output and
7790 standard error pipes of a pluggable transport child-process, to
7791 avoid deadlocking when a pipe's buffer is full. Fixes bug 26360;
7792 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7794 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
7795 - Abort on panic in all build profiles, instead of potentially
7796 unwinding into C code. Fixes bug 27199; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
7798 o Minor bugfixes (scheduler):
7799 - When re-adding channels to the pending list, check the correct
7800 channel's sched_heap_idx. This issue has had no effect in mainline
7801 Tor, but could have led to bugs down the road in improved versions
7802 of our circuit scheduling code. Fixes bug 29508; bugfix
7805 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services):
7806 - Allow connections to single onion services to remain idle without
7807 being disconnected. Previously, relays acting as rendezvous points
7808 for single onion services were mistakenly closing idle rendezvous
7809 circuits after 60 seconds, thinking that they were unused
7810 directory-fetching circuits that had served their purpose. Fixes
7811 bug 29665; bugfix on 0.2.1.26.
7813 o Minor bugfixes (stats):
7814 - When ExtraInfoStatistics is 0, stop including PaddingStatistics in
7815 relay and bridge extra-info documents. Fixes bug 29017; bugfix
7818 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
7819 - Backport the 0.3.4 src/test/test-network.sh to 0.2.9. We need a
7820 recent test-network.sh to use new chutney features in CI. Fixes
7821 bug 29703; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
7822 - Fix a test failure on Windows caused by an unexpected "BUG"
7823 warning in our tests for tor_gmtime_r(-1). Fixes bug 29922; bugfix
7825 - Downgrade some LOG_ERR messages in the address/* tests to
7826 warnings. The LOG_ERR messages were occurring when we had no
7827 configured network. We were failing the unit tests, because we
7828 backported 28668 to 0.3.5.8, but did not backport 29530. Fixes bug
7829 29530; bugfix on 0.3.5.8.
7830 - Fix our gcov wrapper script to look for object files at the
7831 correct locations. Fixes bug 29435; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7832 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
7833 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
7834 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
7835 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
7837 - Instead of relying on hs_free_all() to clean up all onion service
7838 objects in test_build_descriptors(), we now deallocate them one by
7839 one. This lets Coverity know that we are not leaking memory there
7840 and fixes CID 1442277. Fixes bug 28989; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7842 o Minor bugfixes (TLS protocol):
7843 - When classifying a client's selection of TLS ciphers, if the
7844 client ciphers are not yet available, do not cache the result.
7845 Previously, we had cached the unavailability of the cipher list
7846 and never looked again, which in turn led us to assume that the
7847 client only supported the ancient V1 link protocol. This, in turn,
7848 was causing Stem integration tests to stall in some cases. Fixes
7849 bug 30021; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
7851 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
7852 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
7853 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
7854 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
7855 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
7857 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, CI):
7858 - Skip the Appveyor 32-bit Windows Server 2016 job, and 64-bit
7859 Windows Server 2012 R2 job. The remaining 2 jobs still provide
7860 coverage of 64/32-bit, and Windows Server 2016/2012 R2. Also set
7861 fast_finish, so failed jobs terminate the build immediately. Fixes
7862 bug 29601; bugfix on 0.3.5.4-alpha.
7864 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7865 - Introduce a connection_dir_buf_add() helper function that detects
7866 whether compression is in use, and adds a string accordingly.
7867 Resolves issue 28816.
7868 - Refactor handle_get_next_bandwidth() to use
7869 connection_dir_buf_add(). Implements ticket 29897.
7870 - Reimplement NETINFO cell parsing and generation to rely on
7871 trunnel-generated wire format handling code. Closes ticket 27325.
7872 - Remove unnecessary unsafe code from the Rust macro "cstr!". Closes
7874 - Rework SOCKS wire format handling to rely on trunnel-generated
7875 parsing/generation code. Resolves ticket 27620.
7876 - Split out bootstrap progress reporting from control.c into a
7877 separate file. Part of ticket 27402.
7878 - The .may_include files that we use to describe our directory-by-
7879 directory dependency structure now describe a noncircular
7880 dependency graph over the directories that they cover. Our
7881 checkIncludes.py tool now enforces this noncircularity. Closes
7885 - Clarify that Tor performs stream isolation among *Port listeners
7886 by default. Resolves issue 29121.
7887 - In the manpage entry describing MapAddress torrc setting, use
7888 example IP addresses from ranges specified for use in documentation
7889 by RFC 5737. Resolves issue 28623.
7890 - Mention that you cannot add a new onion service if Tor is already
7891 running with Sandbox enabled. Closes ticket 28560.
7892 - Improve ControlPort documentation. Mention that it accepts
7893 address:port pairs, and can be used multiple times. Closes
7895 - Document the exact output of "tor --version". Closes ticket 28889.
7898 - Remove the old check-tor script. Resolves issue 29072.
7899 - Stop responding to the 'GETINFO status/version/num-concurring' and
7900 'GETINFO status/version/num-versioning' control port commands, as
7901 those were deprecated back in 0.2.0.30. Also stop listing them in
7902 output of 'GETINFO info/names'. Resolves ticket 28757.
7903 - The scripts used to generate and maintain the list of fallback
7904 directories have been extracted into a new "fallback-scripts"
7905 repository. Closes ticket 27914.
7908 - Run shellcheck for scripts in the in scripts/ directory. Closes
7910 - Add unit tests for tokenize_string() and get_next_token()
7911 functions. Resolves ticket 27625.
7913 o Code simplification and refactoring (onion service v3):
7914 - Consolidate the authorized client descriptor cookie computation
7915 code from client and service into one function. Closes
7918 o Code simplification and refactoring (shell scripts):
7919 - Cleanup scan-build.sh to silence shellcheck warnings. Closes
7921 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in chutney-git-bisect.sh.
7922 Resolves ticket 28006.
7923 - Fix issues that shellcheck found in updateRustDependencies.sh.
7924 Resolves ticket 28012.
7925 - Fix shellcheck warnings in cov-diff script. Resolves issue 28009.
7926 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_calltool.sh. Resolves ticket 28011.
7927 - Fix shellcheck warnings in run_trunnel.sh. Resolves issue 28010.
7928 - Fix shellcheck warnings in scripts/test/coverage. Resolves
7932 Changes in version 0.3.5.8 - 2019-02-21
7933 Tor 0.3.5.8 backports several fixes from later releases, including fixes
7934 for an annoying SOCKS-parsing bug that affected users in earlier 0.3.5.x
7937 It also includes a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
7938 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
7939 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
7941 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
7942 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
7943 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
7944 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
7945 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
7946 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
7947 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
7948 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
7950 o Major bugfixes (networking, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7951 - Gracefully handle empty username/password fields in SOCKS5
7952 username/password auth messsage and allow SOCKS5 handshake to
7953 continue. Previously, we had rejected these handshakes, breaking
7954 certain applications. Fixes bug 29175; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
7956 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7957 - Compile correctly when OpenSSL is built with engine support
7958 disabled, or with deprecated APIs disabled. Closes ticket 29026.
7959 Patches from "Mangix".
7961 o Minor features (geoip):
7962 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
7963 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
7965 o Minor features (testing, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7966 - Treat all unexpected ERR and BUG messages as test failures. Closes
7969 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, client, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7970 - Stop logging a "BUG()" warning and stacktrace when we find a SOCKS
7971 connection waiting for a descriptor that we actually have in the
7972 cache. It turns out that this can actually happen, though it is
7973 rare. Now, tor will recover and retry the descriptor. Fixes bug
7974 28669; bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
7976 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7977 - Fix tor_ersatz_socketpair on IPv6-only systems. Previously, the
7978 IPv6 socket was bound using an address family of AF_INET instead
7979 of AF_INET6. Fixes bug 28995; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from
7982 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7983 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
7984 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
7985 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
7987 o Minor bugfixes (client, clock skew, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7988 - Select guards even if the consensus has expired, as long as the
7989 consensus is still reasonably live. Fixes bug 24661; bugfix
7992 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
7993 - Compile correctly on OpenBSD; previously, we were missing some
7994 headers required in order to detect it properly. Fixes bug 28938;
7995 bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
7997 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
7998 - Describe the contents of the v3 onion service client authorization
7999 files correctly: They hold public keys, not private keys. Fixes
8000 bug 28979; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha. Spotted by "Felixix".
8002 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8003 - Rework rep_hist_log_link_protocol_counts() to iterate through all
8004 link protocol versions when logging incoming/outgoing connection
8005 counts. Tor no longer skips version 5, and we won't have to
8006 remember to update this function when new link protocol version is
8007 developed. Fixes bug 28920; bugfix on 0.2.6.10.
8009 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8010 - Log more information at "warning" level when unable to read a
8011 private key; log more information at "info" level when unable to
8012 read a public key. We had warnings here before, but they were lost
8013 during our NSS work. Fixes bug 29042; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8015 o Minor bugfixes (misc, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8016 - The amount of total available physical memory is now determined
8017 using the sysctl identifier HW_PHYSMEM (rather than HW_USERMEM)
8018 when it is defined and a 64-bit variant is not available. Fixes
8019 bug 28981; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Kris Katterjohn.
8021 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8022 - Avoid crashing if ClientOnionAuthDir (incorrectly) contains more
8023 than one private key for a hidden service. Fixes bug 29040; bugfix
8025 - In hs_cache_store_as_client() log an HSDesc we failed to parse at
8026 "debug" level. Tor used to log it as a warning, which caused very
8027 long log lines to appear for some users. Fixes bug 29135; bugfix
8029 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8030 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8031 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8032 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8034 o Minor bugfixes (tests, directory clients, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8035 - Mark outdated dirservers when Tor only has a reasonably live
8036 consensus. Fixes bug 28569; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
8038 o Minor bugfixes (tests, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8039 - Detect and suppress "bug" warnings from the util/time test on
8040 Windows. Fixes bug 29161; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8041 - Do not log an error-level message if we fail to find an IPv6
8042 network interface from the unit tests. Fixes bug 29160; bugfix
8045 o Minor bugfixes (usability, backport from 0.4.0.1-alpha):
8046 - Stop saying "Your Guard ..." in pathbias_measure_{use,close}_rate().
8047 Some users took this phrasing to mean that the mentioned guard was
8048 under their control or responsibility, which it is not. Fixes bug
8049 28895; bugfix on Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8052 Changes in version 0.3.4.11 - 2019-02-21
8053 Tor 0.3.4.11 is the third stable release in its series. It includes
8054 a fix for a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor 0.3.2.1-alpha and
8055 later. All Tor instances running an affected release should upgrade to
8056 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8058 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8059 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8060 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8061 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8062 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8063 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8064 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8065 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8067 o Minor features (geoip):
8068 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8069 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8071 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8072 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8073 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8074 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8076 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8077 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8078 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8079 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8080 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8083 Changes in version 0.3.3.12 - 2019-02-21
8084 Tor 0.3.3.12 fixes a medium-severity security bug affecting Tor
8085 0.3.2.1-alpha and later. All Tor instances running an affected release
8086 should upgrade to 0.3.3.12, 0.3.4.11, 0.3.5.8, or 0.4.0.2-alpha.
8088 This release marks the end of support for the Tor 0.3.3.x series. We
8089 recommend that users switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported
8090 until at least 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will
8091 receive long-term support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8093 o Major bugfixes (cell scheduler, KIST, security):
8094 - Make KIST consider the outbuf length when computing what it can
8095 put in the outbuf. Previously, KIST acted as though the outbuf
8096 were empty, which could lead to the outbuf becoming too full. It
8097 is possible that an attacker could exploit this bug to cause a Tor
8098 client or relay to run out of memory and crash. Fixes bug 29168;
8099 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha. This issue is also being tracked as
8100 TROVE-2019-001 and CVE-2019-8955.
8102 o Minor features (geoip):
8103 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 5 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8104 Country database. Closes ticket 29478.
8106 o Minor bugfixes (build, compatibility, rust, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8107 - Update Cargo.lock file to match the version made by the latest
8108 version of Rust, so that "make distcheck" will pass again. Fixes
8109 bug 29244; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
8111 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.4.0.2-alpha):
8112 - Stop logging "Tried to establish rendezvous on non-OR circuit..."
8113 as a warning. Instead, log it as a protocol warning, because there
8114 is nothing that relay operators can do to fix it. Fixes bug 29029;
8115 bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc.
8118 Changes in version 0.3.3.11 - 2019-01-07
8119 Tor 0.3.3.11 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
8120 numerous fixes, including an important fix for anyone using OpenSSL
8121 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.3 should upgrade
8122 to this version, or to a later series.
8124 As a reminder, support the Tor 0.3.3 series will end on 22 Feb 2019.
8125 We anticipate that this will be the last release of Tor 0.3.3, unless
8126 some major bug is before then. Some time between now and then, users
8127 should switch to either the Tor 0.3.4 series (supported until at least
8128 10 June 2019), or the Tor 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term
8129 support until at least 1 Feb 2022.
8131 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8132 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8133 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8134 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8135 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8138 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8139 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8140 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8141 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8143 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8144 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8145 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8146 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8147 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8148 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8149 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8150 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8152 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8153 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8154 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8155 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8157 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8158 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8159 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8160 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8161 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8163 o Minor features (geoip):
8164 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8165 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8167 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8168 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8169 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8170 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8171 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8172 Closes ticket 28973.
8174 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8175 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8176 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8177 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8179 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8180 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
8181 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
8184 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8185 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8186 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8188 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8189 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8190 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8191 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8193 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8194 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
8195 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
8196 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8198 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8199 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8200 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8201 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8202 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8203 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8206 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8207 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8208 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8211 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8212 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8213 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8214 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8215 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8217 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8218 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8219 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8220 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8221 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8223 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8224 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8225 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8226 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8227 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8228 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8230 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8231 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to
8232 an HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix on
8235 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8236 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8237 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8239 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8240 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8241 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8243 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8244 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8245 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8248 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8249 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8250 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8251 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8252 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8253 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8254 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8255 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8257 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
8258 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8259 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8260 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8262 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8263 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
8264 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8265 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
8266 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
8267 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8268 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
8269 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
8270 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
8271 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
8273 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8274 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
8275 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
8276 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
8277 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
8278 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
8280 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.4-alpha):
8281 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
8282 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
8283 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
8284 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
8286 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8287 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8288 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8291 Changes in version 0.3.4.10 - 2019-01-07
8292 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
8293 numerous fixes, including an important fix for relays, and for anyone
8294 using OpenSSL 1.1.1. Anyone running an earlier version of Tor 0.3.4
8297 As a reminder, the Tor 0.3.4 series will be supported until 10 June
8298 2019. Some time between now and then, users should switch to the Tor
8299 0.3.5 series, which will receive long-term support until at least 1
8302 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8303 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8304 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8305 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8306 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8309 o Major bugfixes (relay, directory, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8310 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8311 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8312 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8313 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8314 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8315 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8317 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8318 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8319 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8322 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
8323 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8324 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8325 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8326 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8329 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8330 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8331 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8332 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8333 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8335 o Minor features (geoip):
8336 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
8337 Country database. Closes ticket 28395.
8339 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8340 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8341 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8342 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8343 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8344 Closes ticket 28973.
8346 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8347 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8348 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8349 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8351 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8352 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8353 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8354 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8355 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8358 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8359 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8360 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8361 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8363 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8364 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8365 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8367 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8368 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8369 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8370 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8372 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions, backport form 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8373 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8374 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8375 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8376 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8377 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8380 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks, backport from 0.3.5.5-alpha):
8381 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8382 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8384 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
8385 - Don't warn so loudly when Tor is unable to decode an onion
8386 descriptor. This can now happen as a normal use case if a client
8387 gets a descriptor with client authorization but the client is not
8388 authorized. Fixes bug 27550; bugfix on 0.3.5.1-alpha.
8390 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8391 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8392 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8393 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8394 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8395 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8397 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.5.7):
8398 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8399 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8400 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8402 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, guard selection, backport from 0.3.5.6-rc):
8403 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
8404 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
8407 Changes in version 0.3.5.7 - 2019-01-07
8408 Tor 0.3.5.7 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
8409 compilation and portability fixes, and a fix for a severe problem
8410 affecting directory caches.
8412 The Tor 0.3.5 series includes several new features and performance
8413 improvements, including client authorization for v3 onion services,
8414 cleanups to bootstrap reporting, support for improved bandwidth-
8415 measurement tools, experimental support for NSS in place of OpenSSL,
8416 and much more. It also begins a full reorganization of Tor's code
8417 layout, for improved modularity and maintainability in the future.
8418 Finally, there is the usual set of performance improvements and
8419 bugfixes that we try to do in every release series.
8421 There are a couple of changes in the 0.3.5 that may affect
8422 compatibility. First, the default version for newly created onion
8423 services is now v3. Use the HiddenServiceVersion option if you want to
8424 override this. Second, some log messages related to bootstrapping have
8425 changed; if you use stem, you may need to update to the latest version
8426 so it will recognize them.
8428 We have designated 0.3.5 as a "long-term support" (LTS) series: we
8429 will continue to patch major bugs in typical configurations of 0.3.5
8430 until at least 1 Feb 2022. (We do not plan to provide long-term
8431 support for embedding, Rust support, NSS support, running a directory
8432 authority, or unsupported platforms. For these, you will need to stick
8433 with the latest stable release.)
8435 Below are the changes since 0.3.4.9. For a complete list of changes
8436 since 0.3.5.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
8438 o Major features (bootstrap):
8439 - Don't report directory progress until after a connection to a
8440 relay or bridge has succeeded. Previously, we'd report 80%
8441 progress based on cached directory information when we couldn't
8442 even connect to the network. Closes ticket 27169.
8444 o Major features (new code layout):
8445 - Nearly all of Tor's source code has been moved around into more
8446 logical places. The "common" directory is now divided into a set
8447 of libraries in "lib", and files in the "or" directory have been
8448 split into "core" (logic absolutely needed for onion routing),
8449 "feature" (independent modules in Tor), and "app" (to configure
8450 and invoke the rest of Tor). See doc/HACKING/CodeStructure.md for
8451 more information. Closes ticket 26481.
8453 This refactoring is not complete: although the libraries have been
8454 refactored to be acyclic, the main body of Tor is still too
8455 interconnected. We will attempt to improve this in the future.
8457 o Major features (onion services v3):
8458 - Implement onion service client authorization at the descriptor
8459 level: only authorized clients can decrypt a service's descriptor
8460 to find out how to contact it. A new torrc option was added to
8461 control this client side: ClientOnionAuthDir <path>. On the
8462 service side, if the "authorized_clients/" directory exists in the
8463 onion service directory path, client configurations are read from
8464 the files within. See the manpage for more details. Closes ticket
8465 27547. Patch done by Suphanat Chunhapanya (haxxpop).
8466 - Improve revision counter generation in next-gen onion services.
8467 Onion services can now scale by hosting multiple instances on
8468 different hosts without synchronization between them, which was
8469 previously impossible because descriptors would get rejected by
8470 HSDirs. Addresses ticket 25552.
8471 - Version 3 onion services can now use the per-service
8472 HiddenServiceExportCircuitID option to differentiate client
8473 circuits. It communicates with the service by using the HAProxy
8474 protocol to assign virtual IP addresses to inbound client
8475 circuits. Closes ticket 4700. Patch by Mahrud Sayrafi.
8477 o Major features (onion services, UI change):
8478 - For a newly created onion service, the default version is now 3.
8479 Tor still supports existing version 2 services, but the operator
8480 now needs to set "HiddenServiceVersion 2" in order to create a new
8481 version 2 service. For existing services, Tor now learns the
8482 version by reading the key file. Closes ticket 27215.
8484 o Major features (portability, cryptography, experimental, TLS):
8485 - Tor now has the option to compile with the NSS library instead of
8486 OpenSSL. This feature is experimental, and we expect that bugs may
8487 remain. It is mainly intended for environments where Tor's
8488 performance is not CPU-bound, and where NSS is already known to be
8489 installed. To try it out, configure Tor with the --enable-nss
8490 flag. Closes tickets 26631, 26815, and 26816.
8492 If you are experimenting with this option and using an old cached
8493 consensus, Tor may fail to start. To solve this, delete your
8494 "cached-consensus" and "cached-microdesc-consensus" files,
8495 (if present), and restart Tor.
8497 o Major features (relay, UI change):
8498 - Relays no longer run as exits by default. If the "ExitRelay"
8499 option is auto (or unset), and no exit policy is specified with
8500 ExitPolicy or ReducedExitPolicy, we now treat ExitRelay as 0.
8501 Previously in this case, we allowed exit traffic and logged a
8502 warning message. Closes ticket 21530. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8503 - Tor now validates that the ContactInfo config option is valid UTF-
8504 8 when parsing torrc. Closes ticket 27428.
8506 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
8507 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
8508 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8510 o Major bugfixes (compilation, rust):
8511 - Rust tests can now build and run successfully with the
8512 --enable-fragile-hardening option enabled. Doing this currently
8513 requires the rust beta channel; it will be possible with stable
8514 rust once Rust version 1.31 is released. Patch from Alex Crichton.
8515 Fixes bugs 27272, 27273, and 27274. Bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8517 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
8518 - Actually check that the address we get from DirAuthority
8519 configuration line is valid IPv4. Explicitly disallow DirAuthority
8520 address to be a DNS hostname. Fixes bug 26488; bugfix
8523 o Major bugfixes (embedding, main loop):
8524 - When DisableNetwork becomes set, actually disable periodic events
8525 that are already enabled. (Previously, we would refrain from
8526 enabling new ones, but we would leave the old ones turned on.)
8527 Fixes bug 28348; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8529 o Major bugfixes (main loop, bootstrap):
8530 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
8531 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
8532 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
8533 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8535 o Major bugfixes (onion service v3):
8536 - On an intro point for a version 3 onion service, stop closing
8537 introduction circuits on a NACK. This lets the client decide
8538 whether to reuse the circuit or discard it. Previously, we closed
8539 intro circuits when sending NACKs. Fixes bug 27841; bugfix on
8540 0.3.2.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chaunan.
8542 o Major bugfixes (OpenSSL, portability):
8543 - Fix our usage of named groups when running as a TLS 1.3 client in
8544 OpenSSL 1.1.1. Previously, we only initialized EC groups when
8545 running as a relay, which caused clients to fail to negotiate TLS
8546 1.3 with relays. Fixes bug 28245; bugfix on 0.2.9.15 (when TLS 1.3
8549 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth statistics):
8550 - When we close relayed circuits, report the data in the circuit
8551 queues as being written in our relay bandwidth stats. This
8552 mitigates guard discovery and other attacks that close circuits
8553 for the explicit purpose of noticing this discrepancy in
8554 statistics. Fixes bug 23512; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
8556 o Major bugfixes (relay):
8557 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
8558 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
8559 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
8560 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
8562 - Always reactivate linked connections in the main loop so long as
8563 any linked connection has been active. Previously, connections
8564 serving directory information wouldn't get reactivated after the
8565 first chunk of data was sent (usually 32KB), which would prevent
8566 clients from bootstrapping. Fixes bug 28912; bugfix on
8567 0.3.4.1-alpha. Patch by "cypherpunks3".
8569 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process):
8570 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
8571 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
8572 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8574 o Minor features (admin tools):
8575 - Add a new --key-expiration option to print the expiration date of
8576 the signing cert in an ed25519_signing_cert file. Resolves
8579 o Minor features (build):
8580 - If you pass the "--enable-pic" option to configure, Tor will try
8581 to tell the compiler to build position-independent code suitable
8582 to link into a dynamic library. (The default remains -fPIE, for
8583 code suitable for a relocatable executable.) Closes ticket 23846.
8585 o Minor features (code correctness, testing):
8586 - Tor's build process now includes a "check-includes" make target to
8587 verify that no module of Tor relies on any headers from a higher-
8588 level module. We hope to use this feature over time to help
8589 refactor our codebase. Closes ticket 26447.
8591 o Minor features (code layout):
8592 - We have a new "lowest-level" error-handling API for use by code
8593 invoked from within the logging module. With this interface, the
8594 logging code is no longer at risk of calling into itself if a
8595 failure occurs while it is trying to log something. Closes
8598 o Minor features (compilation):
8599 - When possible, place our warning flags in a separate file, to
8600 avoid flooding verbose build logs. Closes ticket 28924.
8601 - Tor's configure script now supports a --with-malloc= option to
8602 select your malloc implementation. Supported options are
8603 "tcmalloc", "jemalloc", "openbsd" (deprecated), and "system" (the
8604 default). Addresses part of ticket 20424. Based on a patch from
8607 o Minor features (config):
8608 - The "auto" keyword in torrc is now case-insensitive. Closes
8611 o Minor features (continuous integration):
8612 - Add a Travis CI build for --enable-nss on Linux gcc. Closes
8614 - Add new CI job to Travis configuration to run stem-based
8615 integration tests. Closes ticket 27913.
8616 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
8617 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
8618 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
8619 - Report what program produced the mysterious core file that we
8620 occasionally see on Travis CI during make distcheck. Closes
8622 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
8623 Implements ticket 27252.
8624 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
8625 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
8626 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
8627 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
8628 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
8629 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
8630 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
8631 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
8632 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
8634 o Minor features (continuous integration, Windows):
8635 - Always show the configure and test logs, and upload them as build
8636 artifacts, when building for Windows using Appveyor CI.
8638 - Build tor on Windows Server 2012 R2 and Windows Server 2016 using
8639 Appveyor's CI. Closes ticket 28318.
8641 o Minor features (controller):
8642 - Emit CIRC_BW events as soon as we detect that we processed an
8643 invalid or otherwise dropped cell on a circuit. This allows
8644 vanguards and other controllers to react more quickly to dropped
8645 cells. Closes ticket 27678.
8646 - For purposes of CIRC_BW-based dropped cell detection, track half-
8647 closed stream ids, and allow their ENDs, SENDMEs, DATA and path
8648 bias check cells to arrive without counting it as dropped until
8649 either the END arrives, or the windows are empty. Closes
8651 - Implement a 'GETINFO md/all' controller command to enable getting
8652 all known microdescriptors. Closes ticket 8323.
8653 - The GETINFO command now support an "uptime" argument, to return
8654 Tor's uptime in seconds. Closes ticket 25132.
8656 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
8657 - Make our OOM handler aware of the DNS cache so that it doesn't
8658 fill up the memory. This check is important for our DoS mitigation
8659 subsystem. Closes ticket 18642. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8661 o Minor features (development):
8662 - Tor's makefile now supports running the "clippy" Rust style tool
8663 on our Rust code. Closes ticket 22156.
8665 o Minor features (directory authority):
8666 - There is no longer an artificial upper limit on the length of
8667 bandwidth lines. Closes ticket 26223.
8668 - When a bandwidth file is used to obtain the bandwidth measurements,
8669 include this bandwidth file headers in the votes. Closes
8671 - Improved support for networks with only a single authority or a
8672 single fallback directory. Patch from Gabriel Somlo. Closes
8675 o Minor features (embedding API):
8676 - The Tor controller API now supports a function to launch Tor with
8677 a preconstructed owning controller FD, so that embedding
8678 applications don't need to manage controller ports and
8679 authentication. Closes ticket 24204.
8680 - The Tor controller API now has a function that returns the name
8681 and version of the backend implementing the API. Closes
8684 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
8685 - Replace the 150 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor
8686 0.3.3.1-alpha in January 2018 (of which ~115 were still
8687 functional), with a list of 157 fallbacks (92 new, 65 existing, 85
8688 removed) generated in December 2018. Closes ticket 24803.
8690 o Minor features (geoip):
8691 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 3 2019 Maxmind GeoLite2
8692 Country database. Closes ticket 29012.
8694 o Minor features (memory management):
8695 - Get Libevent to use the same memory allocator as Tor, by calling
8696 event_set_mem_functions() during initialization. Resolves
8699 o Minor features (memory usage):
8700 - When not using them, store legacy TAP public onion keys in DER-
8701 encoded format, rather than as expanded public keys. This should
8702 save several megabytes on typical clients. Closes ticket 27246.
8704 o Minor features (OpenSSL bug workaround):
8705 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL 1.1.1a, which prevented the TLS 1.3
8706 key export function from handling long labels. When this bug is
8707 detected, Tor will disable TLS 1.3. We recommend upgrading to a
8708 version of OpenSSL without this bug when it becomes available.
8709 Closes ticket 28973.
8711 o Minor features (OpenSSL):
8712 - When possible, use RFC5869 HKDF implementation from OpenSSL rather
8713 than our own. Resolves ticket 19979.
8715 o Minor features (performance):
8716 - Remove about 96% of the work from the function that we run at
8717 startup to test our curve25519_basepoint implementation. Since
8718 this function has yet to find an actual failure, we now only run
8719 it for 8 iterations instead of 200. Based on our profile
8720 information, this change should save around 8% of our startup time
8721 on typical desktops, and may have a similar effect on other
8722 platforms. Closes ticket 28838.
8723 - Stop re-validating our hardcoded Diffie-Hellman parameters on
8724 every startup. Doing this wasted time and cycles, especially on
8725 low-powered devices. Closes ticket 28851.
8727 o Minor features (Rust, code quality):
8728 - Improve rust code quality in the rust protover implementation by
8729 making it more idiomatic. Includes changing an internal API to
8730 take &str instead of &String. Closes ticket 26492.
8732 o Minor features (testing):
8733 - Add scripts/test/chutney-git-bisect.sh, for bisecting using
8734 chutney. Implements ticket 27211.
8736 o Minor features (tor-resolve):
8737 - The tor-resolve utility can now be used with IPv6 SOCKS proxies.
8738 Side-effect of the refactoring for ticket 26526.
8740 o Minor features (UI):
8741 - Log each included configuration file or directory as we read it,
8742 to provide more visibility about where Tor is reading from. Patch
8743 from Unto Sten; closes ticket 27186.
8744 - Lower log level of "Scheduler type KIST has been enabled" to INFO.
8745 Closes ticket 26703.
8747 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing):
8748 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
8749 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
8750 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
8751 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8753 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
8754 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
8755 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8756 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
8757 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
8760 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
8761 - Try harder to get descriptors in non-exit test networks, by using
8762 the mid weight for the third hop when there are no exits. Fixes
8763 bug 27237; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8765 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
8766 - Avoid casting smartlist index to int implicitly, as it may trigger
8767 a warning (-Wshorten-64-to-32). Fixes bug 26282; bugfix on
8768 0.2.3.13-alpha, 0.2.7.1-alpha and 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8769 - Use time_t for all values in
8770 predicted_ports_prediction_time_remaining(). Rework the code that
8771 computes difference between durations/timestamps. Fixes bug 27165;
8772 bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8774 o Minor bugfixes (client, memory usage):
8775 - When not running as a directory cache, there is no need to store
8776 the text of the current consensus networkstatus in RAM.
8777 Previously, however, clients would store it anyway, at a cost of
8778 over 5 MB. Now, they do not. Fixes bug 27247; bugfix
8781 o Minor bugfixes (client, ReachableAddresses):
8782 - Instead of adding a "reject *:*" line to ReachableAddresses when
8783 loading the configuration, add one to the policy after parsing it
8784 in parse_reachable_addresses(). This prevents extra "reject *.*"
8785 lines from accumulating on reloads. Fixes bug 20874; bugfix on
8786 0.1.1.5-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8788 o Minor bugfixes (code quality):
8789 - Rename sandbox_getaddrinfo() and other functions to no longer
8790 misleadingly suggest that they are sandbox-only. Fixes bug 26525;
8791 bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
8793 o Minor bugfixes (code safety):
8794 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
8795 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
8798 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
8799 - Initialize a variable unconditionally in aes_new_cipher(), since
8800 some compilers cannot tell that we always initialize it before
8801 use. Fixes bug 28413; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
8803 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
8804 - Refuse to start with relative file paths and RunAsDaemon set
8805 (regression from the fix for bug 22731). Fixes bug 28298; bugfix
8808 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, Onion Services):
8809 - In rend_service_parse_port_config(), disallow any input to remain
8810 after address-port pair was parsed. This will catch address and
8811 port being whitespace-separated by mistake of the user. Fixes bug
8812 27044; bugfix on 0.2.9.10.
8814 o Minor bugfixes (connection, relay):
8815 - Avoid a logging a BUG() stacktrace when closing connection held
8816 open because the write side is rate limited but not the read side.
8817 Now, the connection read side is simply shut down until Tor is
8818 able to flush the connection and close it. Fixes bug 27750; bugfix
8821 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, Windows):
8822 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
8823 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8824 - Install only the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
8825 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
8826 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
8827 ships. Fixes bugs 27765 and 27943; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
8828 - Explicitly specify the path to the OpenSSL library and do not
8829 download OpenSSL from Pacman, but instead use the library that is
8830 already provided by AppVeyor. Fixes bug 28574; bugfix on master.
8831 - Manually configure the zstd compiler options, when building using
8832 mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. The MSYS2 mingw zstd package does
8833 not come with a pkg-config file. Fixes bug 28454; bugfix
8835 - Stop using an external OpenSSL install, and stop installing MSYS2
8836 packages, when building using mingw on Appveyor Windows CI. Fixes
8837 bug 28399; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8839 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
8840 - Consider all routerinfo errors other than "not a server" to be
8841 transient for the purpose of "GETINFO exit-policy/*" controller
8842 request. Print stacktrace in the unlikely case of failing to
8843 recompute routerinfo digest. Fixes bug 27034; bugfix
8846 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
8847 - Fix an unreached code path where we checked the value of
8848 "hostname" inside send_resolved_hostname_cell(). Previously, we
8849 used it before checking it; now we check it first. Fixes bug
8850 28879; bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
8852 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown):
8853 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
8854 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
8856 o Minor bugfixes (directory permissions):
8857 - When a user requests a group-readable DataDirectory, give it to
8858 them. Previously, when the DataDirectory and the CacheDirectory
8859 were the same, the default setting (0) for
8860 CacheDirectoryGroupReadable would override the setting for
8861 DataDirectoryGroupReadable. Fixes bug 26913; bugfix
8864 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel):
8865 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
8866 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
8869 o Minor bugfixes (ipv6):
8870 - In addrs_in_same_network_family(), we choose the subnet size based
8871 on the IP version (IPv4 or IPv6). Previously, we chose a fixed
8872 subnet size of /16 for both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug
8873 15518; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8875 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
8876 - Permit the "shutdown()" system call, which is apparently used by
8877 OpenSSL under some circumstances. Fixes bug 28183; bugfix
8880 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
8881 - Stop talking about the Named flag in log messages. Clients have
8882 ignored the Named flag since 0.3.2. Fixes bug 28441; bugfix
8884 - As a precaution, do an early return from log_addr_has_changed() if
8885 Tor is running as client. Also, log a stack trace for debugging as
8886 this function should only be called when Tor runs as server. Fixes
8887 bug 26892; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
8888 - Refrain from mentioning bug 21018 in the logs, as it is already
8889 fixed. Fixes bug 25477; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
8891 o Minor bugfixes (logging, documentation):
8892 - When SafeLogging is enabled, scrub IP address in
8893 channel_tls_process_netinfo_cell(). Also, add a note to manpage
8894 that scrubbing is not guaranteed on loglevels below Notice. Fixes
8895 bug 26882; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8897 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
8898 - Fix a harmless memory leak in libtorrunner.a. Fixes bug 28419;
8899 bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch from Martin Kepplinger.
8900 - Fix a small memory leak when calling Tor with --dump-config. Fixes
8901 bug 27893; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8903 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding):
8904 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
8905 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
8907 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v2):
8908 - Log at level "info", not "warning", in the case that we do not
8909 have a consensus when a .onion request comes in. This can happen
8910 normally while bootstrapping. Fixes bug 27040; bugfix
8913 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
8914 - When deleting an ephemeral onion service (DEL_ONION), do not close
8915 any rendezvous circuits in order to let the existing client
8916 connections finish by themselves or closed by the application. The
8917 HS v2 is doing that already so now we have the same behavior for
8918 all versions. Fixes bug 28619; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8919 - Build the service descriptor's signing key certificate before
8920 uploading, so we always have a fresh one: leaving no chances for
8921 it to expire service side. Fixes bug 27838; bugfix
8923 - Stop dumping a stack trace when trying to connect to an intro
8924 point without having a descriptor for it. Fixes bug 27774; bugfix
8926 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
8927 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
8928 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
8929 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
8930 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8931 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
8932 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
8933 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
8934 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8935 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
8936 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
8938 - When replacing a descriptor in the client cache, make sure to
8939 close all client introduction circuits for the old descriptor, so
8940 we don't end up with unusable leftover circuits. Fixes bug 27471;
8941 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
8943 o Minor bugfixes (OS compatibility):
8944 - Properly handle configuration changes that move a listener to/from
8945 wildcard IP address. If the first attempt to bind a socket fails,
8946 close the old listener and try binding the socket again. Fixes bug
8947 17873; bugfix on 0.0.8pre-1.
8949 o Minor bugfixes (performance)::
8950 - Rework node_is_a_configured_bridge() to no longer call
8951 node_get_all_orports(), which was performing too many memory
8952 allocations. Fixes bug 27224; bugfix on 0.2.3.9.
8954 o Minor bugfixes (protover):
8955 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
8956 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
8959 o Minor bugfixes (protover, rust):
8960 - Reject extra commas in version strings. Fixes bug 27197; bugfix
8962 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
8963 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
8964 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8965 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
8966 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
8967 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
8968 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
8969 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8970 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
8971 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
8973 o Minor bugfixes (relay shutdown, systemd):
8974 - Notify systemd of ShutdownWaitLength so it can be set to longer
8975 than systemd's TimeoutStopSec. In Tor's systemd service file, set
8976 TimeoutSec to 60 seconds to allow Tor some time to shut down.
8977 Fixes bug 28113; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
8979 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
8980 - Update relay descriptor on bandwidth changes only when the uptime
8981 is smaller than 24h, in order to reduce the efficiency of guard
8982 discovery attacks. Fixes bug 24104; bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha.
8984 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
8985 - Consider the fact that we'll be making direct connections to our
8986 entry and guard nodes when computing the fraction of nodes that
8987 have their descriptors. Also, if we are using bridges and there is
8988 at least one bridge with a full descriptor, treat the fraction of
8989 guards available as 100%. Fixes bug 25886; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
8990 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
8991 - Update the message logged on relays when DirCache is disabled.
8992 Since 0.3.3.5-rc, authorities require DirCache (V2Dir) for the
8993 Guard flag. Fixes bug 24312; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
8995 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
8996 - Stop running stem's unit tests as part of "make test-stem", but
8997 continue to run stem's unit and online tests during "make test-
8998 stem-full". Fixes bug 28568; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
8999 - Stop leaking memory in an entry guard unit test. Fixes bug 28554;
9000 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
9001 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9002 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9003 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9005 - Revise the "conditionvar_timeout" test so that it succeeds even on
9006 heavily loaded systems where the test threads are not scheduled
9007 within 200 msec. Fixes bug 27073; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
9008 - Fix two unit tests to work when HOME environment variable is not
9009 set. Fixes bug 27096; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9010 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9011 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9012 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9013 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9014 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9015 - When logging a version mismatch in our openssl_version tests,
9016 report the actual offending version strings. Fixes bug 26152;
9017 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9018 - Fix forking tests on Windows when there is a space somewhere in
9019 the path. Fixes bug 26437; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9021 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
9022 - Correctly identify Windows 8.1, Windows 10, and Windows Server
9023 2008 and later from their NT versions. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on
9024 0.2.2.34; reported by Keifer Bly.
9025 - On recent Windows versions, the GetVersionEx() function may report
9026 an earlier Windows version than the running OS. To avoid user
9027 confusion, add "[or later]" to Tor's version string on affected
9028 versions of Windows. Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34; reported
9030 - Remove Windows versions that were never supported by the
9031 GetVersionEx() function. Stop duplicating the latest Windows
9032 version in get_uname(). Fixes bug 28096; bugfix on 0.2.2.34;
9033 reported by Keifer Bly.
9035 o Code simplification and refactoring:
9036 - When parsing a port configuration, make it more obvious to static
9037 analyzer tools that we always initialize the address. Closes
9039 - Divide more large Tor source files -- especially ones that span
9040 multiple areas of functionality -- into smaller parts, including
9041 onion.c and main.c. Closes ticket 26747.
9042 - Divide the "routerparse.c" module into separate modules for each
9043 group of parsed objects. Closes ticket 27924.
9044 - Move protover_rust.c to the same place protover.c was moved to.
9045 Closes ticket 27814.
9046 - Split directory.c into separate pieces for client, server, and
9047 common functionality. Closes ticket 26744.
9048 - Split the non-statistics-related parts from the rephist.c and
9049 geoip.c modules. Closes ticket 27892.
9050 - Split the router.c file into relay-only and shared components, to
9051 help with future modularization. Closes ticket 27864.
9052 - Divide the routerlist.c and dirserv.c modules into smaller parts.
9053 Closes ticket 27799.
9054 - 'updateFallbackDirs.py' now ignores the blacklist file, as it's not
9055 longer needed. Closes ticket 26502.
9056 - Include paths to header files within Tor are now qualified by
9057 directory within the top-level src directory.
9058 - Many structures have been removed from the centralized "or.h"
9059 header, and moved into their own headers. This will allow us to
9060 reduce the number of places in the code that rely on each
9061 structure's contents and layout. Closes ticket 26383.
9062 - Remove ATTR_NONNULL macro from codebase. Resolves ticket 26527.
9063 - Remove GetAdaptersAddresses_fn_t. The code that used it was
9064 removed as part of the 26481 refactor. Closes ticket 27467.
9065 - Rework Tor SOCKS server code to use Trunnel and benefit from
9066 autogenerated functions for parsing and generating SOCKS wire
9067 format. New implementation is cleaner, more maintainable and
9068 should be less prone to heartbleed-style vulnerabilities.
9069 Implements a significant fraction of ticket 3569.
9070 - Split sampled_guards_update_from_consensus() and
9071 select_entry_guard_for_circuit() into subfunctions. In
9072 entry_guards_update_primary() unite three smartlist enumerations
9073 into one and move smartlist comparison code out of the function.
9074 Closes ticket 21349.
9075 - Tor now assumes that you have standards-conformant stdint.h and
9076 inttypes.h headers when compiling. Closes ticket 26626.
9077 - Unify our bloom filter logic. Previously we had two copies of this
9078 code: one for routerlist filtering, and one for address set
9079 calculations. Closes ticket 26510.
9080 - Use the simpler strcmpstart() helper in
9081 rend_parse_v2_service_descriptor instead of strncmp(). Closes
9083 - Utility functions that can perform a DNS lookup are now wholly
9084 separated from those that can't, in separate headers and C
9085 modules. Closes ticket 26526.
9088 - In the tor-resolve(1) manpage, fix the reference to socks-
9089 extensions.txt by adding a web URL. Resolves ticket 27853.
9090 - Mention that we require Python to be 2.7 or newer for some
9091 integration tests that we ship with Tor. Resolves ticket 27677.
9092 - Copy paragraph and URL to Tor's code of conduct document from
9093 CONTRIBUTING to new CODE_OF_CONDUCT file. Resolves ticket 26638.
9094 - Remove old instructions from INSTALL document. Closes ticket 26588.
9095 - Warn users that they should not include MyFamily line(s) in their
9096 torrc when running Tor bridge. Closes ticket 26908.
9099 - Tor no longer supports building with the dmalloc library. For
9100 debugging memory issues, we suggest using gperftools or msan
9101 instead. Closes ticket 26426.
9102 - Tor no longer attempts to run on Windows environments without the
9103 GetAdaptersAddresses() function. This function has existed since
9104 Windows XP, which is itself already older than we support.
9105 - Remove Tor2web functionality for version 2 onion services. The
9106 Tor2webMode and Tor2webRendezvousPoints options are now obsolete.
9107 (This feature was never shipped in vanilla Tor and it was only
9108 possible to use this feature by building the support at compile
9109 time. Tor2webMode is not implemented for version 3 onion services.)
9110 Closes ticket 26367.
9113 - Increase logging and tag all log entries with timestamps in
9114 test_rebind.py. Provides diagnostics for issue 28229.
9116 o Code simplification and refactoring (shared random, dirauth):
9117 - Change many tor_assert() to use BUG() instead. The idea is to not
9118 crash a dirauth but rather scream loudly with a stacktrace and let
9119 it continue run. The shared random subsystem is very resilient and
9120 if anything wrong happens with it, at worst a non coherent value
9121 will be put in the vote and discarded by the other authorities.
9122 Closes ticket 19566.
9124 o Documentation (onion services):
9125 - Improve HSv3 client authorization by making some options more
9126 explicit and detailed. Closes ticket 28026. Patch by Mike Tigas.
9127 - Document in the man page that changing ClientOnionAuthDir value or
9128 adding a new file in the directory will not work at runtime upon
9129 sending a HUP if Sandbox 1. Closes ticket 28128.
9130 - Note in the man page that the only real way to fully revoke an
9131 onion service v3 client authorization is by restarting the tor
9132 process. Closes ticket 28275.
9135 Changes in version 0.3.4.9 - 2018-11-02
9136 Tor 0.3.4.9 is the second stable release in its series; it backports
9137 numerous fixes, including a fix for a bandwidth management bug that
9138 was causing memory exhaustion on relays. Anyone running an earlier
9139 version of Tor 0.3.4.9 should upgrade.
9141 o Major bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9142 - Fix compilation on ARM (and other less-used CPUs) when compiling
9143 with OpenSSL before 1.1. Fixes bug 27781; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9145 o Major bugfixes (mainloop, bootstrap, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9146 - Make sure Tor bootstraps and works properly if only the
9147 ControlPort is set. Prior to this fix, Tor would only bootstrap
9148 when a client port was set (Socks, Trans, NATD, DNS or HTTPTunnel
9149 port). Fixes bug 27849; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9151 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9152 - When our write bandwidth limit is exhausted, stop writing on the
9153 connection. Previously, we had a typo in the code that would make
9154 us stop reading instead, leading to relay connections being stuck
9155 indefinitely and consuming kernel RAM. Fixes bug 28089; bugfix
9158 o Major bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9159 - Fix a use-after-free error that could be caused by passing Tor an
9160 impossible set of options that would fail during options_act().
9161 Fixes bug 27708; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9163 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9164 - Don't do a distcheck with --disable-module-dirauth in Travis.
9165 Implements ticket 27252.
9166 - Only run one online rust build in Travis, to reduce network
9167 errors. Skip offline rust builds on Travis for Linux gcc, because
9168 they're redundant. Implements ticket 27252.
9169 - Skip gcc on OSX in Travis CI, because it's rarely used. Skip a
9170 duplicate hardening-off build in Travis on Tor 0.2.9. Skip gcc on
9171 Linux with default settings, because all the non-default builds
9172 use gcc on Linux. Implements ticket 27252.
9174 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9175 - Use the Travis Homebrew addon to install packages on macOS during
9176 Travis CI. The package list is the same, but the Homebrew addon
9177 does not do a `brew update` by default. Implements ticket 27738.
9179 o Minor features (geoip):
9180 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9181 Country database. Closes ticket 27991.
9183 o Minor bugfixes (32-bit OSX and iOS, timing, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9184 - Fix an integer overflow bug in our optimized 32-bit millisecond-
9185 difference algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Previously, it
9186 would overflow when calculating the difference between two times
9187 more than 47 days apart. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9189 - Improve the precision of our 32-bit millisecond difference
9190 algorithm for 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139;
9191 bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9192 - Relax the tolerance on the mainloop/update_time_jumps test when
9193 running on 32-bit Apple platforms. Fixes part of bug 27139; bugfix
9196 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9197 - Avoid undefined behavior in an end-of-string check when parsing
9198 the BEGIN line in a directory object. Fixes bug 28202; bugfix
9201 o Minor bugfixes (CI, appveyor, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9202 - Only install the necessary mingw packages during our appveyor
9203 builds. This change makes the build a little faster, and prevents
9204 a conflict with a preinstalled mingw openssl that appveyor now
9205 ships. Fixes bugs 27943 and 27765; bugfix on 0.3.4.2-alpha.
9207 o Minor bugfixes (code safety, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9208 - Rewrite our assertion macros so that they no longer suppress the
9209 compiler's -Wparentheses warnings. Fixes bug 27709; bugfix
9211 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9212 - Stop reinstalling identical packages in our Windows CI. Fixes bug
9213 27464; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9215 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9216 - Log additional info when we get a relay that shares an ed25519 ID
9217 with a different relay, instead making a BUG() warning. Fixes bug
9218 27800; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9220 o Minor bugfixes (directory connection shutdown, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9221 - Avoid a double-close when shutting down a stalled directory
9222 connection. Fixes bug 26896; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9224 o Minor bugfixes (HTTP tunnel, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9225 - Fix a bug warning when closing an HTTP tunnel connection due to an
9226 HTTP request we couldn't handle. Fixes bug 26470; bugfix
9229 o Minor bugfixes (netflow padding, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9230 - Ensure circuitmux queues are empty before scheduling or sending
9231 padding. Fixes bug 25505; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
9233 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9234 - When the onion service directory can't be created or has the wrong
9235 permissions, do not log a stack trace. Fixes bug 27335; bugfix
9238 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9239 - Close all SOCKS request (for the same .onion) if the newly fetched
9240 descriptor is unusable. Before that, we would close only the first
9241 one leaving the other hanging and let to time out by themselves.
9242 Fixes bug 27410; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9244 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9245 - When selecting a v3 rendezvous point, don't only look at the
9246 protover, but also check whether the curve25519 onion key is
9247 present. This way we avoid picking a relay that supports the v3
9248 rendezvous but for which we don't have the microdescriptor. Fixes
9249 bug 27797; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9251 o Minor bugfixes (protover, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9252 - Reject protocol names containing bytes other than alphanumeric
9253 characters and hyphens ([A-Za-z0-9-]). Fixes bug 27316; bugfix
9256 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9257 - Compute protover votes correctly in the rust version of the
9258 protover code. Previously, the protover rewrite in 24031 allowed
9259 repeated votes from the same voter for the same protocol version
9260 to be counted multiple times in protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug
9261 27649; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9262 - Reject protover names that contain invalid characters. Fixes bug
9263 27687; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9265 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.5.2-alpha):
9266 - protover_all_supported() would attempt to allocate up to 16GB on
9267 some inputs, leading to a potential memory DoS. Fixes bug 27206;
9268 bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9270 o Minor bugfixes (rust, directory authority, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9271 - Fix an API mismatch in the rust implementation of
9272 protover_compute_vote(). This bug could have caused crashes on any
9273 directory authorities running Tor with Rust (which we do not yet
9274 recommend). Fixes bug 27741; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
9276 o Minor bugfixes (rust, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9277 - Fix a potential null dereference in protover_all_supported(). Add
9278 a test for it. Fixes bug 27804; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9279 - Return a string that can be safely freed by C code, not one
9280 created by the rust allocator, in protover_all_supported(). Fixes
9281 bug 27740; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9283 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.1-alpha):
9284 - If a unit test running in a subprocess exits abnormally or with a
9285 nonzero status code, treat the test as having failed, even if the
9286 test reported success. Without this fix, memory leaks don't cause
9287 the tests to fail, even with LeakSanitizer. Fixes bug 27658;
9288 bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
9290 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.5.3-alpha):
9291 - Make the hs_service tests use the same time source when creating
9292 the introduction point and when testing it. Now tests work better
9293 on very slow systems like ARM or Travis. Fixes bug 27810; bugfix
9296 o Minor bugfixes (testing, to appear in 0.3.5.4-alpha):
9297 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on BSD-derived systems
9298 (NetBSD, OpenBSD, and macOS/Darwin) until we solve bug 17808.
9299 (FreeBSD failures have been treated as expected since 18204 in
9300 0.2.8.) Fixes bug 27948; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9303 Changes in version 0.2.9.17 - 2018-09-10
9304 Tor 0.2.9.17 backports numerous bugfixes from later versions of Tor.
9306 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9307 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9308 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9309 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9311 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9312 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9314 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9315 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9316 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9317 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9319 o Minor features (geoip):
9320 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9321 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9323 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9324 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9325 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9326 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9328 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9329 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9330 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9331 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9332 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9333 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9334 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9335 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9338 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9339 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9340 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9341 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9343 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9344 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9345 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9346 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9348 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9349 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9350 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9351 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9353 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9354 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9355 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9356 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9357 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9359 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9360 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9361 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9364 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9365 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9366 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9367 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9368 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9370 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9371 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9372 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9375 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9376 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9377 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9378 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9380 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9381 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9382 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9384 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9385 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9386 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9389 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9390 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9391 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9392 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9393 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9395 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9396 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9397 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9400 Changes in version 0.3.2.12 - 2018-09-10
9401 Tor 0.3.2.12 backport numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9403 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9404 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9405 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9406 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9408 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9409 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9411 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9412 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9413 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9414 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9416 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9417 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9420 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9421 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9422 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9423 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9425 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9426 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9427 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9428 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9430 o Minor features (geoip):
9431 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9432 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9434 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9435 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9436 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9437 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9438 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9439 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9440 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9442 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9443 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9444 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9445 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9446 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9447 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9448 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9449 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9452 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9453 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9454 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9455 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9457 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9458 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9459 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9460 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9462 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9463 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9464 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9465 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9466 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9468 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9469 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9470 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9471 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9472 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9474 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9475 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9476 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9479 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9480 - Fix a bug in out sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9481 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9482 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9483 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9485 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9486 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9487 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9490 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9491 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9492 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9495 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9496 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9497 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9500 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9501 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9503 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9504 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9505 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9506 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9508 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9509 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9510 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9511 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9513 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9514 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9515 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9517 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9518 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9519 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9520 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9521 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9522 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9523 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9526 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
9527 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on OpenSSL
9528 internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL behavior in
9529 a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p. Fixes bug 27226;
9530 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9532 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9533 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9534 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9535 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9536 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9538 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9539 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9540 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9543 Changes in version 0.3.3.10 - 2018-09-10
9544 Tor 0.3.3.10 backports numerous fixes from later versions of Tor.
9546 o Minor features (bug workaround, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9547 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9548 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9549 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9551 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9552 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9553 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9554 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9556 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9557 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9558 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9560 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9561 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9562 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9563 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9565 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9566 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9569 o Minor features (controller, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9570 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9571 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9572 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9574 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9575 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9576 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9577 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9579 o Minor features (geoip):
9580 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9581 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9583 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9584 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9585 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9586 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9587 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9588 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9589 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9591 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9592 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9593 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9594 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9595 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9596 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9597 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9598 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9601 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9602 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9603 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9604 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9606 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9607 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9608 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9609 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9611 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9612 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9613 - Pass the module flags to distcheck configure, and log the flags
9614 before running configure. (Backported to 0.2.9 and later as a
9615 precaution.) Fixes bug 27088; bugfix on 0.3.4.1-alpha.
9617 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9618 - When a Travis build fails, and showing a log fails, keep trying to
9619 show the other logs. Fixes bug 27453; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9620 - When we use echo in Travis, don't pass a --flag as the first
9621 argument. Fixes bug 27418; bugfix on 0.3.4.7-rc.
9623 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9624 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9625 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
9628 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9629 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
9630 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
9631 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9633 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9634 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
9635 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
9636 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
9637 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
9639 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9640 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
9641 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
9644 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9645 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
9646 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
9649 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9650 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
9651 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
9654 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9655 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
9656 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
9657 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
9659 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9660 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
9661 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
9664 o Minor bugfixes (rust, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9665 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
9667 - Consistently use ../../.. as a fallback for $abs_top_srcdir in
9668 test_rust.sh. Fixes bug 27093; bugfix on 0.3.4.3-alpha.
9669 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
9670 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
9671 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
9672 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
9673 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
9675 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
9676 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9677 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
9678 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
9679 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
9681 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9682 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web clients
9683 fail to authenticate direct connections to relays.
9684 Fixes bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
9686 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9687 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
9688 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9690 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney, backport from 0.3.4.8):
9691 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
9692 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
9693 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
9694 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
9695 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
9696 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
9699 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9700 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
9701 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
9702 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
9703 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9705 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.4.6-rc):
9706 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
9707 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
9708 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
9709 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
9711 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation, backport from 0.3.4.7-rc):
9712 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
9713 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9716 Changes in version 0.3.4.8 - 2018-09-10
9717 Tor 0.3.4.8 is the first stable release in its series; it includes
9718 compilation and portability fixes.
9720 The Tor 0.3.4 series includes improvements for running Tor in
9721 low-power and embedded environments, which should help performance in
9722 general. We've begun work on better modularity, and included preliminary
9723 changes on the directory authority side to accommodate a new bandwidth
9724 measurement system. We've also integrated more continuous-integration
9725 systems into our development process, and made corresponding changes to
9726 Tor's testing infrastructure. Finally, we've continued to refine
9727 our anti-denial-of-service code.
9729 Below are the changes since 0.3.3.9. For a list of only the changes
9730 since 0.3.4.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
9732 o New system requirements:
9733 - Tor no longer tries to support old operating systems without
9734 mmap() or some local equivalent. Apparently, compilation on such
9735 systems has been broken for some time, without anybody noticing or
9736 complaining. Closes ticket 25398.
9738 o Major features (directory authority, modularization):
9739 - The directory authority subsystem has been modularized. The code
9740 is now located in src/or/dirauth/, and is compiled in by default.
9741 To disable the module, the configure option
9742 --disable-module-dirauth has been added. This module may be
9743 disabled by default in some future release. Closes ticket 25610.
9745 o Major features (main loop, CPU usage):
9746 - When Tor is disabled (via DisableNetwork or via hibernation), it
9747 no longer needs to run any per-second events. This change should
9748 make it easier for mobile applications to disable Tor while the
9749 device is sleeping, or Tor is not running. Closes ticket 26063.
9750 - Tor no longer enables all of its periodic events by default.
9751 Previously, Tor would enable all possible main loop events,
9752 regardless of whether it needed them. Furthermore, many of these
9753 events are now disabled when Tor is hibernating or DisableNetwork
9754 is set. This is a big step towards reducing client CPU usage by
9755 reducing the amount of wake-ups the daemon does. Closes tickets
9757 - The bandwidth-limitation logic has been refactored so that
9758 bandwidth calculations are performed on-demand, rather than every
9759 TokenBucketRefillInterval milliseconds. This change should improve
9760 the granularity of our bandwidth calculations, and limit the
9761 number of times that the Tor process needs to wake up when it is
9762 idle. Closes ticket 25373.
9763 - Move responsibility for many operations from a once-per-second
9764 callback to a callback that is only scheduled as needed. Moving
9765 this functionality has allowed us to disable the callback when
9766 Tor's network is disabled. Once enough items are removed from our
9767 once-per-second callback, we can eliminate it entirely to conserve
9768 CPU when idle. The functionality removed includes: closing
9769 connections, circuits, and channels (ticket 25932); consensus
9770 voting (25937); flushing log callbacks (25951); honoring delayed
9771 SIGNEWNYM requests (25949); rescanning the consensus cache
9772 (25931); saving the state file to disk (25948); warning relay
9773 operators about unreachable ports (25952); and keeping track of
9774 Tor's uptime (26009).
9776 o Minor features (accounting):
9777 - When Tor becomes dormant, it now uses a scheduled event to wake up
9778 at the right time. Previously, we would use the per-second timer
9779 to check whether to wake up, but we no longer have any per-second
9780 timers enabled when the network is disabled. Closes ticket 26064.
9782 o Minor features (bug workaround):
9783 - Compile correctly on systems that provide the C11 stdatomic.h
9784 header, but where C11 atomic functions don't actually compile.
9785 Closes ticket 26779; workaround for Debian issue 903709.
9787 o Minor features (code quality):
9788 - Add optional spell-checking for the Tor codebase, using the
9789 "misspell" program. To use this feature, run "make check-typos".
9790 Closes ticket 25024.
9792 o Minor features (compatibility):
9793 - Tell OpenSSL to maintain backward compatibility with previous
9794 RSA1024/DH1024 users in Tor. With OpenSSL 1.1.1-pre6, these
9795 ciphers are disabled by default. Closes ticket 27344.
9796 - Tor now detects versions of OpenSSL 1.1.0 and later compiled with
9797 the no-deprecated option, and builds correctly with them. Closes
9798 tickets 19429, 19981, and 25353.
9800 o Minor features (compilation):
9801 - When compiling with --enable-openbsd-malloc or --enable-tcmalloc,
9802 tell the compiler not to include the system malloc implementation.
9803 Fixes bug 20424; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
9804 - Don't try to use a pragma to temporarily disable the
9805 -Wunused-const-variable warning if the compiler doesn't support
9806 it. Fixes bug 26785; bugfix on 0.3.2.11.
9807 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
9808 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
9811 o Minor features (compression, zstd):
9812 - When running with zstd, Tor now considers using advanced functions
9813 that the zstd maintainers have labeled as potentially unstable. To
9814 prevent breakage, Tor will only use this functionality when the
9815 runtime version of the zstd library matches the version with which
9816 Tor was compiled. Closes ticket 25162.
9818 o Minor features (configuration):
9819 - The "DownloadSchedule" options have been renamed to end with
9820 "DownloadInitialDelay". The old names are still allowed, but will
9821 produce a warning. Comma-separated lists are still permitted for
9822 these options, but all values after the first are ignored (as they
9823 have been since 0.2.9). Closes ticket 23354.
9825 o Minor features (continuous integration):
9826 - Log the compiler path and version during Appveyor builds.
9827 Implements ticket 27449.
9828 - Show config.log and test-suite.log after failed Appveyor builds.
9829 Also upload the zipped full logs as a build artifact. Implements
9831 - Backport Travis rust distcheck to 0.3.3. Closes ticket 24629.
9832 - Enable macOS builds in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9834 - Install libcap-dev and libseccomp2-dev so these optional
9835 dependencies get tested on Travis CI. Closes ticket 26560.
9836 - Only post Appveyor IRC notifications when the build fails.
9837 Implements ticket 27275.
9838 - Run asciidoc during Travis CI. Implements ticket 27087.
9839 - Use ccache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes ticket 26952.
9840 - Add the necessary configuration files for continuous integration
9841 testing on Windows, via the Appveyor platform. Closes ticket
9842 25549. Patches from Marcin Cieślak and Isis Lovecruft.
9844 o Minor features (continuous integration, rust):
9845 - Use cargo cache in our Travis CI configuration. Closes
9848 o Minor features (control port):
9849 - Introduce GETINFO "current-time/{local,utc}" to return the local
9850 and UTC times respectively in ISO format. This helps a controller
9851 like Tor Browser detect a time-related error. Closes ticket 25511.
9852 Patch by Neel Chauhan.
9853 - Introduce new fields to the CIRC_BW event. There are two new
9854 fields in each of the read and written directions. The DELIVERED
9855 fields report the total valid data on the circuit, as measured by
9856 the payload sizes of verified and error-checked relay command
9857 cells. The OVERHEAD fields report the total unused bytes in each
9858 of these cells. Closes ticket 25903.
9860 o Minor features (controller):
9861 - The control port now exposes the list of HTTPTunnelPorts and
9862 ExtOrPorts via GETINFO net/listeners/httptunnel and
9863 net/listeners/extor respectively. Closes ticket 26647.
9865 o Minor features (directory authorities):
9866 - Stop warning about incomplete bw lines before the first complete
9867 bw line has been found, so that additional header lines can be
9868 ignored. Fixes bug 25960; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha
9869 - Authorities no longer vote to make the subprotocol version
9870 "LinkAuth=1" a requirement: it is unsupportable with NSS, and
9871 hasn't been needed since Tor 0.3.0.1-alpha. Closes ticket 27286.
9873 o Minor features (directory authority):
9874 - Directory authorities now open their key-pinning files as O_SYNC,
9875 to limit their chances of accidentally writing partial lines.
9876 Closes ticket 23909.
9878 o Minor features (directory authority, forward compatibility):
9879 - Make the lines of the measured bandwidth file able to contain
9880 their entries in any order. Previously, the node_id entry needed
9881 to come first. Closes ticket 26004.
9883 o Minor features (entry guards):
9884 - Introduce a new torrc option NumPrimaryGuards for controlling the
9885 number of primary guards. Closes ticket 25843.
9887 o Minor features (geoip):
9888 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
9889 Country database. Closes ticket 27089.
9891 o Minor features (performance):
9892 - Avoid a needless call to malloc() when processing an incoming
9893 relay cell. Closes ticket 24914.
9894 - Make our timing-wheel code run a tiny bit faster on 32-bit
9895 platforms, by preferring 32-bit math to 64-bit. Closes
9897 - Avoid a needless malloc()/free() pair every time we handle an ntor
9898 handshake. Closes ticket 25150.
9900 o Minor features (Rust, portability):
9901 - Rust cross-compilation is now supported. Closes ticket 25895.
9903 o Minor features (testing):
9904 - Add a unit test for voting_schedule_get_start_of_next_interval().
9905 Closes ticket 26014, and helps make unit test coverage
9907 - A new unittests module specifically for testing the functions in
9908 the (new-ish) bridges.c module has been created with new
9909 unittests, raising the code coverage percentages. Closes 25425.
9910 - We now have improved testing for addressmap_get_virtual_address()
9911 function. This should improve our test coverage, and make our test
9912 coverage more deterministic. Closes ticket 25993.
9914 o Minor features (timekeeping, circuit scheduling):
9915 - When keeping track of how busy each circuit have been recently on
9916 a given connection, use coarse-grained monotonic timers rather
9917 than gettimeofday(). This change should marginally increase
9918 accuracy and performance. Implements part of ticket 25927.
9920 o Minor features (unit tests):
9921 - Test complete bandwidth measurements files, and test that
9922 incomplete bandwidth lines only give warnings when the end of the
9923 header has not been detected. Fixes bug 25947; bugfix
9926 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth management):
9927 - Consider ourselves "low on write bandwidth" if we have exhausted
9928 our write bandwidth some time in the last second. This was the
9929 documented behavior before, but the actual behavior was to change
9930 this value every TokenBucketRefillInterval. Fixes bug 25828;
9931 bugfix on 0.2.3.5-alpha.
9933 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
9934 - Add a missing lock acquisition in the shutdown code of the control
9935 subsystem. Fixes bug 25675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Found by
9936 Coverity; this is CID 1433643.
9938 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
9939 - Fixed multiple includes of transports.h in src/or/connection.c
9940 Fixes bug 25261; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9941 - Remove the unused variable n_possible from the function
9942 channel_get_for_extend(). Fixes bug 25645; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha
9944 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
9945 - Silence a spurious compiler warning on the GetAdaptersAddresses
9946 function pointer cast. This issue is already fixed by 26481 in
9947 0.3.5 and later, by removing the lookup and cast. Fixes bug 27465;
9948 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
9949 - Stop calling SetProcessDEPPolicy() on 64-bit Windows. It is not
9950 supported, and always fails. Some compilers warn about the
9951 function pointer cast on 64-bit Windows. Fixes bug 27461; bugfix
9953 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
9954 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
9955 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
9956 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
9957 - Refrain from compiling unit testing related object files when
9958 --disable-unittests is set to configure script. Fixes bug 24891;
9959 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
9960 - The --enable-fatal-warnings flag now affects Rust code as well.
9961 Closes ticket 26245.
9962 - Avoid a compiler warning when casting the return value of
9963 smartlist_len() to double with DEBUG_SMARTLIST enabled. Fixes bug
9964 26283; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
9966 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, windows):
9967 - Don't link or search for pthreads when building for Windows, even
9968 if we are using build environment (like mingw) that provides a
9969 pthreads library. Fixes bug 27081; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
9971 o Minor bugfixes (continuous integration):
9972 - Build with zstd on macOS. Fixes bug 27090; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
9973 - Skip a pair of unreliable key generation tests on Windows, until
9974 the underlying issue in bug 26076 is resolved. Fixes bug 26830 and
9975 bug 26853; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc and 0.3.2.1-alpha respectively.
9977 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
9978 - Respond with more human-readable error messages to GETINFO exit-
9979 policy/* requests. Also, let controller know if an error is
9980 transient (response code 551) or not (response code 552). Fixes
9981 bug 25852; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
9982 - Parse the "HSADDRESS=" parameter in HSPOST commands properly.
9983 Previously, it was misparsed and ignored. Fixes bug 26523; bugfix
9984 on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
9985 - Make CIRC_BW event reflect the total of all data sent on a
9986 circuit, including padding and dropped cells. Also fix a mis-
9987 counting bug when STREAM_BW events were enabled. Fixes bug 25400;
9988 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
9990 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, flow control):
9991 - Upon receiving a stream-level SENDME cell, verify that our window
9992 has not grown too large. Fixes bug 26214; bugfix on svn
9995 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
9996 - When voting for recommended versions, make sure that all of the
9997 versions are well-formed and parsable. Fixes bug 26485; bugfix
10000 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
10001 - When unverified-consensus is verified, rename it to cached-
10002 consenus. Fixes bug 4187; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10003 - Fixed launching a certificate fetch always during the scheduled
10004 periodic consensus fetch by fetching only in those cases when
10005 consensus are waiting for certs. Fixes bug 24740; bugfix
10008 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting):
10009 - Improve tolerance for directory authorities with skewed clocks.
10010 Previously, an authority with a clock more than 60 seconds ahead
10011 could cause a client with a correct clock to warn that the
10012 client's clock was behind. Now the clocks of a majority of
10013 directory authorities have to be ahead of the client before this
10014 warning will occur. Fixes bug 25756; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
10016 o Minor bugfixes (in-process restart):
10017 - Always call tor_free_all() when leaving tor_run_main(). When we
10018 did not, restarting tor in-process would cause an assertion
10019 failure. Fixes bug 26948; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10021 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
10022 - Fix a bug in our sandboxing rules for the openat() syscall.
10023 Previously, no openat() call would be permitted, which would break
10024 filesystem operations on recent glibc versions. Fixes bug 25440;
10025 bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Diagnosis and patch from Daniel Pinto.
10027 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
10028 - Improve the log message when connection initiators fail to
10029 authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes bug 26927; bugfix
10032 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
10033 - Silence a spurious compiler warning in
10034 rend_client_send_introduction(). Fixes bug 27463; bugfix
10036 - Fix bug that causes services to not ever rotate their descriptors
10037 if they were getting SIGHUPed often. Fixes bug 26932; bugfix
10039 - Recompute some consensus information after detecting a clock jump,
10040 or after transitioning from a non-live consensus to a live
10041 consensus. We do this to avoid having an outdated state, and
10042 miscalculating the index for next-generation onion services. Fixes
10043 bug 24977; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10045 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
10046 - Fix compilation of the unit tests on GNU/Hurd, which does not
10047 define PATH_MAX. Fixes bug 26873; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch
10049 - Work around two different bugs in the OS X 10.10 and later SDKs
10050 that would prevent us from successfully targeting earlier versions
10051 of OS X. Fixes bug 26876; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10052 - Do not align mmap length, as it is not required by POSIX, and the
10053 getpagesize function is deprecated. Fixes bug 25399; bugfix
10056 o Minor bugfixes (portability, FreeBSD):
10057 - In have_enough_mem_for_dircache(), the variable DIRCACHE_MIN_MEM_MB
10058 does not stringify on FreeBSD, so we switch to tor_asprintf().
10059 Fixes bug 20887; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10061 o Minor bugfixes (relay statistics):
10062 - When a relay is collecting internal statistics about how many
10063 create cell requests it has seen of each type, accurately count
10064 the requests from relays that temporarily fall out of the
10065 consensus. (To be extra conservative, we were already ignoring
10066 requests from clients in our counts, and we continue ignoring them
10067 here.) Fixes bug 24910; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
10069 o Minor bugfixes (rust):
10070 - Backport test_rust.sh from master. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix
10072 - Protover parsing was accepting the presence of whitespace in
10073 version strings, which the C implementation would choke on, e.g.
10074 "Desc=1\t,2". Fixes bug 27177; bugfix on 0.3.3.5-rc.
10075 - Protover parsing was ignoring a 2nd hyphen and everything after
10076 it, accepting entries like "Link=1-5-foo". Fixes bug 27164; bugfix
10078 - Stop setting $CARGO_HOME. cargo will use the user's $CARGO_HOME, or
10079 $HOME/.cargo by default. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.1.5-alpha.
10080 - cd to ${abs_top_builddir}/src/rust before running cargo in
10081 src/test/test_rust.sh. This makes the working directory consistent
10082 between builds and tests. Fixes bug 26497; bugfix on 0.3.3.2-alpha.
10084 o Minor bugfixes (single onion services, Tor2web):
10085 - Log a protocol warning when single onion services or Tor2web
10086 clients fail to authenticate direct connections to relays. Fixes
10087 bug 26924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
10089 o Minor bugfixes (test coverage tools):
10090 - Update our "cov-diff" script to handle output from the latest
10091 version of gcov, and to remove extraneous timestamp information
10092 from its output. Fixes bugs 26101 and 26102; bugfix
10095 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
10096 - Disable core dumps in test_bt.sh, to avoid failures in "make
10097 distcheck". Fixes bug 26787; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
10098 - When testing workqueue event-cancellation, make sure that we
10099 actually cancel an event, and that cancel each event with equal
10100 probability. (It was previously possible, though extremely
10101 unlikely, for our event-canceling test not to cancel any events.)
10102 Fixes bug 26008; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10103 - Repeat part of the test in test_client_pick_intro() a number of
10104 times, to give it consistent coverage. Fixes bug 25996; bugfix
10106 - Remove randomness from the hs_common/responsible_hsdirs test, so
10107 that it always takes the same path through the function it tests.
10108 Fixes bug 25997; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10109 - Change the behavior of the "channel/outbound" test so that it
10110 never causes a 10-second rollover for the EWMA circuitmux code.
10111 Previously, this behavior would happen randomly, and result in
10112 fluctuating test coverage. Fixes bug 25994; bugfix
10114 - Use X509_new() to allocate certificates that will be freed later
10115 with X509_free(). Previously, some parts of the unit tests had
10116 used tor_malloc_zero(), which is incorrect, and which caused test
10117 failures on Windows when they were built with extra hardening.
10118 Fixes bugs 25943 and 25944; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by
10120 - While running the circuit_timeout test, fix the PRNG to a
10121 deterministic AES stream, so that the test coverage from this test
10122 will itself be deterministic. Fixes bug 25995; bugfix
10125 o Minor bugfixes (testing, bootstrap):
10126 - When calculating bootstrap progress, check exit policies and the
10127 exit flag. Previously, Tor would only check the exit flag, which
10128 caused race conditions in small and fast networks like chutney.
10129 Fixes bug 27236; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
10131 o Minor bugfixes (testing, chutney):
10132 - When running make test-network-all, use the mixed+hs-v2 network.
10133 (A previous fix to chutney removed v3 onion services from the
10134 mixed+hs-v23 network, so seeing "mixed+hs-v23" in tests is
10135 confusing.) Fixes bug 27345; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10136 - Before running make test-network-all, delete old logs and test
10137 result files, to avoid spurious failures. Fixes bug 27295; bugfix
10140 o Minor bugfixes (testing, openssl compatibility):
10141 - Our "tortls/cert_matches_key" unit test no longer relies on
10142 OpenSSL internals. Previously, it relied on unsupported OpenSSL
10143 behavior in a way that caused it to crash with OpenSSL 1.0.2p.
10144 Fixes bug 27226; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10146 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services):
10147 - Stop sending ed25519 link specifiers in v3 onion service introduce
10148 cells and descriptors, when the rendezvous or introduction point
10149 doesn't support ed25519 link authentication. Fixes bug 26627;
10150 bugfix on 0.3.2.4-alpha.
10152 o Minor bugfixes (vanguards):
10153 - Allow the last hop in a vanguard circuit to be the same as our
10154 first, to prevent the adversary from influencing guard node choice
10155 by choice of last hop. Also prevent the creation of A - B - A
10156 paths, or A - A paths, which are forbidden by relays. Fixes bug
10157 25870; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10159 o Minor bugfixes (Windows, compilation):
10160 - Silence a compilation warning on MSVC 2017 and clang-cl. Fixes bug
10161 27185; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10163 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10164 - Remove duplicate code in parse_{c,s}method_line and bootstrap
10165 their functionalities into a single function. Fixes bug 6236;
10166 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
10167 - We remove the PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper options,
10168 related functions, and the port_forwarding tests. These options
10169 were used by the now-deprecated Vidalia to help ordinary users
10170 become Tor relays or bridges. Closes ticket 25409. Patch by
10172 - In order to make the OR and dir checking function in router.c less
10173 confusing we renamed some functions and
10174 consider_testing_reachability() has been split into
10175 router_should_check_reachability() and
10176 router_do_reachability_checks(). Also we improved the documentation
10177 in some functions. Closes ticket 18918.
10178 - Initial work to isolate Libevent usage to a handful of modules in
10179 our codebase, to simplify our call structure, and so that we can
10180 more easily change event loops in the future if needed. Closes
10182 - Introduce a function to call getsockname() and return tor_addr_t,
10183 to save a little complexity throughout the codebase. Closes
10185 - Make hsdir_index in node_t a hsdir_index_t rather than a pointer
10186 as hsdir_index is always present. Also, we move hsdir_index_t into
10187 or.h. Closes ticket 23094. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10188 - Merge functions used for describing nodes and suppress the
10189 functions that do not allocate memory for the output buffer
10190 string. NODE_DESC_BUF_LEN constant and format_node_description()
10191 function cannot be used externally from router.c module anymore.
10192 Closes ticket 25432. Patch by valentecaio.
10193 - Our main loop has been simplified so that all important operations
10194 happen inside events. Previously, some operations had to happen
10195 outside the event loop, to prevent infinite sequences of event
10196 activations. Closes ticket 25374.
10197 - Put a SHA1 public key digest in hs_service_intro_point_t, and use
10198 it in register_intro_circ() and service_intro_point_new(). This
10199 prevents the digest from being re-calculated each time. Closes
10200 ticket 23107. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10201 - Refactor token-bucket implementations to use a common backend.
10202 Closes ticket 25766.
10203 - Remove extern declaration of stats_n_seconds_working variable from
10204 main, protecting its accesses with get_uptime() and reset_uptime()
10205 functions. Closes ticket 25081, patch by “valentecaio”.
10206 - Remove our previous logic for "cached gettimeofday()" -- our
10207 coarse monotonic timers are fast enough for this purpose, and far
10208 less error-prone. Implements part of ticket 25927.
10209 - Remove the return value for fascist_firewall_choose_address_base(),
10210 and sister functions such as fascist_firewall_choose_address_node()
10211 and fascist_firewall_choose_address_rs(). Also, while we're here,
10212 initialize the ap argument as leaving it uninitialized can pose a
10213 security hazard. Closes ticket 24734. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10214 - Rename two fields of connection_t struct. timestamp_lastwritten is
10215 renamed to timestamp_last_write_allowed and timestamp_lastread is
10216 renamed to timestamp_last_read_allowed. Closes ticket 24714, patch
10218 - Since Tor requires C99, remove our old workaround code for libc
10219 implementations where free(NULL) doesn't work. Closes ticket 24484.
10220 - Use our standard rate-limiting code to deal with excessive
10221 libevent failures, rather than the hand-rolled logic we had
10222 before. Closes ticket 26016.
10223 - We remove the return value of node_get_prim_orport() and
10224 node_get_prim_dirport(), and introduce node_get_prim_orport() in
10225 node_ipv6_or_preferred() and node_ipv6_dir_preferred() in order to
10226 check for a null address. Closes ticket 23873. Patch by
10228 - We switch to should_record_bridge_info() in
10229 geoip_note_client_seen() and options_need_geoip_info() instead of
10230 accessing the configuration values directly. Fixes bug 25290;
10231 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10233 o Deprecated features:
10234 - As we are not recommending 0.2.5 anymore, we require relays that
10235 once had an ed25519 key associated with their RSA key to always
10236 have that key, instead of allowing them to drop back to a version
10237 that didn't support ed25519. This means they need to use a new RSA
10238 key if they want to downgrade to an older version of tor without
10239 ed25519. Closes ticket 20522.
10241 o Removed features:
10242 - Directory authorities will no longer support voting according to
10243 any consensus method before consensus method 25. This keeps
10244 authorities compatible with all authorities running 0.2.9.8 and
10245 later, and does not break any clients or relays. Implements ticket
10246 24378 and proposal 290.
10247 - The PortForwarding and PortForwardingHelper features have been
10248 removed. The reasoning is, given that implementations of NAT
10249 traversal protocols within common consumer grade routers are
10250 frequently buggy, and that the target audience for a NAT punching
10251 feature is a perhaps less-technically-inclined relay operator,
10252 when the helper fails to setup traversal the problems are usually
10253 deep, ugly, and very router specific, making them horrendously
10254 impossible for technical support to reliable assist with, and thus
10255 resulting in frustration all around. Unfortunately, relay
10256 operators who would like to run relays behind NATs will need to
10257 become more familiar with the port forwarding configurations on
10258 their local router. Closes 25409.
10259 - The TestingEnableTbEmptyEvent option has been removed. It was used
10260 in testing simulations to measure how often connection buckets
10261 were emptied, in order to improve our scheduling, but it has not
10262 been actively used in years. Closes ticket 25760.
10263 - The old "round-robin" circuit multiplexer (circuitmux)
10264 implementation has been removed, along with a fairly large set of
10265 code that existed to support it. It has not been the default
10266 circuitmux since we introduced the "EWMA" circuitmux in 0.2.4.x,
10267 but it still required an unreasonable amount of memory and CPU.
10268 Closes ticket 25268.
10271 Changes in version 0.3.3.9 - 2018-07-13
10272 Tor 0.3.3.9 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10273 bridge relays should upgrade.
10275 o Directory authority changes:
10276 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10277 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10278 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10281 Changes in version 0.3.2.11 - 2018-07-13
10282 Tor 0.3.2.11 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10283 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10286 o Directory authority changes:
10287 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10288 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10289 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10291 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10292 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10293 Closes ticket 26343.
10295 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10296 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10297 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10298 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10299 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10301 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10302 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10303 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10305 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10306 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10307 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10308 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10310 o Minor feature (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10311 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10312 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10314 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10315 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10316 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10317 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10318 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10319 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10321 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10322 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10323 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10324 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10326 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10327 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10328 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10331 o Minor features (geoip):
10332 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10333 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10335 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10336 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10337 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10338 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10339 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10341 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10342 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10343 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10345 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10346 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10347 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10348 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10349 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10350 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10351 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10352 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10355 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10356 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10357 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10358 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10359 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10360 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10362 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10363 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
10364 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
10365 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
10366 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10368 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10369 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10370 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10371 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10372 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10374 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10375 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10376 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10379 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10380 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10381 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10383 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10384 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10385 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10386 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10388 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10389 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
10390 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
10391 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
10392 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
10393 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
10394 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
10396 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10397 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10398 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10399 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10402 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10403 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
10404 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10406 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10407 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10408 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10410 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10411 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
10412 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
10413 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
10416 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10417 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10418 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10419 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
10421 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10422 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10423 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10425 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10426 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10427 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10430 Changes in version 0.2.9.16 - 2018-07-13
10431 Tor 0.2.9.16 moves to a new bridge authority, meaning people running
10432 bridge relays should upgrade. We also take this opportunity to backport
10435 o Directory authority changes:
10436 - The "Bifroest" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
10437 authority is "Serge", and it is operated by George from the
10438 TorBSD project. Closes ticket 26771.
10440 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.3.3.7):
10441 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10442 Closes ticket 26343.
10444 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10445 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10446 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10447 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10448 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10450 o Minor features (sandbox, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10451 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10452 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10453 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10455 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10456 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10457 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10458 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10459 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10460 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10462 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10463 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10464 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10467 o Minor features (geoip):
10468 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10469 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10471 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10472 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
10473 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
10474 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
10475 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
10477 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10478 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
10479 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
10481 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10482 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10483 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10484 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10487 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10488 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10489 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10490 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10491 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10492 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10494 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10495 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10496 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10497 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10498 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10500 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10501 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10502 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10505 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10506 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10507 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10509 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness, backport from 0.3.3.4-alpha):
10510 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10511 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10512 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10514 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10515 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10516 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10518 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.5-rc):
10519 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
10520 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
10523 Changes in version 0.3.3.8 - 2018-07-09
10524 Tor 0.3.3.8 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10525 fixes for a memory leak affecting directory authorities.
10527 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10528 - Stop leaking memory on directory authorities when planning to
10529 vote. This bug was crashing authorities by exhausting their
10530 memory. Fixes bug 26435; bugfix on 0.3.3.6.
10532 o Major bugfixes (rust, testing, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10533 - Make sure that failing tests in Rust will actually cause the build
10534 to fail: previously, they were ignored. Fixes bug 26258; bugfix
10537 o Minor features (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10538 - When building Tor, prefer to use Python 3 over Python 2, and more
10539 recent (contemplated) versions over older ones. Closes
10542 o Minor features (geoip):
10543 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 3 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10544 Country database. Closes ticket 26674.
10546 o Minor features (relay, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10547 - Add several checks to detect whether Tor relays are uploading
10548 their descriptors without specifying why they regenerated them.
10549 Diagnostic for ticket 25686.
10551 o Minor bugfixes (circuit path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10552 - Don't count path selection failures as circuit build failures.
10553 This change should eliminate cases where Tor blames its guard or
10554 the network for situations like insufficient microdescriptors
10555 and/or overly restrictive torrc settings. Fixes bug 25705; bugfix
10558 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10559 - Fix a compilation warning on some versions of GCC when building
10560 code that calls routerinfo_get_my_routerinfo() twice, assuming
10561 that the second call will succeed if the first one did. Fixes bug
10562 26269; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
10564 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10565 - Handle the HSADDRESS= argument to the HSPOST command properly.
10566 (Previously, this argument was misparsed and thus ignored.) Fixes
10567 bug 26523; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha. Patch by "akwizgran".
10569 o Minor bugfixes (memory, correctness, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10570 - Fix a number of small memory leaks identified by coverity. Fixes
10571 bug 26467; bugfix on numerous Tor versions.
10573 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.4.3-alpha):
10574 - Relays now correctly block attempts to re-extend to the previous
10575 relay by Ed25519 identity. Previously they would warn in this
10576 case, but not actually reject the attempt. Fixes bug 26158; bugfix
10579 o Minor bugfixes (restart-in-process, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10580 - When shutting down, Tor now clears all the flags in the control.c
10581 module. This should prevent a bug where authentication cookies are
10582 not generated on restart. Fixes bug 25512; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10584 o Minor bugfixes (testing, compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.4-rc):
10585 - When running the hs_ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass
10586 strings (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess
10587 module. Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug
10588 26535; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10589 - When running the ntor_ref.py test, make sure only to pass strings
10590 (rather than "bytes" objects) to the Python subprocess module.
10591 Python 3 on Windows seems to require this. Fixes bug 26535; bugfix
10595 Changes in version 0.3.3.7 - 2018-06-12
10596 Tor 0.3.3.7 backports several changes from the 0.3.4.x series, including
10597 fixes for bugs affecting compatibility and stability.
10599 o Directory authority changes:
10600 - Add an IPv6 address for the "dannenberg" directory authority.
10601 Closes ticket 26343.
10603 o Minor features (geoip):
10604 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
10605 Country database. Closes ticket 26351.
10607 o Minor bugfixes (compatibility, openssl, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10608 - Work around a change in OpenSSL 1.1.1 where return values that
10609 would previously indicate "no password" now indicate an empty
10610 password. Without this workaround, Tor instances running with
10611 OpenSSL 1.1.1 would accept descriptors that other Tor instances
10612 would reject. Fixes bug 26116; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
10614 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10615 - Silence unused-const-variable warnings in zstd.h with some GCC
10616 versions. Fixes bug 26272; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10618 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10619 - Improve accuracy of the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port event's
10620 TIMEOUT_RATE and CLOSE_RATE fields. (We were previously
10621 miscounting the total number of circuits for these field values.)
10622 Fixes bug 26121; bugfix on 0.3.3.1-alpha.
10624 o Minor bugfixes (hardening, backport from 0.3.4.2-alpha):
10625 - Prevent a possible out-of-bounds smartlist read in
10626 protover_compute_vote(). Fixes bug 26196; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
10628 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10629 - Only select relays when they have the descriptors we prefer to use
10630 for them. This change fixes a bug where we could select a relay
10631 because it had _some_ descriptor, but reject it later with a
10632 nonfatal assertion error because it didn't have the exact one we
10633 wanted. Fixes bugs 25691 and 25692; bugfix on 0.3.3.4-alpha.
10636 Changes in version 0.3.3.6 - 2018-05-22
10637 Tor 0.3.3.6 is the first stable release in the 0.3.3 series. It
10638 backports several important fixes from the 0.3.4.1-alpha.
10640 The Tor 0.3.3 series includes controller support and other
10641 improvements for v3 onion services, official support for embedding Tor
10642 within other applications, and our first non-trivial module written in
10643 the Rust programming language. (Rust is still not enabled by default
10644 when building Tor.) And as usual, there are numerous other smaller
10645 bugfixes, features, and improvements.
10647 Below are the changes since 0.3.2.10. For a list of only the changes
10648 since 0.3.3.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
10650 o New system requirements:
10651 - When built with Rust, Tor now depends on version 0.2.39 of the
10652 libc crate. Closes tickets 25310 and 25664.
10654 o Major features (embedding):
10655 - There is now a documented stable API for programs that need to
10656 embed Tor. See tor_api.h for full documentation and known bugs.
10657 Closes ticket 23684.
10658 - Tor now has support for restarting in the same process.
10659 Controllers that run Tor using the "tor_api.h" interface can now
10660 restart Tor after Tor has exited. This support is incomplete,
10661 however: we fixed crash bugs that prevented it from working at
10662 all, but many bugs probably remain, including a possibility of
10663 security issues. Implements ticket 24581.
10665 o Major features (IPv6, directory documents):
10666 - Add consensus method 27, which adds IPv6 ORPorts to the microdesc
10667 consensus. This information makes it easier for IPv6 clients to
10668 bootstrap and choose reachable entry guards. Implements
10670 - Add consensus method 28, which removes IPv6 ORPorts from
10671 microdescriptors. Now that the consensus contains IPv6 ORPorts,
10672 they are redundant in microdescs. This change will be used by Tor
10673 clients on 0.2.8.x and later. (That is to say, with all Tor
10674 clients that have IPv6 bootstrap and guard support.) Implements
10676 - Expand the documentation for AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity when it is
10677 set by different numbers of authorities. Fixes 23870
10680 o Major features (onion service v3, control port):
10681 - The control port now supports commands and events for v3 onion
10682 services. It is now possible to create ephemeral v3 services using
10683 ADD_ONION. Additionally, several events (HS_DESC, HS_DESC_CONTENT,
10684 CIRC and CIRC_MINOR) and commands (GETINFO, HSPOST, ADD_ONION and
10685 DEL_ONION) have been extended to support v3 onion services. Closes
10686 ticket 20699; implements proposal 284.
10688 o Major features (onion services):
10689 - Provide torrc options to pin the second and third hops of onion
10690 service circuits to a list of nodes. The option HSLayer2Guards
10691 pins the second hop, and the option HSLayer3Guards pins the third
10692 hop. These options are for use in conjunction with experiments
10693 with "vanguards" for preventing guard enumeration attacks. Closes
10695 - When v3 onion service clients send introduce cells, they now
10696 include the IPv6 address of the rendezvous point, if it has one.
10697 Current v3 onion services running 0.3.2 ignore IPv6 addresses, but
10698 in future Tor versions, IPv6-only v3 single onion services will be
10699 able to use IPv6 addresses to connect directly to the rendezvous
10700 point. Closes ticket 23577. Patch by Neel Chauhan.
10702 o Major features (relay):
10703 - Implement an option, ReducedExitPolicy, to allow an Tor exit relay
10704 operator to use a more reasonable ("reduced") exit policy, rather
10705 than the default one. If you want to run an exit node without
10706 thinking too hard about which ports to allow, this one is for you.
10707 Closes ticket 13605. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
10709 o Major features (rust, portability, experimental):
10710 - Tor now ships with an optional implementation of one of its
10711 smaller modules (protover.c) in the Rust programming language. To
10712 try it out, install a Rust build environment, and configure Tor
10713 with "--enable-rust --enable-cargo-online-mode". This should not
10714 cause any user-visible changes, but should help us gain more
10715 experience with Rust, and plan future Rust integration work.
10716 Implementation by Chelsea Komlo. Closes ticket 22840.
10718 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities, security, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10719 - When directory authorities read a zero-byte bandwidth file, they
10720 would previously log a warning with the contents of an
10721 uninitialised buffer. They now log a warning about the empty file
10722 instead. Fixes bug 26007; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
10724 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority, denial-of-service):
10725 - Fix a bug that could have allowed an attacker to force a directory
10726 authority to use up all its RAM by passing it a maliciously
10727 crafted protocol versions string. Fixes bug 25517; bugfix on
10728 0.2.9.4-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2018-005.
10730 o Major bugfixes (crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10731 - Avoid a rare assertion failure in the circuit build timeout code
10732 if we fail to allow any circuits to actually complete. Fixes bug
10733 25733; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
10735 o Major bugfixes (netflow padding):
10736 - Stop adding unneeded channel padding right after we finish
10737 flushing to a connection that has been trying to flush for many
10738 seconds. Instead, treat all partial or complete flushes as
10739 activity on the channel, which will defer the time until we need
10740 to add padding. This fix should resolve confusing and scary log
10741 messages like "Channel padding timeout scheduled 221453ms in the
10742 past." Fixes bug 22212; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
10744 o Major bugfixes (networking):
10745 - Tor will no longer reject IPv6 address strings from Tor Browser
10746 when they are passed as hostnames in SOCKS5 requests. Fixes bug
10747 25036, bugfix on Tor 0.3.1.2.
10749 o Major bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10750 - Correctly detect when onion services get disabled after HUP. Fixes
10751 bug 25761; bugfix on 0.3.2.1.
10753 o Major bugfixes (performance, load balancing):
10754 - Directory authorities no longer vote in favor of the Guard flag
10755 for relays without directory support. Starting in Tor
10756 0.3.0.1-alpha, clients have been avoiding using such relays in the
10757 Guard position, leading to increasingly broken load balancing for
10758 the 5%-or-so of Guards that don't advertise directory support.
10759 Fixes bug 22310; bugfix on 0.3.0.6.
10761 o Major bugfixes (relay):
10762 - If we have failed to connect to a relay and received a connection
10763 refused, timeout, or similar error (at the TCP level), do not try
10764 that same address/port again for 60 seconds after the failure has
10765 occurred. Fixes bug 24767; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10767 o Major bugfixes (relay, denial of service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10768 - Impose a limit on circuit cell queue size. The limit can be
10769 controlled by a consensus parameter. Fixes bug 25226; bugfix
10772 o Minor features (cleanup):
10773 - Tor now deletes the CookieAuthFile and ExtORPortCookieAuthFile
10774 when it stops. Closes ticket 23271.
10776 o Minor features (compatibility, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10777 - Avoid some compilation warnings with recent versions of LibreSSL.
10778 Closes ticket 26006.
10780 o Minor features (config options):
10781 - Change the way the default value for MaxMemInQueues is calculated.
10782 We now use 40% of the hardware RAM if the system has 8 GB RAM or
10783 more. Otherwise we use the former value of 75%. Closes
10786 o Minor features (continuous integration):
10787 - Update the Travis CI configuration to use the stable Rust channel,
10788 now that we have decided to require that. Closes ticket 25714.
10790 o Minor features (continuous integration, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10791 - Our .travis.yml configuration now includes support for testing the
10792 results of "make distcheck". (It's not uncommon for "make check"
10793 to pass but "make distcheck" to fail.) Closes ticket 25814.
10794 - Our Travis CI configuration now integrates with the Coveralls
10795 coverage analysis tool. Closes ticket 25818.
10797 o Minor features (defensive programming):
10798 - Most of the functions in Tor that free objects have been replaced
10799 with macros that free the objects and set the corresponding
10800 pointers to NULL. This change should help prevent a large class of
10801 dangling pointer bugs. Closes ticket 24337.
10802 - Where possible, the tor_free() macro now only evaluates its input
10803 once. Part of ticket 24337.
10804 - Check that microdesc ed25519 ids are non-zero in
10805 node_get_ed25519_id() before returning them. Implements ticket
10806 24001, patch by "aruna1234".
10808 o Minor features (directory authority):
10809 - When directory authorities are unable to add signatures to a
10810 pending consensus, log the reason why. Closes ticket 24849.
10812 o Minor features (embedding):
10813 - Tor can now start with a preauthenticated control connection
10814 created by the process that launched it. This feature is meant for
10815 use by programs that want to launch and manage a Tor process
10816 without allowing other programs to manage it as well. For more
10817 information, see the __OwningControllerFD option documented in
10818 control-spec.txt. Closes ticket 23900.
10819 - On most errors that would cause Tor to exit, it now tries to
10820 return from the tor_main() function, rather than calling the
10821 system exit() function. Most users won't notice a difference here,
10822 but it should be significant for programs that run Tor inside a
10823 separate thread: they should now be able to survive Tor's exit
10824 conditions rather than having Tor shut down the entire process.
10825 Closes ticket 23848.
10826 - Applications that want to embed Tor can now tell Tor not to
10827 register any of its own POSIX signal handlers, using the
10828 __DisableSignalHandlers option. Closes ticket 24588.
10830 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
10831 - Avoid selecting fallbacks that change their IP addresses too
10832 often. Select more fallbacks by ignoring the Guard flag, and
10833 allowing lower cutoffs for the Running and V2Dir flags. Also allow
10834 a lower bandwidth, and a higher number of fallbacks per operator
10835 (5% of the list). Implements ticket 24785.
10836 - Update the fallback whitelist and blacklist based on opt-ins and
10837 relay changes. Closes tickets 22321, 24678, 22527, 24135,
10840 o Minor features (fallback directory mirror configuration):
10841 - Add a nickname to each fallback in a C comment. This makes it
10842 easier for operators to find their relays, and allows stem to use
10843 nicknames to identify fallbacks. Implements ticket 24600.
10844 - Add a type and version header to the fallback directory mirror
10845 file. Also add a delimiter to the end of each fallback entry. This
10846 helps external parsers like stem and Relay Search. Implements
10848 - Add an extrainfo cache flag for each fallback in a C comment. This
10849 allows stem to use fallbacks to fetch extra-info documents, rather
10850 than using authorities. Implements ticket 22759.
10851 - Add the generateFallbackDirLine.py script for automatically
10852 generating fallback directory mirror lines from relay fingerprints.
10853 No more typos! Add the lookupFallbackDirContact.py script for
10854 automatically looking up operator contact info from relay
10855 fingerprints. Implements ticket 24706, patch by teor and atagar.
10856 - Reject any fallback directory mirror that serves an expired
10857 consensus. Implements ticket 20942, patch by "minik".
10858 - Remove commas and equals signs from external string inputs to the
10859 fallback list. This avoids format confusion attacks. Implements
10861 - Remove the "weight=10" line from fallback directory mirror
10862 entries. Ticket 24681 will maintain the current fallback weights
10863 by changing Tor's default fallback weight to 10. Implements
10865 - Stop logging excessive information about fallback netblocks.
10866 Implements ticket 24791.
10868 o Minor features (forward-compatibility):
10869 - If a relay supports some link authentication protocol that we do
10870 not recognize, then include that relay's ed25519 key when telling
10871 other relays to extend to it. Previously, we treated future
10872 versions as if they were too old to support ed25519 link
10873 authentication. Closes ticket 20895.
10875 o Minor features (geoip):
10876 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 1 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country
10877 database. Closes ticket 26104.
10879 o Minor features (heartbeat):
10880 - Add onion service information to our heartbeat logs, displaying
10881 stats about the activity of configured onion services. Closes
10884 o Minor features (instrumentation, development):
10885 - Add the MainloopStats option to allow developers to get
10886 instrumentation information from the main event loop via the
10887 heartbeat messages. We hope to use this to improve Tor's behavior
10888 when it's trying to sleep. Closes ticket 24605.
10890 o Minor features (IPv6):
10891 - Make IPv6-only clients wait for microdescs for relays, even if we
10892 were previously using descriptors (or were using them as a bridge)
10893 and have a cached descriptor for them. Implements ticket 23827.
10894 - When a consensus has IPv6 ORPorts, make IPv6-only clients use
10895 them, rather than waiting to download microdescriptors. Implements
10898 o Minor features (log messages):
10899 - Improve log message in the out-of-memory handler to include
10900 information about memory usage from the different compression
10901 backends. Closes ticket 25372.
10902 - Improve a warning message that happens when we fail to re-parse an
10903 old router because of an expired certificate. Closes ticket 20020.
10904 - Make the log more quantitative when we hit MaxMemInQueues
10905 threshold exposing some values. Closes ticket 24501.
10907 o Minor features (logging):
10908 - Clarify the log messages produced when getrandom() or a related
10909 entropy-generation mechanism gives an error. Closes ticket 25120.
10910 - Added support for the Android logging subsystem. Closes
10913 o Minor features (performance):
10914 - Support predictive circuit building for onion service circuits
10915 with multiple layers of guards. Closes ticket 23101.
10916 - Use stdatomic.h where available, rather than mutexes, to implement
10917 atomic_counter_t. Closes ticket 23953.
10919 o Minor features (performance, 32-bit):
10920 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10921 when calculating the timestamp in milliseconds for channel padding
10922 computations. Implements ticket 24613.
10923 - Improve performance on 32-bit systems by avoiding 64-bit division
10924 when timestamping cells and buffer chunks for OOM calculations.
10925 Implements ticket 24374.
10927 o Minor features (performance, OSX, iOS):
10928 - Use the mach_approximate_time() function (when available) to
10929 implement coarse monotonic time. Having a coarse time function
10930 should avoid a large number of system calls, and improve
10931 performance slightly, especially under load. Closes ticket 24427.
10933 o Minor features (performance, windows):
10934 - Improve performance on Windows Vista and Windows 7 by adjusting
10935 TCP send window size according to the recommendation from
10936 SIO_IDEAL_SEND_BACKLOG_QUERY. Closes ticket 22798. Patch
10939 o Minor features (sandbox):
10940 - Explicitly permit the poll() system call when the Linux
10941 seccomp2-based sandbox is enabled: apparently, some versions of
10942 libc use poll() when calling getpwnam(). Closes ticket 25313.
10944 o Minor features (storage, configuration):
10945 - Users can store cached directory documents somewhere other than
10946 the DataDirectory by using the CacheDirectory option. Similarly,
10947 the storage location for relay's keys can be overridden with the
10948 KeyDirectory option. Closes ticket 22703.
10950 o Minor features (testing):
10951 - Add a "make test-rust" target to run the rust tests only. Closes
10954 o Minor features (testing, debugging, embedding):
10955 - For development purposes, Tor now has a mode in which it runs for
10956 a few seconds, then stops, and starts again without exiting the
10957 process. This mode is meant to help us debug various issues with
10958 ticket 23847. To use this feature, compile with
10959 --enable-restart-debugging, and set the TOR_DEBUG_RESTART
10960 environment variable. This is expected to crash a lot, and is
10961 really meant for developers only. It will likely be removed in a
10962 future release. Implements ticket 24583.
10964 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust):
10965 - Fix output of autoconf checks to display success messages for Rust
10966 dependencies and a suitable rustc compiler version. Fixes bug
10967 24612; bugfix on 0.3.1.3-alpha.
10968 - Don't pass the --quiet option to cargo: it seems to suppress some
10969 errors, which is not what we want to do when building. Fixes bug
10970 24518; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10971 - Build correctly when building from outside Tor's source tree with
10972 the TOR_RUST_DEPENDENCIES option set. Fixes bug 22768; bugfix
10975 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
10976 - Fix a very unlikely (impossible, we believe) null pointer
10977 dereference. Fixes bug 25629; bugfix on 0.2.9.15. Found by
10978 Coverity; this is CID 1430932.
10980 o Minor bugfixes (channel, client):
10981 - Better identify client connection when reporting to the geoip
10982 client cache. Fixes bug 24904; bugfix on 0.3.1.7.
10984 o Minor bugfixes (circuit, cannibalization):
10985 - Don't cannibalize preemptively-built circuits if we no longer
10986 recognize their first hop. This situation can happen if our Guard
10987 relay went off the consensus after the circuit was created. Fixes
10988 bug 24469; bugfix on 0.0.6.
10990 o Minor bugfixes (client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
10991 - Don't consider Tor running as a client if the ControlPort is open,
10992 but no actual client ports are open. Fixes bug 26062; bugfix
10995 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
10996 - Fix a C99 compliance issue in our configuration script that caused
10997 compilation issues when compiling Tor with certain versions of
10998 xtools. Fixes bug 25474; bugfix on 0.3.2.5-alpha.
11000 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
11001 - Restore the correct operation of the RESOLVE command, which had
11002 been broken since we added the ability to enable/disable DNS on
11003 specific listener ports. Fixes bug 25617; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
11004 - Avoid a (nonfatal) assertion failure when extending a one-hop
11005 circuit from the controller to become a multihop circuit. Fixes
11006 bug 24903; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
11008 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
11009 - Remove a nonworking, unnecessary check to see whether a circuit
11010 hop's identity digest was set when the circuit failed. Fixes bug
11011 24927; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
11013 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, client, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11014 - Upon receiving a malformed connected cell, stop processing the
11015 cell immediately. Previously we would mark the connection for
11016 close, but continue processing the cell as if the connection were
11017 open. Fixes bug 26072; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
11019 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities, IPv6):
11020 - When creating a routerstatus (vote) from a routerinfo (descriptor),
11021 set the IPv6 address to the unspecified IPv6 address, and
11022 explicitly initialize the port to zero. Fixes bug 24488; bugfix
11025 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
11026 - Document that the PerConnBW{Rate,Burst} options will fall back to
11027 their corresponding consensus parameters only if those parameters
11028 are set. Previously we had claimed that these values would always
11029 be set in the consensus. Fixes bug 25296; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11031 o Minor bugfixes (documentation, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11032 - Stop saying in the manual that clients cache ipv4 dns answers from
11033 exit relays. We haven't used them since 0.2.6.3-alpha, and in
11034 ticket 24050 we stopped even caching them as of 0.3.2.6-alpha, but
11035 we forgot to say so in the man page. Fixes bug 26052; bugfix
11038 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay DNS retries):
11039 - Re-attempt timed-out DNS queries 3 times before failure, since our
11040 timeout is 5 seconds for them, but clients wait 10-15. Also allow
11041 slightly more timeouts per resolver when an exit has multiple
11042 resolvers configured. Fixes bug 21394; bugfix on 0.3.1.9.
11044 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
11045 - Make updateFallbackDirs.py search harder for python. (Some OSs
11046 don't put it in /usr/bin.) Fixes bug 24708; bugfix
11049 o Minor bugfixes (hibernation, bandwidth accounting, shutdown):
11050 - When hibernating, close connections normally and allow them to
11051 flush. Fixes bug 23571; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Also fixes
11053 - Do not attempt to launch self-reachability tests when entering
11054 hibernation. Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11055 - Resolve several bugs related to descriptor fetching on bridge
11056 clients with bandwidth accounting enabled. (This combination is
11057 not recommended!) Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix
11059 - When hibernating, do not attempt to launch DNS checks. Fixes a
11060 case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
11061 - When hibernating, do not try to upload or download descriptors.
11062 Fixes a case of bug 12062; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11064 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, bridges):
11065 - Tor now always sets IPv6 preferences for bridges. Fixes bug 24573;
11066 bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
11067 - Tor now sets IPv6 address in the routerstatus as well as in the
11068 router descriptors when updating addresses for a bridge. Closes
11069 ticket 24572; bugfix on 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11071 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11072 - When running with the sandbox enabled, reload configuration files
11073 correctly even when %include was used. Previously we would crash.
11074 Fixes bug 22605; bugfix on 0.3.1. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
11076 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11077 - Allow the nanosleep() system call, which glibc uses to implement
11078 sleep() and usleep(). Fixes bug 24969; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
11080 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
11081 - Fix a (mostly harmless) race condition when invoking
11082 LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN message from a subthread while the torrc options
11083 are changing. Fixes bug 23954; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
11085 o Minor bugfixes (man page, SocksPort):
11086 - Remove dead code from the old "SocksSocket" option, and rename
11087 SocksSocketsGroupWritable to UnixSocksGroupWritable. The old
11088 option still works, but is deprecated. Fixes bug 24343; bugfix
11091 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
11092 - Avoid possible at-exit memory leaks related to use of Libevent's
11093 event_base_once() function. (This function tends to leak memory if
11094 the event_base is closed before the event fires.) Fixes bug 24584;
11095 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
11096 - Fix a harmless memory leak in tor-resolve. Fixes bug 24582; bugfix
11099 o Minor bugfixes (network IPv6 test):
11100 - Tor's test scripts now check if "ping -6 ::1" works when the user
11101 runs "make test-network-all". Fixes bug 24677; bugfix on
11102 0.2.9.3-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11104 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
11105 - string_is_valid_hostname() will not consider IP strings to be
11106 valid hostnames. Fixes bug 25055; bugfix on Tor 0.2.5.5.
11108 o Minor bugfixes (onion service v3):
11109 - Avoid an assertion failure when the next onion service descriptor
11110 rotation type is out of sync with the consensus's valid-after
11111 time. Instead, log a warning message with extra information, so we
11112 can better hunt down the cause of this assertion. Fixes bug 25306;
11113 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11115 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11116 - Fix a memory leak when a v3 onion service is configured and gets a
11117 SIGHUP signal. Fixes bug 25901; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11118 - When parsing the descriptor signature, look for the token plus an
11119 extra white-space at the end. This is more correct but also will
11120 allow us to support new fields that might start with "signature".
11121 Fixes bug 26069; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11123 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
11124 - If we are configured to offer a single onion service, don't log
11125 long-term established one hop rendezvous points in the heartbeat.
11126 Fixes bug 25116; bugfix on 0.2.9.6-rc.
11128 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
11129 - Reduce the number of circuits that will be opened at once during
11130 the circuit build timeout phase. This is done by increasing the
11131 idle timeout to 3 minutes, and lowering the maximum number of
11132 concurrent learning circuits to 10. Fixes bug 24769; bugfix
11134 - Avoid calling protocol_list_supports_protocol() from inside tight
11135 loops when running with cached routerinfo_t objects. Instead,
11136 summarize the relevant protocols as flags in the routerinfo_t, as
11137 we do for routerstatus_t objects. This change simplifies our code
11138 a little, and saves a large amount of short-term memory allocation
11139 operations. Fixes bug 25008; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11141 o Minor bugfixes (performance, timeouts):
11142 - Consider circuits for timeout as soon as they complete a hop. This
11143 is more accurate than applying the timeout in
11144 circuit_expire_building() because that function is only called
11145 once per second, which is now too slow for typical timeouts on the
11146 current network. Fixes bug 23114; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11147 - Use onion service circuits (and other circuits longer than 3 hops)
11148 to calculate a circuit build timeout. Previously, Tor only
11149 calculated its build timeout based on circuits that planned to be
11150 exactly 3 hops long. With this change, we include measurements
11151 from all circuits at the point where they complete their third
11152 hop. Fixes bug 23100; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
11154 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11155 - Avoid a crash when running with DirPort set but ORPort turned off.
11156 Fixes a case of bug 23693; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11158 o Minor bugfixes (Rust FFI):
11159 - Fix a minor memory leak which would happen whenever the C code
11160 would call the Rust implementation of
11161 protover_get_supported_protocols(). This was due to the C version
11162 returning a static string, whereas the Rust version newly allocated
11163 a CString to pass across the FFI boundary. Consequently, the C
11164 code was not expecting to need to free() what it was given. Fixes
11165 bug 25127; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11167 o Minor bugfixes (spelling):
11168 - Use the "misspell" tool to detect and fix typos throughout the
11169 source code. Fixes bug 23650; bugfix on various versions of Tor.
11170 Patch from Deepesh Pathak.
11172 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
11173 - Avoid intermittent test failures due to a test that had relied on
11174 onion service introduction point creation finishing within 5
11175 seconds of real clock time. Fixes bug 25450; bugfix
11177 - Give out Exit flags in bootstrapping networks. Fixes bug 24137;
11178 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
11180 o Minor bugfixes (unit test, monotonic time):
11181 - Increase a constant (1msec to 10msec) in the monotonic time test
11182 that makes sure the nsec/usec/msec times read are synchronized.
11183 This change was needed to accommodate slow systems like armel or
11184 when the clock_gettime() is not a VDSO on the running kernel.
11185 Fixes bug 25113; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11187 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11188 - Move the list of default directory authorities to its own file.
11189 Closes ticket 24854. Patch by "beastr0".
11190 - Remove the old (deterministic) directory retry logic entirely:
11191 We've used exponential backoff exclusively for some time. Closes
11193 - Remove the unused nodelist_recompute_all_hsdir_indices(). Closes
11195 - Remove a series of counters used to track circuit extend attempts
11196 and connection status but that in reality we aren't using for
11197 anything other than stats logged by a SIGUSR1 signal. Closes
11199 - Remove /usr/athena from search path in configure.ac. Closes
11201 - Remove duplicate code in node_has_curve25519_onion_key() and
11202 node_get_curve25519_onion_key(), and add a check for a zero
11203 microdesc curve25519 onion key. Closes ticket 23966, patch by
11204 "aruna1234" and teor.
11205 - Rewrite channel_rsa_id_group_set_badness to reduce temporary
11206 memory allocations with large numbers of OR connections (e.g.
11207 relays). Closes ticket 24119.
11208 - Separate the function that deletes ephemeral files when Tor
11210 - Small changes to Tor's buf_t API to make it suitable for use as a
11211 general-purpose safe string constructor. Closes ticket 22342.
11212 - Switch -Wnormalized=id to -Wnormalized=nfkc in configure.ac to
11213 avoid source code identifier confusion. Closes ticket 24467.
11214 - The tor_git_revision[] constant no longer needs to be redeclared
11215 by everything that links against the rest of Tor. Done as part of
11216 ticket 23845, to simplify our external API.
11217 - We make extend_info_from_node() use node_get_curve25519_onion_key()
11218 introduced in ticket 23577 to access the curve25519 public keys
11219 rather than accessing it directly. Closes ticket 23760. Patch by
11221 - Add a function to log channels' scheduler state changes to aid
11222 debugging efforts. Closes ticket 24531.
11225 - Improved the documentation of AccountingStart parameter. Closes
11227 - Update the documentation for "Log" to include the current list of
11228 logging domains. Closes ticket 25378.
11229 - Add documentation on how to build tor with Rust dependencies
11230 without having to be online. Closes ticket 22907; bugfix
11232 - Clarify the behavior of RelayBandwidth{Rate,Burst} with client
11233 traffic. Closes ticket 24318.
11234 - Document that OutboundBindAddress doesn't apply to DNS requests.
11235 Closes ticket 22145. Patch from Aruna Maurya.
11237 o Code simplification and refactoring (channels):
11238 - Remove the incoming and outgoing channel queues. These were never
11239 used, but still took up a step in our fast path.
11240 - The majority of the channel unit tests have been rewritten and the
11241 code coverage has now been raised to 83.6% for channel.c. Closes
11243 - Remove other dead code from the channel subsystem: All together,
11244 this cleanup has removed more than 1500 lines of code overall and
11245 adding very little except for unit test.
11247 o Code simplification and refactoring (circuit rendezvous):
11248 - Split the client-side rendezvous circuit lookup into two
11249 functions: one that returns only established circuits and another
11250 that returns all kinds of circuits. Closes ticket 23459.
11252 o Code simplification and refactoring (controller):
11253 - Make most of the variables in networkstatus_getinfo_by_purpose()
11254 const. Implements ticket 24489.
11256 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.4.1-alpha):
11257 - Correct an IPv6 error in the documentation for ExitPolicy. Closes
11258 ticket 25857. Patch from "CTassisF".
11260 o Documentation (man page):
11261 - The HiddenServiceVersion torrc option accepts only one number:
11262 either version 2 or 3. Closes ticket 25026; bugfix
11265 o Documentation (manpage, denial of service):
11266 - Provide more detail about the denial-of-service options, by
11267 listing each mitigation and explaining how they relate. Closes
11271 Changes in version 0.3.1.10 - 2018-03-03
11272 Tor 0.3.1.10 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for
11275 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11276 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11278 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11279 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11281 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11284 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11285 released today. Relays running 0.3.1.x may wish to update to one of
11286 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11288 Please note: according to our release calendar, Tor 0.3.1 will no
11289 longer be supported after 1 July 2018. If you will be running Tor
11290 after that date, you should make sure to plan to upgrade to the latest
11291 stable version, or downgrade to 0.2.9 (which will receive long-term
11294 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11295 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11296 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11297 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11300 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11301 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11302 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11303 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11304 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11305 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11306 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11307 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11308 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11309 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11310 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11311 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11312 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11314 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11315 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11316 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11318 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11319 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11320 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11321 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11322 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11323 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11324 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11326 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11327 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11328 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11330 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11331 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11332 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11333 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11334 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11335 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11336 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11338 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11339 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11340 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11341 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11343 o Minor feature (relay statistics, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
11344 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11345 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11346 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11348 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11349 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11350 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11351 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11352 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11353 Closes ticket 24978.
11355 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11356 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11357 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11358 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11359 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11360 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11361 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11362 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11363 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11365 o Minor features (geoip):
11366 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11369 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11370 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11371 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11372 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11373 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11375 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11376 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11377 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11378 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11379 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11381 o Minor bugfixes (address selection, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11382 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11383 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11384 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11385 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11388 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11389 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11390 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11391 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11392 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11393 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11394 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11395 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11396 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11397 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11398 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11401 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.7-rc):
11402 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11403 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11405 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11406 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11407 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11410 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11411 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11412 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11413 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11414 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11415 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11416 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11418 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11419 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
11420 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11421 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
11422 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
11423 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
11424 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
11425 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
11426 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
11429 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
11430 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
11431 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
11432 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
11433 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
11434 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
11436 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11437 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11438 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11439 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11441 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage, backport from 0.3.2.8-rc):
11442 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11443 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11444 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11445 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11448 o Minor bugfixes (network layer, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
11449 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11450 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11451 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11452 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11453 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11455 o Minor bugfixes (path selection, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
11456 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11457 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11458 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11459 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11460 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11461 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11462 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11463 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11464 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11465 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11466 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11468 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11469 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11470 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11471 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11473 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11474 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11475 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11476 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11478 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc, backport from 0.3.2.9):
11479 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11480 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11481 to cyptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11484 o Minor bugfixes (relay, partial backport):
11485 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11486 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11487 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11488 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11490 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11491 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11493 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11494 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11496 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11497 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11498 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11501 Changes in version 0.2.9.15 - 2018-03-03
11502 Tor 0.2.9.15 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
11503 later Tor releases.
11505 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11506 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11508 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11509 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11511 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11514 All directory authorities should upgrade to one of the versions
11515 released today. Relays running 0.2.9.x may wish to update to one of
11516 the versions released today, for the DoS mitigations.
11518 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11519 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11520 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11521 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11524 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation):
11525 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11526 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11527 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11528 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11529 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11530 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11531 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11532 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11533 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11534 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11535 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11536 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11538 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11539 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11540 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11541 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11542 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11543 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11544 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11545 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11546 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11548 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior):
11549 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11550 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11551 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11552 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11553 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11554 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11556 o Minor feature (relay statistics):
11557 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
11558 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
11559 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
11561 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL):
11562 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11563 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11564 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11565 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11566 Closes ticket 24978.
11568 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance):
11569 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11570 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11571 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11573 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
11574 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
11575 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
11576 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
11577 information. Closes ticket 24801.
11578 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
11579 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
11580 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
11581 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
11583 o Minor features (geoip):
11584 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11587 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11588 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
11589 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
11591 o Minor bugfix (channel connection):
11592 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11593 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11594 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11595 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11597 o Minor bugfix (directory authority):
11598 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11599 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11600 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11601 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11603 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
11604 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
11605 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
11606 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
11607 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
11610 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
11611 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
11612 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
11614 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
11615 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
11616 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
11619 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11620 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11621 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11622 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11623 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11624 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11625 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11627 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
11628 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
11629 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
11630 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
11631 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
11634 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
11635 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
11636 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
11637 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
11638 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
11639 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11641 o Minor bugfixes (OSX):
11642 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11643 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11644 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11646 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
11647 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
11648 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
11649 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
11650 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
11651 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
11652 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11653 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
11654 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
11655 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
11656 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
11657 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
11659 o Minor bugfixes (portability, msvc):
11660 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
11661 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
11662 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
11665 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
11666 - Make the internal channel_is_client() function look at what sort
11667 of connection handshake the other side used, rather than whether
11668 the other side ever sent a create_fast cell to us. Backports part
11669 of the fixes from bugs 22805 and 24898.
11671 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11672 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11674 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11675 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11678 Changes in version 0.3.2.10 - 2018-03-03
11679 Tor 0.3.2.10 is the second stable release in the 0.3.2 series. It
11680 backports a number of bugfixes, including important fixes for security
11683 It includes an important security fix for a remote crash attack
11684 against directory authorities, tracked as TROVE-2018-001.
11686 Additionally, it backports a fix for a bug whose severity we have
11687 upgraded: Bug 24700, which was fixed in 0.3.3.2-alpha, can be remotely
11688 triggered in order to crash relays with a use-after-free pattern. As
11689 such, we are now tracking that bug as TROVE-2018-002 and
11690 CVE-2018-0491, and backporting it to earlier releases. This bug
11691 affected versions 0.3.2.1-alpha through 0.3.2.9, as well as version
11694 This release also backports our new system for improved resistance to
11695 denial-of-service attacks against relays.
11697 This release also fixes several minor bugs and annoyances from
11700 Relays running 0.3.2.x SHOULD upgrade to one of the versions released
11701 today, for the fix to TROVE-2018-002. Directory authorities should
11702 also upgrade. (Relays on earlier versions might want to update too for
11703 the DoS mitigations.)
11705 o Major bugfixes (denial-of-service, directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11706 - Fix a protocol-list handling bug that could be used to remotely crash
11707 directory authorities with a null-pointer exception. Fixes bug 25074;
11708 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-001 and
11711 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, KIST, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11712 - Avoid adding the same channel twice in the KIST scheduler pending
11713 list, which could lead to remote denial-of-service use-after-free
11714 attacks against relays. Fixes bug 24700; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11716 o Major features (denial-of-service mitigation, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11717 - Give relays some defenses against the recent network overload. We
11718 start with three defenses (default parameters in parentheses).
11719 First: if a single client address makes too many concurrent
11720 connections (>100), hang up on further connections. Second: if a
11721 single client address makes circuits too quickly (more than 3 per
11722 second, with an allowed burst of 90) while also having too many
11723 connections open (3), refuse new create cells for the next while
11724 (1-2 hours). Third: if a client asks to establish a rendezvous
11725 point to you directly, ignore the request. These defenses can be
11726 manually controlled by new torrc options, but relays will also
11727 take guidance from consensus parameters, so there's no need to
11728 configure anything manually. Implements ticket 24902.
11730 o Major bugfixes (onion services, retry behavior, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11731 - Fix an "off by 2" error in counting rendezvous failures on the
11732 onion service side. While we thought we would stop the rendezvous
11733 attempt after one failed circuit, we were actually making three
11734 circuit attempts before giving up. Now switch to a default of 2,
11735 and allow the consensus parameter "hs_service_max_rdv_failures" to
11736 override. Fixes bug 24895; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11737 - New-style (v3) onion services now obey the "max rendezvous circuit
11738 attempts" logic. Previously they would make as many rendezvous
11739 circuit attempts as they could fit in the MAX_REND_TIMEOUT second
11740 window before giving up. Fixes bug 24894; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11742 o Major bugfixes (protocol versions, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11743 - Add Link protocol version 5 to the supported protocols list. Fixes
11744 bug 25070; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11746 o Major bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11747 - Fix a set of false positives where relays would consider
11748 connections to other relays as being client-only connections (and
11749 thus e.g. deserving different link padding schemes) if those
11750 relays fell out of the consensus briefly. Now we look only at the
11751 initial handshake and whether the connection authenticated as a
11752 relay. Fixes bug 24898; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11754 o Major bugfixes (scheduler, consensus, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11755 - The scheduler subsystem was failing to promptly notice changes in
11756 consensus parameters, making it harder to switch schedulers
11757 network-wide. Fixes bug 24975; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11759 o Minor features (denial-of-service avoidance, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11760 - Make our OOM handler aware of the geoip client history cache so it
11761 doesn't fill up the memory. This check is important for IPv6 and
11762 our DoS mitigation subsystem. Closes ticket 25122.
11764 o Minor features (compatibility, OpenSSL, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11765 - Tor will now support TLS1.3 once OpenSSL 1.1.1 is released.
11766 Previous versions of Tor would not have worked with OpenSSL 1.1.1,
11767 since they neither disabled TLS 1.3 nor enabled any of the
11768 ciphersuites it requires. Now we enable the TLS 1.3 ciphersuites.
11769 Closes ticket 24978.
11771 o Minor features (geoip):
11772 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
11775 o Minor features (logging, diagnostic, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11776 - When logging a failure to create an onion service's descriptor,
11777 also log what the problem with the descriptor was. Diagnostic
11780 o Minor bugfix (channel connection, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11781 - Use the actual observed address of an incoming relay connection,
11782 not the canonical address of the relay from its descriptor, when
11783 making decisions about how to handle the incoming connection.
11784 Fixes bug 24952; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha. Patch by "ffmancera".
11786 o Minor bugfixes (denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11787 - Fix a possible crash on malformed consensus. If a consensus had
11788 contained an unparseable protocol line, it could have made clients
11789 and relays crash with a null-pointer exception. To exploit this
11790 issue, however, an attacker would need to be able to subvert the
11791 directory authority system. Fixes bug 25251; bugfix on
11792 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2018-004.
11794 o Minor bugfix (directory authority, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11795 - Directory authorities, when refusing a descriptor from a rejected
11796 relay, now explicitly tell the relay (in its logs) to set a valid
11797 ContactInfo address and contact the bad-relays@ mailing list.
11798 Fixes bug 25170; bugfix on 0.2.9.1.
11800 o Minor bugfixes (build, rust, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11801 - When building with Rust on OSX, link against libresolv, to work
11802 around the issue at https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/46797.
11803 Fixes bug 24652; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11805 o Minor bugfixes (onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11806 - Remove a BUG() statement when a client fetches an onion descriptor
11807 that has a lower revision counter than the one in its cache. This
11808 can happen in normal circumstances due to HSDir desync. Fixes bug
11809 24976; bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11811 o Minor bugfixes (logging, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11812 - Don't treat inability to store a cached consensus object as a bug:
11813 it can happen normally when we are out of disk space. Fixes bug
11814 24859; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11816 o Minor bugfixes (performance, fragile-hardening, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11817 - Improve the performance of our consensus-diff application code
11818 when Tor is built with the --enable-fragile-hardening option set.
11819 Fixes bug 24826; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
11821 o Minor bugfixes (OSX, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11822 - Don't exit the Tor process if setrlimit() fails to change the file
11823 limit (which can happen sometimes on some versions of OSX). Fixes
11824 bug 21074; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11826 o Minor bugfixes (spec conformance, backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11827 - Forbid "-0" as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249; bugfix on
11829 - Forbid UINT32_MAX as a protocol version. Fixes part of bug 25249;
11830 bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha.
11832 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha):
11833 - Fix a memory leak in the scheduler/loop_kist unit test. Fixes bug
11834 25005; bugfix on 0.3.2.7-rc.
11836 o Minor bugfixes (v3 onion services, backport from 0.3.3.2-alpha):
11837 - Look at the "HSRend" protocol version, not the "HSDir" protocol
11838 version, when deciding whether a consensus entry can support the
11839 v3 onion service protocol as a rendezvous point. Fixes bug 25105;
11840 bugfix on 0.3.2.1-alpha.
11842 o Code simplification and refactoring (backport from 0.3.3.3-alpha):
11843 - Update the "rust dependencies" submodule to be a project-level
11844 repository, rather than a user repository. Closes ticket 25323.
11846 o Documentation (backport from 0.3.3.1-alpha)
11847 - Document that operators who run more than one relay or bridge are
11848 expected to set MyFamily and ContactInfo correctly. Closes
11852 Changes in version 0.3.2.9 - 2018-01-09
11853 Tor 0.3.2.9 is the first stable release in the 0.3.2 series.
11855 The 0.3.2 series includes our long-anticipated new onion service
11856 design, with numerous security features. (For more information, see
11857 our blog post at https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest.) We also
11858 have a new circuit scheduler algorithm for improved performance on
11859 relays everywhere (see https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell),
11860 along with many smaller features and bugfixes.
11862 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
11863 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
11864 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
11865 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
11866 with the 0.2.9 series.
11868 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.1.7. For a list of all
11869 changes since 0.3.2.8-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
11871 o Directory authority changes:
11872 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
11873 Closes ticket 23910.
11874 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
11875 Closes ticket 23592.
11876 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
11877 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
11878 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
11879 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
11880 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
11883 o Major features (next-generation onion services):
11884 - Tor now supports the next-generation onion services protocol for
11885 clients and services! As part of this release, the core of
11886 proposal 224 has been implemented and is available for
11887 experimentation and testing by our users. This newer version of
11888 onion services ("v3") features many improvements over the legacy
11891 a) Better crypto (replaced SHA1/DH/RSA1024
11892 with SHA3/ed25519/curve25519)
11894 b) Improved directory protocol, leaking much less information to
11897 c) Improved directory protocol, with smaller surface for
11900 d) Better onion address security against impersonation.
11902 e) More extensible introduction/rendezvous protocol.
11904 f) A cleaner and more modular codebase.
11906 You can identify a next-generation onion address by its length:
11907 they are 56 characters long, as in
11908 "4acth47i6kxnvkewtm6q7ib2s3ufpo5sqbsnzjpbi7utijcltosqemad.onion".
11910 In the future, we will release more options and features for v3
11911 onion services, but we first need a testing period, so that the
11912 current codebase matures and becomes more robust. Planned features
11913 include: offline keys, advanced client authorization, improved
11914 guard algorithms, and statistics. For full details, see
11917 Legacy ("v2") onion services will still work for the foreseeable
11918 future, and will remain the default until this new codebase gets
11919 tested and hardened. Service operators who want to experiment with
11920 the new system can use the 'HiddenServiceVersion 3' torrc
11921 directive along with the regular onion service configuration
11922 options. For more information, see our blog post at
11923 "https://blog.torproject.org/fall-harvest". Enjoy!
11925 o Major feature (scheduler, channel):
11926 - Tor now uses new schedulers to decide which circuits should
11927 deliver cells first, in order to improve congestion at relays. The
11928 first type is called "KIST" ("Kernel Informed Socket Transport"),
11929 and is only available on Linux-like systems: it uses feedback from
11930 the kernel to prevent the kernel's TCP buffers from growing too
11931 full. The second new scheduler type is called "KISTLite": it
11932 behaves the same as KIST, but runs on systems without kernel
11933 support for inspecting TCP implementation details. The old
11934 scheduler is still available, under the name "Vanilla". To change
11935 the default scheduler preference order, use the new "Schedulers"
11936 option. (The default preference order is "KIST,KISTLite,Vanilla".)
11938 Matt Traudt implemented KIST, based on research by Rob Jansen,
11939 John Geddes, Christ Wacek, Micah Sherr, and Paul Syverson. For
11940 more information, see the design paper at
11941 http://www.robgjansen.com/publications/kist-sec2014.pdf and the
11942 followup implementation paper at https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.01044.
11943 Closes ticket 12541. For more information, see our blog post at
11944 "https://blog.torproject.org/kist-and-tell".
11946 o Major bugfixes (security, general):
11947 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
11948 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
11949 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
11950 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
11951 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
11952 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
11953 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
11955 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authority):
11956 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
11957 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
11958 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
11961 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2):
11962 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
11963 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
11964 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
11965 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
11966 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
11967 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
11968 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
11969 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
11970 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
11971 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
11972 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
11975 o Major bugfixes (security, relay):
11976 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
11977 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
11978 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
11979 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
11980 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11981 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
11982 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
11983 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
11985 o Major bugfixes (bootstrapping):
11986 - Fetch descriptors aggressively whenever we lack enough to build
11987 circuits, regardless of how many descriptors we are missing.
11988 Previously, we would delay launching the fetch when we had fewer
11989 than 15 missing descriptors, even if some of those descriptors
11990 were blocking circuits from building. Fixes bug 23985; bugfix on
11991 0.1.1.11-alpha. The effects of this bug became worse in
11992 0.3.0.3-alpha, when we began treating missing descriptors from our
11993 primary guards as a reason to delay circuits.
11994 - Don't try fetching microdescriptors from relays that have failed
11995 to deliver them in the past. Fixes bug 23817; bugfix
11998 o Major bugfixes (circuit prediction):
11999 - Fix circuit prediction logic so that a client doesn't treat a port
12000 as being "handled" by a circuit if that circuit already has
12001 isolation settings on it. This change should make Tor clients more
12002 responsive by improving their chances of having a pre-created
12003 circuit ready for use when a request arrives. Fixes bug 18859;
12004 bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12006 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS):
12007 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12008 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12009 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12010 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12011 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12014 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure):
12015 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
12016 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
12017 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
12019 o Major bugfixes (usability, control port):
12020 - Report trusted clock skew indications as bootstrap errors, so
12021 controllers can more easily alert users when their clocks are
12022 wrong. Fixes bug 23506; bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha.
12024 o Minor features (bridge):
12025 - Bridge relays can now set the BridgeDistribution config option to
12026 add a "bridge-distribution-request" line to their bridge
12027 descriptor, which tells BridgeDB how they'd like their bridge
12028 address to be given out. (Note that as of Oct 2017, BridgeDB does
12029 not yet implement this feature.) As a side benefit, this feature
12030 provides a way to distinguish bridge descriptors from non-bridge
12031 descriptors. Implements tickets 18329.
12032 - When handling the USERADDR command on an ExtOrPort, warn when the
12033 transports provides a USERADDR with no port. In a future version,
12034 USERADDR commands of this format may be rejected. Detects problems
12035 related to ticket 23080.
12037 o Minor features (bug detection):
12038 - Log a warning message with a stack trace for any attempt to call
12039 get_options() during option validation. This pattern has caused
12040 subtle bugs in the past. Closes ticket 22281.
12042 o Minor features (build, compilation):
12043 - The "check-changes" feature is now part of the "make check" tests;
12044 we'll use it to try to prevent misformed changes files from
12045 accumulating. Closes ticket 23564.
12046 - Tor builds should now fail if there are any mismatches between the
12047 C type representing a configuration variable and the C type the
12048 data-driven parser uses to store a value there. Previously, we
12049 needed to check these by hand, which sometimes led to mistakes.
12050 Closes ticket 23643.
12052 o Minor features (client):
12053 - You can now use Tor as a tunneled HTTP proxy: use the new
12054 HTTPTunnelPort option to open a port that accepts HTTP CONNECT
12055 requests. Closes ticket 22407.
12056 - Add an extra check to make sure that we always use the newer guard
12057 selection code for picking our guards. Closes ticket 22779.
12058 - When downloading (micro)descriptors, don't split the list into
12059 multiple requests unless we want at least 32 descriptors.
12060 Previously, we split at 4, not 32, which led to significant
12061 overhead in HTTP request size and degradation in compression
12062 performance. Closes ticket 23220.
12063 - Improve log messages when missing descriptors for primary guards.
12064 Resolves ticket 23670.
12066 o Minor features (command line):
12067 - Add a new commandline option, --key-expiration, which prints when
12068 the current signing key is going to expire. Implements ticket
12069 17639; patch by Isis Lovecruft.
12071 o Minor features (control port):
12072 - If an application tries to use the control port as an HTTP proxy,
12073 respond with a meaningful "This is the Tor control port" message,
12074 and log the event. Closes ticket 1667. Patch from Ravi
12076 - Provide better error message for GETINFO desc/(id|name) when not
12077 fetching router descriptors. Closes ticket 5847. Patch by
12079 - Add GETINFO "{desc,md}/download-enabled", to inform the controller
12080 whether Tor will try to download router descriptors and
12081 microdescriptors respectively. Closes ticket 22684.
12082 - Added new GETINFO targets "ip-to-country/{ipv4,ipv6}-available",
12083 so controllers can tell whether the geoip databases are loaded.
12084 Closes ticket 23237.
12085 - Adds a timestamp field to the CIRC_BW and STREAM_BW bandwidth
12086 events. Closes ticket 19254. Patch by "DonnchaC".
12088 o Minor features (development support):
12089 - Developers can now generate a call-graph for Tor using the
12090 "calltool" python program, which post-processes object dumps. It
12091 should work okay on many Linux and OSX platforms, and might work
12092 elsewhere too. To run it, install calltool from
12093 https://gitweb.torproject.org/user/nickm/calltool.git and run
12094 "make callgraph". Closes ticket 19307.
12096 o Minor features (directory authority):
12097 - Make the "Exit" flag assignment only depend on whether the exit
12098 policy allows connections to ports 80 and 443. Previously relays
12099 would get the Exit flag if they allowed connections to one of
12100 these ports and also port 6667. Resolves ticket 23637.
12102 o Minor features (ed25519):
12103 - Add validation function to checks for torsion components in
12104 ed25519 public keys, used by prop224 client-side code. Closes
12105 ticket 22006. Math help by Ian Goldberg.
12107 o Minor features (exit relay, DNS):
12108 - Improve the clarity and safety of the log message from evdns when
12109 receiving an apparently spoofed DNS reply. Closes ticket 3056.
12111 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
12112 - The fallback directory list has been re-generated based on the
12113 current status of the network. Tor uses fallback directories to
12114 bootstrap when it doesn't yet have up-to-date directory
12115 information. Closes ticket 24801.
12116 - Make the default DirAuthorityFallbackRate 0.1, so that clients
12117 prefer to bootstrap from fallback directory mirrors. This is a
12118 follow-up to 24679, which removed weights from the default
12119 fallbacks. Implements ticket 24681.
12121 o Minor features (geoip):
12122 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2018 Maxmind GeoLite2
12125 o Minor features (integration, hardening):
12126 - Add a new NoExec option to prevent Tor from running other
12127 programs. When this option is set to 1, Tor will never try to run
12128 another program, regardless of the settings of
12129 PortForwardingHelper, ClientTransportPlugin, or
12130 ServerTransportPlugin. Once NoExec is set, it cannot be disabled
12131 without restarting Tor. Closes ticket 22976.
12133 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12134 - Update the sandbox rules so that they should now work correctly
12135 with Glibc 2.26. Closes ticket 24315.
12137 o Minor features (logging):
12138 - Provide better warnings when the getrandom() syscall fails. Closes
12140 - Downgrade a pair of log messages that could occur when an exit's
12141 resolver gave us an unusual (but not forbidden) response. Closes
12143 - Improve the message we log when re-enabling circuit build timeouts
12144 after having received a consensus. Closes ticket 20963.
12145 - Log more circuit information whenever we are about to try to
12146 package a relay cell on a circuit with a nonexistent n_chan.
12147 Attempt to diagnose ticket 8185.
12148 - Improve info-level log identification of particular circuits, to
12149 help with debugging. Closes ticket 23645.
12150 - Improve the warning message for specifying a relay by nickname.
12151 The previous message implied that nickname registration was still
12152 part of the Tor network design, which it isn't. Closes
12154 - If the sandbox filter fails to load, suggest to the user that
12155 their kernel might not support seccomp2. Closes ticket 23090.
12157 o Minor features (onion service, circuit, logging):
12158 - Improve logging of many callsite in the circuit subsystem to print
12159 the circuit identifier(s).
12160 - Log when we cleanup an intro point from a service so we know when
12161 and for what reason it happened. Closes ticket 23604.
12163 o Minor features (portability):
12164 - Tor now compiles correctly on arm64 with libseccomp-dev installed.
12165 (It doesn't yet work with the sandbox enabled.) Closes
12167 - Check at configure time whether uint8_t is the same type as
12168 unsigned char. Lots of existing code already makes this
12169 assumption, and there could be strict aliasing issues if the
12170 assumption is violated. Closes ticket 22410.
12172 o Minor features (relay):
12173 - When choosing which circuits can be expired as unused, consider
12174 circuits from clients even if those clients used regular CREATE
12175 cells to make them; and do not consider circuits from relays even
12176 if they were made with CREATE_FAST. Part of ticket 22805.
12177 - Reject attempts to use relative file paths when RunAsDaemon is
12178 set. Previously, Tor would accept these, but the directory-
12179 changing step of RunAsDaemon would give strange and/or confusing
12180 results. Closes ticket 22731.
12182 o Minor features (relay statistics):
12183 - Change relay bandwidth reporting stats interval from 4 hours to 24
12184 hours in order to reduce the efficiency of guard discovery
12185 attacks. Fixes ticket 23856.
12187 o Minor features (reverted deprecations):
12188 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can once again be set in
12189 non-testing Tor networks, so long as they do not use the default
12190 directory authorities. This change also removes the deprecation of
12191 this flag from 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 21031.
12193 o Minor features (robustness):
12194 - Change several fatal assertions when flushing buffers into non-
12195 fatal assertions, to prevent any recurrence of 23690.
12197 o Minor features (startup, safety):
12198 - When configured to write a PID file, Tor now exits if it is unable
12199 to do so. Previously, it would warn and continue. Closes
12202 o Minor features (static analysis):
12203 - The BUG() macro has been changed slightly so that Coverity no
12204 longer complains about dead code if the bug is impossible. Closes
12207 o Minor features (testing):
12208 - Our fuzzing tests now test the encrypted portions of v3 onion
12209 service descriptors. Implements more of 21509.
12210 - Add a unit test to make sure that our own generated platform
12211 string will be accepted by directory authorities. Closes
12213 - The default chutney network tests now include tests for the v3
12214 onion service design. Make sure you have the latest version of
12215 chutney if you want to run these. Closes ticket 22437.
12216 - Add a unit test to verify that we can parse a hardcoded v2 onion
12217 service descriptor. Closes ticket 15554.
12219 o Minor bugfixes (address selection):
12220 - When the fascist_firewall_choose_address_ functions don't find a
12221 reachable address, set the returned address to the null address
12222 and port. This is a precautionary measure, because some callers do
12223 not check the return value. Fixes bug 24736; bugfix
12226 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrapping):
12227 - When warning about state file clock skew, report the correct
12228 direction for the detected skew. Fixes bug 23606; bugfix
12231 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients, bootstrap):
12232 - Retry directory downloads when we get our first bridge descriptor
12233 during bootstrap or while reconnecting to the network. Keep
12234 retrying every time we get a bridge descriptor, until we have a
12235 reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12236 - Stop delaying bridge descriptor fetches when we have cached bridge
12237 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when we
12238 have at least one reachable bridge. Fixes part of bug 24367;
12239 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12240 - Stop delaying directory fetches when we have cached bridge
12241 descriptors. Instead, only delay bridge descriptor fetches when
12242 all our bridges are definitely unreachable. Fixes part of bug
12243 24367; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12245 o Minor bugfixes (bridge):
12246 - Overwrite the bridge address earlier in the process of retrieving
12247 its descriptor, to make sure we reach it on the configured
12248 address. Fixes bug 20532; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12250 o Minor bugfixes (build, compilation):
12251 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
12252 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
12253 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
12254 - When searching for OpenSSL, don't accept any OpenSSL library that
12255 lacks TLSv1_1_method(): Tor doesn't build with those versions.
12256 Additionally, look in /usr/local/opt/openssl, if it's present.
12257 These changes together repair the default build on OSX systems
12258 with Homebrew installed. Fixes bug 23602; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12259 - Fix a signed/unsigned comparison warning introduced by our fix to
12260 TROVE-2017-009. Fixes bug 24480; bugfix on 0.2.5.16.
12261 - Fix a memory leak warning in one of the libevent-related
12262 configuration tests that could occur when manually specifying
12263 -fsanitize=address. Fixes bug 24279; bugfix on 0.3.0.2-alpha.
12264 Found and patched by Alex Xu.
12265 - Fix unused-variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12266 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12268 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
12269 - Fix a time handling bug in Tor certificates set to expire after
12270 the year 2106. Fixes bug 23055; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Found by
12271 Coverity as CID 1415728.
12273 o Minor bugfixes (client):
12274 - By default, do not enable storage of client-side DNS values. These
12275 values were unused by default previously, but they should not have
12276 been cached at all. Fixes bug 24050; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12278 o Minor bugfixes (client, usability):
12279 - Refrain from needlessly rejecting SOCKS5-with-hostnames and
12280 SOCKS4a requests that contain IP address strings, even when
12281 SafeSocks in enabled, as this prevents user from connecting to
12282 known IP addresses without relying on DNS for resolving. SafeSocks
12283 still rejects SOCKS connections that connect to IP addresses when
12284 those addresses are _not_ encoded as hostnames. Fixes bug 22461;
12285 bugfix on Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha.
12287 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
12288 - Call htons() in extend_cell_format() for encoding a 16-bit value.
12289 Previously we used ntohs(), which happens to behave the same on
12290 all the platforms we support, but which isn't really correct.
12291 Fixes bug 23106; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12292 - For defense-in-depth, make the controller's write_escaped_data()
12293 function robust to extremely long inputs. Fixes bug 19281; bugfix
12294 on 0.1.1.1-alpha. Reported by Guido Vranken.
12295 - Fix several places in our codebase where a C compiler would be
12296 likely to eliminate a check, based on assuming that undefined
12297 behavior had not happened elsewhere in the code. These cases are
12298 usually a sign of redundant checking or dubious arithmetic. Found
12299 by Georg Koppen using the "STACK" tool from Wang, Zeldovich,
12300 Kaashoek, and Solar-Lezama. Fixes bug 24423; bugfix on various
12303 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
12304 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
12305 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
12308 o Minor bugfixes (consensus expiry):
12309 - Check for adequate directory information correctly. Previously, Tor
12310 would reconsider whether it had sufficient directory information
12311 every 2 minutes. Fixes bug 23091; bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
12313 o Minor bugfixes (control port, linux seccomp2 sandbox):
12314 - Avoid a crash when attempting to use the seccomp2 sandbox together
12315 with the OwningControllerProcess feature. Fixes bug 24198; bugfix
12318 o Minor bugfixes (control port, onion services):
12319 - Report "FAILED" instead of "UPLOAD_FAILED" "FAILED" for the
12320 HS_DESC event when a service is not able to upload a descriptor.
12321 Fixes bug 24230; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
12323 o Minor bugfixes (directory cache):
12324 - Recover better from empty or corrupt files in the consensus cache
12325 directory. Fixes bug 24099; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12326 - When a consensus diff calculation is only partially successful,
12327 only record the successful parts as having succeeded. Partial
12328 success can happen if (for example) one compression method fails
12329 but the others succeed. Previously we misrecorded all the
12330 calculations as having succeeded, which would later cause a
12331 nonfatal assertion failure. Fixes bug 24086; bugfix
12334 o Minor bugfixes (directory client):
12335 - On failure to download directory information, delay retry attempts
12336 by a random amount based on the "decorrelated jitter" algorithm.
12337 Our previous delay algorithm tended to produce extra-long delays
12338 too easily. Fixes bug 23816; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12340 o Minor bugfixes (directory protocol):
12341 - Directory servers now include a "Date:" http header for response
12342 codes other than 200. Clients starting with a skewed clock and a
12343 recent consensus were getting "304 Not modified" responses from
12344 directory authorities, so without the Date header, the client
12345 would never hear about a wrong clock. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix
12347 - Make clients wait for 6 seconds before trying to download a
12348 consensus from an authority. Fixes bug 17750; bugfix
12351 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
12352 - Document better how to read gcov, and what our gcov postprocessing
12353 scripts do. Fixes bug 23739; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12354 - Fix manpage to not refer to the obsolete (and misspelled)
12355 UseEntryGuardsAsDirectoryGuards parameter in the description of
12356 NumDirectoryGuards. Fixes bug 23611; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12358 o Minor bugfixes (DoS-resistance):
12359 - If future code asks if there are any running bridges, without
12360 checking if bridges are enabled, log a BUG warning rather than
12361 crashing. Fixes bug 23524; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12363 o Minor bugfixes (entry guards):
12364 - Tor now updates its guard state when it reads a consensus
12365 regardless of whether it's missing descriptors. That makes tor use
12366 its primary guards to fetch descriptors in some edge cases where
12367 it would previously have used fallback directories. Fixes bug
12368 23862; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12370 o Minor bugfixes (format strictness):
12371 - Restrict several data formats to decimal. Previously, the
12372 BuildTimeHistogram entries in the state file, the "bw=" entries in
12373 the bandwidth authority file, and the process IDs passed to the
12374 __OwningControllerProcess option could all be specified in hex or
12375 octal as well as in decimal. This was not an intentional feature.
12376 Fixes bug 22802; bugfixes on 0.2.2.1-alpha, 0.2.2.2-alpha,
12379 o Minor bugfixes (heartbeat):
12380 - If we fail to write a heartbeat message, schedule a retry for the
12381 minimum heartbeat interval number of seconds in the future. Fixes
12382 bug 19476; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
12384 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
12385 - Suppress a log notice when relay descriptors arrive. We already
12386 have a bootstrap progress for this so no need to log notice
12387 everytime tor receives relay descriptors. Microdescriptors behave
12388 the same. Fixes bug 23861; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12389 - Remove duplicate log messages regarding opening non-local
12390 SocksPorts upon parsing config and opening listeners at startup.
12391 Fixes bug 4019; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
12392 - Use a more comprehensible log message when telling the user
12393 they've excluded every running exit node. Fixes bug 7890; bugfix
12395 - When logging the number of descriptors we intend to download per
12396 directory request, do not log a number higher than then the number
12397 of descriptors we're fetching in total. Fixes bug 19648; bugfix
12399 - When warning about a directory owned by the wrong user, log the
12400 actual name of the user owning the directory. Previously, we'd log
12401 the name of the process owner twice. Fixes bug 23487; bugfix
12403 - Fix some messages on unexpected errors from the seccomp2 library.
12404 Fixes bug 22750; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
12405 - The tor specification says hop counts are 1-based, so fix two log
12406 messages that mistakenly logged 0-based hop counts. Fixes bug
12407 18982; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha and 0.2.4.5-alpha. Patch by teor.
12408 Credit to Xiaofan Li for reporting this issue.
12410 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance):
12411 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12412 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12413 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12414 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12415 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12417 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, defensive programming):
12418 - Clear the target address when node_get_prim_orport() returns
12419 early. Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
12421 o Minor bugfixes (memory usage):
12422 - When queuing DESTROY cells on a channel, only queue the circuit-id
12423 and reason fields: not the entire 514-byte cell. This fix should
12424 help mitigate any bugs or attacks that fill up these queues, and
12425 free more RAM for other uses. Fixes bug 24666; bugfix
12428 o Minor bugfixes (network layer):
12429 - When closing a connection via close_connection_immediately(), we
12430 mark it as "not blocked on bandwidth", to prevent later calls from
12431 trying to unblock it, and give it permission to read. This fixes a
12432 backtrace warning that can happen on relays under various
12433 circumstances. Fixes bug 24167; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
12435 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
12436 - The introduction circuit was being timed out too quickly while
12437 waiting for the rendezvous circuit to complete. Keep the intro
12438 circuit around longer instead of timing out and reopening new ones
12439 constantly. Fixes bug 23681; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
12440 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12441 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12443 - When handling multiple SOCKS request for the same .onion address,
12444 only fetch the service descriptor once.
12445 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
12446 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
12447 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
12448 - When reloading configured onion services, copy all information
12449 from the old service object. Previously, some data was omitted,
12450 causing delays in descriptor upload, and other bugs. Fixes bug
12451 23790; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
12453 o Minor bugfixes (path selection):
12454 - When selecting relays by bandwidth, avoid a rounding error that
12455 could sometimes cause load to be imbalanced incorrectly.
12456 Previously, we would always round upwards; now, we round towards
12457 the nearest integer. This had the biggest effect when a relay's
12458 weight adjustments should have given it weight 0, but it got
12459 weight 1 instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12460 - When calculating the fraction of nodes that have descriptors, and
12461 all nodes in the network have zero bandwidths, count the number of
12462 nodes instead. Fixes bug 23318; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
12463 - Actually log the total bandwidth in compute_weighted_bandwidths().
12464 Fixes bug 24170; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
12466 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
12467 - Stop using the PATH_MAX variable, which is not defined on GNU
12468 Hurd. Fixes bug 23098; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha.
12469 - Fix a bug in the bit-counting parts of our timing-wheel code on
12470 MSVC. (Note that MSVC is still not a supported build platform, due
12471 to cryptographic timing channel risks.) Fixes bug 24633; bugfix
12474 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
12475 - When uploading our descriptor for the first time after startup,
12476 report the reason for uploading as "Tor just started" rather than
12477 leaving it blank. Fixes bug 22885; bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
12478 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12479 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12480 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12481 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12482 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12483 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12484 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12485 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12487 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
12488 - Fix a spurious fuzzing-only use of an uninitialized value. Found
12489 by Brian Carpenter. Fixes bug 24082; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12490 - Test that IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors when running
12491 "make test-network-all". Requires chutney master 61c28b9 or later.
12492 Closes ticket 24109.
12493 - Prevent scripts/test/coverage from attempting to move gcov output
12494 to the root directory. Fixes bug 23741; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
12495 - Capture and detect several "Result does not fit" warnings in unit
12496 tests on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 21800; bugfix
12498 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
12499 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
12501 - Fix a bug in our fuzzing mock replacement for crypto_pk_checksig(),
12502 to correctly handle cases where a caller gives it an RSA key of
12503 under 160 bits. (This is not actually a bug in Tor itself, but
12504 rather in our fuzzing code.) Fixes bug 24247; bugfix on
12505 0.3.0.3-alpha. Found by OSS-Fuzz as issue 4177.
12506 - Fix a broken unit test for the OutboundAddress option: the parsing
12507 function was never returning an error on failure. Fixes bug 23366;
12508 bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
12509 - Fix a signed-integer overflow in the unit tests for
12510 dir/download_status_random_backoff, which was untriggered until we
12511 fixed bug 17750. Fixes bug 22924; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
12513 o Minor bugfixes (usability, control port):
12514 - Stop making an unnecessary routerlist check in NETINFO clock skew
12515 detection; this was preventing clients from reporting NETINFO clock
12516 skew to controllers. Fixes bug 23532; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
12518 o Code simplification and refactoring:
12519 - Remove various ways of testing circuits and connections for
12520 "clientness"; instead, favor channel_is_client(). Part of
12522 - Extract the code for handling newly-open channels into a separate
12523 function from the general code to handle channel state
12524 transitions. This change simplifies our callgraph, reducing the
12525 size of the largest strongly connected component by roughly a
12526 factor of two. Closes ticket 22608.
12527 - Remove dead code for largely unused statistics on the number of
12528 times we've attempted various public key operations. Fixes bug
12529 19871; bugfix on 0.1.2.4-alpha. Fix by Isis Lovecruft.
12530 - Remove several now-obsolete functions for asking about old
12531 variants directory authority status. Closes ticket 22311; patch
12533 - Remove some of the code that once supported "Named" and "Unnamed"
12534 routers. Authorities no longer vote for these flags. Closes
12536 - Rename the obsolete malleable hybrid_encrypt functions used in TAP
12537 and old hidden services, to indicate that they aren't suitable for
12538 new protocols or formats. Closes ticket 23026.
12539 - Replace our STRUCT_OFFSET() macro with offsetof(). Closes ticket
12540 22521. Patch from Neel Chauhan.
12541 - Split the enormous circuit_send_next_onion_skin() function into
12542 multiple subfunctions. Closes ticket 22804.
12543 - Split the portions of the buffer.c module that handle particular
12544 protocols into separate modules. Part of ticket 23149.
12545 - Use our test macros more consistently, to produce more useful
12546 error messages when our unit tests fail. Add coccinelle patches to
12547 allow us to re-check for test macro uses. Closes ticket 22497.
12549 o Deprecated features:
12550 - The ReachableDirAddresses and ClientPreferIPv6DirPort options are
12551 now deprecated; they do not apply to relays, and they have had no
12552 effect on clients since 0.2.8.x. Closes ticket 19704.
12553 - Deprecate HTTPProxy/HTTPProxyAuthenticator config options. They
12554 only applies to direct unencrypted HTTP connections to your
12555 directory server, which your Tor probably isn't using. Closes
12559 - Add notes in man page regarding OS support for the various
12560 scheduler types. Attempt to use less jargon in the scheduler
12561 section. Closes ticket 24254.
12562 - Clarify that the Address option is entirely about setting an
12563 advertised IPv4 address. Closes ticket 18891.
12564 - Clarify the manpage's use of the term "address" to clarify what
12565 kind of address is intended. Closes ticket 21405.
12566 - Document that onion service subdomains are allowed, and ignored.
12567 Closes ticket 18736.
12568 - Clarify in the manual that "Sandbox 1" is only supported on Linux
12569 kernels. Closes ticket 22677.
12570 - Document all values of PublishServerDescriptor in the manpage.
12571 Closes ticket 15645.
12572 - Improve the documentation for the directory port part of the
12573 DirAuthority line. Closes ticket 20152.
12574 - Restore documentation for the authorities' "approved-routers"
12575 file. Closes ticket 21148.
12577 o Removed features:
12578 - The AllowDotExit option has been removed as unsafe. It has been
12579 deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha. Closes ticket 23426.
12580 - The ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses flag can no longer be set on
12581 non-testing networks. It has been deprecated since 0.2.9.2-alpha.
12582 Closes ticket 21031.
12583 - The controller API no longer includes an AUTHDIR_NEWDESCS event:
12584 nobody was using it any longer. Closes ticket 22377.
12587 Changes in version 0.3.1.9 - 2017-12-01:
12588 Tor 0.3.1.9 backports important security and stability fixes from the
12589 0.3.2 development series. All Tor users should upgrade to this
12590 release, or to another of the releases coming out today.
12592 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12593 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12594 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12595 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12596 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12597 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12598 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12599 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12600 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12601 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12602 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12604 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12605 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12606 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12607 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12608 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12609 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12610 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12613 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12614 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12615 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12616 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12617 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12619 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12620 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12621 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12622 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12623 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12624 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12625 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12626 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12627 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12629 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12630 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12631 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12632 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12633 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12634 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12637 o Minor features (bridge):
12638 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12639 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12640 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12641 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12644 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12645 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12648 o Minor features (geoip):
12649 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12652 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12653 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12654 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12655 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12656 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12658 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12659 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12660 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12662 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12663 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12664 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12665 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12666 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12667 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12669 o Minor bugfixes (onion service, backport from 0.3.2.5-alpha):
12670 - Rename the consensus parameter "hsdir-interval" to "hsdir_interval"
12671 so it matches dir-spec.txt. Fixes bug 24262; bugfix
12674 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12675 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12676 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12677 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12678 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12681 Changes in version 0.3.0.13 - 2017-12-01
12682 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12683 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12684 to another of the releases coming out today.
12686 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
12687 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
12688 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12690 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12691 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12692 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12693 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12694 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12695 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12696 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12697 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12698 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12699 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12700 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12702 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12703 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12704 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12705 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12706 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12707 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12708 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12711 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12712 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12713 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12714 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12715 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12717 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12718 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12719 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12720 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12721 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12722 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12723 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never choose ourselves
12724 as a guard. Fixes part of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. This
12725 issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12727 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12728 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12729 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12730 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12731 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12732 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12735 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12736 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12737 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12738 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12739 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12740 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12742 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12743 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12744 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12745 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12746 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12749 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12750 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12753 o Minor features (geoip):
12754 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12757 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12758 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12759 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12760 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12761 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12763 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12764 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12765 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12767 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12768 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12769 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12770 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12771 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12772 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12774 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12775 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12776 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12777 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12778 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12780 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12781 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12782 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12785 Changes in version 0.2.9.14 - 2017-12-01
12786 Tor 0.3.0.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12787 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12788 to another of the releases coming out today.
12790 o Major bugfixes (exit relays, DNS, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12791 - Fix an issue causing DNS to fail on high-bandwidth exit nodes,
12792 making them nearly unusable. Fixes bugs 21394 and 18580; bugfix on
12793 0.1.2.2-alpha, which introduced eventdns. Thanks to Dhalgren for
12794 identifying and finding a workaround to this bug and to Moritz,
12795 Arthur Edelstein, and Roger for helping to track it down and
12798 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12799 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12800 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12801 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12802 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12803 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12804 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12805 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12806 - Fix a denial of service issue where an attacker could crash a
12807 directory authority using a malformed router descriptor. Fixes bug
12808 24245; bugfix on 0.2.9.4-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-010
12810 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12811 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12812 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12813 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12814 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12815 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12816 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12819 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12820 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12821 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12822 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12823 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12825 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12826 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12827 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12828 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12829 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12830 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12832 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12833 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12834 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12835 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12836 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12839 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12840 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12843 o Minor features (geoip):
12844 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12847 o Minor features (security, windows, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
12848 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
12849 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
12850 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
12851 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
12852 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
12854 o Minor bugfix (relay address resolution, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12855 - Avoid unnecessary calls to directory_fetches_from_authorities() on
12856 relays, to prevent spurious address resolutions and descriptor
12857 rebuilds. This is a mitigation for bug 21789. Fixes bug 23470;
12858 bugfix on in 0.2.8.1-alpha.
12860 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
12861 - Fix unused variable warnings in donna's Curve25519 SSE2 code.
12862 Fixes bug 22895; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
12864 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay shutdown, annoyance, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
12865 - When a circuit is marked for close, do not attempt to package any
12866 cells for channels on that circuit. Previously, we would detect
12867 this condition lower in the call stack, when we noticed that the
12868 circuit had no attached channel, and log an annoying message.
12869 Fixes bug 8185; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
12871 o Minor bugfixes (relay, crash, backport from 0.3.2.4-alpha):
12872 - Avoid a crash when transitioning from client mode to bridge mode.
12873 Previously, we would launch the worker threads whenever our
12874 "public server" mode changed, but not when our "server" mode
12875 changed. Fixes bug 23693; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
12877 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12878 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12879 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12882 Changes in version 0.2.8.17 - 2017-12-01
12883 Tor 0.2.8.17 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12884 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12885 to another of the releases coming out today.
12887 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
12888 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade with
12889 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12891 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12892 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12893 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12894 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12895 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12896 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12897 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12898 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12899 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12900 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12901 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12902 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12903 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12904 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12905 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12908 o Major bugfixes (security, onion service v2, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12909 - Fix a use-after-free error that could crash v2 Tor onion services
12910 when they failed to open circuits while expiring introduction
12911 points. Fixes bug 24313; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. This issue is
12912 also tracked as TROVE-2017-013 and CVE-2017-8823.
12914 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12915 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path through
12916 ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the version of
12917 our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part of bug 21534;
12918 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-012
12921 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12922 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12923 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12924 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12925 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12928 o Minor features (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12929 - Add an IPv6 address for the "bastet" directory authority. Closes
12932 o Minor features (geoip):
12933 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12936 o Minor bugfixes (testing, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
12937 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
12938 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
12941 Changes in version 0.2.5.16 - 2017-12-01
12942 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports important security and stability bugfixes from
12943 later Tor releases. All Tor users should upgrade to this release, or
12944 to another of the releases coming out today.
12946 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12947 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12948 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12950 o Major bugfixes (security, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12951 - Fix a denial of service bug where an attacker could use a
12952 malformed directory object to cause a Tor instance to pause while
12953 OpenSSL would try to read a passphrase from the terminal. (Tor
12954 instances run without a terminal, which is the case for most Tor
12955 packages, are not impacted.) Fixes bug 24246; bugfix on every
12956 version of Tor. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-011 and CVE-2017-8821.
12957 Found by OSS-Fuzz as testcase 6360145429790720.
12958 - When checking for replays in the INTRODUCE1 cell data for a
12959 (legacy) onion service, correctly detect replays in the RSA-
12960 encrypted part of the cell. We were previously checking for
12961 replays on the entire cell, but those can be circumvented due to
12962 the malleability of Tor's legacy hybrid encryption. This fix helps
12963 prevent a traffic confirmation attack. Fixes bug 24244; bugfix on
12964 0.2.4.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked as TROVE-2017-009
12967 o Major bugfixes (security, relay, backport from 0.3.2.6-alpha):
12968 - When running as a relay, make sure that we never build a path
12969 through ourselves, even in the case where we have somehow lost the
12970 version of our descriptor appearing in the consensus. Fixes part
12971 of bug 21534; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. This issue is also tracked
12972 as TROVE-2017-012 and CVE-2017-8822.
12974 o Minor features (bridge, backport from 0.3.1.9):
12975 - Bridges now include notice in their descriptors that they are
12976 bridges, and notice of their distribution status, based on their
12977 publication settings. Implements ticket 18329. For more fine-
12978 grained control of how a bridge is distributed, upgrade to 0.3.2.x
12981 o Minor features (geoip):
12982 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
12986 Changes in version 0.2.5.15 - 2017-10-25
12987 Tor 0.2.5.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
12988 series. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
12990 Note: the Tor 0.2.5 series will no longer be supported after 1 May
12991 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please upgrade to
12992 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
12994 o Directory authority changes:
12995 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
12996 Closes ticket 23910.
12997 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
12998 Closes ticket 23592.
13000 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13001 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13002 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13003 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13004 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13006 o Minor features (geoip):
13007 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13010 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13011 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13012 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13013 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13014 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13015 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13016 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13017 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13018 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13020 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13021 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13022 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13023 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13024 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13025 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13026 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13027 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13028 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13031 Changes in version 0.2.8.16 - 2017-10-25
13032 Tor 0.2.8.16 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13033 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13034 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13036 Note: the Tor 0.2.8 series will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13037 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13038 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13040 o Directory authority changes:
13041 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13042 Closes ticket 23910.
13043 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13044 Closes ticket 23592.
13046 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13047 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13048 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13049 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13051 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13052 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13053 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13054 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13055 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13057 o Minor features (geoip):
13058 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13062 Changes in version 0.2.9.13 - 2017-10-25
13063 Tor 0.2.9.13 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13064 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13065 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13067 o Directory authority changes:
13068 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13069 Closes ticket 23910.
13070 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13071 Closes ticket 23592.
13073 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13074 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13075 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13076 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13078 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13079 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13080 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13081 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13082 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13084 o Minor features (geoip):
13085 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13088 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13089 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13090 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13091 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13092 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13093 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13094 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13095 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13098 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13099 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13100 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13102 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13103 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13104 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13105 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13106 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13107 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13108 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13111 Changes in version 0.3.0.12 - 2017-10-25
13112 Tor 0.3.0.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later Tor release
13113 series, including a bugfix for a crash issue that had affected relays
13114 under memory pressure. It also adds a new directory authority, Bastet.
13116 Note: the Tor 0.3.0 series will no longer be supported after 26 Jan
13117 2018. If you need a release with long-term support, please stick with
13118 the 0.2.9 series. Otherwise, please upgrade to 0.3.1 or later.
13120 o Directory authority changes:
13121 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13122 Closes ticket 23910.
13123 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13124 Closes ticket 23592.
13126 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13127 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13128 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13129 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13131 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13132 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13133 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13134 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13135 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13137 o Minor features (geoip):
13138 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13141 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13142 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13143 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13144 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13145 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13146 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13147 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13148 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13151 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13152 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13153 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13154 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13156 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13157 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13158 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13160 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13161 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
13162 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
13163 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
13164 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
13165 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13166 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
13169 Changes in version 0.3.1.8 - 2017-10-25
13170 Tor 0.3.1.8 is the second stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13171 It includes several bugfixes, including a bugfix for a crash issue
13172 that had affected relays under memory pressure. It also adds
13173 a new directory authority, Bastet.
13175 o Directory authority changes:
13176 - Add "Bastet" as a ninth directory authority to the default list.
13177 Closes ticket 23910.
13178 - The directory authority "Longclaw" has changed its IP address.
13179 Closes ticket 23592.
13181 o Major bugfixes (relay, crash, assertion failure, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13182 - Fix a timing-based assertion failure that could occur when the
13183 circuit out-of-memory handler freed a connection's output buffer.
13184 Fixes bug 23690; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
13186 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13187 - Remove longclaw's IPv6 address, as it will soon change. Authority
13188 IPv6 addresses were originally added in 0.2.8.1-alpha. This leaves
13189 3/8 directory authorities with IPv6 addresses, but there are also
13190 52 fallback directory mirrors with IPv6 addresses. Resolves 19760.
13192 o Minor features (geoip):
13193 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13196 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13197 - Fix a compilation warning when building with zstd support on
13198 32-bit platforms. Fixes bug 23568; bugfix on 0.3.1.1-alpha. Found
13199 and fixed by Andreas Stieger.
13201 o Minor bugfixes (compression, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13202 - Handle a pathological case when decompressing Zstandard data when
13203 the output buffer size is zero. Fixes bug 23551; bugfix
13206 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.2.1-alpha):
13207 - Remove the length limit on HTTP status lines that authorities can
13208 send in their replies. Fixes bug 23499; bugfix on 0.3.1.6-rc.
13210 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, relay, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13211 - Avoid a possible double close of a circuit by the intro point on
13212 error of sending the INTRO_ESTABLISHED cell. Fixes bug 23610;
13213 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13215 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety, backport from 0.3.2.3-alpha):
13216 - Clear the address when node_get_prim_orport() returns early.
13217 Fixes bug 23874; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
13219 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.2.2-alpha):
13220 - Fix additional channelpadding unit test failures by using mocked
13221 time instead of actual time for all tests. Fixes bug 23608; bugfix
13225 Changes in version 0.2.8.15 - 2017-09-18
13226 Tor 0.2.8.15 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13229 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13230 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13231 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13232 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13234 Note that Tor 0.2.8.x will no longer be supported after 1 Jan
13235 2018. We suggest that you upgrade to the latest stable release if
13236 possible. If you can't, we recommend that you upgrade at least to
13237 0.2.9, which will be supported until 2020.
13239 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13240 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13241 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13242 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13243 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13246 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13249 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13250 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13251 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13254 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13255 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13256 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13257 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13258 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13259 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13260 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13261 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13262 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13264 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13265 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13266 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13267 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13268 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13269 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13270 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13271 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13272 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13275 Changes in version 0.2.9.12 - 2017-09-18
13276 Tor 0.2.9.12 backports a collection of bugfixes from later
13279 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13280 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13281 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13282 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13284 o Major features (security, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13285 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
13286 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
13287 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
13288 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
13289 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
13290 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
13292 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13293 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
13294 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
13295 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
13297 o Major bugfixes (DNS, backport from 0.3.0.2-alpha):
13298 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
13299 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
13301 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13302 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13303 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13304 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13306 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13307 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13308 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13309 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13310 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13312 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
13313 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13314 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13315 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13317 o Minor features (geoip):
13318 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13321 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13322 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13323 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13324 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13326 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13327 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
13328 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13329 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt support
13330 on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13331 - When building with certain versions the mingw C header files, avoid
13332 float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions isfinite(),
13333 isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13335 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13336 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for running tor_sscanf()
13337 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13339 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13340 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
13341 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
13344 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13345 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13346 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13347 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an
13348 empty body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13350 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13351 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13352 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13353 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13354 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13355 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13357 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, undefined behavior, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13358 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13359 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13360 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13361 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13362 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13363 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13364 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13365 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13367 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13368 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13369 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13370 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13372 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13373 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13374 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13376 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
13377 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13378 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13379 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13380 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13382 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.3.0.5-rc):
13383 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
13384 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
13387 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
13388 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
13389 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
13390 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
13391 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
13393 o Build features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13394 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13395 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13396 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13397 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13398 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13399 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13400 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13401 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13404 Changes in version 0.3.0.11 - 2017-09-18
13405 Tor 0.3.0.11 backports a collection of bugfixes from Tor the 0.3.1
13408 Most significantly, it includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a
13409 security bug that affects hidden services running with the
13410 SafeLogging option disabled. For more information, see
13411 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13413 o Minor features (code style, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13414 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13415 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13416 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13419 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13422 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13423 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13424 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13426 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.3.1.7):
13427 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13428 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13429 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13430 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13432 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
13433 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13434 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13435 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13437 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay, backport from 0.3.1.6-rc):
13438 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13439 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13441 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13442 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13443 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13444 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13447 Changes in version 0.3.1.7 - 2017-09-18
13448 Tor 0.3.1.7 is the first stable release in the 0.3.1 series.
13450 With the 0.3.1 series, Tor now serves and downloads directory
13451 information in more compact formats, to save on bandwidth overhead. It
13452 also contains a new padding system to resist netflow-based traffic
13453 analysis, and experimental support for building parts of Tor in Rust
13454 (though no parts of Tor are in Rust yet). There are also numerous
13455 small features, bugfixes on earlier release series, and groundwork for
13456 the hidden services revamp of 0.3.2.
13458 This release also includes a fix for TROVE-2017-008, a security bug
13459 that affects hidden services running with the SafeLogging option
13460 disabled. For more information, see
13461 https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/23490
13463 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support each stable release
13464 series for at least the next nine months, or for three months after
13465 the first stable release of the next series: whichever is longer. If
13466 you need a release with long-term support, we recommend that you stay
13467 with the 0.2.9 series.
13469 Below is a list of the changes since 0.3.0. For a list of all
13470 changes since 0.3.1.6-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
13472 o New dependencies:
13473 - To build with zstd and lzma support, Tor now requires the
13474 pkg-config tool at build time.
13476 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden services, loggging):
13477 - Fix a bug where we could log uninitialized stack when a certain
13478 hidden service error occurred while SafeLogging was disabled.
13479 Fixes bug #23490; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13480 This is also tracked as TROVE-2017-008 and CVE-2017-0380.
13482 o Major features (build system, continuous integration):
13483 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
13484 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
13485 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
13486 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
13487 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
13488 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
13489 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
13490 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
13492 o Major features (directory protocol):
13493 - Tor relays and authorities can now serve clients an abbreviated
13494 version of the consensus document, containing only the changes
13495 since an older consensus document that the client holds. Clients
13496 now request these documents when available. When both client and
13497 server use this new protocol, they will use far less bandwidth (up
13498 to 94% less) to keep the client's consensus up-to-date. Implements
13499 proposal 140; closes ticket 13339. Based on work by Daniel Martí.
13500 - Tor can now compress directory traffic with lzma or with zstd
13501 compression algorithms, which can deliver better bandwidth
13502 performance. Because lzma is computationally expensive, it's only
13503 used for documents that can be compressed once and served many
13504 times. Support for these algorithms requires that tor is built
13505 with the libzstd and/or liblzma libraries available. Implements
13506 proposal 278; closes ticket 21662.
13507 - Relays now perform the more expensive compression operations, and
13508 consensus diff generation, in worker threads. This separation
13509 avoids delaying the main thread when a new consensus arrives.
13511 o Major features (experimental):
13512 - Tor can now build modules written in Rust. To turn this on, pass
13513 the "--enable-rust" flag to the configure script. It's not time to
13514 get excited yet: currently, there is no actual Rust functionality
13515 beyond some simple glue code, and a notice at startup to tell you
13516 that Rust is running. Still, we hope that programmers and
13517 packagers will try building Tor with Rust support, so that we can
13518 find issues and solve portability problems. Closes ticket 22106.
13520 o Major features (traffic analysis resistance):
13521 - Connections between clients and relays now send a padding cell in
13522 each direction every 1.5 to 9.5 seconds (tunable via consensus
13523 parameters). This padding will not resist specialized
13524 eavesdroppers, but it should be enough to make many ISPs' routine
13525 network flow logging less useful in traffic analysis against
13528 Padding is negotiated using Tor's link protocol, so both relays
13529 and clients must upgrade for this to take effect. Clients may
13530 still send padding despite the relay's version by setting
13531 ConnectionPadding 1 in torrc, and may disable padding by setting
13532 ConnectionPadding 0 in torrc. Padding may be minimized for mobile
13533 users with the torrc option ReducedConnectionPadding. Implements
13534 Proposal 251 and Section 2 of Proposal 254; closes ticket 16861.
13535 - Relays will publish 24 hour totals of padding and non-padding cell
13536 counts to their extra-info descriptors, unless PaddingStatistics 0
13537 is set in torrc. These 24 hour totals are also rounded to
13538 multiples of 10000.
13540 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
13541 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
13542 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
13543 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13544 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
13545 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
13546 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
13549 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security):
13550 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
13551 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
13552 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
13553 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
13554 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
13556 o Major bugfixes (connection usage):
13557 - We use NETINFO cells to try to determine if both relays involved
13558 in a connection will agree on the canonical status of that
13559 connection. We prefer the connections where this is the case for
13560 extend cells, and try to close connections where relays disagree
13561 on their canonical status early. Also, we now prefer the oldest
13562 valid connection for extend cells. These two changes should reduce
13563 the number of long-term connections that are kept open between
13564 relays. Fixes bug 17604; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13565 - Relays now log hourly statistics (look for
13566 "channel_check_for_duplicates" lines) on the total number of
13567 connections to other relays. If the number of connections per
13568 relay is unexpectedly large, this log message is at notice level.
13569 Otherwise it is at info.
13571 o Major bugfixes (entry guards):
13572 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
13573 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
13574 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13575 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
13576 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
13577 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13579 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support):
13580 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
13581 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13582 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
13584 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service):
13585 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
13586 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
13587 handling of "0xx" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
13588 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
13590 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake):
13591 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
13592 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
13593 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
13594 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
13595 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
13596 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
13599 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management):
13600 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
13601 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
13602 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
13603 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
13604 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
13605 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
13606 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13607 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
13608 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
13609 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
13610 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
13611 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
13614 o Minor features (security, windows):
13615 - Enable a couple of pieces of Windows hardening: one
13616 (HeapEnableTerminationOnCorruption) that has been on-by-default
13617 since Windows 8, and unavailable before Windows 7; and one
13618 (PROCESS_DEP_DISABLE_ATL_THUNK_EMULATION) which we believe doesn't
13619 affect us, but shouldn't do any harm. Closes ticket 21953.
13621 o Minor features (bridge authority):
13622 - Add "fingerprint" lines to the networkstatus-bridges file produced
13623 by bridge authorities. Closes ticket 22207.
13625 o Minor features (code style):
13626 - Add "Falls through" comments to our codebase, in order to silence
13627 GCC 7's -Wimplicit-fallthrough warnings. Patch from Andreas
13628 Stieger. Closes ticket 22446.
13630 o Minor features (config options):
13631 - Allow "%include" directives in torrc configuration files. These
13632 directives import the settings from other files, or from all the
13633 files in a directory. Closes ticket 1922. Code by Daniel Pinto.
13634 - Make SAVECONF return an error when overwriting a torrc that has
13635 includes. Using SAVECONF with the FORCE option will allow it to
13636 overwrite torrc even if includes are used. Related to ticket 1922.
13637 - Add "GETINFO config-can-saveconf" to tell controllers if SAVECONF
13638 will work without the FORCE option. Related to ticket 1922.
13640 o Minor features (controller):
13641 - Warn the first time that a controller requests data in the long-
13642 deprecated 'GETINFO network-status' format. Closes ticket 21703.
13644 o Minor features (defaults):
13645 - The default value for UseCreateFast is now 0: clients which
13646 haven't yet received a consensus document will now use a proper
13647 ntor handshake to talk to their directory servers whenever they
13648 can. Closes ticket 21407.
13649 - Onion key rotation and expiry intervals are now defined as a
13650 network consensus parameter, per proposal 274. The default
13651 lifetime of an onion key is increased from 7 to 28 days. Old onion
13652 keys will expire after 7 days by default. This change will make
13653 consensus diffs much smaller, and save significant bandwidth.
13654 Closes ticket 21641.
13656 o Minor features (defensive programming):
13657 - Create a pair of consensus parameters, nf_pad_tor2web and
13658 nf_pad_single_onion, to disable netflow padding in the consensus
13659 for non-anonymous connections in case the overhead is high. Closes
13662 o Minor features (diagnostic):
13663 - Add a stack trace to the bug warnings that can be logged when
13664 trying to send an outgoing relay cell with n_chan == 0. Diagnostic
13665 attempt for bug 23105.
13666 - Add logging messages to try to diagnose a rare bug that seems to
13667 generate RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificates dated in the 1970s. We
13668 think this is happening because of incorrect system clocks, but
13669 we'd like to know for certain. Diagnostic for bug 22466.
13670 - Avoid an assertion failure, and log a better error message, when
13671 unable to remove a file from the consensus cache on Windows.
13672 Attempts to mitigate and diagnose bug 22752.
13674 o Minor features (directory authority):
13675 - Improve the message that authorities report to relays that present
13676 RSA/Ed25519 keypairs that conflict with previously pinned keys.
13677 Closes ticket 22348.
13679 o Minor features (directory cache, consensus diff):
13680 - Add a new MaxConsensusAgeForDiffs option to allow directory cache
13681 operators with low-resource environments to adjust the number of
13682 consensuses they'll store and generate diffs from. Most cache
13683 operators should leave it unchanged. Helps to work around
13686 o Minor features (fallback directory list):
13687 - Update the fallback directory mirror whitelist and blacklist based
13688 on operator emails. Closes task 21121.
13689 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
13690 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
13691 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
13692 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
13694 o Minor features (geoip):
13695 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
13698 o Minor features (hidden services, logging):
13699 - Log a message when a hidden service descriptor has fewer
13700 introduction points than specified in
13701 HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints. Closes tickets 21598.
13702 - Log a message when a hidden service reaches its introduction point
13703 circuit limit, and when that limit is reset. Follow up to ticket
13704 21594; closes ticket 21622.
13705 - Warn user if multiple entries in EntryNodes and at least one
13706 HiddenService are used together. Pinning EntryNodes along with a
13707 hidden service can be possibly harmful; for instance see ticket
13708 14917 or 21155. Closes ticket 21155.
13710 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13711 - We now have a document storage backend compatible with the Linux
13712 seccomp2 sandbox. This backend is used for consensus documents and
13713 diffs between them; in the long term, we'd like to use it for
13714 unparseable directory material too. Closes ticket 21645
13715 - Increase the maximum allowed size passed to mprotect(PROT_WRITE)
13716 from 1MB to 16MB. This was necessary with the glibc allocator in
13717 order to allow worker threads to allocate more memory -- which in
13718 turn is necessary because of our new use of worker threads for
13719 compression. Closes ticket 22096.
13721 o Minor features (logging):
13722 - Log files are no longer created world-readable by default.
13723 (Previously, most distributors would store the logs in a non-
13724 world-readable location to prevent inappropriate access. This
13725 change is an extra precaution.) Closes ticket 21729; patch
13728 o Minor features (performance):
13729 - Our Keccak (SHA-3) implementation now accesses memory more
13730 efficiently, especially on little-endian systems. Closes
13732 - Add an O(1) implementation of channel_find_by_global_id(), to
13733 speed some controller functions.
13735 o Minor features (relay, configuration):
13736 - The MyFamily option may now be repeated as many times as desired,
13737 for relays that want to configure large families. Closes ticket
13738 4998; patch by Daniel Pinto.
13740 o Minor features (relay, performance):
13741 - Always start relays with at least two worker threads, to prevent
13742 priority inversion on slow tasks. Part of the fix for bug 22883.
13743 - Allow background work to be queued with different priorities, so
13744 that a big pile of slow low-priority jobs will not starve out
13745 higher priority jobs. This lays the groundwork for a fix for
13748 o Minor features (safety):
13749 - Add an explicit check to extrainfo_parse_entry_from_string() for
13750 NULL inputs. We don't believe this can actually happen, but it may
13751 help silence a warning from the Clang analyzer. Closes
13754 o Minor features (testing):
13755 - Add more tests for compression backend initialization. Closes
13757 - Add a "--disable-memory-sentinels" feature to help with fuzzing.
13758 When Tor is compiled with this option, we disable a number of
13759 redundant memory-safety failsafes that are intended to stop bugs
13760 from becoming security issues. This makes it easier to hunt for
13761 bugs that would be security issues without the failsafes turned
13762 on. Closes ticket 21439.
13763 - Add a general event-tracing instrumentation support to Tor. This
13764 subsystem will enable developers and researchers to add fine-
13765 grained instrumentation to their Tor instances, for use when
13766 examining Tor network performance issues. There are no trace
13767 events yet, and event-tracing is off by default unless enabled at
13768 compile time. Implements ticket 13802.
13769 - Improve our version parsing tests: add tests for typical version
13770 components, add tests for invalid versions, including numeric
13771 range and non-numeric prefixes. Unit tests 21278, 21450, and
13772 21507. Partially implements 21470.
13774 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting):
13775 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
13776 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
13777 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
13779 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
13780 - Accurately identify client connections by their lack of peer
13781 authentication. This means that we bail out earlier if asked to
13782 extend to a client. Follow-up to 21407. Fixes bug 21406; bugfix
13785 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings):
13786 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug
13787 22915; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13788 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
13789 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13790 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
13791 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
13792 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
13795 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
13796 - Avoid compiler warnings in the unit tests for calling tor_sscanf()
13797 with wide string outputs. Fixes bug 15582; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
13799 o Minor bugfixes (compression):
13800 - When spooling compressed data to an output buffer, don't try to
13801 spool more data when there is no more data to spool and we are not
13802 trying to flush the input. Previously, we would sometimes launch
13803 compression requests with nothing to do, which interferes with our
13804 22672 checks. Fixes bug 22719; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13806 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
13807 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
13808 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13810 o Minor bugfixes (connection lifespan):
13811 - Allow more control over how long TLS connections are kept open:
13812 unify CircuitIdleTimeout and PredictedPortsRelevanceTime into a
13813 single option called CircuitsAvailableTimeout. Also, allow the
13814 consensus to control the default values for both this preference
13815 and the lifespan of relay-to-relay connections. Fixes bug 17592;
13816 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
13817 - Increase the initial circuit build timeout testing frequency, to
13818 help ensure that ReducedConnectionPadding clients finish learning
13819 a timeout before their orconn would expire. The initial testing
13820 rate was set back in the days of TAP and before the Tor Browser
13821 updater, when we had to be much more careful about new clients
13822 making lots of circuits. With this change, a circuit build timeout
13823 is learned in about 15-20 minutes, instead of 100-120 minutes.
13825 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
13826 - Do not crash when receiving a HSPOST command with an empty body.
13827 Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13828 - Do not crash when receiving a POSTDESCRIPTOR command with an empty
13829 body. Fixes part of bug 22644; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13830 - GETINFO onions/current and onions/detached no longer respond with
13831 551 on empty lists. Fixes bug 21329; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
13832 - Trigger HS descriptor events on the control port when the client
13833 fails to pick a hidden service directory for a hidden service.
13834 This can happen if all the hidden service directories are in
13835 ExcludeNodes, or they have all been queried within the last 15
13836 minutes. Fixes bug 22042; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
13838 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
13839 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
13840 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
13842 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support):
13843 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
13844 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
13845 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
13846 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
13847 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
13849 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming):
13850 - Detect and break out of infinite loops in our compression code. We
13851 don't think that any such loops exist now, but it's best to be
13852 safe. Closes ticket 22672.
13853 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
13854 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
13855 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
13856 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
13857 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
13858 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
13859 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
13860 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
13862 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
13863 - When a directory authority rejects a descriptor or extrainfo with
13864 a given digest, mark that digest as undownloadable, so that we do
13865 not attempt to download it again over and over. We previously
13866 tried to avoid downloading such descriptors by other means, but we
13867 didn't notice if we accidentally downloaded one anyway. This
13868 behavior became problematic in 0.2.7.2-alpha, when authorities
13869 began pinning Ed25519 keys. Fixes bug 22349; bugfix
13871 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
13872 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
13873 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
13874 - Prevent the shared randomness subsystem from asserting when
13875 initialized by a bridge authority with an incomplete configuration
13876 file. Fixes bug 21586; bugfix on 0.2.9.8.
13878 o Minor bugfixes (error reporting, windows):
13879 - When formatting Windows error messages, use the English format to
13880 avoid codepage issues. Fixes bug 22520; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-alpha.
13883 o Minor bugfixes (exit-side DNS):
13884 - Fix an untriggerable assertion that checked the output of a
13885 libevent DNS error, so that the assertion actually behaves as
13886 expected. Fixes bug 22244; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by Andrey
13887 Karpov using PVS-Studio.
13889 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
13890 - Make the usage example in updateFallbackDirs.py actually work, and
13891 explain what it does. Fixes bug 22270; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
13892 - Decrease the guard flag average required to be a fallback. This
13893 allows us to keep relays that have their guard flag removed when
13894 they restart. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13895 - Decrease the minimum number of fallbacks to 100. Fixes bug 20913;
13896 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13897 - Make sure fallback directory mirrors have the same address, port,
13898 and relay identity key for at least 30 days before they are
13899 selected. Fixes bug 20913; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
13901 o Minor bugfixes (file limits, osx):
13902 - When setting the maximum number of connections allowed by the OS,
13903 always allow some extra file descriptors for other files. Fixes
13904 bug 22797; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13906 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13907 - Increase the number of circuits that a service is allowed to
13908 open over a specific period of time. The value was lower than it
13909 should be (8 vs 12) in the normal case of 3 introduction points.
13910 Fixes bug 22159; bugfix on 0.3.0.5-rc.
13911 - Fix a BUG warning during HSv3 descriptor decoding that could be
13912 cause by a specially crafted descriptor. Fixes bug 23233; bugfix
13913 on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Bug found by "haxxpop".
13914 - Stop printing a cryptic warning when a hidden service gets a
13915 request to connect to a virtual port that it hasn't configured.
13916 Fixes bug 16706; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13917 - Simplify hidden service descriptor creation by using an existing
13918 flag to check if an introduction point is established. Fixes bug
13919 21599; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13921 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake):
13922 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
13923 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
13924 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
13925 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
13926 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
13927 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13929 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
13930 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
13931 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
13932 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
13933 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
13934 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
13935 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
13937 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
13938 - When decompressing, do not warn if we fail to decompress using a
13939 compression method that we merely guessed. Fixes part of bug
13940 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13941 - When decompressing, treat mismatch between content-encoding and
13942 actual compression type as a protocol warning. Fixes part of bug
13943 22670; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha.
13944 - Downgrade "assigned_to_cpuworker failed" message to info-level
13945 severity. In every case that can reach it, either a better warning
13946 has already been logged, or no warning is warranted. Fixes bug
13947 22356; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
13948 - Log a better message when a directory authority replies to an
13949 upload with an unexpected status code. Fixes bug 11121; bugfix
13951 - Downgrade a log statement about unexpected relay cells from "bug"
13952 to "protocol warning", because there is at least one use case
13953 where it can be triggered by a buggy tor implementation. Fixes bug
13954 21293; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
13956 o Minor bugfixes (logging, relay):
13957 - Remove a forgotten debugging message when an introduction point
13958 successfully establishes a hidden service prop224 circuit with
13960 - Change three other log_warn() for an introduction point to
13961 protocol warnings, because they can be failure from the network
13962 and are not relevant to the operator. Fixes bug 23078; bugfix on
13963 0.3.0.1-alpha and 0.3.0.2-alpha.
13965 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
13966 - Inform the geoip and rephist modules about all requests, even on
13967 relays that are only fetching microdescriptors. Fixes a bug
13968 related to 21585; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
13970 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
13971 - Fix a small memory leak at exit from the backtrace handler code.
13972 Fixes bug 21788; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
13973 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
13974 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
13975 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
13976 - Fix a small memory leak when validating a configuration that uses
13977 two or more AF_UNIX sockets for the same port type. Fixes bug
13978 23053; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. This is CID 1415725.
13980 o Minor bugfixes (process behavior):
13981 - When exiting because of an error, always exit with a nonzero exit
13982 status. Previously, we would fail to report an error in our exit
13983 status in cases related to __OwningControllerProcess failure,
13984 lockfile contention, and Ed25519 key initialization. Fixes bug
13985 22720; bugfix on versions 0.2.1.6-alpha, 0.2.2.28-beta, and
13986 0.2.7.2-alpha respectively. Reported by "f55jwk4f"; patch
13989 o Minor bugfixes (robustness, error handling):
13990 - Improve our handling of the cases where OpenSSL encounters a
13991 memory error while encoding keys and certificates. We haven't
13992 observed these errors in the wild, but if they do happen, we now
13993 detect and respond better. Fixes bug 19418; bugfix on all versions
13994 of Tor. Reported by Guido Vranken.
13996 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
13997 - Fix an undersized buffer in test-memwipe.c. Fixes bug 23291;
13998 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Found and patched by Ties Stuij.
13999 - Use unbuffered I/O for utility functions around the
14000 process_handle_t type. This fixes unit test failures reported on
14001 OpenBSD and FreeBSD. Fixes bug 21654; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14002 - Make display of captured unit test log messages consistent. Fixes
14003 bug 21510; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14004 - Make test-network.sh always call chutney's test-network.sh.
14005 Previously, this only worked on systems which had bash installed,
14006 due to some bash-specific code in the script. Fixes bug 19699;
14007 bugfix on 0.3.0.4-rc. Follow-up to ticket 21581.
14008 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14009 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14010 - The unit tests now pass on systems where localhost is misconfigured
14011 to some IPv4 address other than 127.0.0.1. Fixes bug 6298; bugfix
14014 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency):
14015 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14016 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14017 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14018 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14020 o Minor bugfixes (Windows service):
14021 - When running as a Windows service, set the ID of the main thread
14022 correctly. Failure to do so made us fail to send log messages to
14023 the controller in 0.2.1.16-rc, slowed down controller event
14024 delivery in 0.2.7.3-rc and later, and crash with an assertion
14025 failure in 0.3.1.1-alpha. Fixes bug 23081; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14026 Patch and diagnosis from "Vort".
14028 o Minor bugfixes (windows, relay):
14029 - Resolve "Failure from drain_fd: No error" warnings on Windows
14030 relays. Fixes bug 21540; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14032 o Code simplification and refactoring:
14033 - Break up the 630-line function connection_dir_client_reached_eof()
14034 into a dozen smaller functions. This change should help
14035 maintainability and readability of the client directory code.
14036 - Isolate our use of the openssl headers so that they are only
14037 included from our crypto wrapper modules, and from tests that
14038 examine those modules' internals. Closes ticket 21841.
14039 - Simplify our API to launch directory requests, making it more
14040 extensible and less error-prone. Now it's easier to add extra
14041 headers to directory requests. Closes ticket 21646.
14042 - Our base64 decoding functions no longer overestimate the output
14043 space that they need when parsing unpadded inputs. Closes
14045 - Remove unused "ROUTER_ADDED_NOTIFY_GENERATOR" internal value.
14046 Resolves ticket 22213.
14047 - The logic that directory caches use to spool request to clients,
14048 serving them one part at a time so as not to allocate too much
14049 memory, has been refactored for consistency. Previously there was
14050 a separate spooling implementation per type of spoolable data. Now
14051 there is one common spooling implementation, with extensible data
14052 types. Closes ticket 21651.
14053 - Tor's compression module now supports multiple backends. Part of
14054 the implementation for proposal 278; closes ticket 21663.
14057 - Add a manpage description for the key-pinning-journal file. Closes
14059 - Correctly note that bandwidth accounting values are stored in the
14060 state file, and the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. Closes
14062 - Document more of the files in the Tor data directory, including
14063 cached-extrainfo, secret_onion_key{,_ntor}.old, hidserv-stats,
14064 approved-routers, sr-random, and diff-cache. Found while fixing
14066 - Clarify the manpage for the (deprecated) torify script. Closes
14068 - Clarify the behavior of the KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth sub-option.
14069 Closes ticket 21873.
14070 - Correct documentation about the default DataDirectory value.
14071 Closes ticket 21151.
14072 - Document the default behavior of NumEntryGuards and
14073 NumDirectoryGuards correctly. Fixes bug 21715; bugfix
14075 - Document key=value pluggable transport arguments for Bridge lines
14076 in torrc. Fixes bug 20341; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14077 - Note that bandwidth-limiting options don't affect TCP headers or
14078 DNS. Closes ticket 17170.
14080 o Removed features (configuration options, all in ticket 22060):
14081 - These configuration options are now marked Obsolete, and no longer
14082 have any effect: AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
14083 AllowSingleHopExits, ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK,
14084 TLSECGroup, WarnUnsafeSocks. They were first marked as deprecated
14085 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and have now been removed. The previous default
14086 behavior is now always chosen; the previous (less secure) non-
14087 default behavior is now unavailable.
14088 - CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout and
14089 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout were deprecated in
14090 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. HS circuits never close
14091 on circuit build timeout; they have a longer timeout period.
14092 - {Control,DNS,Dir,Socks,Trans,NATD,OR}ListenAddress were deprecated
14093 in 0.2.9.2-alpha and now have been removed. Use the ORPort option
14094 (and others) to configure listen-only and advertise-only addresses.
14096 o Removed features (tools):
14097 - We've removed the tor-checkkey tool from src/tools. Long ago, we
14098 used it to help people detect RSA keys that were generated by
14099 versions of Debian affected by CVE-2008-0166. But those keys have
14100 been out of circulation for ages, and this tool is no longer
14101 required. Closes ticket 21842.
14104 Changes in version 0.3.0.10 - 2017-08-02
14105 Tor 0.3.0.10 backports a collection of small-to-medium bugfixes
14106 from the current Tor alpha series. OpenBSD users and TPROXY users
14107 should upgrade; others are probably okay sticking with 0.3.0.9.
14109 o Major features (build system, continuous integration, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14110 - Tor's repository now includes a Travis Continuous Integration (CI)
14111 configuration file (.travis.yml). This is meant to help new
14112 developers and contributors who fork Tor to a Github repository be
14113 better able to test their changes, and understand what we expect
14114 to pass. To use this new build feature, you must fork Tor to your
14115 Github account, then go into the "Integrations" menu in the
14116 repository settings for your fork and enable Travis, then push
14117 your changes. Closes ticket 22636.
14119 o Major bugfixes (linux TPROXY support, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14120 - Fix a typo that had prevented TPROXY-based transparent proxying
14121 from working under Linux. Fixes bug 18100; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
14122 Patch from "d4fq0fQAgoJ".
14124 o Major bugfixes (openbsd, denial-of-service, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14125 - Avoid an assertion failure bug affecting our implementation of
14126 inet_pton(AF_INET6) on certain OpenBSD systems whose strtol()
14127 handling of "0xbar" differs from what we had expected. Fixes bug
14128 22789; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha. Also tracked as TROVE-2017-007.
14130 o Minor features (backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14131 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14134 o Minor bugfixes (bandwidth accounting, backport from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14135 - Roll over monthly accounting at the configured hour and minute,
14136 rather than always at 00:00. Fixes bug 22245; bugfix on 0.0.9rc1.
14137 Found by Andrey Karpov with PVS-Studio.
14139 o Minor bugfixes (compilation warnings, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14140 - Suppress -Wdouble-promotion warnings with clang 4.0. Fixes bug 22915;
14141 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14142 - Fix warnings when building with libscrypt and openssl scrypt
14143 support on Clang. Fixes bug 22916; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14144 - When building with certain versions of the mingw C header files,
14145 avoid float-conversion warnings when calling the C functions
14146 isfinite(), isnan(), and signbit(). Fixes bug 22801; bugfix
14149 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, mingw, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14150 - Backport a fix for an "unused variable" warning that appeared
14151 in some versions of mingw. Fixes bug 22838; bugfix on
14154 o Minor bugfixes (coverity build support, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14155 - Avoid Coverity build warnings related to our BUG() macro. By
14156 default, Coverity treats BUG() as the Linux kernel does: an
14157 instant abort(). We need to override that so our BUG() macro
14158 doesn't prevent Coverity from analyzing functions that use it.
14159 Fixes bug 23030; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14161 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14162 - When rejecting a router descriptor for running an obsolete version
14163 of Tor without ntor support, warn about the obsolete tor version,
14164 not the missing ntor key. Fixes bug 20270; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14166 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha):
14167 - Avoid a sandbox failure when trying to re-bind to a socket and
14168 mark it as IPv6-only. Fixes bug 20247; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
14170 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests, backport from 0.3.1.5-alpha)
14171 - Fix a memory leak in the link-handshake/certs_ok_ed25519 test.
14172 Fixes bug 22803; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14175 Changes in version 0.3.0.9 - 2017-06-29
14176 Tor 0.3.0.9 fixes a path selection bug that would allow a client
14177 to use a guard that was in the same network family as a chosen exit
14178 relay. This is a security regression; all clients running earlier
14179 versions of 0.3.0.x or 0.3.1.x should upgrade to 0.3.0.9 or
14182 This release also backports several other bugfixes from the 0.3.1.x
14185 o Major bugfixes (path selection, security, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14186 - When choosing which guard to use for a circuit, avoid the exit's
14187 family along with the exit itself. Previously, the new guard
14188 selection logic avoided the exit, but did not consider its family.
14189 Fixes bug 22753; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha. Tracked as TROVE-2017-
14190 006 and CVE-2017-0377.
14192 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14193 - Don't block bootstrapping when a primary bridge is offline and we
14194 can't get its descriptor. Fixes bug 22325; fixes one case of bug
14195 21969; bugfix on 0.3.0.3-alpha.
14197 o Major bugfixes (entry guards, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14198 - When starting with an old consensus, do not add new entry guards
14199 unless the consensus is "reasonably live" (under 1 day old). Fixes
14200 one root cause of bug 22400; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14202 o Minor features (geoip):
14203 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14206 o Minor bugfixes (voting consistency, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14207 - Reject version numbers with non-numeric prefixes (such as +, -, or
14208 whitespace). Disallowing whitespace prevents differential version
14209 parsing between POSIX-based and Windows platforms. Fixes bug 21507
14210 and part of 21508; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14212 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14213 - Permit the fchmod system call, to avoid crashing on startup when
14214 starting with the seccomp2 sandbox and an unexpected set of
14215 permissions on the data directory or its contents. Fixes bug
14216 22516; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14218 o Minor bugfixes (defensive programming, backport from 0.3.1.4-alpha):
14219 - Fix a memset() off the end of an array when packing cells. This
14220 bug should be harmless in practice, since the corrupted bytes are
14221 still in the same structure, and are always padding bytes,
14222 ignored, or immediately overwritten, depending on compiler
14223 behavior. Nevertheless, because the memset()'s purpose is to make
14224 sure that any other cell-handling bugs can't expose bytes to the
14225 network, we need to fix it. Fixes bug 22737; bugfix on
14226 0.2.4.11-alpha. Fixes CID 1401591.
14229 Changes in version 0.3.0.8 - 2017-06-08
14230 Tor 0.3.0.8 fixes a pair of bugs that would allow an attacker to
14231 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14232 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14233 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-004 and TROVE-2017-005.
14235 Tor 0.3.0.8 also includes fixes for several key management bugs
14236 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14237 bugfixes described below.
14239 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14240 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14241 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure when a hidden service
14242 handles a malformed BEGIN cell. Fixes bug 22493, tracked as
14243 TROVE-2017-004 and as CVE-2017-0375; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14244 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14245 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14246 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14249 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14250 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14251 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14252 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14253 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14254 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14255 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14258 o Major bugfixes (relays, key management, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14259 - Regenerate link and authentication certificates whenever the key
14260 that signs them changes; also, regenerate link certificates
14261 whenever the signed key changes. Previously, these processes were
14262 only weakly coupled, and we relays could (for minutes to hours)
14263 wind up with an inconsistent set of keys and certificates, which
14264 other relays would not accept. Fixes two cases of bug 22460;
14265 bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14266 - When sending an Ed25519 signing->link certificate in a CERTS cell,
14267 send the certificate that matches the x509 certificate that we
14268 used on the TLS connection. Previously, there was a race condition
14269 if the TLS context rotated after we began the TLS handshake but
14270 before we sent the CERTS cell. Fixes a case of bug 22460; bugfix
14273 o Major bugfixes (hidden service v3, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14274 - Stop rejecting v3 hidden service descriptors because their size
14275 did not match an old padding rule. Fixes bug 22447; bugfix on
14278 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14279 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14280 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14281 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14282 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14284 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, backport from 0.3.1.1-alpha):
14285 - Do not crash when starting with LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0. Fixes
14286 bug 22252; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14288 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14289 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14290 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14292 o Minor bugfixes (link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14293 - Lower the lifetime of the RSA->Ed25519 cross-certificate to six
14294 months, and regenerate it when it is within one month of expiring.
14295 Previously, we had generated this certificate at startup with a
14296 ten-year lifetime, but that could lead to weird behavior when Tor
14297 was started with a grossly inaccurate clock. Mitigates bug 22466;
14298 mitigation on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14300 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport from
14302 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14303 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14304 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14307 Changes in version 0.2.9.11 - 2017-06-08
14308 Tor 0.2.9.11 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14309 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14310 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14311 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14312 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14314 Tor 0.2.9.11 also backports fixes for several key management bugs
14315 that sometimes made relays unreliable, as well as several other
14316 bugfixes described below.
14318 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security, backport
14319 from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14320 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14321 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14322 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14325 o Major bugfixes (relay, link handshake, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14326 - When performing the v3 link handshake on a TLS connection, report
14327 that we have the x509 certificate that we actually used on that
14328 connection, even if we have changed certificates since that
14329 connection was first opened. Previously, we would claim to have
14330 used our most recent x509 link certificate, which would sometimes
14331 make the link handshake fail. Fixes one case of bug 22460; bugfix
14334 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14335 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14336 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14337 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14338 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14340 o Minor features (future-proofing, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14341 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors if
14342 they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14343 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14344 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14345 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14346 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14348 o Minor features (directory authorities, backport from 0.3.0.4-rc)
14349 - Directory authorities now reject relays running versions
14350 0.2.9.1-alpha through 0.2.9.4-alpha, because those relays
14351 suffer from bug 20499 and don't keep their consensus cache
14352 up-to-date. Resolves ticket 20509.
14354 o Minor features (geoip):
14355 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14358 o Minor bugfixes (control port, backport from 0.3.0.6):
14359 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14360 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14361 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14363 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14364 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14365 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14367 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, backport from 0.3.0.7):
14368 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14369 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14370 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14371 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14374 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak, directory authority, backport
14375 from 0.3.1.2-alpha):
14376 - When directory authorities reject a router descriptor due to
14377 keypinning, free the router descriptor rather than leaking the
14378 memory. Fixes bug 22370; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14380 Changes in version 0.2.8.14 - 2017-06-08
14381 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14382 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14383 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14384 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14385 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14387 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14388 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14389 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14390 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14393 o Minor features (geoip):
14394 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14397 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backport from 0.3.1.3-alpha):
14398 - Replace the 177 fallbacks originally introduced in Tor 0.2.9.8 in
14399 December 2016 (of which ~126 were still functional) with a list of
14400 151 fallbacks (32 new, 119 unchanged, 58 removed) generated in May
14401 2017. Resolves ticket 21564.
14403 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14404 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14405 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14407 Changes in version 0.2.7.8 - 2017-06-08
14408 Tor 0.2.7.8 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14409 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14410 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14411 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14412 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14414 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14415 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14416 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14417 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14420 o Minor features (geoip):
14421 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14424 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14425 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14426 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14429 Changes in version 0.2.6.12 - 2017-06-08
14430 Tor 0.2.6.12 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14431 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14432 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14433 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14434 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14436 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14437 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14438 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14439 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14442 o Minor features (geoip):
14443 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14446 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14447 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14448 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14450 Changes in version 0.2.5.14 - 2017-06-08
14451 Tor 0.2.5.14 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14452 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14453 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14454 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14455 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14457 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14458 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14459 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14460 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14463 o Minor features (geoip):
14464 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14467 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14468 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14469 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14471 Changes in version 0.2.4.29 - 2017-06-08
14472 Tor 0.2.4.29 backports a fix for a bug that would allow an attacker to
14473 remotely crash a hidden service with an assertion failure. Anyone
14474 running a hidden service should upgrade to this version, or to some
14475 other version with fixes for TROVE-2017-005. (Versions before 0.3.0
14476 are not affected by TROVE-2017-004.)
14478 o Major bugfixes (hidden service, relay, security):
14479 - Fix a remotely triggerable assertion failure caused by receiving a
14480 BEGIN_DIR cell on a hidden service rendezvous circuit. Fixes bug
14481 22494, tracked as TROVE-2017-005 and CVE-2017-0376; bugfix
14484 o Minor features (geoip):
14485 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14488 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
14489 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing IPv6 entries from the geoip6
14490 file. Fixes bug 22490; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
14493 Changes in version 0.3.0.7 - 2017-05-15
14494 Tor 0.3.0.7 fixes a medium-severity security bug in earlier versions
14495 of Tor 0.3.0.x, where an attacker could cause a Tor relay process
14496 to exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade;
14497 clients are not affected.
14499 o Major bugfixes (hidden service directory, security):
14500 - Fix an assertion failure in the hidden service directory code, which
14501 could be used by an attacker to remotely cause a Tor relay process to
14502 exit. Relays running earlier versions of Tor 0.3.0.x should upgrade.
14503 should upgrade. This security issue is tracked as TROVE-2017-002.
14504 Fixes bug 22246; bugfix on 0.3.0.1-alpha.
14507 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 2 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14510 o Minor features (future-proofing):
14511 - Tor no longer refuses to download microdescriptors or descriptors
14512 if they are listed as "published in the future". This change will
14513 eventually allow us to stop listing meaningful "published" dates
14514 in microdescriptor consensuses, and thereby allow us to reduce the
14515 resources required to download consensus diffs by over 50%.
14516 Implements part of ticket 21642; implements part of proposal 275.
14518 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
14519 - The getpid() system call is now permitted under the Linux seccomp2
14520 sandbox, to avoid crashing with versions of OpenSSL (and other
14521 libraries) that attempt to learn the process's PID by using the
14522 syscall rather than the VDSO code. Fixes bug 21943; bugfix
14526 Changes in version 0.3.0.6 - 2017-04-26
14527 Tor 0.3.0.6 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.3.0 series.
14529 With the 0.3.0 series, clients and relays now use Ed25519 keys to
14530 authenticate their link connections to relays, rather than the old
14531 RSA1024 keys that they used before. (Circuit crypto has been
14532 Curve25519-authenticated since 0.2.4.8-alpha.) We have also replaced
14533 the guard selection and replacement algorithm to behave more robustly
14534 in the presence of unreliable networks, and to resist guard-
14537 This series also includes numerous other small features and bugfixes,
14538 along with more groundwork for the upcoming hidden-services revamp.
14540 Per our stable release policy, we plan to support the Tor 0.3.0
14541 release series for at least the next nine months, or for three months
14542 after the first stable release of the 0.3.1 series: whichever is
14543 longer. If you need a release with long-term support, we recommend
14544 that you stay with the 0.2.9 series.
14546 Below are the changes since 0.2.9.10. For a list of only the changes
14547 since 0.3.0.5-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
14549 o Major features (directory authority, security):
14550 - The default for AuthDirPinKeys is now 1: directory authorities
14551 will reject relays where the RSA identity key matches a previously
14552 seen value, but the Ed25519 key has changed. Closes ticket 18319.
14554 o Major features (guard selection algorithm):
14555 - Tor's guard selection algorithm has been redesigned from the
14556 ground up, to better support unreliable networks and restrictive
14557 sets of entry nodes, and to better resist guard-capture attacks by
14558 hostile local networks. Implements proposal 271; closes
14561 o Major features (next-generation hidden services):
14562 - Relays can now handle v3 ESTABLISH_INTRO cells as specified by
14563 prop224 aka "Next Generation Hidden Services". Service and clients
14564 don't use this functionality yet. Closes ticket 19043. Based on
14565 initial code by Alec Heifetz.
14566 - Relays now support the HSDir version 3 protocol, so that they can
14567 can store and serve v3 descriptors. This is part of the next-
14568 generation onion service work detailed in proposal 224. Closes
14571 o Major features (protocol, ed25519 identity keys):
14572 - Clients now support including Ed25519 identity keys in the EXTEND2
14573 cells they generate. By default, this is controlled by a consensus
14574 parameter, currently disabled. You can turn this feature on for
14575 testing by setting ExtendByEd25519ID in your configuration. This
14576 might make your traffic appear different than the traffic
14577 generated by other users, however. Implements part of ticket
14578 15056; part of proposal 220.
14579 - Relays now understand requests to extend to other relays by their
14580 Ed25519 identity keys. When an Ed25519 identity key is included in
14581 an EXTEND2 cell, the relay will only extend the circuit if the
14582 other relay can prove ownership of that identity. Implements part
14583 of ticket 15056; part of proposal 220.
14584 - Relays now use Ed25519 to prove their Ed25519 identities and to
14585 one another, and to clients. This algorithm is faster and more
14586 secure than the RSA-based handshake we've been doing until now.
14587 Implements the second big part of proposal 220; Closes
14590 o Major features (security):
14591 - Change the algorithm used to decide DNS TTLs on client and server
14592 side, to better resist DNS-based correlation attacks like the
14593 DefecTor attack of Greschbach, Pulls, Roberts, Winter, and
14594 Feamster. Now relays only return one of two possible DNS TTL
14595 values, and clients are willing to believe DNS TTL values up to 3
14596 hours long. Closes ticket 19769.
14598 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service, also in 0.2.9.9):
14599 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
14600 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
14601 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
14602 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
14603 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
14604 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
14605 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
14606 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
14607 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
14608 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14610 o Major bugfixes (crash, directory connections):
14611 - Fix a rare crash when sending a begin cell on a circuit whose
14612 linked directory connection had already been closed. Fixes bug
14613 21576; bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14615 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
14616 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
14617 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
14618 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
14621 o Major bugfixes (DNS):
14622 - Fix a bug that prevented exit nodes from caching DNS records for
14623 more than 60 seconds. Fixes bug 19025; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14625 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits):
14626 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
14627 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
14628 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
14629 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
14630 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
14631 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
14633 o Major bugfixes (parsing):
14634 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
14635 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
14636 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
14637 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
14638 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
14639 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
14640 - When parsing a malformed content-length field from an HTTP
14641 message, do not read off the end of the buffer. This bug was a
14642 potential remote denial-of-service attack against Tor clients and
14643 relays. A workaround was released in October 2016, to prevent this
14644 bug from crashing Tor. This is a fix for the underlying issue,
14645 which should no longer matter (if you applied the earlier patch).
14646 Fixes bug 20894; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Bug found by fuzzing
14647 using AFL (http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/afl/).
14649 o Major bugfixes (scheduler):
14650 - Actually compare circuit policies in ewma_cmp_cmux(). This bug
14651 caused the channel scheduler to behave more or less randomly,
14652 rather than preferring channels with higher-priority circuits.
14653 Fixes bug 20459; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
14655 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.9.9):
14656 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
14657 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
14658 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes--and having it
14659 on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
14660 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
14661 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14663 o Minor feature (client):
14664 - Enable IPv6 traffic on the SocksPort by default. To disable this,
14665 a user will have to specify "NoIPv6Traffic". Closes ticket 21269.
14667 o Minor feature (fallback scripts):
14668 - Add a check_existing mode to updateFallbackDirs.py, which checks
14669 if fallbacks in the hard-coded list are working. Closes ticket
14670 20174. Patch by haxxpop.
14672 o Minor feature (protocol versioning):
14673 - Add new protocol version for proposal 224. HSIntro now advertises
14674 version "3-4" and HSDir version "1-2". Fixes ticket 20656.
14676 o Minor features (ciphersuite selection):
14677 - Allow relays to accept a wider range of ciphersuites, including
14678 chacha20-poly1305 and AES-CCM. Closes the other part of 15426.
14679 - Clients now advertise a list of ciphersuites closer to the ones
14680 preferred by Firefox. Closes part of ticket 15426.
14682 o Minor features (controller):
14683 - Add "GETINFO sr/current" and "GETINFO sr/previous" keys, to expose
14684 shared-random values to the controller. Closes ticket 19925.
14685 - When HSFETCH arguments cannot be parsed, say "Invalid argument"
14686 rather than "unrecognized." Closes ticket 20389; patch from
14689 o Minor features (controller, configuration):
14690 - Each of the *Port options, such as SocksPort, ORPort, ControlPort,
14691 and so on, now comes with a __*Port variant that will not be saved
14692 to the torrc file by the controller's SAVECONF command. This
14693 change allows TorBrowser to set up a single-use domain socket for
14694 each time it launches Tor. Closes ticket 20956.
14695 - The GETCONF command can now query options that may only be
14696 meaningful in context-sensitive lists. This allows the controller
14697 to query the mixed SocksPort/__SocksPort style options introduced
14698 in feature 20956. Implements ticket 21300.
14700 o Minor features (diagnostic, directory client):
14701 - Warn when we find an unexpected inconsistency in directory
14702 download status objects. Prevents some negative consequences of
14705 o Minor features (directory authorities):
14706 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
14707 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
14709 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
14710 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
14711 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
14713 o Minor features (directory authority):
14714 - Add a new authority-only AuthDirTestEd25519LinkKeys option (on by
14715 default) to control whether authorities should try to probe relays
14716 by their Ed25519 link keys. This option will go away in a few
14717 releases--unless we encounter major trouble in our ed25519 link
14718 protocol rollout, in which case it will serve as a safety option.
14720 o Minor features (directory cache):
14721 - Relays and bridges will now refuse to serve the consensus they
14722 have if they know it is too old for a client to use. Closes
14725 o Minor features (ed25519 link handshake):
14726 - Advertise support for the ed25519 link handshake using the
14727 subprotocol-versions mechanism, so that clients can tell which
14728 relays can identity themselves by Ed25519 ID. Closes ticket 20552.
14730 o Minor features (entry guards):
14731 - Add UseEntryGuards to TEST_OPTIONS_DEFAULT_VALUES in order to not
14732 break regression tests.
14733 - Require UseEntryGuards when UseBridges is set, in order to make
14734 sure bridges aren't bypassed. Resolves ticket 20502.
14736 o Minor features (fallback directories):
14737 - Allow 3 fallback relays per operator, which is safe now that we
14738 are choosing 200 fallback relays. Closes ticket 20912.
14739 - Annotate updateFallbackDirs.py with the bandwidth and consensus
14740 weight for each candidate fallback. Closes ticket 20878.
14741 - Display the relay fingerprint when downloading consensuses from
14742 fallbacks. Closes ticket 20908.
14743 - Exclude relays affected by bug 20499 from the fallback list.
14744 Exclude relays from the fallback list if they are running versions
14745 known to be affected by bug 20499, or if in our tests they deliver
14746 a stale consensus (i.e. one that expired more than 24 hours ago).
14747 Closes ticket 20539.
14748 - Make it easier to change the output sort order of fallbacks.
14749 Closes ticket 20822.
14750 - Reduce the minimum fallback bandwidth to 1 MByte/s. Part of
14752 - Require fallback directories to have the same address and port for
14753 7 days (now that we have enough relays with this stability).
14754 Relays whose OnionOO stability timer is reset on restart by bug
14755 18050 should upgrade to Tor 0.2.8.7 or later, which has a fix for
14756 this issue. Closes ticket 20880; maintains short-term fix
14758 - Require fallbacks to have flags for 90% of the time (weighted
14759 decaying average), rather than 95%. This allows at least 73% of
14760 clients to bootstrap in the first 5 seconds without contacting an
14761 authority. Part of ticket 18828.
14762 - Select 200 fallback directories for each release. Closes
14765 o Minor features (fingerprinting resistance, authentication):
14766 - Extend the length of RSA keys used for TLS link authentication to
14767 2048 bits. (These weren't used for forward secrecy; for forward
14768 secrecy, we used P256.) Closes ticket 13752.
14770 o Minor features (geoip):
14771 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the April 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14774 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.9.9):
14775 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
14778 o Minor features (infrastructure):
14779 - Implement smartlist_add_strdup() function. Replaces the use of
14780 smartlist_add(sl, tor_strdup(str)). Closes ticket 20048.
14782 o Minor features (linting):
14783 - Enhance the changes file linter to warn on Tor versions that are
14784 prefixed with "tor-". Closes ticket 21096.
14786 o Minor features (logging):
14787 - In several places, describe unset ed25519 keys as "<unset>",
14788 rather than the scary "AAAAAAAA...AAA". Closes ticket 21037.
14790 o Minor features (portability, compilation):
14791 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
14792 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
14794 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
14795 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
14797 o Minor features (relay):
14798 - We now allow separation of exit and relay traffic to different
14799 source IP addresses, using the OutboundBindAddressExit and
14800 OutboundBindAddressOR options respectively. Closes ticket 17975.
14801 Written by Michael Sonntag.
14803 o Minor features (reliability, crash):
14804 - Try better to detect problems in buffers where they might grow (or
14805 think they have grown) over 2 GB in size. Diagnostic for
14808 o Minor features (testing):
14809 - During 'make test-network-all', if tor logs any warnings, ask
14810 chutney to output them. Requires a recent version of chutney with
14811 the 21572 patch. Implements 21570.
14813 o Minor bugfix (control protocol):
14814 - The reply to a "GETINFO config/names" request via the control
14815 protocol now spells the type "Dependent" correctly. This is a
14816 breaking change in the control protocol. (The field seems to be
14817 ignored by the most common known controllers.) Fixes bug 18146;
14818 bugfix on 0.1.1.4-alpha.
14819 - The GETINFO extra-info/digest/<digest> command was broken because
14820 of a wrong base16 decode return value check, introduced when
14821 refactoring that API. Fixes bug 22034; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14823 o Minor bugfix (logging):
14824 - Don't recommend the use of Tor2web in non-anonymous mode.
14825 Recommending Tor2web is a bad idea because the client loses all
14826 anonymity. Tor2web should only be used in specific cases by users
14827 who *know* and understand the issues. Fixes bug 21294; bugfix
14830 o Minor bugfixes (bug resilience):
14831 - Fix an unreachable size_t overflow in base64_decode(). Fixes bug
14832 19222; bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Found by Guido Vranken; fixed by
14833 Hans Jerry Illikainen.
14835 o Minor bugfixes (build):
14836 - Replace obsolete Autoconf macros with their modern equivalent and
14837 prevent similar issues in the future. Fixes bug 20990; bugfix
14840 o Minor bugfixes (certificate expiration time):
14841 - Avoid using link certificates that don't become valid till some
14842 time in the future. Fixes bug 21420; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha
14844 o Minor bugfixes (client):
14845 - Always recover from failures in extend_info_from_node(), in an
14846 attempt to prevent any recurrence of bug 21242. Fixes bug 21372;
14847 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
14848 - When clients that use bridges start up with a cached consensus on
14849 disk, they were ignoring it and downloading a new one. Now they
14850 use the cached one. Fixes bug 20269; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
14852 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
14853 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
14854 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
14856 o Minor bugfixes (config):
14857 - Don't assert on startup when trying to get the options list and
14858 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is set to 0: we are currently parsing the
14859 options so of course they aren't ready yet. Fixes bug 21062;
14860 bugfix on 0.2.9.3-alpha.
14862 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
14863 - Accept non-space whitespace characters after the severity level in
14864 the `Log` option. Fixes bug 19965; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14865 - Support "TByte" and "TBytes" units in options given in bytes.
14866 "TB", "terabyte(s)", "TBit(s)" and "terabit(s)" were already
14867 supported. Fixes bug 20622; bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
14869 o Minor bugfixes (configure, autoconf):
14870 - Rename the configure option --enable-expensive-hardening to
14871 --enable-fragile-hardening. Expensive hardening makes the tor
14872 daemon abort when some kinds of issues are detected. Thus, it
14873 makes tor more at risk of remote crashes but safer against RCE or
14874 heartbleed bug category. We now try to explain this issue in a
14875 message from the configure script. Fixes bug 21290; bugfix
14878 o Minor bugfixes (consensus weight):
14879 - Add new consensus method that initializes bw weights to 1 instead
14880 of 0. This prevents a zero weight from making it all the way to
14881 the end (happens in small testing networks) and causing an error.
14882 Fixes bug 14881; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
14884 o Minor bugfixes (crash prevention):
14885 - Fix an (currently untriggerable, but potentially dangerous) crash
14886 bug when base32-encoding inputs whose sizes are not a multiple of
14887 5. Fixes bug 21894; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14889 o Minor bugfixes (dead code):
14890 - Remove a redundant check for PidFile changes at runtime in
14891 options_transition_allowed(): this check is already performed
14892 regardless of whether the sandbox is active. Fixes bug 21123;
14893 bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
14895 o Minor bugfixes (descriptors):
14896 - Correctly recognise downloaded full descriptors as valid, even
14897 when using microdescriptors as circuits. This affects clients with
14898 FetchUselessDescriptors set, and may affect directory authorities.
14899 Fixes bug 20839; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14901 o Minor bugfixes (directory mirrors):
14902 - Allow relays to use directory mirrors without a DirPort: these
14903 relays need to be contacted over their ORPorts using a begindir
14904 connection. Fixes one case of bug 20711; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14905 - Clarify the message logged when a remote relay is unexpectedly
14906 missing an ORPort or DirPort: users were confusing this with a
14907 local port. Fixes another case of bug 20711; bugfix
14910 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
14911 - Bridges and relays now use microdescriptors (like clients do)
14912 rather than old-style router descriptors. Now bridges will blend
14913 in with clients in terms of the circuits they build. Fixes bug
14914 6769; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
14915 - Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority
14916 certificates when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of
14917 whether tor is a directory cache or not. Fixes bug 20667; bugfix
14918 on all recent tor versions.
14920 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
14921 - Update the tor manual page to document every option that can not
14922 be changed while tor is running. Fixes bug 21122.
14924 o Minor bugfixes (ed25519 certificates):
14925 - Correctly interpret ed25519 certificates that would expire some
14926 time after 19 Jan 2038. Fixes bug 20027; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14928 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
14929 - Avoid checking fallback candidates' DirPorts if they are down in
14930 OnionOO. When a relay operator has multiple relays, this
14931 prioritizes relays that are up over relays that are down. Fixes
14932 bug 20926; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14933 - Stop failing when OUTPUT_COMMENTS is True in updateFallbackDirs.py.
14934 Fixes bug 20877; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
14935 - Stop failing when a relay has no uptime data in
14936 updateFallbackDirs.py. Fixes bug 20945; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
14938 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
14939 - Clean up the code for expiring intro points with no associated
14940 circuits. It was causing, rarely, a service with some expiring
14941 introduction points to not open enough additional introduction
14942 points. Fixes part of bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14943 - Resolve two possible underflows which could lead to creating and
14944 closing a lot of introduction point circuits in a non-stop loop.
14945 Fixes bug 21302; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14946 - Stop setting the torrc option HiddenServiceStatistics to "0" just
14947 because we're not a bridge or relay. Instead, we preserve whatever
14948 value the user set (or didn't set). Fixes bug 21150; bugfix
14951 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14952 - Make hidden services check for failed intro point connections,
14953 even when they have exceeded their intro point creation limit.
14954 Fixes bug 21596; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14955 - Make hidden services with 8 to 10 introduction points check for
14956 failed circuits immediately after startup. Previously, they would
14957 wait for 5 minutes before performing their first checks. Fixes bug
14958 21594; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Reported by Alec Muffett.
14959 - Stop ignoring misconfigured hidden services. Instead, refuse to
14960 start tor until the misconfigurations have been corrected. Fixes
14961 bug 20559; bugfix on multiple commits in 0.2.7.1-alpha
14964 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
14965 - Make IPv6-using clients try harder to find an IPv6 directory
14966 server. Fixes bug 20999; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
14967 - When IPv6 addresses have not been downloaded yet (microdesc
14968 consensus documents don't list relay IPv6 addresses), use hard-
14969 coded addresses for authorities, fallbacks, and configured
14970 bridges. Now IPv6-only clients can use microdescriptors. Fixes bug
14971 20996; bugfix on b167e82 from 19608 in 0.2.8.5-alpha.
14973 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak at exit):
14974 - Fix a small harmless memory leak at exit of the previously unused
14975 RSA->Ed identity cross-certificate. Fixes bug 17779; bugfix
14978 o Minor bugfixes (onion services):
14979 - Allow the number of introduction points to be as low as 0, rather
14980 than as low as 3. Fixes bug 21033; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
14982 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
14983 - Use "OpenBSD" compiler macro instead of "OPENBSD" or "__OpenBSD__".
14984 It is supported by OpenBSD itself, and also by most OpenBSD
14985 variants (such as Bitrig). Fixes bug 20980; bugfix
14988 o Minor bugfixes (portability, also in 0.2.9.9):
14989 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
14990 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
14991 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
14993 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
14994 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
14996 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
14997 - Avoid a double-marked-circuit warning that could happen when we
14998 receive DESTROY cells under heavy load. Fixes bug 20059; bugfix
15000 - Honor DataDirectoryGroupReadable when tor is a relay. Previously,
15001 initializing the keys would reset the DataDirectory to 0700
15002 instead of 0750 even if DataDirectoryGroupReadable was set to 1.
15003 Fixes bug 19953; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16. Patch by "redfish".
15005 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
15006 - Fix Raspbian build issues related to missing socket errno in
15007 test_util.c. Fixes bug 21116; bugfix on 0.2.8.2. Patch by "hein".
15008 - Remove undefined behavior from the backtrace generator by removing
15009 its signal handler. Fixes bug 21026; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
15010 - Use bash in src/test/test-network.sh. This ensures we reliably
15011 call chutney's newer tools/test-network.sh when available. Fixes
15012 bug 21562; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15014 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve):
15015 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15016 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15017 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15018 Patch by "junglefowl".
15020 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
15021 - Allow the unit tests to pass even when DNS lookups of bogus
15022 addresses do not fail as expected. Fixes bug 20862 and 20863;
15023 bugfix on unit tests introduced in 0.2.8.1-alpha
15024 through 0.2.9.4-alpha.
15026 o Minor bugfixes (util):
15027 - When finishing writing a file to disk, if we were about to replace
15028 the file with the temporary file created before and we fail to
15029 replace it, remove the temporary file so it doesn't stay on disk.
15030 Fixes bug 20646; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Patch by fk.
15032 o Minor bugfixes (Windows services):
15033 - Be sure to initialize the monotonic time subsystem before using
15034 it, even when running as an NT service. Fixes bug 21356; bugfix
15037 o Minor bugfixes (Windows):
15038 - Check for getpagesize before using it to mmap files. This fixes
15039 compilation in some MinGW environments. Fixes bug 20530; bugfix on
15040 0.1.2.1-alpha. Reported by "ice".
15042 o Code simplification and refactoring:
15043 - Abolish all global guard context in entrynodes.c; replace with new
15044 guard_selection_t structure as preparation for proposal 271.
15045 Closes ticket 19858.
15046 - Extract magic numbers in circuituse.c into defined variables.
15047 - Introduce rend_service_is_ephemeral() that tells if given onion
15048 service is ephemeral. Replace unclear NULL-checkings for service
15049 directory with this function. Closes ticket 20526.
15050 - Refactor circuit_is_available_for_use to remove unnecessary check.
15051 - Refactor circuit_predict_and_launch_new for readability and
15052 testability. Closes ticket 18873.
15053 - Refactor code to manipulate global_origin_circuit_list into
15054 separate functions. Closes ticket 20921.
15055 - Refactor large if statement in purpose_needs_anonymity to use
15056 switch statement instead. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15057 - Refactor the hashing API to return negative values for errors, as
15058 is done as throughout the codebase. Closes ticket 20717.
15059 - Remove data structures that were used to index or_connection
15060 objects by their RSA identity digests. These structures are fully
15061 redundant with the similar structures used in the
15062 channel abstraction.
15063 - Remove duplicate code in the channel_write_*cell() functions.
15064 Closes ticket 13827; patch from Pingl.
15065 - Remove redundant behavior of is_sensitive_dir_purpose, refactor to
15066 use only purpose_needs_anonymity. Closes part of ticket 20077.
15067 - The code to generate and parse EXTEND and EXTEND2 cells has been
15068 replaced with code automatically generated by the
15071 o Documentation (formatting):
15072 - Clean up formatting of tor.1 man page and HTML doc, where <pre>
15073 blocks were incorrectly appearing. Closes ticket 20885.
15075 o Documentation (man page):
15076 - Clarify many options in tor.1 and add some min/max values for
15077 HiddenService options. Closes ticket 21058.
15080 - Change '1' to 'weight_scale' in consensus bw weights calculation
15081 comments, as that is reality. Closes ticket 20273. Patch
15083 - Clarify that when ClientRejectInternalAddresses is enabled (which
15084 is the default), multicast DNS hostnames for machines on the local
15085 network (of the form *.local) are also rejected. Closes
15087 - Correct the value for AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee in the manpage, from
15088 250 KBytes to 2 MBytes. Fixes bug 20435; bugfix on 0.2.5.6-alpha.
15089 - Include the "TBits" unit in Tor's man page. Fixes part of bug
15090 20622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
15091 - Small fixes to the fuzzing documentation. Closes ticket 21472.
15092 - Stop the man page from incorrectly stating that HiddenServiceDir
15093 must already exist. Fixes 20486.
15094 - Update the description of the directory server options in the
15095 manual page, to clarify that a relay no longer needs to set
15096 DirPort in order to be a directory cache. Closes ticket 21720.
15098 o Removed features:
15099 - The AuthDirMaxServersPerAuthAddr option no longer exists: The same
15100 limit for relays running on a single IP applies to authority IP
15101 addresses as well as to non-authority IP addresses. Closes
15103 - The UseDirectoryGuards torrc option no longer exists: all users
15104 that use entry guards will also use directory guards. Related to
15105 proposal 271; implements part of ticket 20831.
15108 - Add tests for networkstatus_compute_bw_weights_v10.
15109 - Add unit tests circuit_predict_and_launch_new.
15110 - Extract dummy_origin_circuit_new so it can be used by other
15112 - New unit tests for tor_htonll(). Closes ticket 19563. Patch
15113 from "overcaffeinated".
15114 - Perform the coding style checks when running the tests and fail
15115 when coding style violations are found. Closes ticket 5500.
15118 Changes in version 0.2.8.13 - 2017-03-03
15119 Tor 0.2.8.13 backports a security fix from later Tor
15120 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.8.12 or earlier should upgrade to this
15121 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15122 release series, and if they build Tor with the --enable-expensive-hardening
15125 Note that support for Tor 0.2.8.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15126 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.8.x series after 1 Jan 2018. If you need
15127 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15129 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15130 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15131 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15132 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15133 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15134 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15135 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15137 o Minor features (geoip):
15138 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15142 Changes in version 0.2.7.7 - 2017-03-03
15143 Tor 0.2.7.7 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15144 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.7.6 or earlier should upgrade to
15145 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15148 Note that support for Tor 0.2.7.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15149 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.7.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15150 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15152 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15153 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15155 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15156 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15157 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15159 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15160 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15161 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15164 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15165 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15166 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15167 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15168 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15169 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15170 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15171 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15172 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15174 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15175 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15176 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15177 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15178 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15179 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15180 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15181 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15182 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15183 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15184 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15185 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15186 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15188 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15189 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15190 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15191 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15192 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15194 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15195 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15196 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15198 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15199 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15200 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15201 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15202 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15203 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15204 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15207 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15208 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15209 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15210 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15211 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15212 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15213 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15215 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15216 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15217 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15218 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15221 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15222 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15223 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15224 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15226 o Minor features (geoip):
15227 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15231 Changes in version 0.2.6.11 - 2017-03-03
15232 Tor 0.2.6.11 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15233 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.6.10 or earlier should upgrade to
15234 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15237 Note that support for Tor 0.2.6.x is ending this year: we will not issue
15238 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.6.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15239 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15241 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15242 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15244 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15245 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15246 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15248 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15249 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15250 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15253 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15254 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15255 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15256 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15257 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15258 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15259 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15260 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15261 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15263 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15264 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15265 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15266 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15267 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15268 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15269 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15270 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15271 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15273 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15274 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15275 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15276 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15277 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15279 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15280 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15281 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15282 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15283 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15286 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15287 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15288 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15289 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15290 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15292 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15293 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15294 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15296 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15297 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15298 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15299 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15300 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15301 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15304 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15305 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15306 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15307 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15308 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15309 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15310 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15313 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15314 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15315 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15316 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15317 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15318 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15319 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15321 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15322 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15323 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15324 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15327 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15328 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15329 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15330 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15332 o Minor features (geoip):
15333 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15336 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15337 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15338 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15341 Changes in version 0.2.5.13 - 2017-03-03
15342 Tor 0.2.5.13 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15343 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.5.13 or earlier should upgrade to
15344 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15347 Note that support for Tor 0.2.5.x is ending next year: we will not issue
15348 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.5.x series after 1 May 2018. If you need
15349 a Tor release series with longer-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15351 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15352 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15354 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15355 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15356 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15358 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15359 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15360 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15363 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15364 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15365 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15366 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15367 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15368 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15369 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15370 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15371 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15373 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15374 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15375 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15376 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15377 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15378 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15379 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15380 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15381 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15383 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15384 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
15385 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
15386 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
15387 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
15389 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15390 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15391 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15392 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15393 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15396 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15397 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15398 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15399 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15400 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15402 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15403 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15404 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15406 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15407 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15408 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15409 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15410 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15411 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15414 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15415 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15416 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15417 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15418 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15419 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15420 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15423 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15424 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15425 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15426 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15427 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15428 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15429 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15431 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15432 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15433 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15434 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15437 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15438 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15439 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15440 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15442 o Minor features (geoip):
15443 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15446 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15447 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15448 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15450 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, backport from 0.2.7.2-alpha):
15451 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
15452 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
15453 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
15454 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
15455 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
15457 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15458 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15459 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15463 Changes in version 0.2.4.28 - 2017-03-03
15464 Tor 0.2.4.28 backports a number of security fixes from later Tor
15465 releases. Anybody running Tor 0.2.4.27 or earlier should upgrade to
15466 this release, if for some reason they cannot upgrade to a later
15469 Note that support for Tor 0.2.4.x is ending soon: we will not issue
15470 any fixes for the Tor 0.2.4.x series after 1 August 2017. If you need
15471 a Tor release series with long-term support, we recommend Tor 0.2.9.x.
15473 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.8.5-rc):
15474 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
15476 o Directory authority changes (backport from 0.2.9.2-alpha):
15477 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
15478 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
15480 o Directory authority key updates (backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15481 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
15482 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
15485 o Major features (security fixes, backport from 0.2.9.4-alpha):
15486 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
15487 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15488 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15489 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
15490 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
15491 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
15492 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
15493 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
15495 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backport from 0.2.9.8):
15496 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15497 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15498 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15499 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15500 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15501 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15502 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15503 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15505 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness, backport from 0.2.7.4-rc):
15506 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
15507 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
15508 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
15509 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
15512 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15513 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
15514 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
15515 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
15516 Reported by Guido Vranken.
15518 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15519 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
15520 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
15522 o Major bugfixes (guard selection, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15523 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
15524 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
15525 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
15526 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
15527 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
15530 o Major bugfixes (key management, backport from 0.2.8.3-alpha):
15531 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
15532 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
15533 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
15534 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
15535 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
15536 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
15539 o Major bugfixes (parsing, backported from 0.3.0.4-rc):
15540 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15541 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15542 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15543 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15544 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15545 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15547 o Minor features (security, memory erasure, backport from 0.2.8.1-alpha):
15548 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
15549 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
15550 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
15553 o Minor features (bug-resistance, backport from 0.2.8.2-alpha):
15554 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
15555 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
15556 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
15558 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15559 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
15560 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
15561 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
15563 o Minor features (geoip):
15564 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15567 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, backport from 0.2.7.6):
15568 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
15569 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
15571 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
15572 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
15573 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
15577 Changes in version 0.2.9.10 - 2017-03-01
15578 Tor 0.2.9.10 backports a security fix from later Tor release. It also
15579 includes fixes for some major issues affecting directory authorities,
15580 LibreSSL compatibility, and IPv6 correctness.
15582 The Tor 0.2.9.x release series is now marked as a long-term-support
15583 series. We intend to backport security fixes to 0.2.9.x until at
15584 least January of 2020.
15586 o Major bugfixes (directory authority, 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15587 - During voting, when marking a relay as a probable sybil, do not
15588 clear its BadExit flag: sybils can still be bad in other ways
15589 too. (We still clear the other flags.) Fixes bug 21108; bugfix
15592 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 Exits, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15593 - Stop rejecting all IPv6 traffic on Exits whose exit policy rejects
15594 any IPv6 addresses. Instead, only reject a port over IPv6 if the
15595 exit policy rejects that port on more than an IPv6 /16 of
15596 addresses. This bug was made worse by 17027 in 0.2.8.1-alpha,
15597 which rejected a relay's own IPv6 address by default. Fixes bug
15598 21357; bugfix on commit 004f3f4e53 in 0.2.4.7-alpha.
15600 o Major bugfixes (parsing, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15601 - Fix an integer underflow bug when comparing malformed Tor
15602 versions. This bug could crash Tor when built with
15603 --enable-expensive-hardening, or on Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha through Tor
15604 0.2.9.8, which were built with -ftrapv by default. In other cases
15605 it was harmless. Part of TROVE-2017-001. Fixes bug 21278; bugfix
15606 on 0.0.8pre1. Found by OSS-Fuzz.
15608 o Minor features (directory authorities, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15609 - Directory authorities now reject descriptors that claim to be
15610 malformed versions of Tor. Helps prevent exploitation of
15612 - Reject version numbers with components that exceed INT32_MAX.
15613 Otherwise 32-bit and 64-bit platforms would behave inconsistently.
15614 Fixes bug 21450; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
15616 o Minor features (geoip):
15617 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 8 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15620 o Minor features (portability, compilation, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15621 - Autoconf now checks to determine if OpenSSL structures are opaque,
15622 instead of explicitly checking for OpenSSL version numbers. Part
15624 - Support building with recent LibreSSL code that uses opaque
15625 structures. Closes ticket 21359.
15627 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness, also in 0.3.0.4-rc):
15628 - Repair a couple of (unreachable or harmless) cases of the risky
15629 comparison-by-subtraction pattern that caused bug 21278.
15631 o Minor bugfixes (tor-resolve, backport from 0.3.0.3-alpha):
15632 - The tor-resolve command line tool now rejects hostnames over 255
15633 characters in length. Previously, it would silently truncate them,
15634 which could lead to bugs. Fixes bug 21280; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
15635 Patch by "junglefowl".
15638 Changes in version 0.2.9.9 - 2017-01-23
15639 Tor 0.2.9.9 fixes a denial-of-service bug where an attacker could
15640 cause relays and clients to crash, even if they were not built with
15641 the --enable-expensive-hardening option. This bug affects all 0.2.9.x
15642 versions, and also affects 0.3.0.1-alpha: all relays running an affected
15643 version should upgrade.
15645 This release also resolves a client-side onion service reachability
15646 bug, and resolves a pair of small portability issues.
15648 o Major bugfixes (security):
15649 - Downgrade the "-ftrapv" option from "always on" to "only on when
15650 --enable-expensive-hardening is provided." This hardening option,
15651 like others, can turn survivable bugs into crashes -- and having
15652 it on by default made a (relatively harmless) integer overflow bug
15653 into a denial-of-service bug. Fixes bug 21278 (TROVE-2017-001);
15654 bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15656 o Major bugfixes (client, onion service):
15657 - Fix a client-side onion service reachability bug, where multiple
15658 socks requests to an onion service (or a single slow request)
15659 could cause us to mistakenly mark some of the service's
15660 introduction points as failed, and we cache that failure so
15661 eventually we run out and can't reach the service. Also resolves a
15662 mysterious "Remote server sent bogus reason code 65021" log
15663 warning. The bug was introduced in ticket 17218, where we tried to
15664 remember the circuit end reason as a uint16_t, which mangled
15665 negative values. Partially fixes bug 21056 and fixes bug 20307;
15666 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15668 o Minor features (geoip):
15669 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 4 2017 Maxmind GeoLite2
15672 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
15673 - Avoid crashing when Tor is built using headers that contain
15674 CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE, but then tries to run on an older kernel
15675 without CLOCK_MONOTONIC_COARSE. Fixes bug 21035; bugfix
15677 - Fix Libevent detection on platforms without Libevent 1 headers
15678 installed. Fixes bug 21051; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
15681 Changes in version 0.2.8.12 - 2016-12-19
15682 Tor 0.2.8.12 backports a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug 21018
15683 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15684 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15685 become available for their systems.
15687 It also includes an updated list of fallback directories, backported
15690 Now that the Tor 0.2.9 series is stable, only major bugfixes will be
15691 backported to 0.2.8 in the future.
15693 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15694 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15695 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15696 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15697 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15698 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15699 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15700 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15701 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15703 o Minor features (fallback directory list, backported from 0.2.9.8):
15704 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15705 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15706 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15707 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15709 o Minor features (geoip, backported from 0.2.9.7-rc):
15710 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
15714 Changes in version 0.2.9.8 - 2016-12-19
15715 Tor 0.2.9.8 is the first stable release of the Tor 0.2.9 series.
15717 The Tor 0.2.9 series makes mandatory a number of security features
15718 that were formerly optional. It includes support for a new shared-
15719 randomness protocol that will form the basis for next generation
15720 hidden services, includes a single-hop hidden service mode for
15721 optimizing .onion services that don't actually want to be hidden,
15722 tries harder not to overload the directory authorities with excessive
15723 downloads, and supports a better protocol versioning scheme for
15724 improved compatibility with other implementations of the Tor protocol.
15726 And of course, there are numerous other bugfixes and improvements.
15728 This release also includes a fix for a medium-severity issue (bug
15729 21018 below) where Tor clients could crash when attempting to visit a
15730 hostile hidden service. Clients are recommended to upgrade as packages
15731 become available for their systems.
15733 Below are listed the changes since Tor 0.2.8.11. For a list of
15734 changes since 0.2.9.7-rc, see the ChangeLog file.
15736 o New system requirements:
15737 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
15738 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
15739 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
15740 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
15741 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
15742 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
15743 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
15744 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
15745 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
15746 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
15747 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
15749 o Deprecated features:
15750 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
15751 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
15752 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS caching is a bad
15753 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
15754 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
15755 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
15756 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
15757 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
15758 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
15759 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
15760 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15761 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
15762 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
15763 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
15764 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
15765 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
15766 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
15767 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
15768 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
15769 and TransListenAddress.
15771 o Major bugfixes (parsing, security, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15772 - Fix a bug in parsing that could cause clients to read a single
15773 byte past the end of an allocated region. This bug could be used
15774 to cause hardened clients (built with --enable-expensive-hardening)
15775 to crash if they tried to visit a hostile hidden service. Non-
15776 hardened clients are only affected depending on the details of
15777 their platform's memory allocator. Fixes bug 21018; bugfix on
15778 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by using libFuzzer. Also tracked as TROVE-
15779 2016-12-002 and as CVE-2016-1254.
15781 o Major features (build, hardening):
15782 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
15783 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
15784 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
15785 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
15786 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
15787 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
15788 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
15789 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
15790 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
15792 o Major features (circuit building, security):
15793 - Authorities, relays, and clients now require ntor keys in all
15794 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
15795 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
15797 - Authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
15798 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
15800 o Major features (compilation):
15801 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
15802 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
15803 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
15804 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
15806 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
15807 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
15808 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
15810 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
15811 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
15812 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
15813 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
15814 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
15815 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
15816 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
15817 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
15819 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
15820 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
15821 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
15822 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
15823 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
15824 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
15825 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
15827 o Major features (resource management):
15828 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
15829 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
15830 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
15831 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
15832 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
15833 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
15835 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
15836 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
15837 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
15838 every hidden service on that Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
15839 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
15840 connections to their introduction and rendezvous points. One-hop
15841 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
15842 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
15843 hidden service implementation, and works on the current Tor
15844 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
15845 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
15847 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
15848 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
15849 "subprotocol versions", and on a set of required subprotocol
15850 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
15851 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
15852 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
15853 This change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s)
15854 to exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with
15855 particular releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements
15856 part of proposal 264.
15858 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
15859 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
15860 point circuits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
15861 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
15863 o Major bugfixes (download scheduling):
15864 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
15865 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
15866 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
15867 - If a consensus expires while we are waiting for certificates to
15868 download, stop waiting for certificates.
15869 - If we stop waiting for certificates less than a minute after we
15870 started downloading them, do not consider the certificate download
15871 failure a separate failure. Fixes bug 20533; bugfix
15873 - When using exponential backoff in test networks, use a lower
15874 exponent, so the delays do not vary as much. This helps test
15875 networks bootstrap consistently. Fixes bug 20597; bugfix on 20499.
15877 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
15878 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
15879 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
15880 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
15881 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
15882 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
15883 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
15885 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
15886 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
15887 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
15888 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
15889 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
15890 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
15891 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
15892 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
15893 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
15894 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
15896 o Major bugfixes (relay, resolver, logging):
15897 - For relays that don't know their own address, avoid attempting a
15898 local hostname resolve for each descriptor we download. This
15899 will cut down on the number of "Success: chose address 'x.x.x.x'"
15900 log lines, and also avoid confusing clock jumps if the resolver
15901 is slow. Fixes bugs 20423 and 20610; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
15903 o Minor features (port flags):
15904 - Add new flags to the *Port options to give finer control over which
15905 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
15906 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
15907 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
15908 18693; patch by "teor".
15910 o Minor features (build, hardening):
15911 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
15912 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
15913 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
15914 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
15915 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
15916 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
15917 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
15918 Closes ticket 18895.
15920 o Minor features (client, directory):
15921 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
15922 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
15923 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
15926 o Minor features (code safety):
15927 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that the maximum value we
15928 allow is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
15929 patch from "U+039b".
15931 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
15932 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
15935 o Minor features (config):
15936 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
15937 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
15939 o Minor features (controller):
15940 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
15941 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION controller
15942 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
15943 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
15944 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
15945 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
15946 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
15947 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
15949 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
15950 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
15951 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
15954 o Minor features (directory authority):
15955 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
15956 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
15957 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
15958 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
15959 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
15960 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
15961 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
15962 Implements ticket 18624.
15963 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
15964 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
15965 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
15968 o Minor features (fallback directory list, new since 0.2.9.7-rc):
15969 - Replace the 81 remaining fallbacks of the 100 originally
15970 introduced in Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha in March 2016, with a list of 177
15971 fallbacks (123 new, 54 existing, 27 removed) generated in December
15972 2016. Resolves ticket 20170.
15974 o Minor features (hidden service):
15975 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
15976 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
15977 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
15980 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
15981 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
15982 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
15983 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
15984 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
15985 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
15986 Closes ticket 18365.
15987 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
15988 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
15989 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
15990 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
15992 o Minor features (logging):
15993 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
15994 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
15995 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
15996 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
15997 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
15998 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
15999 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
16000 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
16001 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
16002 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
16004 o Minor features (performance):
16005 - Change the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
16006 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
16007 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
16008 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
16009 from. Changing this default saves a round-trip during startup.
16010 Closes ticket 18815.
16012 o Minor features (relay, usability):
16013 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
16014 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
16015 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
16016 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
16019 o Minor features (security, TLS):
16020 - Servers no longer support clients that lack AES ciphersuites.
16021 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
16022 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
16023 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
16025 o Minor features (testing):
16026 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
16027 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
16028 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
16029 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
16030 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
16031 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
16032 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
16033 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
16034 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
16035 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
16037 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
16038 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
16039 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
16040 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
16041 (by passing --debug or --info or --notice or --warn to the "test"
16042 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
16043 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
16045 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
16046 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
16047 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
16048 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
16049 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
16050 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
16051 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
16052 assertion as a test failure.
16053 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
16055 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
16056 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
16057 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
16058 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
16059 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
16060 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
16061 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
16062 with the single onion network flavors (git c72a652 or later).
16063 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
16065 o Minor features (Tor2web):
16066 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
16067 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
16068 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
16070 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16071 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
16072 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
16073 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
16074 domain socket paths to contain spaces. Resolves ticket 18753.
16076 o Minor features (user interface):
16077 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
16078 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously, this
16079 was done in an ad-hoc way. There is a new --list-deprecated-options
16080 command-line option to list all of the deprecated options. Closes
16083 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
16084 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
16085 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
16086 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
16089 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
16090 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
16091 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
16092 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
16093 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
16094 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
16096 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16097 - The current Git revision when building from a local repository is
16098 now detected correctly when using git worktrees. Fixes bug 20492;
16099 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
16101 o Minor bugfixes (relay address discovery):
16102 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
16103 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
16104 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
16105 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
16107 o Minor bugfixes (memory allocation):
16108 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
16109 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
16110 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
16111 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
16113 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16114 - Remember the directory server we fetched the consensus or previous
16115 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
16116 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
16117 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16119 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
16120 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
16121 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16123 o Minor bugfixes (client, fascistfirewall):
16124 - Avoid spurious warnings when ReachableAddresses or FascistFirewall
16125 is set. Fixes bug 20306; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16127 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
16128 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
16129 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
16132 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
16133 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
16134 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
16136 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16137 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
16138 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
16140 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
16141 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
16142 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16143 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
16144 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
16145 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
16146 - Run correctly when built on Windows build environments that
16147 require _vcsprintf(). Fixes bug 20560; bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
16149 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16150 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
16151 handle Windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
16152 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
16154 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
16155 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
16156 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
16157 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16158 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
16159 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
16160 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
16161 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16162 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
16163 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
16165 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
16166 the digest algorithm instead of a hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
16167 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
16168 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16170 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
16171 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
16172 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
16173 19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
16176 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
16177 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
16178 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
16179 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
16181 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
16182 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
16185 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
16186 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
16187 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
16188 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
16190 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
16191 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
16193 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
16194 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
16195 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
16196 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
16197 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
16199 - When configuring hidden services, check every hidden service
16200 directory's permissions. Previously, we only checked the last
16201 hidden service. Fixes bug 20529; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
16203 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
16204 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
16205 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
16207 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16208 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
16209 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
16210 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
16211 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
16212 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16214 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
16215 - Downgrade a harmless log message about the
16216 pending_entry_connections list from "warn" to "info". Mitigates
16218 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
16219 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
16220 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
16221 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
16222 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
16223 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
16224 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from pastly.
16226 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
16227 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
16228 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
16229 - Avoid a small memory leak when informing worker threads about
16230 rotated onion keys. Fixes bug 20401; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16231 - Fix a small memory leak when receiving AF_UNIX connections on a
16232 SocksPort. Fixes bug 20716; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16233 - When moving a signed descriptor object from a source to an
16234 existing destination, free the allocated memory inside that
16235 destination object. Fixes bug 20715; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha.
16236 - Fix a memory leak and use-after-free error when removing entries
16237 from the sandbox's getaddrinfo() cache. Fixes bug 20710; bugfix on
16238 0.2.5.5-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16239 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
16240 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
16243 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
16244 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
16245 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behavior changes: these
16246 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
16247 behavior in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
16248 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16250 o Minor bugfixes (options):
16251 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
16252 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
16254 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
16255 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
16256 commits 51fc6799 in 0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in 0.2.4.3-alpha.
16259 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
16260 - Ensure relays don't make multiple connections during bootstrap.
16261 Fixes bug 20591; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16262 - Do not try to parallelize workers more than 16x without the user
16263 explicitly configuring us to do so, even if we do detect more than
16264 16 CPU cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16266 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
16267 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
16268 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
16269 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
16270 patch from "cypherpunks".
16271 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
16272 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
16273 - Avoid a unit test failure on systems with over 16 detectable CPU
16274 cores. Fixes bug 19968; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16275 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer:
16276 disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
16277 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
16278 generation code works. Fixes bug 18934; bugfix
16279 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16280 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
16281 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
16283 - Stop spurious failures in the local interface address discovery
16284 unit tests. Fixes bug 20634; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by
16286 - Use ECDHE ciphers instead of ECDH in tortls tests. LibreSSL has
16287 removed the ECDH ciphers which caused the tests to fail on
16288 platforms which use it. Fixes bug 20460; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
16289 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
16290 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
16293 o Minor bugfixes (time):
16294 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
16295 bugfix on all released tor versions.
16296 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
16297 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
16298 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
16299 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
16301 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
16302 - Prevent Tor2web clients from running hidden services: these services
16303 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
16304 19678. Patch by teor.
16306 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
16307 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
16308 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
16309 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
16310 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
16312 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
16313 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16315 o Code simplification and refactoring:
16316 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
16318 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
16319 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
16320 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
16321 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
16324 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
16325 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket 20385.
16326 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
16327 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
16328 - Correct the minimum bandwidth value in torrc.sample, and queue a
16329 corresponding change for torrc.minimal. Closes ticket 20085.
16330 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
16331 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
16332 - Module-level documentation for several more modules. Closes
16333 tickets 19287 and 19290.
16334 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
16335 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16336 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
16337 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
16338 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
16339 Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
16340 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
16341 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
16343 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
16344 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
16345 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
16346 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
16349 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
16350 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from "U+039b".
16352 o Removed features:
16353 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
16354 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
16355 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
16356 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
16357 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
16358 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort, just don't use it.) Patch
16359 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
16362 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
16363 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
16364 command-line options to enable them.
16365 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
16366 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
16369 Changes in version 0.2.8.11 - 2016-12-08
16370 Tor 0.2.8.11 backports fixes for additional portability issues that
16371 could prevent Tor from building correctly on OSX Sierra, or with
16372 OpenSSL 1.1. Affected users should upgrade; others can safely stay
16375 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16376 - Avoid compilation errors when building on OSX Sierra. Sierra began
16377 to support the getentropy() and clock_gettime() APIs, but created
16378 a few problems in doing so. Tor 0.2.9 has a more thorough set of
16379 workarounds; in 0.2.8, we are just using the /dev/urandom and mach
16380 monotonic time interfaces. Fixes bug 20865. Bugfix
16383 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16384 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 1.1 and less commonly-used CPU
16385 architectures. Closes ticket 20588.
16388 Changes in version 0.2.8.10 - 2016-12-02
16389 Tor 0.2.8.10 backports a fix for a bug that would sometimes make clients
16390 unusable after they left standby mode. It also backports fixes for
16391 a few portability issues and a small but problematic memory leak.
16393 o Major bugfixes (client reliability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16394 - When Tor leaves standby because of a new application request, open
16395 circuits as needed to serve that request. Previously, we would
16396 potentially wait a very long time. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16399 o Major bugfixes (client performance, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16400 - Clients now respond to new application stream requests immediately
16401 when they arrive, rather than waiting up to one second before
16402 starting to handle them. Fixes part of bug 19969; bugfix
16405 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.6-rc):
16406 - Work around a bug in the OSX 10.12 SDK that would prevent us from
16407 successfully targeting earlier versions of OSX. Resolves
16410 o Minor bugfixes (portability, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16411 - Fix implicit conversion warnings under OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug
16412 20551; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
16414 o Minor bugfixes (relay, backport from 0.2.9.5-alpha):
16415 - Work around a memory leak in OpenSSL 1.1 when encoding public
16416 keys. Fixes bug 20553; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
16418 o Minor features (geoip):
16419 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16423 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
16424 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
16425 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
16426 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
16427 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
16430 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
16431 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
16432 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
16433 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16434 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16435 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
16436 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
16437 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
16438 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
16440 o Minor features (geoip):
16441 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16445 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
16446 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
16447 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
16448 who select public relays as their bridges.
16450 o Major bugfixes (crash):
16451 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
16452 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
16453 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
16454 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
16455 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16457 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
16458 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
16459 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
16460 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
16461 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
16464 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
16465 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
16466 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
16468 o Minor features (geoip):
16469 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16473 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
16474 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
16475 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
16476 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
16477 encouraged to upgrade.
16479 o Directory authority changes:
16480 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
16481 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
16483 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
16484 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
16485 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
16486 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
16487 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
16488 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
16490 o Minor features (geoip):
16491 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16494 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
16495 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
16496 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
16499 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16500 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
16501 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
16502 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
16505 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
16507 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
16509 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
16510 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
16511 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
16512 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
16513 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
16514 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
16516 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
16518 o New system requirements:
16519 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
16520 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
16521 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
16523 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
16524 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
16525 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
16526 longer runs with, these versions.
16527 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
16528 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
16529 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
16530 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
16531 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
16533 o Directory authority changes:
16534 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
16535 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
16537 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
16539 o Major features (directory system):
16540 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
16541 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
16542 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
16543 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
16544 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
16545 gsathya, and karsten.
16546 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
16547 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
16548 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
16549 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
16550 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
16552 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
16553 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
16554 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
16555 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
16556 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
16557 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
16558 mikeperry and teor.
16560 o Major features (security, Linux):
16561 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
16562 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
16563 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
16564 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
16565 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
16567 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
16568 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
16569 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
16570 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
16571 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
16572 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
16573 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
16575 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
16576 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
16579 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
16580 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
16581 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16583 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
16584 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
16585 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
16586 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
16587 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
16589 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
16590 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
16591 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
16592 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16593 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
16594 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
16595 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
16596 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
16597 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
16598 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16600 o Major bugfixes (key management):
16601 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
16602 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
16603 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
16604 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
16605 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
16606 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
16609 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
16610 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
16611 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
16612 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
16613 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16615 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
16616 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
16617 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
16618 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
16619 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
16620 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
16621 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
16622 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
16623 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
16625 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
16626 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
16627 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
16628 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
16629 Reported by Guido Vranken.
16631 o Major bugfixes (testing):
16632 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
16633 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16635 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
16636 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
16637 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
16638 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16640 o Minor features (accounting):
16641 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
16642 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
16643 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
16644 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
16646 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
16647 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
16648 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
16649 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
16650 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
16651 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
16652 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
16655 o Minor features (build):
16656 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
16657 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
16658 Steven Chamberlain.
16659 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
16660 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
16661 patch from "cypherpunks".
16662 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
16663 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
16664 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
16665 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
16666 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
16667 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
16668 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
16669 Patch from intrigeri.
16671 o Minor features (clients):
16672 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
16673 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
16674 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
16676 o Minor features (controller):
16677 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
16678 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
16679 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
16681 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
16682 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
16683 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
16684 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
16685 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
16687 o Minor features (crypto):
16688 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
16689 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
16691 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
16692 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
16693 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
16694 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
16695 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
16697 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
16698 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
16699 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
16700 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
16702 o Minor features (directory downloads):
16703 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
16704 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
16705 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
16706 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
16707 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
16708 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
16709 17864; patch by teor.
16711 o Minor features (geoip):
16712 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
16715 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
16716 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
16717 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
16718 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
16719 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
16721 o Minor features (IPv6):
16722 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
16723 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
16724 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
16725 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
16726 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
16727 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
16728 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
16729 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
16730 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
16731 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
16732 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
16733 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
16735 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
16736 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
16737 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
16738 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
16739 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
16740 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
16741 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
16742 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
16743 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
16744 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
16746 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
16747 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
16748 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
16749 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
16750 while fixing 18548.
16752 o Minor features (logging):
16753 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
16754 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
16755 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
16756 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
16759 o Minor features (portability):
16760 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
16761 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
16763 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
16764 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
16765 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
16766 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
16767 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
16769 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
16770 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
16771 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
16772 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
16773 Resolves ticket 17951.
16775 o Minor features (replay cache):
16776 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
16777 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
16779 o Minor features (robustness):
16780 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
16781 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
16782 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
16784 o Minor features (security, clock):
16785 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
16786 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
16787 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
16788 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
16790 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
16791 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
16792 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
16793 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
16794 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
16795 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
16797 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
16798 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
16799 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
16800 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
16802 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
16803 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
16804 Implements ticket 17026.
16805 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
16806 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
16807 Implements feature 17986.
16808 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
16809 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
16810 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
16812 o Minor features (security, RNG):
16813 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
16814 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
16815 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
16816 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
16817 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
16818 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
16819 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
16820 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
16821 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
16822 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
16825 o Minor features (security, win32):
16826 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
16827 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
16830 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
16831 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
16832 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
16833 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
16834 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
16835 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
16836 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
16839 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
16840 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
16841 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
16842 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
16843 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16844 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
16845 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
16846 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
16847 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
16848 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
16849 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16850 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
16851 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
16852 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
16854 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
16855 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
16856 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
16857 from "unixninja92".
16859 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
16860 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
16861 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
16864 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
16865 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
16866 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
16868 o Minor bugfixes (build):
16869 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
16870 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18626; bugfix on
16871 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
16872 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
16873 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
16875 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
16876 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
16878 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
16879 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
16880 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
16881 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
16882 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
16884 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
16885 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
16886 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
16887 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
16888 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
16889 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
16891 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
16892 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
16893 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
16894 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
16895 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
16896 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
16897 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
16898 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
16899 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
16900 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
16901 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
16903 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
16904 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
16907 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
16908 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
16909 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
16910 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
16911 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
16913 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
16914 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
16915 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
16916 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
16917 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
16918 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
16919 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
16920 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
16922 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
16924 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
16925 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
16926 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
16928 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
16929 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
16930 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
16932 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
16933 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
16934 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
16936 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
16937 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
16938 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
16939 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
16941 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
16942 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
16943 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
16944 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
16945 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
16947 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
16948 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
16949 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
16951 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
16952 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
16953 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
16954 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
16955 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
16956 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16957 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
16958 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
16959 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
16961 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
16962 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
16963 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
16964 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
16967 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
16968 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
16969 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
16970 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
16971 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
16973 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
16974 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
16975 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
16976 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
16977 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
16978 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
16979 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
16980 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
16982 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
16983 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
16984 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
16985 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
16986 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
16987 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
16988 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
16989 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
16990 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
16993 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
16994 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
16995 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
16996 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
16998 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
16999 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
17000 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
17002 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
17003 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
17004 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
17006 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17007 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
17008 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
17009 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
17010 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
17011 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
17012 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
17013 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17014 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
17015 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
17016 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17017 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
17018 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
17019 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17020 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
17021 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
17022 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
17023 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
17024 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
17026 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17027 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
17028 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
17029 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
17030 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
17032 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
17033 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
17034 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
17035 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
17036 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
17037 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
17038 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
17039 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
17040 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
17041 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17042 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
17043 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
17046 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
17047 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
17048 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
17049 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
17051 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
17052 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17053 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
17056 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
17057 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
17058 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
17059 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17061 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
17062 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
17063 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
17064 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
17065 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
17066 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
17069 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
17070 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
17071 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
17072 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
17074 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
17075 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
17076 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
17077 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
17078 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
17079 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
17080 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
17081 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
17082 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
17084 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
17085 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
17086 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
17087 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
17088 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
17090 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
17091 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
17092 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
17093 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
17095 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17096 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
17097 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
17098 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
17099 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
17100 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
17101 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
17102 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
17104 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
17105 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
17107 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
17108 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
17109 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
17112 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
17113 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
17114 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
17115 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
17117 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
17118 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
17119 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17120 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
17121 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
17122 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
17123 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
17124 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
17125 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
17126 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
17127 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
17128 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
17129 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
17130 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
17131 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
17132 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
17134 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
17135 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
17136 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
17137 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
17138 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
17139 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
17140 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
17142 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
17143 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
17144 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
17145 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
17147 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17148 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
17149 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
17151 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
17152 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
17153 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
17154 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
17156 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
17157 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
17158 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
17159 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
17160 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
17161 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
17162 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
17163 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
17164 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
17165 17744. Patch from zerosion.
17166 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
17167 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
17168 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
17169 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
17170 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
17171 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
17172 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
17173 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
17174 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
17175 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
17176 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
17177 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
17181 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
17182 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
17183 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
17184 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
17185 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
17186 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
17187 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
17188 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
17189 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
17190 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
17191 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
17192 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
17194 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
17195 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
17197 o Removed features:
17198 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
17199 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
17200 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
17201 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
17202 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
17203 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
17204 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
17205 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
17208 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
17209 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
17210 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
17211 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
17212 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
17213 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
17214 portion of ticket 16831.
17215 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
17217 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
17218 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
17219 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
17220 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
17221 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
17223 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
17224 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
17225 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
17226 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
17229 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
17230 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
17231 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
17233 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
17234 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
17235 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
17236 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
17237 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
17238 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
17241 o Minor features (geoip):
17242 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17245 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17246 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
17247 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
17248 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
17249 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
17250 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
17252 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17253 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
17254 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
17255 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
17256 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
17257 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
17258 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
17259 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17260 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
17261 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
17264 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
17265 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
17266 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
17267 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
17268 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
17269 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
17270 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
17271 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
17272 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
17273 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
17274 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
17275 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
17276 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
17277 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
17278 that would make him proud.
17280 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
17282 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
17283 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
17284 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
17285 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
17286 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
17287 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
17288 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
17290 o New system requirements:
17291 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
17292 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
17294 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
17295 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
17296 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
17297 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
17298 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
17299 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
17300 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
17301 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
17302 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
17303 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
17304 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
17305 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
17306 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
17308 o Major features (controller):
17309 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
17310 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
17312 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
17313 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
17314 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
17315 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
17316 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
17317 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
17318 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
17320 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
17321 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
17322 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
17323 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
17324 key). Closes ticket 13642.
17325 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
17326 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
17327 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
17328 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
17329 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
17330 Implements part of ticket 12498.
17331 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
17332 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17333 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
17334 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
17335 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
17336 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
17337 part of ticket 12498.
17338 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
17339 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
17341 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
17342 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
17343 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
17344 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
17345 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
17346 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
17347 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
17348 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
17349 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
17352 o Major features (ECC performance):
17353 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
17354 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
17356 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
17357 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
17358 available. Implements ticket 16535.
17359 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
17360 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
17361 Implements ticket 16467.
17362 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
17363 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
17364 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
17365 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
17367 o Major features (Hidden services):
17368 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
17369 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
17370 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
17371 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
17372 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
17373 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
17374 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
17375 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
17376 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
17377 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
17378 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
17379 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
17381 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
17382 introduction points, which used to change the number of
17383 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
17384 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
17386 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
17387 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
17388 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
17389 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
17390 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
17391 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
17393 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
17394 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17395 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
17396 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
17397 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
17398 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
17400 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17401 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17402 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17403 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17404 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17405 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17406 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17407 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17410 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17411 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
17412 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
17413 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
17415 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
17416 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
17417 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
17418 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
17419 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
17420 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
17423 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
17424 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
17425 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
17427 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
17428 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
17429 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
17430 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
17431 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
17432 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
17434 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
17435 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
17436 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
17437 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
17438 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
17441 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
17442 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17443 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17444 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17445 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17446 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17447 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17448 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17451 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
17452 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
17453 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
17454 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
17456 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
17457 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
17458 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
17459 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
17460 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
17461 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
17462 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
17465 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
17466 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
17467 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
17468 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
17469 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
17470 own. Implements feature 15482.
17471 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
17472 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
17474 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
17475 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
17476 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
17477 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
17478 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
17480 o Minor features (command-line interface):
17481 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
17482 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17483 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
17484 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
17486 o Minor features (compilation):
17487 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
17488 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
17489 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
17490 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
17491 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
17493 o Minor features (control protocol):
17494 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
17495 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
17497 o Minor features (controller):
17498 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
17499 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
17500 present. Implements ticket 14840.
17501 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
17502 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
17503 Closes ticket 14845.
17504 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
17505 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
17506 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
17508 o Minor features (directory authorities):
17509 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
17510 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
17511 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
17512 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
17513 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
17515 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
17516 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17517 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17518 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17519 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
17520 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
17521 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
17523 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
17524 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
17525 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
17526 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
17528 o Minor features (geoip):
17529 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
17532 o Minor features (hidden services):
17533 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
17534 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
17535 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
17536 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
17538 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
17539 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
17540 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
17542 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
17543 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
17544 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
17545 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
17546 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
17547 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
17548 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
17549 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
17551 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
17552 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
17553 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
17554 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
17555 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
17556 Closes ticket 15745.
17558 o Minor features (logging):
17559 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
17560 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
17563 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
17564 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
17565 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
17566 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
17568 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
17569 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
17570 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
17571 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
17572 Resolves ticket 15435.
17574 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
17575 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
17576 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
17577 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17578 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
17579 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
17580 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
17581 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
17582 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
17583 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
17584 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
17585 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
17586 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
17587 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
17588 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
17589 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
17590 Related to ticket 16069.
17592 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
17593 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
17594 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
17596 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
17597 stderr, not stdout.
17598 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
17599 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
17600 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
17603 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
17604 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
17605 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
17606 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
17607 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
17609 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
17610 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
17611 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
17612 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
17614 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
17615 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
17616 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
17617 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
17618 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
17619 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
17620 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
17621 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
17623 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17624 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
17625 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
17626 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
17628 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
17629 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
17630 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
17632 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
17633 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
17634 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
17636 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
17637 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
17638 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
17639 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
17641 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
17642 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17643 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17644 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17645 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17646 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17648 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
17649 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
17650 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
17652 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
17653 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
17655 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17656 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
17657 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
17658 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
17659 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
17660 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
17661 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
17662 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
17664 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
17665 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17666 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17667 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17669 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
17670 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
17671 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
17673 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
17674 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
17675 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
17678 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17679 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
17680 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
17681 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
17682 recent enough Clang.
17684 o Minor bugfixes (network):
17685 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
17686 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
17687 unsuitable for public communications.
17689 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
17690 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
17691 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
17692 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
17694 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17695 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
17696 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
17697 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
17698 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
17700 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
17701 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
17703 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
17704 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
17705 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
17706 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
17707 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
17709 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
17710 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17711 from "cypherpunks".
17712 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
17713 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
17716 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
17717 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
17718 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
17719 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
17720 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
17722 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
17723 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
17724 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
17725 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
17726 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
17727 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
17729 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
17730 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
17731 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
17732 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
17734 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
17735 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
17736 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
17737 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
17738 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
17739 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
17740 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
17741 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
17743 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
17744 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
17745 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
17747 o Code simplification and refactoring:
17748 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
17749 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
17750 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
17751 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
17752 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
17753 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
17754 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
17755 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
17756 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
17757 function. Closes ticket 16763.
17758 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
17759 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
17761 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
17762 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
17763 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
17764 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
17765 haven't supported that in ages.
17766 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
17767 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
17768 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
17769 suite of other microdesc functions.
17770 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
17771 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
17772 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
17773 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
17774 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
17775 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
17776 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
17777 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
17778 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
17779 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
17780 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
17781 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
17782 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
17783 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
17784 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
17785 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
17787 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
17788 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
17792 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
17793 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
17794 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
17796 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
17797 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
17798 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
17799 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
17800 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
17801 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
17802 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
17803 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
17804 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
17805 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
17807 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
17809 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
17810 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
17811 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
17812 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
17813 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
17814 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
17815 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
17816 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
17817 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
17818 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
17819 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
17820 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
17821 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
17823 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
17824 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
17827 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
17828 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
17829 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
17830 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
17831 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
17832 Closes ticket 14922.
17833 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
17834 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
17835 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
17836 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
17837 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
17838 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
17839 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
17840 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
17841 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
17842 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
17843 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
17844 Closes ticket 13338.
17846 o Removed features:
17847 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
17848 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
17849 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
17850 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
17851 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
17852 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
17853 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
17854 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
17855 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
17856 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
17857 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
17858 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
17859 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
17860 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
17861 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
17864 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
17865 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
17866 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
17867 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
17868 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
17869 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
17870 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
17871 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
17872 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
17873 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
17874 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
17876 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
17877 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
17878 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
17879 Closes ticket 15817.
17880 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
17881 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
17882 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
17883 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
17884 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
17885 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
17886 network before we begin.
17887 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
17888 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
17889 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
17890 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
17891 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
17892 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
17894 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
17895 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
17897 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
17898 default as a part of "make check".
17899 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
17900 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
17901 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
17902 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
17903 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
17904 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
17905 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
17906 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
17907 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
17908 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
17909 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
17910 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
17911 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
17912 files. Closes ticket 15180.
17913 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
17914 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
17915 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
17916 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
17917 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
17918 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
17919 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
17920 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
17921 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
17922 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
17923 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
17924 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
17925 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
17926 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
17927 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
17928 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
17929 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
17931 - Set the severity correctly when testing
17932 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
17933 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
17934 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
17935 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
17937 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
17938 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
17939 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
17940 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
17941 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
17942 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
17944 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
17945 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
17946 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
17947 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
17948 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
17949 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
17950 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
17951 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
17954 o Major bugfixes (stability):
17955 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
17956 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
17957 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
17958 by "cypherpunks_backup".
17959 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
17960 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
17961 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
17964 o Minor features (geoip):
17965 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17966 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
17968 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
17969 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
17970 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
17971 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
17972 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
17973 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
17975 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
17976 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
17977 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
17978 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
17981 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
17982 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
17983 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
17984 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
17985 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
17987 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
17988 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
17989 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
17990 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
17991 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
17994 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
17995 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
17996 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
17997 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
17998 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
17999 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
18000 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
18002 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18003 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
18004 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
18005 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
18007 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18008 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
18009 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
18010 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
18011 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
18012 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
18015 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
18016 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
18017 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
18020 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
18021 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
18022 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
18023 authorities should upgrade.
18025 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18026 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
18027 flag to relays without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
18028 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
18031 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
18032 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
18033 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
18036 o Minor features (geoip):
18037 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18038 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18042 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
18043 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
18044 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
18045 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
18046 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18048 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
18049 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18051 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18052 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18053 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18054 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18055 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18056 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18057 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18059 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18060 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18061 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18062 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18063 Resolves ticket 15515.
18064 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
18065 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
18066 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
18070 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
18071 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18072 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18073 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18074 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18076 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18077 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18079 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18080 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18081 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18082 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18083 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18084 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18085 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18087 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18088 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18089 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18090 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18091 Resolves ticket 15515.
18094 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
18095 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
18096 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
18097 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
18098 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
18100 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
18101 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
18103 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
18104 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
18105 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
18106 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
18107 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
18108 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
18109 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
18111 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
18112 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
18113 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
18114 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
18115 Resolves ticket 15515.
18118 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
18119 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
18121 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
18122 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
18123 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
18124 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
18125 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
18126 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
18127 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
18128 bugs should be addressed.
18130 o New compiler and system requirements:
18131 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
18132 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
18133 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
18134 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
18136 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
18137 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
18138 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
18139 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
18140 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
18141 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
18142 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
18143 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
18144 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
18146 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
18147 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
18148 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
18149 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
18150 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
18151 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
18152 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
18154 o Directory authority changes:
18155 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
18156 closes ticket 14487.
18157 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
18158 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
18159 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
18161 o Major features (bridges):
18162 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
18163 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
18164 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
18167 o Major features (changed defaults):
18168 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
18169 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
18170 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
18171 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
18172 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
18173 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
18175 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
18176 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
18177 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
18178 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
18181 o Major features (directory system):
18182 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
18183 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
18184 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
18185 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
18186 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
18187 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
18188 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
18189 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
18190 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
18191 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
18192 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
18193 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
18194 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
18195 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
18196 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
18197 227. Closes ticket 10395.
18199 o Major features (guards):
18200 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
18201 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
18202 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
18203 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
18204 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
18206 o Major features (hidden services):
18207 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
18208 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
18209 Closes ticket 13667.
18210 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
18211 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
18212 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
18213 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
18214 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
18215 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
18216 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
18217 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
18218 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
18219 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
18220 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
18222 o Major features (performance):
18223 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
18224 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
18225 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
18226 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
18227 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
18228 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
18229 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
18230 Implements ticket 9682.
18232 o Major features (relay):
18233 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
18234 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
18235 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
18236 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
18237 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
18238 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
18239 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
18240 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
18242 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
18243 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
18244 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
18245 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
18246 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
18247 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
18248 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
18251 o Major features (sample torrc):
18252 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
18253 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
18254 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
18255 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
18256 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
18257 generally useful "sample torrc".
18259 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
18260 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
18261 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
18262 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
18263 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
18264 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
18266 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
18267 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
18268 Implements ticket 11485.
18270 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
18271 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
18272 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
18273 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
18274 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
18275 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
18278 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
18279 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
18280 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
18283 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
18284 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
18285 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18287 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
18288 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
18289 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
18290 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
18291 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18293 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
18294 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
18295 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
18296 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
18298 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
18299 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
18300 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
18303 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
18304 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
18305 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
18306 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
18307 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
18308 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
18310 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18311 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
18312 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
18313 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
18315 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
18316 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
18317 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
18318 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
18319 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
18320 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
18321 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
18323 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
18324 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
18325 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
18326 that occurred when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
18327 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
18328 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18330 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
18331 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
18332 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
18333 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
18334 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
18335 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
18336 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
18337 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18339 o Minor features (build):
18340 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
18341 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
18342 Resolves ticket 13037.
18344 o Minor features (client):
18345 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
18346 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
18347 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
18348 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
18350 o Minor features (client):
18351 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
18352 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
18353 Resolves ticket 13315.
18355 o Minor features (controller):
18356 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
18357 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
18359 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
18360 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
18362 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
18363 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
18364 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
18365 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
18366 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
18367 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
18368 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
18369 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
18370 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
18372 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
18373 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
18374 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
18375 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
18376 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
18377 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
18378 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
18379 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
18380 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
18381 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
18383 o Minor features (directory authorities):
18384 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
18385 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
18386 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
18387 argument more than once.
18388 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
18389 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
18390 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
18391 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
18392 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
18393 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
18395 o Minor features (geoip):
18396 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
18397 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
18400 o Minor features (guard nodes):
18401 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
18402 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
18403 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
18405 o Minor features (heartbeat):
18406 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
18407 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
18408 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
18409 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
18411 o Minor features (hidden service):
18412 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
18413 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
18414 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
18415 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
18416 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
18417 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
18418 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
18419 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
18420 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
18421 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
18422 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
18423 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
18424 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
18425 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
18427 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
18428 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
18429 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
18431 o Minor features (interface):
18432 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
18433 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
18434 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
18436 o Minor features (logging):
18437 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
18438 Resolves ticket 6852.
18439 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
18440 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
18441 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
18443 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
18444 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
18445 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
18446 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
18447 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
18448 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
18449 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
18450 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
18451 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
18452 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
18453 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
18454 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
18457 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
18458 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
18459 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
18460 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
18462 o Minor features (relay):
18463 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
18464 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
18465 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
18467 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
18468 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
18469 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
18470 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
18471 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
18472 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
18473 document. Implements feature 10427.
18475 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
18476 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
18477 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
18478 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
18480 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
18481 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
18482 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
18483 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
18484 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
18485 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
18487 o Minor features (stability):
18488 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
18489 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
18492 o Minor features (systemd):
18493 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
18494 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
18495 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
18496 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18497 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
18498 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
18500 o Minor features (testing networks):
18501 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
18502 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
18503 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
18504 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
18505 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
18507 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
18508 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
18509 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
18510 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
18511 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
18512 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
18514 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
18515 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
18516 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
18517 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
18518 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
18520 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
18521 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
18522 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
18523 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
18524 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
18526 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
18527 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
18528 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
18529 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
18530 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
18533 o Minor features (validation):
18534 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
18535 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
18536 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
18537 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
18538 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
18539 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
18540 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
18541 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
18542 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
18543 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
18544 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
18547 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
18548 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
18549 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
18550 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18552 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
18553 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
18554 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
18555 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
18557 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
18558 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
18559 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
18561 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
18562 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
18563 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
18565 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
18566 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18567 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
18568 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
18569 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18570 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
18571 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
18573 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
18574 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
18575 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
18576 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
18577 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
18578 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
18579 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
18580 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
18581 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
18583 o Minor bugfixes (client):
18584 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
18585 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
18586 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
18587 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
18588 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
18589 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
18590 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
18591 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
18593 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
18594 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
18595 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
18596 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18597 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
18598 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
18599 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
18600 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
18602 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
18603 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
18604 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
18607 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
18608 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
18609 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
18610 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
18611 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
18613 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
18614 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
18615 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
18616 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
18617 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
18618 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
18619 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
18620 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18622 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
18623 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
18624 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
18625 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
18626 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
18628 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
18629 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
18630 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
18631 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
18632 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
18634 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
18635 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
18636 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18638 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
18639 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
18640 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
18641 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
18642 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
18644 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
18645 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
18646 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
18648 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
18649 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
18651 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
18652 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
18653 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
18654 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
18656 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
18657 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
18659 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
18660 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
18661 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
18662 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
18663 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
18664 Addresses ticket 14188.
18665 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
18666 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
18667 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
18668 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
18669 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
18670 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
18671 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
18672 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18673 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
18674 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
18675 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
18678 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18679 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
18680 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
18681 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
18682 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
18683 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
18685 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
18686 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
18687 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
18688 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
18689 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
18691 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
18692 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
18693 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
18694 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
18695 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
18696 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
18697 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
18698 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18699 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
18700 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18701 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
18702 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
18703 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
18704 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
18705 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
18706 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18708 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
18709 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
18710 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
18711 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
18712 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
18713 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
18714 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
18715 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
18718 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
18719 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
18720 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
18721 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
18722 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
18723 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
18724 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
18725 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
18726 state, and key files.
18727 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
18728 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
18731 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
18732 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
18733 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
18734 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
18735 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18736 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
18737 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
18738 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
18739 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
18740 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
18741 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
18742 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
18743 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
18744 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
18745 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
18746 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
18747 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
18748 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
18751 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
18752 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
18753 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
18754 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
18755 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
18756 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
18757 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
18758 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
18759 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
18760 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
18762 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
18763 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
18764 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
18765 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
18766 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
18767 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
18769 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
18770 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
18772 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
18773 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
18774 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
18775 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
18776 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
18778 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
18779 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
18780 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
18781 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
18782 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
18783 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18785 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
18786 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
18787 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
18789 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
18790 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
18791 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
18793 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
18794 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
18795 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
18796 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
18797 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
18799 - Clear all memory targeted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
18800 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
18801 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
18804 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
18805 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
18806 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
18807 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
18808 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
18811 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
18812 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
18813 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
18814 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
18817 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
18818 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
18819 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
18822 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
18823 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
18824 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
18826 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
18827 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
18828 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
18829 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
18830 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
18833 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
18834 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
18835 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
18836 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
18837 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
18838 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
18840 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
18841 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
18842 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
18843 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
18844 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
18845 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
18847 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
18848 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
18849 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
18850 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
18851 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18852 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
18853 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
18854 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
18855 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
18856 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
18857 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
18858 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
18859 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
18860 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
18861 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
18862 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
18863 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
18864 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
18865 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
18866 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18867 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
18868 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
18869 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
18870 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
18871 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
18872 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
18873 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
18874 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18875 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
18876 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
18877 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
18878 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
18880 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
18881 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
18882 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
18883 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
18884 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
18886 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
18887 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
18888 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
18889 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
18890 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
18891 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
18892 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
18893 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
18894 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
18896 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
18897 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
18898 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
18900 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
18901 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
18902 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
18905 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
18906 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
18907 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
18908 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
18911 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
18912 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
18913 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
18915 o Code simplification and refactoring:
18916 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
18917 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
18919 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
18920 Resolves ticket 12205.
18921 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
18922 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
18923 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
18924 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
18926 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
18927 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
18928 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
18930 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
18931 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
18933 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
18934 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
18935 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
18936 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
18937 or_options_t structure.
18938 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
18939 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
18940 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
18941 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
18942 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
18943 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
18944 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
18945 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
18947 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
18948 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
18950 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
18952 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
18953 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
18954 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
18955 with a function instead.
18956 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
18957 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
18958 Closes ticket 13172.
18959 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
18960 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
18961 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
18962 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
18963 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
18964 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
18965 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
18966 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
18967 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
18968 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
18969 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
18970 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
18974 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
18975 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
18976 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
18977 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
18979 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
18980 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
18981 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
18982 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18983 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
18984 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
18985 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
18986 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
18987 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
18988 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
18989 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
18990 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
18991 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
18992 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
18993 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
18994 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
18995 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
18996 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
18998 o Distribution (systemd):
18999 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
19000 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
19001 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
19002 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
19003 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
19005 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
19006 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
19008 o Downgraded warnings:
19009 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
19010 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
19013 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
19014 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
19015 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
19018 o Removed features (directory authorities):
19019 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
19020 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
19021 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
19022 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
19023 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
19024 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
19025 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
19026 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
19027 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
19029 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
19030 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
19031 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
19032 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
19035 o Removed features:
19036 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
19037 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
19038 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
19039 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
19040 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
19042 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
19043 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
19044 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
19045 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
19046 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
19047 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
19048 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
19049 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
19050 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
19052 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
19053 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
19055 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
19056 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
19057 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
19058 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
19059 anymore, and ignore it.
19061 o Removed platform support:
19062 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
19063 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
19064 Closes ticket 11446.
19066 o Testing (test-network.sh):
19067 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
19068 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
19070 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
19072 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
19073 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
19074 Partially implements ticket 13161.
19077 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
19078 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
19079 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
19080 (existing behavior).
19081 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
19082 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
19083 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
19084 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
19085 Closes ticket 14107.
19086 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
19087 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
19088 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
19089 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
19091 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
19092 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
19093 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
19094 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
19095 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
19096 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
19098 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
19100 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
19101 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
19102 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
19103 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
19104 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
19105 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
19106 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
19107 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
19108 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
19109 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
19110 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
19111 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
19113 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
19114 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
19115 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
19117 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
19118 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19120 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
19121 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
19122 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
19124 o Directory authority changes:
19125 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19126 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19127 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19128 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19129 closes ticket 14487.
19131 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
19132 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
19133 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
19136 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
19137 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19138 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19139 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19140 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19141 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19142 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19143 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19145 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
19146 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19147 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19148 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19150 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
19151 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
19152 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
19153 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
19155 o Minor features (controller):
19156 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
19157 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
19158 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
19160 o Minor features (geoip):
19161 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19162 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19165 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
19166 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
19167 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
19168 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19169 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
19170 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19172 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19173 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
19174 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
19175 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
19177 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
19178 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
19179 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
19180 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
19181 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
19182 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
19183 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
19184 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19186 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
19187 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
19188 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19190 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
19191 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
19192 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
19193 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
19194 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
19198 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
19199 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
19200 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
19203 o Directory authority changes:
19204 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
19205 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
19206 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
19207 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
19208 closes ticket 14487.
19210 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
19211 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
19212 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
19213 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19215 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
19216 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
19217 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
19218 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
19219 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
19220 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
19221 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
19222 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19224 o Minor features (geoip):
19225 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
19226 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
19229 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
19230 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
19232 It adds several new security features, including improved
19233 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
19234 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
19235 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
19236 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
19237 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
19238 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
19239 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
19240 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
19241 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
19242 and features mentioned below.
19244 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
19245 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
19247 o Major features (security):
19248 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
19249 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
19250 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
19251 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
19252 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
19253 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
19254 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
19255 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
19256 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
19257 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
19259 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
19260 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
19261 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
19262 streams attached to each circuit.
19264 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
19265 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
19266 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
19267 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
19268 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
19269 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
19270 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
19271 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
19272 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
19273 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
19274 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
19275 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
19276 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
19278 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
19279 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
19280 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
19281 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
19283 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
19284 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
19285 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
19286 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
19287 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
19288 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
19290 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
19291 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
19292 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
19293 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
19294 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
19295 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
19296 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
19297 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
19300 o Major features (controller):
19301 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
19302 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
19303 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
19304 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
19305 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
19306 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
19308 o Major features (relay performance):
19309 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
19310 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
19311 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
19312 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
19313 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
19314 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
19315 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
19316 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
19317 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
19318 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
19320 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
19321 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
19322 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
19323 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
19324 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
19325 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
19326 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
19327 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
19328 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
19329 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
19331 o Major features (testing networks):
19332 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
19333 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
19334 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
19335 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
19336 Implements ticket 8530.
19338 o Major features (other):
19339 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
19340 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
19341 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
19342 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
19343 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
19344 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
19346 o Deprecated versions:
19347 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
19348 attention for some while.
19350 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
19351 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
19352 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
19354 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
19355 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
19356 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
19357 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
19358 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
19359 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
19360 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
19361 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
19362 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
19363 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
19364 router's identity is not forgeable.
19366 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
19367 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
19368 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
19369 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
19371 o Major bugfixes (client):
19372 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
19373 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
19374 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
19375 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
19376 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
19377 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
19378 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
19379 to build circuits".
19381 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
19382 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
19383 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
19384 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
19387 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
19388 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
19389 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
19390 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
19391 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
19392 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
19393 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19395 o Major bugfixes (relay):
19396 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
19397 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
19398 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
19399 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
19400 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
19401 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
19402 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
19403 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
19404 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
19405 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
19406 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
19407 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
19408 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
19409 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
19410 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
19411 bugfix on every version of Tor.
19413 o Minor features (security):
19414 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
19415 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
19416 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
19417 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
19419 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
19420 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
19421 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
19422 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
19423 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
19424 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
19425 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
19427 o Minor features (security, memory management):
19428 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
19429 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
19430 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
19431 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
19432 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
19433 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
19435 o Minor features (bridge client):
19436 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
19437 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
19438 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
19440 o Minor features (bridge):
19441 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
19442 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
19444 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
19445 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
19446 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
19447 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
19448 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
19449 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
19450 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
19451 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
19452 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
19453 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
19454 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
19455 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
19456 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
19457 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
19458 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
19460 o Minor features (build):
19461 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
19462 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
19463 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
19464 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
19465 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
19466 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
19467 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
19468 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
19469 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
19470 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
19471 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
19472 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
19473 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
19474 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
19475 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
19478 o Minor features (client):
19479 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
19480 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
19481 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
19482 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
19484 o Minor features (config options and command line):
19485 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
19486 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
19487 Implements ticket 10060.
19488 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
19489 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
19490 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
19492 o Minor features (config options):
19493 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
19494 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
19495 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
19496 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
19497 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
19498 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
19499 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
19500 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
19501 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
19502 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
19503 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
19504 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
19505 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
19506 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
19507 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
19508 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
19509 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
19512 o Minor features (controller):
19513 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
19514 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
19516 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
19517 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
19518 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
19519 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
19520 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
19521 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
19522 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
19523 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
19525 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
19526 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
19527 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
19529 o Minor features (diagnostic):
19530 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
19531 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
19532 help diagnose bug 7164.
19533 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
19534 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
19535 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
19536 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
19537 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
19539 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
19540 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
19541 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
19542 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
19543 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
19544 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
19545 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
19546 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
19547 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
19548 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
19549 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
19550 still referenced by a live node_t object.
19551 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
19552 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
19553 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19555 o Minor features (geoip):
19556 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
19559 o Minor features (interface):
19560 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
19561 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
19562 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
19563 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
19565 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
19566 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
19567 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
19569 o Minor features (log messages):
19570 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
19571 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
19572 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
19573 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
19574 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
19575 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
19576 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
19577 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
19579 o Minor features (log verbosity):
19580 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
19581 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
19582 Resolves ticket 5286.
19583 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
19584 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
19585 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
19586 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
19587 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
19588 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
19590 o Minor features (performance):
19591 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
19592 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
19593 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
19594 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
19595 Closes ticket 8109.
19597 o Minor features (relay):
19598 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
19599 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
19600 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
19602 o Minor features (testing):
19603 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
19604 the unit test scripts.
19605 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
19606 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
19607 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
19608 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
19610 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
19611 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
19612 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
19613 10267; patch from "yurivict".
19614 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
19615 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
19616 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
19617 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
19618 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
19619 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
19621 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
19622 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
19623 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
19624 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19626 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
19627 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
19628 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
19629 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19630 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
19631 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
19632 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
19633 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
19634 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
19635 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
19637 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
19638 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
19639 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
19641 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
19642 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
19643 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
19644 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
19645 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
19647 o Minor bugfixes (client):
19648 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
19649 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
19650 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
19651 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
19652 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
19653 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
19654 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
19655 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19656 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
19657 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
19658 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
19660 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
19661 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
19662 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
19663 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
19664 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
19665 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
19666 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
19667 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
19668 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
19669 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
19670 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
19671 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
19673 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
19674 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
19675 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
19676 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
19678 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
19679 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
19680 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
19681 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
19684 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
19685 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
19686 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
19687 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19688 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
19689 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
19692 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
19693 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
19694 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
19695 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
19696 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
19698 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
19699 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
19700 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
19703 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
19704 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
19705 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
19706 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
19707 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
19708 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
19709 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
19710 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
19711 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
19712 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
19714 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
19715 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
19716 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
19717 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
19718 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
19720 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
19721 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
19723 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
19724 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
19725 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
19726 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
19727 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
19728 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
19729 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
19730 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
19731 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
19732 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
19733 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
19734 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
19735 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
19737 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
19738 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
19739 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
19740 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
19741 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
19742 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
19743 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
19744 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
19745 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
19746 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
19747 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
19748 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
19749 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
19751 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
19752 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
19753 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
19755 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
19756 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
19757 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
19758 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
19759 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
19760 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
19762 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
19763 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
19764 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
19765 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
19766 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
19767 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
19768 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
19769 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
19770 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
19771 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19773 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
19774 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
19775 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
19777 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
19778 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
19779 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
19780 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
19781 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
19783 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
19784 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
19785 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
19786 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
19787 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
19788 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
19789 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
19790 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
19791 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
19792 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
19793 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
19794 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
19795 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
19796 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
19798 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
19799 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
19800 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
19801 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
19802 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
19803 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
19804 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
19805 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
19806 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
19808 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
19809 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
19810 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
19811 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
19812 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
19813 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
19814 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
19816 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
19817 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
19819 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
19820 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
19821 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
19822 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
19824 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
19825 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
19826 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
19827 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
19828 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
19829 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
19830 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
19831 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
19832 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
19833 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
19834 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
19835 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
19836 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
19837 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
19838 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
19839 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
19840 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
19842 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
19843 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
19844 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
19845 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
19846 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
19847 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
19848 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
19849 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
19852 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
19853 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
19854 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
19855 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
19856 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
19857 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
19858 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
19859 Reported by "mr-4".
19860 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
19861 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
19862 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
19863 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19865 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
19866 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
19867 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
19868 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
19869 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
19870 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
19871 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
19872 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
19873 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
19874 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
19875 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
19876 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
19878 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
19879 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
19880 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
19882 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
19883 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
19884 early. Fixes bug 10081.
19886 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
19887 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
19888 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
19889 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
19892 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
19893 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
19894 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
19895 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
19898 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
19899 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
19900 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
19901 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
19903 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
19904 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
19905 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
19907 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
19908 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
19909 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
19910 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
19911 versions. Found by "skruffy".
19912 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
19913 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
19914 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
19917 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
19918 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
19919 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
19920 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
19921 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
19922 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
19923 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
19924 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
19925 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
19926 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
19927 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
19929 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
19930 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
19931 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
19932 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
19933 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
19935 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
19936 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
19937 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
19938 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
19941 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
19942 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
19943 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
19944 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
19945 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
19946 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
19947 should never have affected anyone in practice.
19949 o Code simplification and refactoring:
19950 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
19951 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
19952 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
19953 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
19954 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
19955 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
19956 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
19957 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
19958 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
19959 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
19960 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
19961 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
19962 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
19963 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
19964 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
19965 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19966 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
19967 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
19968 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
19969 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
19970 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
19971 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
19972 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
19974 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
19975 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
19976 embarrassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
19977 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
19978 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
19979 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
19980 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
19981 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
19982 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
19984 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
19985 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
19988 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
19989 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
19991 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
19993 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
19994 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
19995 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
19996 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
19997 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
19998 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
20000 - Correct the documentation so that it lists the correct directory
20001 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
20003 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
20004 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
20005 caches don't get confused.
20006 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
20007 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20008 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
20009 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
20010 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
20011 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
20012 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
20013 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
20014 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
20015 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
20016 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
20017 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
20018 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
20019 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
20020 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20021 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
20022 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
20023 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
20026 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
20027 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
20028 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
20029 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
20030 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
20032 o Removed code and features:
20033 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
20034 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
20035 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
20036 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
20037 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
20038 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
20040 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
20041 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
20042 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
20043 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
20044 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
20045 part of a fix for bug 10841.
20046 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
20047 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
20048 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
20049 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
20050 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
20051 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
20053 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
20054 Resolves ticket 11070.
20055 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
20056 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
20057 the rest of bug 10841.
20058 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
20059 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
20060 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
20061 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
20063 o Test infrastructure:
20064 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
20065 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
20066 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
20067 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
20068 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
20069 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
20070 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
20071 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
20072 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
20073 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
20075 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
20076 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
20077 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
20078 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
20079 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
20080 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
20081 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
20082 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
20083 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
20084 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
20085 invoking the other functions it calls.
20088 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
20089 Patch from Dana Koch.
20090 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
20091 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
20092 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
20093 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
20095 o Distribution (systemd):
20096 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
20097 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
20098 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
20099 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
20100 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
20101 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
20102 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
20103 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
20104 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
20105 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
20106 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
20107 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
20108 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
20112 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
20113 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
20114 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
20115 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
20116 (which does affect Tor).
20118 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20119 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
20120 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
20121 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
20123 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
20124 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
20125 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
20126 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
20129 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
20130 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
20131 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
20132 the directory authorities.
20135 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
20136 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
20137 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
20138 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
20139 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
20140 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
20141 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
20142 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
20143 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
20144 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
20145 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
20146 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
20148 o Directory authority changes:
20149 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
20151 o Minor features (geoip):
20152 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20156 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
20157 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
20158 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
20159 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
20162 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
20163 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
20164 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
20165 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
20166 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
20167 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
20168 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
20169 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
20170 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
20171 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
20174 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
20175 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
20176 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
20177 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
20178 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
20179 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
20180 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
20181 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
20185 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
20186 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
20187 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
20188 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
20189 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
20190 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
20191 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
20192 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
20193 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
20194 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
20195 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
20196 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
20197 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
20200 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
20204 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
20205 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
20206 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
20207 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
20208 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
20209 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
20210 of RAM, and several others.
20212 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20213 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
20214 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
20215 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
20216 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
20218 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
20219 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
20220 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
20221 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
20224 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20225 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
20226 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
20227 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
20228 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
20229 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
20230 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20231 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
20232 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
20233 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
20234 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
20235 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
20236 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
20237 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
20238 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
20239 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
20240 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
20241 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
20242 Resolves ticket 11438.
20244 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
20245 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
20246 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
20247 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
20248 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
20249 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
20251 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20252 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
20253 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
20255 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20256 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
20257 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20259 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20260 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
20261 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
20262 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20264 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20265 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
20266 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
20268 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
20269 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
20270 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20273 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
20274 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
20275 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
20276 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
20279 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20280 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
20281 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
20282 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
20284 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20285 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
20286 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
20287 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
20289 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
20290 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
20291 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
20295 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
20296 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
20297 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
20298 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
20300 o Major features (client security):
20301 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
20302 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
20303 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
20304 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
20305 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
20306 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
20309 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
20310 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
20311 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
20312 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20314 o Code simplification and refactoring:
20315 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
20316 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
20317 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
20318 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
20321 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
20322 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
20324 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
20325 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
20326 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
20327 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
20328 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
20329 GeoLite2 Country database.
20332 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
20333 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
20334 bugfix on every released Tor.
20335 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
20336 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
20337 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
20338 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
20339 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
20340 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
20341 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
20342 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
20343 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
20344 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
20345 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
20346 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
20347 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
20348 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
20349 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
20351 o Documentation fixes:
20352 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
20353 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
20356 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
20357 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
20358 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
20359 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
20360 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
20361 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
20362 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
20364 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
20365 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
20368 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
20369 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
20370 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
20371 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
20372 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
20373 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
20374 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
20375 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
20377 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
20378 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
20379 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
20380 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
20381 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
20382 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
20385 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
20386 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20387 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
20388 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
20389 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
20392 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
20393 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
20394 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
20395 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
20396 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
20397 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
20398 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
20399 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
20401 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
20402 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
20403 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
20404 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
20405 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
20406 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
20407 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
20408 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
20409 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
20410 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
20411 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
20412 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
20413 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
20414 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
20415 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
20416 security, and privacy fixes.
20418 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
20419 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
20420 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
20421 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
20422 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
20423 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
20424 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
20425 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
20426 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
20427 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
20428 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
20430 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
20431 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
20432 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
20434 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
20436 o Major features (better link encryption):
20437 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
20438 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
20439 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
20440 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
20441 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
20442 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
20445 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
20446 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
20447 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
20448 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
20450 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
20452 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
20453 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
20454 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
20455 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
20456 them to solve bug 6033.)
20458 o Major features (relay performance):
20459 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
20460 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
20461 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
20462 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
20463 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
20464 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
20465 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
20466 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
20467 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
20468 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
20469 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
20470 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
20471 Implements ticket 9574.
20473 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
20474 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
20475 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
20476 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
20477 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
20478 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
20479 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
20480 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
20481 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
20482 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
20483 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
20484 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
20485 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
20486 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
20487 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
20488 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
20490 o Major features (use of guards):
20491 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
20492 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
20493 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
20494 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
20495 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
20496 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
20497 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
20498 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
20499 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
20500 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
20501 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
20502 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
20503 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
20504 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20506 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
20507 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
20508 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
20509 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
20511 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
20512 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
20515 o Major features (geoip database):
20516 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
20517 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
20518 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
20519 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
20520 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
20521 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
20523 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
20525 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
20527 o Major features (IPv6):
20528 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
20529 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
20530 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
20531 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
20532 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
20533 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
20534 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
20535 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
20536 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
20537 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
20538 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
20539 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
20540 revised in proposal 208.
20541 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
20542 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
20543 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
20545 o Major features (directory authorities):
20546 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
20547 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
20549 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
20550 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
20551 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
20552 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
20553 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
20554 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
20555 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
20556 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
20557 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
20558 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
20559 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
20561 o Major features (build and portability):
20562 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
20563 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
20564 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
20565 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
20566 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
20567 fixes by Jim Meyering.
20568 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
20569 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
20570 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
20571 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
20572 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
20573 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
20575 o Security features:
20576 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
20577 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
20578 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
20579 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
20580 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
20581 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
20582 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
20583 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
20584 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
20587 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
20588 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
20589 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
20590 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
20591 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
20592 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
20593 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
20594 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
20595 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
20596 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
20597 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
20598 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
20599 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
20600 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
20601 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20602 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
20603 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
20604 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
20606 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
20607 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
20608 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
20609 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
20611 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
20612 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
20613 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
20615 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
20616 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
20617 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
20618 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
20619 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
20620 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
20621 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
20622 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
20623 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
20625 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
20626 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20628 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
20629 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
20630 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
20631 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
20632 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
20633 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
20634 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
20635 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
20636 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
20637 last time we raised it).
20638 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
20639 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
20640 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
20642 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
20643 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
20644 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
20645 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
20646 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
20647 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
20648 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
20649 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
20650 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
20651 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
20652 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
20653 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
20654 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
20656 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
20657 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
20658 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
20659 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
20660 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
20661 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
20662 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
20663 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
20664 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
20665 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
20666 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
20667 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
20668 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
20670 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
20671 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
20672 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
20673 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
20674 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
20675 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
20676 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
20677 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
20678 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
20680 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
20681 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
20682 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
20683 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
20684 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
20685 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
20686 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
20687 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
20688 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
20689 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
20690 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
20691 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
20692 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
20693 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
20694 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
20695 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
20696 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
20699 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
20700 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
20701 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
20702 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
20704 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
20705 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
20706 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
20707 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
20709 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
20710 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
20711 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
20712 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
20713 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
20714 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
20717 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
20718 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
20719 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
20720 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
20721 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
20722 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
20723 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
20725 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
20726 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
20727 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
20728 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
20730 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
20731 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
20732 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
20733 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
20734 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
20735 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
20736 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
20737 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20739 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
20740 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
20741 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
20743 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
20744 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
20745 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
20747 o Internal abstraction features:
20748 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
20749 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
20750 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
20751 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
20752 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
20753 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
20754 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
20755 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
20756 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
20757 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
20758 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
20759 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
20760 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
20761 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
20762 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
20763 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
20764 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
20766 o New build requirements:
20767 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
20768 strongly recommended.
20769 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
20770 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
20771 from a source distribution.)
20773 o Minor features (protocol):
20774 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
20775 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
20777 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
20778 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
20779 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
20780 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
20781 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
20782 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
20783 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
20784 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
20785 closes ticket 7199.
20786 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
20787 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
20789 o Minor features (security):
20790 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
20791 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
20792 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
20793 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
20794 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
20795 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
20796 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
20797 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
20798 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
20800 o Minor features (control protocol):
20801 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
20803 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
20804 Implements ticket 4971.
20805 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
20806 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
20807 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
20808 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
20809 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
20811 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
20812 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
20814 o Minor features (path selection):
20815 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
20816 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
20817 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
20818 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
20819 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
20820 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
20821 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
20822 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
20823 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
20824 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
20825 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
20826 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
20827 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
20828 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
20830 o Minor features (hidden services):
20831 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
20832 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
20833 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
20834 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
20835 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
20836 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
20837 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
20838 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
20839 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
20840 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
20841 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
20842 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
20843 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
20845 o Minor features (clients):
20846 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
20847 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
20848 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
20849 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
20850 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
20851 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
20852 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
20853 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
20854 the ORPort and the DirPort.
20856 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
20857 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
20858 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
20859 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
20860 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
20861 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
20862 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
20863 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
20864 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
20865 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
20866 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
20867 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
20868 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
20869 Implements part of proposal 222.
20871 o Minor features (bridges):
20872 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
20873 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
20874 bugs 1913 and 1992.
20875 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
20876 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
20877 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
20878 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
20879 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
20880 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
20881 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
20882 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
20883 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
20884 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
20885 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
20887 o Minor features (relays):
20888 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
20889 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
20891 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
20892 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
20893 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
20894 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
20895 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
20896 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
20897 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
20898 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
20899 connect to the wrong addresses.
20900 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
20901 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
20902 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
20903 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
20906 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
20907 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
20908 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
20909 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
20910 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
20911 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
20913 o Minor features (directory authorities):
20914 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
20915 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
20916 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
20918 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
20919 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
20920 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
20921 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
20922 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
20923 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
20925 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
20926 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
20927 Implements ticket 8151.
20928 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
20929 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
20930 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
20931 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
20933 o Minor features (path bias detection):
20934 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
20935 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
20936 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
20937 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
20938 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
20939 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
20940 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
20941 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
20942 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
20943 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
20944 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
20945 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
20946 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
20947 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
20948 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
20949 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
20950 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
20951 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
20952 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
20953 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
20954 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
20955 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
20956 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
20957 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
20958 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
20959 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
20960 detection capability loss.
20962 o Minor features (build):
20963 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
20964 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
20965 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
20967 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
20968 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
20969 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
20971 o Build improvements (autotools):
20972 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
20973 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
20974 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
20976 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
20977 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
20978 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
20979 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
20981 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
20982 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
20983 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
20984 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
20985 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
20986 than to perform erroneously.
20987 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
20989 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
20990 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
20991 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
20993 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
20994 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
20995 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
20996 hard-to-track-down errors.
20997 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
20998 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
20999 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
21000 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
21001 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
21002 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
21003 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
21004 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
21005 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
21006 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
21007 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
21009 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
21010 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
21011 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
21012 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
21013 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
21014 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
21015 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
21016 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
21017 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
21018 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
21020 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
21021 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
21022 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
21023 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
21024 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
21025 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
21026 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
21027 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
21028 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
21029 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
21030 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
21031 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
21032 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
21034 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
21035 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
21036 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
21037 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
21038 or at least make it more diagnosable.
21039 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
21040 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
21041 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
21042 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
21044 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
21045 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
21046 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
21047 part of ticket 6736.
21048 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
21049 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
21050 Resolves ticket 6758.
21051 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
21052 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
21053 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
21054 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21055 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
21056 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
21057 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
21059 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
21060 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
21061 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
21062 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
21064 o Minor features (testing):
21065 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
21066 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
21068 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
21069 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
21070 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
21073 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
21074 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
21076 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
21077 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
21078 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
21079 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
21080 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
21081 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
21082 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
21083 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
21084 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
21085 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
21086 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
21087 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
21088 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
21089 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
21090 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
21091 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
21092 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
21094 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
21095 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
21096 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
21097 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
21098 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
21099 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
21100 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
21101 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
21102 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
21103 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
21104 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
21105 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
21106 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
21107 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
21108 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
21109 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
21110 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
21111 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
21112 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
21113 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
21116 o Minor fixes (config options):
21117 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
21118 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
21119 or we just won't work.)
21120 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
21121 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
21122 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
21123 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
21124 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
21125 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
21126 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
21127 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21128 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
21129 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
21130 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
21131 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21132 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
21133 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
21134 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
21135 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
21136 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
21137 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
21138 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
21140 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
21141 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
21142 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
21144 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
21145 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
21146 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
21147 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha.
21149 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
21150 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
21151 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
21152 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
21153 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
21154 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
21155 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
21156 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
21157 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
21158 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
21159 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
21160 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
21161 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
21162 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
21163 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
21164 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
21167 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
21168 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
21169 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
21170 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
21171 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
21172 Should help resolve bug 8235.
21173 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
21174 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
21175 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
21176 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21177 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
21178 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
21179 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
21180 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
21181 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
21182 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
21183 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
21185 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
21186 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
21187 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
21188 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
21189 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
21190 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
21191 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
21192 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
21194 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21195 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
21196 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
21197 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
21199 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
21200 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
21201 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
21202 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
21203 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
21205 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
21206 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
21207 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
21208 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21209 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
21210 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
21212 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
21213 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
21214 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
21215 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
21216 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21217 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
21218 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
21219 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
21220 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
21222 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
21223 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
21224 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
21225 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
21226 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21227 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
21228 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
21229 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
21230 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
21231 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
21232 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
21233 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
21235 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
21236 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
21237 this is CID 718634.
21238 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
21239 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
21240 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
21241 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
21243 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
21244 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
21246 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
21247 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
21248 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
21249 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
21250 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
21251 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
21252 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
21253 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21254 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
21255 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
21256 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
21257 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
21258 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
21259 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
21260 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
21261 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
21262 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
21263 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
21265 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
21266 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
21267 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
21268 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
21269 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
21270 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
21271 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
21272 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
21273 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
21274 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
21275 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
21276 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
21277 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
21280 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
21281 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
21282 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
21283 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
21284 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
21286 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
21287 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
21288 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
21289 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
21290 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
21291 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21292 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
21293 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
21294 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
21297 o Minor bugfixes (build):
21298 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
21299 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
21300 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
21302 o Documentation fixes:
21303 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
21304 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
21305 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
21306 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
21307 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
21308 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
21309 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
21311 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
21312 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
21313 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
21314 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
21315 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
21316 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
21317 message is logged at notice, not at info.
21318 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
21319 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
21320 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
21321 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
21322 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
21323 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
21325 o Removed features:
21326 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
21327 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
21328 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
21330 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
21331 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
21332 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
21333 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
21334 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
21335 compatibility code.
21338 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
21339 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
21341 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
21342 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
21344 o Code simplification:
21345 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
21346 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
21347 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
21348 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
21350 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
21351 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
21353 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
21354 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
21355 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
21356 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
21357 present the same extensions.)
21358 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
21360 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
21361 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
21362 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
21363 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
21365 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
21366 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
21367 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
21368 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
21371 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
21373 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
21374 and the different handshakes it supports.
21375 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
21376 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
21377 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
21378 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
21380 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
21381 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
21382 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
21383 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
21384 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
21385 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
21386 testable, and a little less fragile too.
21387 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
21388 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
21389 Implements ticket 5529.
21390 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
21391 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
21392 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
21395 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
21396 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
21397 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
21398 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
21399 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
21400 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21401 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
21402 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
21403 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
21404 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
21405 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
21406 any encoding is overkill.
21407 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
21408 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
21409 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
21410 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
21411 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
21412 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
21413 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
21414 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
21415 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
21418 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
21419 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
21420 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
21421 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
21422 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
21423 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
21424 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
21425 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
21427 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
21428 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
21429 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
21430 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
21431 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
21432 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
21433 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
21434 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
21435 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
21436 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
21437 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
21439 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
21440 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
21441 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
21442 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
21443 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
21444 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
21445 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
21446 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
21447 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
21448 describes microdescriptors.
21450 o Major features (build hardening):
21451 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
21453 o Major features (relay scaling):
21454 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
21455 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
21456 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
21457 much faster than other AES implementations.
21458 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
21459 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
21460 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
21461 Resolves ticket 4526.
21462 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
21463 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
21465 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
21466 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
21467 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
21468 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
21470 o Major features (blocking resistance):
21471 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
21473 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
21474 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
21475 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
21476 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
21477 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
21478 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
21479 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
21480 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
21481 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
21482 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
21483 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
21484 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
21485 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
21486 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
21487 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
21488 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
21489 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
21490 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
21491 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
21493 o Major features (pluggable transports):
21494 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
21495 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
21496 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
21497 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
21499 o Major features (DoS resistance):
21500 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
21501 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
21502 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
21503 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
21504 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
21505 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
21506 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
21507 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
21508 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
21509 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
21510 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
21512 o Major features (hidden services):
21513 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
21514 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
21515 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
21517 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
21518 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
21519 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
21520 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
21521 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
21522 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
21524 o Major features (IPv6):
21525 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
21526 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
21527 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
21528 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
21529 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
21531 o Major features (directory authorities):
21532 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
21533 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
21534 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
21535 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
21536 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
21537 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
21538 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
21539 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
21540 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
21541 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
21543 o Major features (performance):
21544 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
21545 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
21546 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
21547 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
21548 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
21549 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
21550 side of Proposal 174.
21551 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
21552 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
21553 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
21554 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
21555 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
21556 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
21557 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
21558 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
21559 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
21560 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
21561 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
21562 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
21564 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
21565 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
21566 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
21567 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
21568 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
21571 o Major features (relays):
21572 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
21573 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
21574 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
21575 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
21576 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
21577 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
21578 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
21580 o Major features (stream isolation):
21581 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
21582 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
21583 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
21584 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
21585 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
21586 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
21587 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
21588 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
21589 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
21590 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
21591 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
21592 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
21593 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
21594 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
21596 o Major features (bufferevents):
21597 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
21598 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
21599 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
21600 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
21601 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
21602 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
21603 zero-copy transports where available.
21604 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
21605 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
21606 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
21607 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
21608 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
21609 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
21611 o Major features (path selection):
21612 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
21613 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
21614 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
21615 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
21618 o Major features (port forwarding):
21619 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
21620 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
21621 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
21622 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
21623 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
21624 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
21626 o Major features (logging):
21627 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
21628 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
21629 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
21630 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
21631 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
21632 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
21633 Implements enhancement 1668.
21635 o Major features (other):
21636 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
21637 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
21638 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
21639 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
21640 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
21641 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
21642 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
21643 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
21644 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
21645 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
21646 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
21647 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
21648 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
21649 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
21650 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
21651 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
21652 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
21653 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
21654 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
21655 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
21657 o New directory authorities:
21658 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
21659 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
21661 o Security/privacy fixes:
21662 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
21663 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
21664 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
21665 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
21666 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
21667 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
21668 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
21669 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
21670 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
21671 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
21672 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
21673 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
21674 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
21675 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
21676 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
21677 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
21678 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
21679 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
21680 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
21681 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
21682 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
21683 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
21684 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
21685 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
21686 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
21687 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
21688 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
21689 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
21690 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
21691 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
21692 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
21694 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
21695 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
21696 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
21697 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
21698 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
21699 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
21700 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
21701 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
21702 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
21703 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
21704 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
21705 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
21706 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
21707 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
21710 o Major bugfixes (clients):
21711 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
21712 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
21713 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
21714 which introduced predicted ports.
21715 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
21716 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
21717 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
21718 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
21719 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
21720 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
21721 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
21722 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
21723 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
21725 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
21726 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
21727 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
21728 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
21729 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
21730 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
21732 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
21733 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
21734 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
21735 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
21736 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
21737 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
21738 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
21739 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
21740 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
21741 documents entirely.
21743 o Major bugfixes (relays):
21744 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
21745 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
21746 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
21747 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
21748 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
21749 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
21750 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
21751 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
21752 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
21753 immensely in tracking this bug down.
21754 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
21755 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
21756 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
21757 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
21758 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
21759 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
21760 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
21762 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
21763 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
21764 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
21765 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
21766 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
21767 cells were introduced.
21768 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
21769 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
21770 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
21771 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
21773 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
21774 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
21775 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
21776 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
21777 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
21778 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
21779 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
21780 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
21781 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
21782 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
21783 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
21784 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
21785 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
21786 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
21787 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
21788 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
21789 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
21790 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
21791 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
21792 Fixes part of bug 3825.
21794 o Changes to default torrc file:
21795 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
21796 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
21798 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
21799 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
21800 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
21802 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
21803 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
21804 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
21806 o Minor features (directory authorities):
21807 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
21808 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
21809 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
21810 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
21811 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
21812 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
21813 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
21814 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
21815 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
21816 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
21817 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
21818 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
21819 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
21820 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
21821 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
21824 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
21825 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
21826 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
21827 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
21828 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
21829 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
21830 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
21831 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
21832 sure. Closes bug 5139.
21833 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
21834 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
21835 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
21836 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
21837 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
21839 o Minor features (IPv6):
21840 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
21841 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
21842 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
21843 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
21844 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
21845 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
21847 o Minor features (hidden services):
21848 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
21849 Required by fix for bug 3460.
21850 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
21851 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
21852 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
21853 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
21854 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
21855 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
21856 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
21857 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
21858 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
21860 o Minor features (relays):
21861 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
21862 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
21863 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
21864 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
21865 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
21866 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
21867 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
21868 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
21869 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
21870 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
21871 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
21874 o Minor features (new config options):
21875 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
21876 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
21877 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
21878 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
21879 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
21880 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
21881 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
21882 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
21883 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
21884 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
21885 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
21886 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
21888 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
21889 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
21890 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
21891 Implements issue 933.
21892 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
21893 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
21894 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
21895 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
21896 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
21897 implements ticket 3439.
21898 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
21899 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
21900 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
21901 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
21902 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
21903 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
21904 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
21905 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
21907 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
21908 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
21909 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
21910 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
21911 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
21912 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
21913 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
21914 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
21915 appending to the list.
21916 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
21917 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
21918 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
21919 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
21922 o Minor features (controller, new events):
21923 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
21924 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
21925 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
21926 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
21927 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
21928 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
21930 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
21931 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
21932 circuit-status' control-port command.
21933 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
21934 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
21935 user. Implements ticket 1692.
21936 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
21937 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
21938 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
21940 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
21941 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
21942 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
21943 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
21944 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
21945 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
21946 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
21947 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
21948 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
21950 o Minor features (controller, other):
21951 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
21952 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
21953 part of ticket 3457.
21954 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
21955 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
21956 file. Resolves bug 1101.
21957 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
21958 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
21960 o Minor features (log messages):
21961 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
21962 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
21963 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
21964 please let us know about it.
21965 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
21966 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
21967 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
21968 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
21969 Resolves ticket 2474.
21970 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
21971 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
21973 o Minor features (other):
21974 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
21975 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
21976 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
21977 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
21979 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
21980 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
21981 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
21982 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
21983 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
21984 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
21985 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
21987 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
21988 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
21989 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
21990 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
21991 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
21993 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
21994 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
21995 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
21996 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
21997 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
21998 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
21999 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
22000 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
22001 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22002 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
22003 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
22004 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
22005 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
22006 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
22007 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
22008 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
22011 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
22012 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
22013 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
22014 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
22015 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
22016 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
22017 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
22018 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
22019 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
22021 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
22022 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
22023 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
22024 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
22025 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
22026 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
22027 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22028 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
22029 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
22030 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22032 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
22033 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
22034 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22035 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
22036 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
22037 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
22038 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22039 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
22040 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
22042 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
22043 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
22044 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
22045 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
22046 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
22047 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
22048 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
22049 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
22050 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
22052 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
22053 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
22054 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
22055 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
22056 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
22057 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
22058 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
22060 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
22061 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
22062 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
22063 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
22065 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
22066 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
22067 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
22068 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
22069 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
22070 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
22071 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
22072 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
22073 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
22074 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
22075 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
22076 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
22079 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
22080 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
22081 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22082 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
22083 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
22084 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
22086 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
22087 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
22088 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22089 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
22090 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
22091 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
22092 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22093 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
22094 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
22095 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
22096 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
22097 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
22098 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
22099 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
22100 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
22102 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
22103 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
22104 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
22105 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
22106 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
22107 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
22109 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
22110 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
22111 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
22112 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
22113 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
22114 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
22115 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
22116 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
22117 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
22118 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
22119 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
22120 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
22121 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
22122 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
22123 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22125 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
22126 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
22127 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
22128 be disabled using the new
22129 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
22130 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22131 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
22132 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
22133 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
22134 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
22135 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
22137 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
22138 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
22139 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
22140 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22141 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
22142 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
22143 the absence of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
22145 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
22146 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
22147 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
22148 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
22149 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22150 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
22151 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
22152 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
22154 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
22155 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
22156 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
22157 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22158 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
22159 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
22160 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
22161 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22163 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
22164 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
22165 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
22166 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
22167 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
22168 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
22169 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
22170 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
22172 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
22173 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
22174 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
22175 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
22177 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
22178 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
22179 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
22181 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
22182 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
22184 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
22185 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
22186 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
22187 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
22188 case for flushing marked connections.
22189 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
22190 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
22191 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
22192 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
22193 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
22194 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
22195 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
22196 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
22197 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
22198 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22200 o Minor bugfixes (other):
22201 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
22202 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
22203 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
22204 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
22205 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
22206 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
22207 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
22208 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
22209 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
22210 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
22212 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
22213 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
22214 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
22215 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
22216 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22218 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
22219 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
22220 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
22221 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
22222 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
22223 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
22224 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
22225 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
22226 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
22227 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
22228 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
22229 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
22230 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
22231 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
22232 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
22233 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
22235 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
22236 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
22237 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
22238 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
22239 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
22240 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
22241 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22242 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
22243 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22244 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
22245 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
22246 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
22247 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
22248 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
22249 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
22250 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
22251 Implements ticket 3264.
22252 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
22254 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
22255 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
22256 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
22257 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
22258 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
22259 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
22261 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
22262 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
22263 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
22264 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
22265 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
22266 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22267 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
22268 them from the other auths.
22269 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
22270 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
22271 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
22272 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22273 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
22274 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
22275 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
22276 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
22280 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
22281 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
22282 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
22284 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
22285 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
22286 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
22287 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
22288 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
22289 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
22290 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
22291 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
22293 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
22294 ./src/test/bench binary.
22295 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
22296 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
22297 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
22298 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
22301 o Build improvements:
22302 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
22303 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
22304 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
22305 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
22306 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
22307 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
22308 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
22309 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
22310 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
22311 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
22312 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
22313 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
22314 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
22315 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
22316 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
22317 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
22318 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
22319 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
22320 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
22321 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
22322 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
22324 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
22326 o Build requirements:
22327 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
22328 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
22329 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
22330 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
22331 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
22332 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
22333 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
22334 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
22335 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
22336 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
22337 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
22338 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
22339 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
22341 o Build fixes (compile/link):
22342 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
22343 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
22345 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
22346 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
22347 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
22348 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
22349 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
22350 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
22351 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22352 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
22353 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
22355 o Build fixes (other):
22356 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
22357 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
22359 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
22360 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
22361 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
22362 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
22363 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
22364 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
22365 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
22366 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
22368 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
22369 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
22372 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
22373 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
22374 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
22375 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
22376 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
22377 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
22378 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
22379 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
22381 o Code refactoring (safety):
22382 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
22383 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
22384 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
22385 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
22386 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
22387 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
22388 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
22389 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
22390 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
22391 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
22392 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
22393 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
22395 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
22396 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
22397 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
22398 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
22399 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
22400 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
22401 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
22402 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
22403 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
22404 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
22405 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
22406 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
22407 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
22408 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
22409 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
22410 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
22411 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
22412 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
22414 o Code refactoring (separate):
22415 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
22416 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
22417 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
22419 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
22420 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
22423 o Code refactoring (name changes):
22424 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
22425 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
22426 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
22427 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
22428 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
22429 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
22430 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
22432 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
22433 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
22434 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
22435 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
22436 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
22437 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
22438 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
22439 invalid value, rather than just -1.
22440 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
22441 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
22442 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
22444 o Code refactoring (other):
22445 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
22446 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
22448 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
22449 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
22450 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
22451 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
22452 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
22453 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
22454 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
22455 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
22456 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
22457 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
22458 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
22459 our library structure used to force them to link it.
22461 o Removed features and files:
22462 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
22463 it would be a bad idea to start.
22464 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
22466 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
22467 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
22468 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
22469 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
22470 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
22471 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
22472 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
22473 are no longer in use as relays.
22474 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
22475 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
22476 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
22477 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
22478 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
22479 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
22483 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
22484 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
22485 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
22487 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
22488 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
22490 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
22491 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
22492 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
22494 o Documentation fixes:
22495 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
22496 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
22497 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
22498 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
22499 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
22500 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
22501 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
22502 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
22505 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
22506 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
22510 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
22511 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
22512 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22513 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
22514 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
22515 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
22516 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
22520 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
22521 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
22522 attack that could in theory leak path information.
22525 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
22526 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
22527 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
22528 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
22529 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
22530 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
22531 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
22532 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
22533 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
22534 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
22535 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
22536 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
22537 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
22538 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
22541 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
22542 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
22543 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
22547 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
22548 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
22549 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
22550 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
22551 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
22552 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
22553 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22554 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
22555 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
22556 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
22557 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22560 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
22561 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
22564 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
22565 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
22568 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
22569 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
22570 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
22571 and fixes several crash bugs.
22573 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
22574 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
22575 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
22576 those packages and upgrade anyway.
22578 o Directory authority changes:
22579 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
22580 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
22584 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
22585 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
22586 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
22587 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
22588 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
22589 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
22590 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
22591 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
22592 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
22593 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
22594 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
22595 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
22596 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
22597 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
22598 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
22599 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
22600 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
22601 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
22602 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
22603 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
22604 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
22605 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
22606 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
22607 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
22608 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
22609 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
22610 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
22613 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
22614 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22615 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
22616 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
22618 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
22619 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
22621 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
22622 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
22623 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
22624 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
22625 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
22626 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
22627 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
22628 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
22631 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
22632 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
22633 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
22634 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
22635 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
22636 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
22637 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
22638 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
22639 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
22640 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
22641 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
22642 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
22643 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
22644 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
22645 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
22646 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
22647 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
22648 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
22649 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
22650 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
22651 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
22652 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
22653 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
22654 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
22655 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
22656 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
22657 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
22658 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
22659 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
22660 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
22661 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
22662 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
22663 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
22664 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
22665 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
22666 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
22667 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
22668 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
22669 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
22670 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
22671 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
22672 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
22673 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
22674 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
22675 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
22676 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
22678 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
22679 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
22680 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
22681 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
22682 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
22683 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
22684 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
22685 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
22686 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
22687 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
22688 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22689 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
22690 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
22691 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
22692 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
22695 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
22696 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
22697 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
22698 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
22700 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22703 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
22704 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
22705 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
22706 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
22707 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
22708 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
22709 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
22712 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
22713 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
22714 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
22716 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
22717 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
22718 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
22719 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
22720 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
22721 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
22722 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
22723 (which Tor does not do by default).
22725 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
22726 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
22727 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
22728 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
22729 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
22731 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
22732 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
22733 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
22736 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
22737 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
22738 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
22739 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
22740 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
22742 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
22743 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
22746 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22747 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22748 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22749 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22750 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
22751 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
22752 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
22753 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
22755 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
22756 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
22757 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
22758 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
22759 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
22760 close based on processing a cell on it.
22761 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22762 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22763 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22764 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22765 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
22766 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
22767 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22768 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
22769 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
22770 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
22771 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
22772 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
22773 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
22774 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
22775 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
22778 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
22779 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
22780 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
22781 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
22782 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
22783 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
22784 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
22786 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
22787 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
22788 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
22789 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
22790 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
22791 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
22792 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
22793 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
22794 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
22795 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
22796 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
22797 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
22798 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
22799 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
22800 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
22801 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
22802 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
22803 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
22804 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22805 Reported by "troll_un".
22806 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
22807 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22808 Reported by "troll_un".
22809 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
22810 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
22811 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
22812 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
22815 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
22816 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
22817 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
22818 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
22819 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
22820 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
22821 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
22822 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
22823 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
22824 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
22825 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22827 o Packaging changes:
22828 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
22829 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
22832 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
22833 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22834 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22835 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22836 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22838 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
22839 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
22841 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22842 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
22843 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
22844 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
22845 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
22846 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
22847 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
22848 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
22849 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
22852 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22855 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
22856 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
22857 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
22859 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
22860 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
22861 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
22862 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
22863 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
22864 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
22865 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
22866 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
22867 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
22868 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
22869 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
22870 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
22871 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
22873 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
22874 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
22875 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
22876 currently connected to them.
22878 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
22879 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
22880 remain; see for example proposal 188.
22882 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
22883 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22884 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22885 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22886 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22887 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22888 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22889 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22890 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22891 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22892 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22893 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
22894 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
22895 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
22896 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
22897 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
22898 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
22899 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
22902 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
22903 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
22904 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
22905 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
22906 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
22907 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
22908 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
22909 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
22910 when bridges were introduced.
22911 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22912 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22913 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
22914 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
22915 Found by "frosty_un".
22918 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
22919 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
22921 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
22922 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
22923 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
22924 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
22925 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
22926 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
22927 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
22930 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
22931 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
22932 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
22933 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
22934 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
22935 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
22936 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
22937 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
22938 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
22939 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
22940 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
22941 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
22942 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
22943 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
22944 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
22945 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
22946 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
22947 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
22949 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
22950 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
22951 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
22952 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22953 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
22954 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
22955 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
22956 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
22957 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
22958 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
22959 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
22960 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
22963 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
22964 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
22965 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
22966 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
22969 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
22970 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
22971 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
22972 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
22973 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
22975 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22976 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
22977 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
22978 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
22979 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
22980 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
22981 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
22982 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
22983 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
22984 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
22986 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
22987 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
22988 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
22989 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
22990 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
22991 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
22992 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
22993 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
22994 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
22995 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
22996 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
22997 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
22998 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
22999 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
23000 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23001 Found by "frosty_un".
23002 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23003 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23004 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23005 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23006 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23007 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23008 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23009 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23010 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23011 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23012 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
23013 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23014 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23015 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23016 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23017 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23018 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23019 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23020 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23022 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23023 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
23024 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
23025 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
23026 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
23027 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
23028 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
23029 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
23031 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
23032 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
23033 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
23034 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
23035 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
23036 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
23037 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
23038 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23039 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23040 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23041 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23042 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23044 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23045 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23046 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
23047 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23048 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
23049 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23050 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23051 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23052 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23054 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
23056 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
23057 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
23058 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
23059 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23060 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
23061 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
23062 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
23063 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
23065 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
23066 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
23067 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
23068 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
23069 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
23071 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
23072 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23073 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23074 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
23075 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23078 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
23079 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
23080 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
23081 reachable from Iran again.
23084 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
23085 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
23086 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
23088 o Minor features (security):
23089 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
23090 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
23091 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
23092 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
23093 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
23094 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
23095 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
23096 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
23097 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
23098 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
23101 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
23102 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
23103 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
23104 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
23105 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
23106 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
23107 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
23108 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
23109 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23111 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
23112 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
23113 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
23114 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
23115 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
23116 raised by bug 3898.
23117 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
23118 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
23119 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
23120 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
23121 fixes part of bug 2442.
23122 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
23123 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
23124 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
23126 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
23127 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
23128 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
23129 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
23130 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
23133 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
23134 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
23135 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
23136 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
23137 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
23138 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
23141 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
23142 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
23143 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
23144 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
23145 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
23146 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
23147 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
23148 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
23149 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
23150 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
23152 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
23153 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
23154 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
23155 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
23156 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
23157 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
23158 many many other features and bugfixes.
23160 o Major features (client performance):
23161 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
23162 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
23163 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
23164 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
23165 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
23166 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
23168 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
23169 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
23170 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
23171 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
23172 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
23173 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
23174 the first implementation of this feature.
23176 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
23177 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
23178 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
23179 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
23180 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
23181 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
23182 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
23183 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
23184 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
23185 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
23186 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
23187 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
23188 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
23189 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
23190 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
23191 file. Implements ticket 1296.
23193 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
23194 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
23195 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
23196 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
23197 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
23198 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
23199 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
23200 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
23201 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
23202 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
23203 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
23204 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
23205 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
23206 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
23207 they first get the Guard flag.
23208 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
23209 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
23210 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
23211 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
23212 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
23213 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
23214 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
23215 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
23217 o Major features (relays control their load better):
23218 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
23219 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
23220 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
23221 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
23222 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
23223 based on a variant of proposal 163.
23224 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
23225 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
23226 but never per-conn write limits.
23227 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
23228 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
23229 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
23230 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
23232 o Major features (controllers):
23233 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
23234 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
23235 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
23236 contributions to the network.
23237 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
23238 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
23239 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
23241 o Major features (directory authorities):
23242 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
23243 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
23244 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
23246 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
23247 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
23248 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
23249 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
23250 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
23251 download consensus + microdescriptors".
23252 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
23253 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
23254 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
23255 hash algorithm in the future.
23256 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitrary integer values as
23257 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
23258 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
23260 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
23261 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
23262 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
23263 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
23264 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
23265 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
23266 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
23267 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
23268 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
23269 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
23270 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
23271 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
23272 connections to directory servers.
23273 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
23274 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
23275 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
23276 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
23277 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
23278 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
23279 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
23280 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
23281 information, or fetch directory information.
23282 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
23283 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
23284 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
23285 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
23286 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
23288 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
23289 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
23290 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
23291 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
23292 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
23293 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
23294 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
23295 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
23296 the network changes.
23297 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
23298 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
23300 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
23301 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
23302 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
23303 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
23304 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
23305 unless you really want your Tor to break.
23306 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
23307 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
23308 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
23309 - When StrictNodes is 1:
23310 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
23311 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
23312 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
23313 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
23314 reachability self-tests.
23315 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
23316 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
23317 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
23318 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
23319 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
23321 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
23322 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23323 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
23325 o Major features (misc):
23326 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
23327 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
23328 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
23329 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
23330 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
23331 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
23332 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
23333 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
23334 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
23335 part of ticket 3076.
23336 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
23337 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
23338 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
23340 o Code security improvements:
23341 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
23342 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
23343 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
23344 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
23345 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
23346 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
23347 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
23348 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
23349 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
23350 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23351 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
23352 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
23353 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
23354 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
23355 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
23356 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
23357 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
23358 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
23359 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
23360 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
23361 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
23362 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
23363 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
23364 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
23365 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
23366 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
23367 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
23368 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
23370 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
23371 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
23372 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
23373 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
23374 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
23375 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
23376 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
23377 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
23378 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
23379 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
23380 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
23381 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
23382 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
23384 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
23385 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
23386 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
23388 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
23389 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
23391 o Major bugfixes (stability):
23392 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
23393 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
23394 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
23395 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
23396 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
23397 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
23398 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
23399 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
23400 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
23401 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
23402 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
23403 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
23404 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
23405 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
23406 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
23407 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
23409 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
23410 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
23411 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
23413 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
23414 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
23415 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
23416 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
23417 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
23418 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
23419 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
23420 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
23421 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
23422 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
23423 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
23424 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
23425 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
23426 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
23427 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
23428 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
23429 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
23430 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
23431 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23433 o Privacy fixes (clients):
23434 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
23435 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
23436 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
23437 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
23438 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
23439 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23440 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
23441 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
23442 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
23444 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
23445 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
23446 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
23447 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
23448 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
23449 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
23450 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
23451 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
23452 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
23453 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
23455 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
23456 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
23457 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
23458 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
23459 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
23460 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
23461 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
23462 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
23463 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
23464 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
23465 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
23466 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
23467 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
23469 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
23470 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
23471 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
23472 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
23473 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
23474 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
23475 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
23476 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
23477 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
23478 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23480 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
23481 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
23482 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
23483 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
23484 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
23485 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
23486 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
23488 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
23489 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
23490 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
23491 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
23492 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
23493 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
23494 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
23495 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
23496 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
23497 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
23498 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
23499 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
23500 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
23501 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
23502 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
23504 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
23505 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
23506 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
23507 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
23508 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
23509 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
23510 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
23512 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
23513 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
23514 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
23515 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
23516 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
23517 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
23518 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
23519 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
23521 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
23522 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
23523 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
23524 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
23525 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
23526 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
23527 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
23528 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
23529 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
23530 the longest-lived bug prize.
23531 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
23532 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
23533 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
23534 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
23535 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
23536 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
23537 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
23538 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
23539 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
23540 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
23542 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
23543 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
23544 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
23545 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
23546 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
23547 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
23550 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
23551 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
23552 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
23553 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
23554 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
23555 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
23556 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
23557 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
23558 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
23559 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
23560 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
23561 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23562 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
23563 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
23564 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
23565 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
23566 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
23567 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
23568 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
23569 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
23570 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
23571 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
23572 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
23573 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
23574 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
23575 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
23577 o Major bugfixes (misc):
23578 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
23579 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
23580 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
23581 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
23582 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
23583 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
23584 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
23585 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
23587 o Minor features (relays):
23588 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
23589 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
23590 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
23591 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
23592 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
23593 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
23594 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
23595 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
23597 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
23598 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
23599 Resolves ticket 3252.
23600 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
23601 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
23603 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
23604 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
23605 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
23606 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
23607 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
23609 o Minor features (network statistics):
23610 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
23611 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
23612 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
23613 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
23614 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
23615 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
23616 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
23617 measure download times.
23618 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23619 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
23621 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
23622 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
23623 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
23624 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
23626 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
23627 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
23628 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
23630 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
23631 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
23632 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
23633 Implements ticket 2432.
23634 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
23635 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
23636 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
23637 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
23638 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
23639 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
23640 Implements enhancement 1790.
23641 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
23642 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
23644 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
23645 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
23646 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
23647 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
23648 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
23649 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
23650 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
23652 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
23654 o Minor features (clients):
23655 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
23656 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
23657 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
23658 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
23660 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
23661 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
23662 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
23663 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
23664 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
23665 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
23666 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
23667 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
23669 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
23670 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
23671 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
23672 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
23673 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
23674 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
23675 SSL handshake issues.
23677 o Minor features (directory authorities):
23678 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
23679 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
23680 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
23681 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
23682 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
23683 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
23684 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
23685 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
23686 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
23687 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
23688 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
23689 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
23690 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
23691 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
23692 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
23693 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
23694 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
23695 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
23696 hour of their uptime.
23697 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
23698 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
23699 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
23700 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
23702 o Minor features (hidden services):
23703 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
23704 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
23705 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
23706 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
23707 Required by fix for bug 3000.
23708 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
23709 by fix for bug 3000.
23710 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
23711 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
23712 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
23713 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
23714 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
23716 o Minor features (controller interface):
23717 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
23718 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
23719 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
23720 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
23721 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
23722 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
23723 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
23724 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
23725 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
23726 over our stored history.
23727 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
23728 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
23729 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
23731 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
23732 to the circuit build timeout.
23733 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
23734 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
23735 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
23737 o Minor features (controller protocol):
23738 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
23739 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
23740 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
23742 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
23743 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
23744 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
23745 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
23746 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
23747 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
23748 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
23749 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
23750 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
23751 arguments we do not recognize.
23753 o Minor features (more useful logging):
23754 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
23755 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
23756 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
23757 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
23758 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
23759 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
23760 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
23761 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
23762 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
23763 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
23764 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
23765 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
23766 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
23767 got suppressed since the last warning.
23768 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
23769 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
23770 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
23771 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
23772 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
23773 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
23774 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
23776 o Minor features (log domains):
23777 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
23778 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
23779 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
23781 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
23782 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
23784 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
23785 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
23786 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
23788 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
23789 during the TLS handshake.
23791 o Minor features (build process):
23792 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
23793 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
23794 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
23796 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
23797 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
23798 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
23800 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
23801 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
23802 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
23803 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
23804 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
23805 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
23807 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
23808 source files Tor was built with.
23809 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
23810 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
23811 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
23812 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
23813 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
23814 speeds up the build considerably.
23816 o Minor features (options / torrc):
23817 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
23818 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
23819 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
23820 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
23821 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
23822 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
23823 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
23824 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
23825 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
23826 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
23827 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
23828 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
23829 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
23830 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
23831 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
23832 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
23833 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
23834 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
23835 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
23836 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
23837 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
23838 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
23839 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
23840 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
23841 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
23842 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
23843 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
23845 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
23846 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
23847 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
23850 o Minor features (unit tests):
23851 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
23852 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
23853 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
23854 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
23855 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
23856 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
23858 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
23859 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
23862 o Minor features (misc):
23863 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
23864 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
23865 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
23866 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
23868 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
23869 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
23870 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
23871 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
23872 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
23874 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
23875 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
23876 open() without checking it.
23877 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
23878 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
23879 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
23880 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
23882 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
23883 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
23884 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
23885 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
23886 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
23887 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
23888 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
23889 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
23890 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
23891 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
23892 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
23893 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
23894 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
23895 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
23896 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
23897 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
23898 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
23899 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
23900 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
23901 based on the time during which we were active and not in
23902 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
23903 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
23904 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
23905 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
23906 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
23907 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
23908 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
23909 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
23911 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
23912 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
23913 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
23914 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
23916 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
23917 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
23918 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
23919 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
23920 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
23922 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
23923 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
23924 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
23925 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
23926 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
23927 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
23928 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
23929 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
23930 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
23931 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
23932 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
23933 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
23934 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
23936 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
23937 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
23938 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
23939 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
23940 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
23941 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
23942 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
23943 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
23944 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
23945 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
23946 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
23947 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
23948 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
23949 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
23950 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
23951 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
23952 two-hop circuits are actually created.
23953 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
23954 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
23955 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
23956 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
23958 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
23959 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
23960 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
23961 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
23962 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
23963 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
23964 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
23965 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
23966 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
23968 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
23969 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
23970 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
23971 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
23972 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
23973 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
23974 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
23975 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
23976 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
23977 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
23978 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
23979 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
23980 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
23983 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
23984 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
23985 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
23986 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
23987 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
23988 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
23989 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
23990 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
23991 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
23992 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
23993 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
23995 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
23996 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
23998 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
23999 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
24000 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
24001 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
24002 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24003 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
24004 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
24005 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
24007 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
24008 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
24009 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
24010 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24011 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
24012 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
24013 discovered by katmagic.
24014 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
24015 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
24017 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
24018 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24019 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
24020 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
24021 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
24022 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
24023 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
24024 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
24025 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
24027 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
24028 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
24030 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
24031 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
24033 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
24034 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
24036 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
24037 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
24038 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
24039 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
24040 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
24041 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
24042 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
24043 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
24044 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
24045 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
24046 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
24047 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
24048 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
24049 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
24050 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
24052 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
24053 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
24054 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
24055 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
24056 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
24057 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
24058 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
24059 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
24060 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
24062 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
24063 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
24064 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
24066 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
24067 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
24068 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
24069 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
24071 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
24072 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
24073 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
24074 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
24075 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
24076 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
24077 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
24079 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
24080 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
24081 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
24082 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
24083 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
24084 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
24086 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
24087 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
24088 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
24089 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
24090 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
24091 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
24092 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
24093 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24094 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
24096 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
24097 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
24098 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24099 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
24100 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24101 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
24102 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
24103 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
24104 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
24105 control-spec.txt said they were.
24107 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
24108 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
24109 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
24111 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
24112 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24113 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
24114 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
24115 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
24117 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
24118 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
24120 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
24121 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
24122 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
24123 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
24124 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
24125 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
24126 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
24128 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
24129 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
24130 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
24131 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24132 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
24133 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
24134 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
24135 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
24138 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
24139 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
24140 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
24141 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
24142 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
24143 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
24144 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
24145 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
24146 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
24147 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
24148 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
24149 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24150 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
24151 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
24152 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
24154 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
24155 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
24156 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
24157 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
24158 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
24159 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24160 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
24162 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
24163 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
24166 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
24167 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
24168 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
24169 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
24170 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
24171 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24172 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
24173 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
24174 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
24175 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
24176 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
24177 fixes part of bug 3407.
24178 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
24179 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
24180 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
24181 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
24182 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
24183 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
24184 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
24185 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
24186 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
24187 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
24189 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
24190 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
24191 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
24192 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
24193 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
24194 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
24195 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
24196 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24197 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
24198 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
24199 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
24200 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24201 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
24202 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
24203 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
24204 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
24205 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
24207 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
24208 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
24209 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
24210 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
24211 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
24212 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
24213 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24214 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
24215 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
24216 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
24217 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
24218 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
24220 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
24221 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
24222 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
24223 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
24224 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
24226 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
24227 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
24228 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
24229 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
24231 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
24232 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
24233 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
24234 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
24235 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
24236 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
24237 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
24238 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
24239 structures and defines in or.h for now.
24240 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
24242 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
24243 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
24244 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
24245 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
24246 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
24247 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
24248 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
24249 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
24251 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
24252 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
24253 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
24255 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
24256 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
24257 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
24258 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
24259 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
24260 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
24261 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
24262 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
24263 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
24264 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
24266 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
24268 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
24269 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
24270 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
24271 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
24272 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
24273 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
24274 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
24275 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
24276 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
24277 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
24279 o Documentation changes:
24280 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
24281 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
24283 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
24284 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
24285 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
24286 what should go in a patch.
24287 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
24289 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
24290 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
24291 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
24292 projects directory in svn.
24294 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
24295 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
24296 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
24297 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
24298 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
24299 hidden service usage.
24300 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
24301 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
24302 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
24303 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
24304 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
24307 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
24308 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
24309 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
24310 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
24311 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
24314 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
24315 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
24316 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
24317 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
24318 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
24319 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
24320 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
24321 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
24322 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
24323 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
24324 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
24325 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
24326 via application-level web tricks.
24327 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
24328 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
24329 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
24330 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
24331 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
24332 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
24333 send a body too). Since only server versions before
24334 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
24335 keep the workaround in place.
24336 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
24337 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
24338 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
24339 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
24340 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
24341 want to do it differently.
24342 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
24343 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
24344 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
24347 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
24348 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
24349 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
24350 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
24351 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
24352 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
24355 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24356 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
24357 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
24358 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
24359 the rest of bug 1074.
24360 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
24361 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
24362 Found by "piebeer".
24363 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
24364 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
24365 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
24366 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
24367 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
24368 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
24369 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24372 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
24374 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24377 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
24378 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
24379 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
24380 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
24381 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
24382 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
24383 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
24384 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
24385 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
24386 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
24387 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24389 o Packaging changes:
24390 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
24391 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
24392 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
24393 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
24394 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
24395 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
24398 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
24399 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
24400 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
24401 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
24402 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
24404 o Major bugfixes (security):
24405 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
24406 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
24407 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
24409 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
24410 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
24411 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
24412 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
24413 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
24414 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
24415 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
24416 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
24418 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24419 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
24420 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
24421 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
24422 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
24423 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
24424 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
24425 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
24426 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
24427 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
24428 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
24429 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
24430 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
24431 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
24434 o Minor bugfixes (other):
24435 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
24436 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
24437 bug reported by doorss.
24438 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
24439 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
24440 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
24441 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
24442 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
24444 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
24445 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
24446 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
24447 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
24448 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
24451 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24452 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
24455 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
24456 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
24457 Automake 1.7 or later.
24458 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
24459 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
24460 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
24461 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
24464 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
24465 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
24466 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
24467 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
24471 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
24472 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
24473 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
24474 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
24476 o Directory authority changes:
24477 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
24480 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
24483 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
24484 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
24485 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
24486 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
24487 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
24490 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
24491 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
24492 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
24493 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
24494 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
24495 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
24496 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
24497 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
24498 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
24499 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24500 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
24501 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
24502 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
24503 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
24504 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
24505 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
24506 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
24507 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24508 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
24509 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
24510 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
24511 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
24512 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
24515 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
24516 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
24517 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
24518 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
24520 o New directory authorities:
24521 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
24525 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
24526 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
24527 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
24529 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
24530 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
24531 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
24532 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
24533 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
24534 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
24536 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
24537 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
24538 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
24541 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
24542 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
24543 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
24544 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
24545 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
24546 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
24547 Patch from mingw-san.
24550 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
24551 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
24552 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
24553 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
24554 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
24555 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
24558 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
24559 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
24560 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
24561 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
24562 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
24564 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
24565 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
24568 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
24569 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
24570 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
24571 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
24572 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
24573 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
24574 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
24575 their directory fetches over TLS).
24576 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
24577 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
24578 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
24579 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
24580 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
24581 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
24582 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
24583 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
24586 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
24587 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
24591 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
24592 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24593 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
24594 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
24595 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
24596 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
24597 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24600 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
24601 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
24602 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
24603 several minor potential security bugs.
24606 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
24607 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
24608 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
24609 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
24610 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
24611 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
24612 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
24615 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
24616 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
24618 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
24619 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
24620 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
24621 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
24624 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
24625 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
24629 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
24630 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
24631 customized patches to run/build.
24634 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
24635 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
24636 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
24639 o Major bugfixes (performance):
24640 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
24641 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
24642 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
24643 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
24644 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
24645 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
24646 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
24649 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
24650 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
24651 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
24652 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
24653 libraries in a security patch.
24654 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
24655 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
24656 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
24657 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
24661 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
24662 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
24665 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
24666 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
24667 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
24668 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
24669 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
24672 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
24673 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
24674 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
24675 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
24676 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
24678 o Directory authority changes:
24679 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
24683 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
24684 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
24685 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24688 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
24689 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
24690 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
24691 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
24692 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
24695 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
24696 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
24697 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
24698 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
24699 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
24700 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
24701 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
24704 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
24705 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
24706 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
24707 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
24708 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
24709 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
24711 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
24712 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
24715 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
24716 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
24717 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
24718 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
24720 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
24721 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
24723 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
24724 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
24725 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
24726 in the Vidalia Settings window.
24729 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
24730 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
24731 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
24732 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
24733 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
24735 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
24736 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
24738 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
24739 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
24740 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
24743 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
24744 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
24745 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
24747 o New directory authorities:
24748 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
24750 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
24753 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
24754 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
24756 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
24757 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
24758 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
24759 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
24760 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
24761 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
24762 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
24763 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
24764 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
24765 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
24766 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
24767 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
24768 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
24769 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
24770 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
24771 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
24772 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
24774 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
24775 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
24776 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
24778 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
24779 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
24783 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
24784 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
24785 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
24786 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
24787 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
24790 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
24791 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
24795 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
24796 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
24797 part of patch provided by "optimist".
24800 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
24801 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
24802 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
24803 and confuse fewer users.
24806 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
24807 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
24808 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
24809 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
24810 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
24811 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
24812 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
24815 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
24816 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
24817 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
24818 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
24819 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
24820 other features and bug fixes.
24822 o Major features (clients):
24823 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
24824 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
24825 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
24826 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
24828 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
24829 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
24830 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
24831 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
24832 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
24833 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
24834 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
24835 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
24836 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
24837 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
24839 o Major features (relays):
24840 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
24841 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
24842 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
24843 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
24844 data. Found by Jacob.
24845 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
24846 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
24847 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
24848 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
24850 o Major features (hidden services):
24851 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
24852 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
24853 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
24854 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
24855 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
24856 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
24857 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
24858 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
24859 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
24860 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
24861 lookups more reliable.
24863 o Major features (path selection):
24864 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
24865 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
24866 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
24867 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
24868 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
24870 o Major features (misc):
24871 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
24872 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
24874 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
24875 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
24876 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
24877 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
24878 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
24879 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
24881 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
24882 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
24883 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
24884 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
24886 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
24889 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
24890 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
24891 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
24892 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
24893 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
24894 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
24895 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
24896 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
24897 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
24898 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
24899 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
24900 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
24901 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
24902 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
24903 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
24904 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
24905 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
24906 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
24907 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
24908 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
24909 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
24910 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
24911 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
24912 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
24913 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
24914 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
24915 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
24916 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
24917 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
24918 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
24919 Implements proposal 148.
24921 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
24922 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
24923 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
24924 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
24925 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
24926 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
24928 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
24929 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
24930 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
24931 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
24932 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
24933 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
24934 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
24935 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
24936 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
24938 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
24939 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
24940 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
24941 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
24943 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
24944 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
24945 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
24946 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
24947 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
24948 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
24949 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
24950 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
24951 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
24953 o Major bugfixes (clients):
24954 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
24955 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
24956 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
24957 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
24958 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
24959 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
24960 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
24961 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
24962 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
24963 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
24964 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
24965 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
24966 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
24967 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
24968 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
24971 o Major bugfixes (relays):
24972 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
24973 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
24974 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
24975 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
24976 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
24977 patch by Sebastian.
24978 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
24979 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
24980 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
24981 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
24982 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
24983 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
24984 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
24985 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
24986 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
24987 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
24990 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
24991 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
24992 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
24993 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
24994 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
24995 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
24997 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
24998 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
24999 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
25000 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
25001 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
25002 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
25003 on a typical directory cache.
25004 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
25005 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
25006 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
25007 and may reduce fragmentation.
25009 o New/changed config options:
25010 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
25011 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
25012 Suggested by Lucky Green.
25013 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
25014 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
25015 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
25016 locked down these days.
25017 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
25018 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
25019 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
25020 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
25021 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
25022 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
25023 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
25024 output to messages of warning and error severity.
25025 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
25026 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
25027 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
25028 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
25029 directory requests we should expect to see.
25030 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
25031 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
25032 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
25033 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
25034 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
25035 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
25036 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
25038 o Minor features (relays):
25039 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
25040 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
25041 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
25042 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
25043 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
25045 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
25046 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
25047 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
25048 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
25049 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
25050 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
25051 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
25052 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
25053 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
25054 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
25055 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
25056 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
25057 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
25059 o Minor features (directory authorities):
25060 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
25061 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
25062 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
25063 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
25064 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
25065 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
25066 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
25067 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
25068 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
25069 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
25071 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
25072 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
25073 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
25074 fingerprints with or without space.
25076 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
25077 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
25078 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
25079 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
25080 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
25081 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
25082 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
25083 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
25084 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
25086 o Minor features (bridges):
25087 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
25088 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
25090 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
25091 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
25094 o Minor features (hidden services):
25095 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
25096 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
25097 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
25098 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
25099 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
25100 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
25101 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
25102 faster after restart.
25103 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
25104 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
25106 o Minor features (build and packaging):
25107 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
25109 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
25110 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
25112 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
25113 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
25114 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
25115 entirely. Patch from coderman.
25116 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
25117 are built without support for deprecated functions.
25118 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
25119 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
25120 system to do it for us.
25121 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
25122 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
25123 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
25124 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
25125 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
25126 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
25127 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
25128 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
25129 the letter of C99's alias rules.
25130 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
25131 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
25132 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
25133 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
25134 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
25135 with log.h on Android.
25136 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
25137 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
25139 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
25140 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
25141 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
25142 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
25144 o Minor features (controllers):
25145 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
25146 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
25147 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
25148 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
25149 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
25150 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
25151 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
25152 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
25153 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
25154 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
25156 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
25157 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
25158 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
25159 been fetched and validated.
25160 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
25161 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
25163 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
25165 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
25166 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
25167 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
25168 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
25169 partway through and wants to catch up.
25170 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
25172 o Minor features (tools):
25173 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
25174 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
25175 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
25176 people find host:port too confusing.
25177 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
25178 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
25180 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
25181 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
25182 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25183 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
25184 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
25185 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
25186 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
25187 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
25188 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
25190 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
25191 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
25192 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
25193 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
25194 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
25196 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
25197 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
25198 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
25200 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
25201 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25202 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
25203 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
25204 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
25205 have already been marked for close.
25206 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
25207 memory performance during directory parsing.
25209 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
25210 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
25211 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
25212 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
25213 done that for a long time.
25214 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
25215 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
25216 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
25217 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
25218 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
25219 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
25220 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
25221 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
25222 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
25223 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
25224 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
25225 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
25226 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
25227 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
25228 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
25229 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
25230 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
25231 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
25232 because of a pending download.
25233 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
25234 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
25235 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
25236 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
25237 bug 820, reported by seeess.
25239 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
25240 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
25241 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
25242 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
25243 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
25244 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
25245 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
25246 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
25247 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
25249 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
25250 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
25252 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
25253 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
25254 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
25255 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
25256 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
25257 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
25258 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
25259 of 0. Suggested by lark.
25260 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
25261 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
25262 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
25263 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
25264 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
25266 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
25267 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
25268 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
25270 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
25271 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
25273 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
25274 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
25275 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
25276 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
25277 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
25278 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
25279 rest, and don't automatically fail.
25280 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
25281 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
25282 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
25283 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
25284 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
25285 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
25287 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
25288 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
25289 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
25290 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
25291 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
25292 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
25293 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
25295 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
25296 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25298 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25299 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
25300 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
25301 Workaround for bug 1024.
25302 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
25303 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
25304 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
25305 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
25306 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
25307 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
25308 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
25309 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
25312 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
25313 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
25316 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
25317 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
25318 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
25319 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
25320 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
25321 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
25322 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
25324 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
25325 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
25326 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
25327 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
25328 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
25329 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
25330 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
25331 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
25334 o Deprecated and removed features:
25335 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
25336 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
25337 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
25339 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
25341 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
25342 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
25343 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
25344 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
25345 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
25346 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
25347 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
25348 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
25349 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
25350 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
25351 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
25352 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
25353 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
25354 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
25357 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
25358 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
25359 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
25360 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
25361 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
25363 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
25364 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
25365 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
25366 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
25367 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
25368 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
25369 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
25370 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
25371 actual mistakes we're making here.
25372 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
25373 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
25374 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
25375 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
25376 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
25377 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
25378 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
25379 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
25380 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
25381 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
25382 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
25383 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
25384 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
25385 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
25386 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
25389 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
25391 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
25392 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
25393 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
25394 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
25395 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
25398 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
25399 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
25400 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
25401 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
25402 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
25403 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
25404 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
25405 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
25406 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
25407 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
25410 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
25411 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
25412 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
25413 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
25414 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
25415 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
25416 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
25417 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
25420 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
25421 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
25422 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
25423 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
25424 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
25426 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
25427 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
25428 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
25429 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
25432 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
25433 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
25434 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
25435 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
25436 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
25437 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
25438 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
25439 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
25442 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
25443 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
25444 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
25445 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
25448 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
25449 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
25450 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
25451 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
25453 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
25454 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
25455 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
25458 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
25459 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
25462 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
25463 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
25464 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
25465 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
25466 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
25467 reported by "wood".
25468 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
25469 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
25470 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
25471 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
25472 identify a connection.
25473 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
25474 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
25475 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
25476 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
25477 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
25478 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
25479 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
25480 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
25481 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
25482 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
25484 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
25485 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
25486 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
25487 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
25488 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
25489 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
25490 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
25493 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
25494 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
25496 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
25497 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
25498 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
25499 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
25500 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
25501 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
25502 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
25503 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
25505 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
25506 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
25507 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
25508 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
25509 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
25510 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
25511 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
25512 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
25513 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
25514 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
25515 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
25516 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
25517 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
25518 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
25519 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25520 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
25521 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
25522 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
25523 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
25524 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
25525 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
25526 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
25527 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
25528 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
25529 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
25530 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
25531 840. Patch from rovv.
25532 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
25533 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
25534 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
25536 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
25537 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
25538 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
25539 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
25540 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
25541 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
25542 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
25544 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
25545 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
25546 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
25549 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
25550 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
25552 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
25553 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
25554 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
25555 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
25556 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
25557 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
25558 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
25559 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
25560 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
25562 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
25564 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
25565 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
25569 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
25570 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
25571 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
25572 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
25573 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
25574 variety of other issues.
25577 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
25578 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
25579 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
25580 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
25581 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
25582 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
25583 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
25584 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
25585 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
25586 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
25587 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
25588 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
25591 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
25592 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
25594 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
25595 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
25596 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
25597 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
25598 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
25599 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
25600 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
25601 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
25602 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
25603 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
25604 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
25605 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
25606 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
25607 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
25608 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
25612 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
25613 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
25614 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
25615 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
25616 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
25617 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
25618 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
25619 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
25620 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
25621 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
25622 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
25623 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
25624 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
25625 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
25626 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
25627 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
25628 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
25629 list. It has been gone for many months.
25630 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
25631 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
25632 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
25635 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
25636 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
25637 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
25640 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
25641 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
25642 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
25643 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
25646 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
25647 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
25648 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
25649 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
25650 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
25651 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
25653 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
25654 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
25655 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
25656 pointed out by rovv.
25659 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
25660 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25661 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
25662 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25663 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
25664 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
25665 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
25666 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
25667 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
25668 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
25669 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
25670 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
25671 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
25672 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
25673 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
25674 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
25675 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
25676 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
25677 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
25678 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
25679 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
25682 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
25683 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
25684 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
25685 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
25686 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
25687 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
25688 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
25690 o New v3 directory design:
25691 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
25692 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
25693 network status document rather than each publishing their own
25694 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
25695 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
25696 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
25697 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
25699 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
25700 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
25701 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
25702 dannenberg (run by CCC).
25703 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
25704 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
25705 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
25706 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
25707 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
25708 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
25709 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
25710 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
25711 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
25712 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
25714 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
25715 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
25716 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
25717 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
25718 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
25719 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
25720 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
25721 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
25722 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
25723 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
25724 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
25725 certain censored countries by default again.
25726 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
25727 Tor's x509 certificates.
25729 o Implement bridge relays:
25730 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
25731 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
25732 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
25733 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
25734 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
25735 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
25736 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
25737 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
25738 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
25739 rather than "v2,v3".
25740 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
25741 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
25742 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
25743 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
25744 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
25745 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
25746 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
25747 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
25748 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
25749 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
25750 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
25752 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
25753 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
25754 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
25755 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
25756 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
25757 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
25758 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
25759 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
25760 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
25761 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
25762 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
25763 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
25764 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
25765 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
25766 bridges are functioning.
25767 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
25768 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
25769 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
25770 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
25771 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
25772 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
25773 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
25774 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
25775 knows that password. Unset by default.
25776 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
25777 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
25778 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
25779 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
25780 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
25781 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
25782 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
25783 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
25784 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
25785 and bridges@torproject.org.
25787 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
25788 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
25789 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
25790 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
25791 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
25792 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
25793 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
25794 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
25795 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
25796 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
25797 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
25798 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
25799 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
25800 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
25801 longer a completely silly thing to do.
25803 o Major features (relay usability):
25804 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
25805 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
25806 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
25807 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
25808 proposal 111 for details.
25809 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
25810 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
25811 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
25812 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
25814 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
25815 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
25816 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
25818 o Major features (directory authorities):
25819 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
25820 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
25821 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
25822 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
25823 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
25824 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
25825 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25826 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
25827 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
25828 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
25829 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
25830 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
25831 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
25833 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
25834 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
25835 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
25836 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
25837 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
25838 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
25839 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
25840 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
25841 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
25842 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
25843 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
25844 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
25845 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
25846 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
25847 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
25848 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
25849 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
25850 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
25851 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
25852 general, controller, or bridge.
25854 o Major features (other):
25855 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
25856 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
25857 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
25858 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
25859 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25860 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
25861 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
25862 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
25863 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
25864 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
25865 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
25866 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
25867 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
25868 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
25871 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
25872 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
25873 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
25875 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
25876 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
25877 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
25878 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
25879 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
25880 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
25881 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
25882 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
25883 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
25884 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
25885 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
25887 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
25888 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
25890 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
25891 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
25892 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
25893 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
25895 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
25896 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
25897 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
25898 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
25899 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
25901 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
25902 address maps to an internal address space.
25903 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
25904 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
25905 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
25906 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
25907 complements proposal 107.
25908 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
25909 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
25910 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
25911 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
25912 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
25913 reported by taranis and lodger.
25914 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
25915 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
25916 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
25917 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
25918 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
25919 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
25920 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
25921 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
25922 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
25923 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
25924 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
25925 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
25926 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
25928 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
25929 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
25931 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
25932 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
25933 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
25934 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
25935 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
25936 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
25937 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
25939 o Major bugfixes (other):
25940 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
25941 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
25942 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
25944 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
25945 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
25946 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
25947 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
25948 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
25949 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
25950 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
25951 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
25952 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
25953 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
25954 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
25955 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
25956 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
25957 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
25958 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
25959 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
25960 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
25961 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
25962 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
25964 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
25965 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
25966 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
25967 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
25968 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
25969 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
25970 eat all of our bandwidth.
25971 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
25972 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
25973 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
25974 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
25975 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
25976 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
25977 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
25978 bug 688, reported by mfr.
25979 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
25980 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
25981 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
25982 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
25984 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
25985 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
25986 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
25987 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
25988 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
25989 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
25990 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
25991 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
25992 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
25993 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
25994 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
25995 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
25997 o Performance improvements (memory):
25998 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
25999 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
26000 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
26001 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
26002 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
26003 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
26004 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
26005 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
26006 memory fragmentation.
26007 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
26008 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
26009 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
26010 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
26011 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
26013 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
26014 of them were actually distinct.
26015 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
26017 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
26018 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
26019 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
26020 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
26021 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
26022 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
26023 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
26024 performance-intensive.
26025 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
26026 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
26027 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
26028 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
26029 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
26032 o Performance improvements (socket management):
26033 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
26034 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
26035 our allocated connection limit.
26036 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
26037 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
26038 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
26039 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
26040 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
26042 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
26043 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
26045 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
26046 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
26047 is interested in a given message.
26048 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
26049 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
26050 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
26051 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
26052 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
26054 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
26055 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
26056 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
26058 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
26059 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
26060 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
26061 they are the same).
26062 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
26063 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
26064 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
26065 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
26068 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
26069 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
26070 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
26071 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
26072 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
26073 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
26074 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
26076 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
26077 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
26078 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
26079 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
26080 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
26081 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
26082 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
26083 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
26084 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
26085 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
26086 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
26087 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
26088 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
26091 o Changed config option behavior (features):
26092 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
26093 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
26094 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
26095 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
26096 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
26097 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
26098 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
26099 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
26100 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
26101 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
26102 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
26103 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
26104 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
26105 and are reaching it.
26106 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
26107 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
26108 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
26109 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
26111 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
26112 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
26113 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
26114 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
26115 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
26116 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
26117 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
26118 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
26119 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
26121 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
26122 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
26123 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
26124 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
26125 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
26126 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
26127 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
26128 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
26130 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
26131 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
26133 o New config options:
26134 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
26135 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
26136 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
26137 running a test network on a single host.
26138 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
26139 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
26140 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
26141 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
26142 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
26143 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
26144 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
26145 the approved-routers file.
26146 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
26147 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
26148 v2 directory information.
26150 o Minor features (other):
26151 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
26152 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
26153 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
26154 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
26155 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
26156 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
26158 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
26159 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
26160 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
26161 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
26162 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
26163 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
26164 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
26166 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
26167 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
26168 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
26170 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
26171 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
26172 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
26173 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
26174 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
26176 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
26177 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
26178 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
26179 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
26180 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
26181 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
26182 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
26184 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
26185 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
26186 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
26187 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
26188 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
26189 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
26190 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
26191 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
26192 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
26195 o Minor bugfixes (other):
26196 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
26197 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
26199 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
26200 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
26201 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
26202 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
26203 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
26204 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
26206 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
26207 bandwidthburst values.
26208 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
26209 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
26210 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
26211 to mark all our entry points down.
26212 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
26213 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
26214 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
26215 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
26216 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
26218 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
26219 more often than they are allowed to appear.
26220 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
26221 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26222 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
26223 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
26224 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
26225 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
26226 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
26228 o Controller features:
26229 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
26230 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
26231 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
26232 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
26233 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
26234 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
26236 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
26237 multiple controller passwords.
26238 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
26239 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
26240 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
26241 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
26243 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
26244 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
26245 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
26246 cookie authentication file, and config option
26247 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
26248 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
26249 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26250 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
26252 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
26253 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
26254 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
26255 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
26256 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
26257 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
26258 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
26260 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
26261 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
26263 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
26264 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
26265 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
26266 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
26267 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
26268 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
26269 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
26270 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
26271 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
26272 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
26273 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
26274 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
26275 report the value as a "minimum skew."
26277 o Controller bugfixes:
26278 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
26279 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
26280 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
26281 processes can't run us out of memory.
26282 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
26283 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
26284 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
26286 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
26287 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
26288 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
26289 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
26290 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
26291 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
26292 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
26293 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
26294 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
26295 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
26296 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
26297 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
26298 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
26299 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
26300 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
26302 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
26303 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
26305 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
26306 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
26307 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
26308 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
26309 WARN-severity events.
26311 o Portability / building / compiling:
26312 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
26313 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
26314 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
26315 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
26316 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
26317 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
26318 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
26319 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
26320 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
26321 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
26322 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
26323 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
26324 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
26326 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
26327 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
26328 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
26329 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
26330 Use this version consistently in log messages.
26331 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
26332 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26333 partial results on small file reads.
26334 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
26335 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
26336 a directory. Fix from lodger.
26337 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
26338 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
26339 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
26341 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
26342 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
26343 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
26344 logging for the unit tests.
26345 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
26346 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
26348 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
26349 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
26351 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
26352 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
26353 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
26354 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
26357 o Logging improvements:
26358 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
26359 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
26360 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
26361 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
26362 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
26363 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
26364 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
26366 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
26367 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
26368 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
26369 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
26370 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
26371 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
26372 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
26373 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
26374 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
26375 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
26376 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
26377 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
26378 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
26379 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
26380 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
26381 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
26382 Good in combination with --hash-password.
26383 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
26384 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
26386 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
26387 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
26388 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
26389 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
26391 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
26392 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
26393 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
26394 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
26395 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
26397 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
26398 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
26399 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
26400 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
26401 makes the log messages nicer.
26402 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
26403 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
26405 o Contributed scripts and tools:
26406 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
26407 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
26409 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
26410 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
26411 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
26412 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
26413 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
26414 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
26415 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
26416 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
26417 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
26418 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
26420 o Newly deprecated features:
26421 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
26422 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
26423 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
26424 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
26426 o Removed features:
26427 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
26428 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
26429 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
26430 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
26431 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
26433 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
26434 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
26435 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
26436 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
26437 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
26438 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
26439 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
26440 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
26442 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
26443 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
26444 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
26445 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
26446 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
26447 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
26449 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
26450 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
26451 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
26452 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
26453 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
26454 patch from Karsten Loesing.
26455 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
26456 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
26457 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
26458 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
26459 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
26460 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
26461 code), this assumption no longer holds.
26462 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
26466 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
26467 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
26468 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
26469 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
26472 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
26473 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
26474 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
26475 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
26476 on network address.
26479 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
26480 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
26481 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
26482 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
26483 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
26484 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
26485 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
26486 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
26487 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
26488 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
26489 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
26490 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
26493 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
26494 rebuild our server descriptor.
26495 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
26496 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
26497 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
26498 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
26499 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
26500 nonstandard integer types.
26501 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
26502 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
26503 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
26504 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
26505 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
26507 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
26508 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
26509 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
26510 when they receive them.
26511 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
26512 This includes some 64-bit systems.
26513 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
26514 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
26515 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
26516 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
26517 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
26518 router_get_by_hexdigest().
26519 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
26520 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
26524 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
26525 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
26526 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
26527 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
26528 lists for a few hours each day.
26530 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26531 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
26532 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
26533 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
26534 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
26535 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
26536 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
26537 rend_process_relay_cell().
26539 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
26540 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
26541 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
26542 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
26543 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
26544 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
26545 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
26546 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
26548 o Major bugfixes (other):
26549 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
26550 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
26551 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
26552 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
26553 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
26554 circuit cannibalization).
26555 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
26556 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
26557 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
26558 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
26559 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
26560 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
26563 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
26564 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
26566 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
26567 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
26568 absent. Resolves bug 467.
26569 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
26570 a way to trigger this remotely.)
26571 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
26572 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
26573 were reporting the dir port.)
26574 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
26575 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
26576 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
26577 the future. Fixes bug 434.
26578 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
26580 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
26581 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
26582 the onion key from getting rotated.
26583 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
26584 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
26585 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
26586 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
26587 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
26588 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
26589 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
26592 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
26593 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
26594 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
26595 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
26596 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
26599 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
26600 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
26603 o Major bugfixes (security):
26604 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
26605 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
26606 become more of a headache than it's worth.
26608 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
26609 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
26610 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
26612 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
26613 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
26614 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
26615 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
26616 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
26617 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
26619 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
26620 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
26621 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
26622 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
26623 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
26625 o Minor features (controller):
26626 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
26627 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
26628 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
26629 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
26631 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
26632 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
26633 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
26634 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
26635 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
26636 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
26637 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
26638 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
26640 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26641 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
26642 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
26643 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
26644 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
26645 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
26646 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
26647 if we ran off the end of the list.
26648 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
26649 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
26650 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
26651 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
26652 every time we change any piece of our config.
26653 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
26654 encourage people using them to stop.
26655 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
26657 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
26658 servers to choose a circuit.
26659 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
26660 unparseable piece of it.
26663 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
26664 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
26665 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
26666 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
26667 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
26668 TorK, etc. Or worse.
26670 o Major security fixes:
26671 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
26672 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
26675 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
26676 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
26677 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
26678 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
26680 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
26681 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
26683 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26684 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
26685 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
26686 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
26687 routerlist while inserting a new router.
26688 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
26689 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
26691 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
26692 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
26693 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
26695 o Major bugfixes (security):
26696 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
26698 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
26699 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
26700 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
26701 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
26702 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
26703 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
26704 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
26705 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
26706 guard list unless we need to.
26708 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
26709 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
26710 don't get overused as guards.
26712 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
26713 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
26714 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
26715 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
26716 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
26718 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
26719 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
26720 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
26723 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
26724 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
26725 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
26726 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
26727 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
26728 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
26729 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
26730 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
26733 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
26734 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
26735 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
26736 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
26738 o Directory authority changes:
26739 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
26740 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
26741 or use hidden services.
26743 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
26744 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
26745 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
26746 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
26747 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
26748 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
26749 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
26750 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
26751 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
26754 o Major bugfixes (security):
26755 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
26756 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
26757 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
26759 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
26760 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
26761 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
26762 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
26763 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
26764 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
26765 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
26766 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
26767 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
26768 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
26771 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
26772 purpose=controller.
26773 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
26774 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
26776 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
26777 having a hard time downloading.
26778 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
26779 partial results on small file reads.
26780 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
26781 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
26782 the gaps in the store get very large.
26785 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
26786 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
26788 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
26789 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
26792 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
26793 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
26794 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
26795 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
26796 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
26797 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
26799 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
26800 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
26801 free speech on the Internet.
26803 o Major features, client performance:
26804 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
26805 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
26806 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
26807 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
26808 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
26809 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
26810 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
26811 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
26812 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
26813 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
26814 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
26815 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
26816 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
26817 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
26818 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
26820 o Major features, client functionality:
26821 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
26822 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
26823 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
26824 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
26825 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
26826 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
26827 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
26828 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
26829 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
26830 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
26831 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
26832 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
26833 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
26835 o Major features, servers:
26836 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
26837 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
26838 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
26839 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
26840 authenticated, so use with care.
26841 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
26842 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
26843 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
26845 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
26846 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
26847 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
26848 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
26849 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
26850 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
26852 o Improvements on DNS support:
26853 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
26854 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
26855 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
26856 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
26857 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
26858 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
26859 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
26860 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
26861 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
26862 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
26863 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
26864 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
26865 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
26866 lets you turn it off.
26867 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
26868 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
26869 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
26870 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
26871 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
26872 useful to the network.
26873 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
26874 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
26875 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
26876 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
26877 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
26878 our tests for DNS hijacking.
26880 o Improvements on reachability testing:
26881 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
26882 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
26883 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
26884 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
26885 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
26886 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
26887 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
26888 if their identity keys are as expected.
26889 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
26890 chews through many circuits before giving up.
26891 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
26892 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
26893 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
26894 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
26895 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
26896 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
26897 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
26898 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
26899 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
26900 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
26901 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
26902 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
26904 o Improvements on rate limiting:
26905 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
26906 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
26907 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
26908 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
26909 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
26911 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
26912 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
26913 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
26914 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
26915 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
26916 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
26917 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
26918 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
26920 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
26921 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
26923 o Major features, NT services:
26924 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
26925 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
26926 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
26927 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
26928 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
26929 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
26930 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
26932 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
26933 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
26934 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
26936 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
26937 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
26938 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
26940 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
26941 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
26943 o Directory authority improvements:
26944 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
26946 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
26947 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
26948 too much load to the exit nodes.
26949 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
26950 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
26951 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
26952 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
26953 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
26954 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
26955 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
26956 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
26957 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
26958 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
26959 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
26960 broken. Not used yet.
26961 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
26962 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
26963 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
26964 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
26965 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
26966 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
26967 non-versioning dirservers.
26968 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
26969 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
26970 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
26972 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
26973 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
26974 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
26975 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
26977 o Directory mirrors and clients:
26978 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
26979 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
26980 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
26981 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
26982 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
26983 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
26984 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
26985 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
26986 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
26987 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
26988 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
26989 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
26990 routers for even longer.
26991 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
26992 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
26993 caching HTTP proxies.
26994 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
26995 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
26996 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
26997 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
26999 o Major fixes, crashes:
27000 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
27001 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
27002 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
27003 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
27005 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
27006 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
27007 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
27008 stream is detached.
27009 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
27010 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
27011 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
27012 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
27013 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
27014 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
27015 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
27016 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
27017 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
27018 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
27020 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
27021 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
27022 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
27023 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
27024 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
27025 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
27026 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
27027 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
27028 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
27029 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
27030 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
27031 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
27032 could return an unnamed server instead.
27033 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
27034 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
27035 a more attractive target for compromise.)
27036 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
27037 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
27038 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
27039 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
27041 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
27042 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
27044 o Major fixes, other:
27045 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
27046 uptime in the descriptor.
27047 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
27048 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
27049 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
27050 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
27051 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
27052 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
27053 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
27054 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
27055 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
27056 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
27057 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
27058 our DirPort now, etc.
27059 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
27060 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
27061 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
27063 o New config options or behaviors:
27064 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
27065 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
27066 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
27067 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
27068 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
27069 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
27070 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
27071 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
27072 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
27073 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
27074 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
27075 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
27077 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
27078 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
27079 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
27080 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
27081 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
27083 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
27084 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
27085 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
27086 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
27087 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
27088 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
27089 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
27090 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
27091 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
27092 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
27093 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
27094 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
27095 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
27096 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
27097 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
27098 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
27099 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
27100 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
27101 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
27102 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
27103 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
27104 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
27105 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
27106 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
27107 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
27108 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
27109 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
27110 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
27111 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
27112 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
27114 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
27115 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
27116 your ORPort is set.
27119 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
27120 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
27122 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
27123 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
27124 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
27125 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
27127 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
27128 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
27129 whether the config options are bad or good.
27130 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
27131 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
27132 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
27133 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
27134 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
27135 result more than once.
27136 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
27137 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
27138 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
27139 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
27140 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
27141 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
27142 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
27143 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
27144 before we check for libevent.
27145 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
27146 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
27147 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
27148 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
27149 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
27150 recommendation system saner.)
27151 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
27152 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
27153 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
27154 now universal binaries.
27155 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
27156 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
27158 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
27160 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
27161 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
27162 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
27163 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
27164 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
27165 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
27167 o Minor features, controller:
27168 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
27169 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
27170 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
27172 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
27173 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
27174 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
27175 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
27176 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
27177 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
27178 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
27180 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
27181 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
27182 connected or resolved cell.
27183 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
27184 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
27185 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
27186 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
27187 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
27188 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
27189 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
27191 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
27192 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
27193 entry guard status as it changes.
27194 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
27195 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
27196 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
27197 watching for STREAM events.
27198 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
27199 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
27200 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
27201 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
27203 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
27204 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
27205 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
27206 working much like those for circuit events.
27207 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
27208 about the current status of a router.
27209 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
27210 a router's status has changed.
27211 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
27212 can tell which events and features are supported.
27213 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
27214 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
27215 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
27216 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
27217 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
27218 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
27219 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
27220 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
27221 for more information.
27222 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
27223 best guess to the user.
27224 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
27225 descriptor has changed.
27226 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
27227 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
27228 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
27230 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
27231 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
27232 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
27233 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
27234 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
27235 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
27236 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
27237 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
27238 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
27239 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
27240 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
27242 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
27243 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
27245 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
27246 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
27247 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
27249 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
27250 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
27251 the controller from learning about current events.
27252 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
27253 reported by Mike Perry.
27254 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
27255 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
27256 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
27257 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
27258 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
27259 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
27260 long nicknames where appropriate.
27261 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
27262 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
27264 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
27265 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
27266 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
27267 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
27268 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
27270 o Minor features, code performance:
27271 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
27272 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
27273 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
27275 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
27276 some profiles, but not others.)
27277 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
27278 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
27279 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
27280 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
27281 operations, for profiling.
27282 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
27283 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
27284 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
27285 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
27286 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
27287 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
27288 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
27289 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
27291 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
27292 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
27293 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
27294 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
27295 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
27296 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
27297 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
27298 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
27299 family lists conveniently.
27301 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
27302 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
27303 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
27304 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
27305 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
27306 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
27307 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
27308 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
27309 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
27310 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
27311 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
27312 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
27313 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
27314 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
27315 of it), is not therefore "up".
27317 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
27318 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
27319 what version a router is running.
27320 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
27321 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
27322 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
27323 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
27325 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
27326 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
27327 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
27328 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
27329 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
27332 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
27333 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
27334 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
27336 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
27337 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
27339 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
27340 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
27341 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
27342 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
27343 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
27344 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
27345 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
27346 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
27347 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
27348 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
27350 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
27351 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
27352 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
27353 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
27354 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
27355 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
27356 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
27357 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
27358 get one we don't recognize.
27361 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
27362 o Security bugfixes:
27363 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
27364 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
27365 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
27366 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
27370 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
27371 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
27372 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
27375 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
27377 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
27378 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
27379 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27380 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
27381 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
27382 its circuits on demand.
27383 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
27384 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
27385 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
27386 connections more stable on average.
27387 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
27388 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
27389 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
27391 o Security bugfixes:
27392 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
27393 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
27396 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
27398 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
27399 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
27400 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
27401 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
27402 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
27403 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
27404 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
27405 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
27408 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
27410 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
27411 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
27412 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
27413 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
27414 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
27415 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
27416 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
27417 it can't resolve its hostname.
27418 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
27419 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
27420 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
27423 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
27424 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
27425 "extendcircuit" request.
27426 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
27427 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
27428 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
27429 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
27431 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
27432 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
27433 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
27435 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
27436 methods: these are known to be buggy.
27437 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
27438 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
27439 we don't recognize.
27442 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
27444 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
27445 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
27446 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
27447 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
27448 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
27449 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
27450 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
27451 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
27452 test reachability, so you won't publish.
27455 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
27456 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
27457 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
27458 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
27459 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
27461 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
27462 own server descriptor yet.
27465 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
27467 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
27468 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
27469 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
27470 make sure to test via one of these.
27471 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
27472 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
27473 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
27474 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
27475 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
27477 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
27478 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
27479 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
27482 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
27483 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
27484 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
27485 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
27486 directory authority.
27487 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
27488 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
27489 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
27490 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
27493 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
27494 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
27495 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
27497 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
27498 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
27499 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
27500 current guards when picking a new guard.
27501 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
27502 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
27503 when we had more than one pending.
27504 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
27505 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
27506 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
27507 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
27508 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
27509 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
27510 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
27511 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
27512 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
27513 debug the reachability problems better.
27515 o Log / documentation fixes:
27516 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
27517 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
27518 about protocol violations by others.
27519 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
27520 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
27521 about what happened to our old torrc.
27524 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
27525 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
27526 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
27527 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
27528 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
27529 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
27531 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
27532 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
27533 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
27534 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
27535 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
27536 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
27537 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
27538 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
27539 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
27540 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
27541 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
27542 on malicious huge inputs.
27544 o Security fixes, major:
27545 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
27546 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
27547 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
27548 misreading their logs.
27549 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
27550 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
27551 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
27552 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
27553 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
27554 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
27555 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
27556 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
27557 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
27558 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
27559 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
27560 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
27561 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
27562 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
27564 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
27565 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
27566 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
27567 firewall options forbid.
27568 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
27569 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
27570 can only proxy to certain destinations.
27571 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
27572 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
27573 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
27575 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
27576 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
27577 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
27578 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
27579 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
27580 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
27581 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
27582 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
27583 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
27584 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
27585 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
27586 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
27587 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
27589 o Security fixes, minor:
27590 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
27591 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
27593 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
27594 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
27595 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
27596 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
27597 if we've not heard of a server.
27598 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
27599 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
27600 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
27601 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
27602 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
27603 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
27604 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
27605 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
27606 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
27607 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
27608 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
27609 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
27610 aids some statistical attacks.
27611 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
27612 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
27613 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
27614 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
27615 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
27616 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
27617 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
27618 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
27621 o Packaging improvements:
27622 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
27623 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
27624 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
27625 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
27626 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
27627 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
27629 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
27630 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
27631 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
27632 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
27633 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
27634 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
27636 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
27637 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
27638 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
27640 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
27641 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
27642 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
27643 They are useless now.
27644 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
27645 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
27646 is reachable by you.
27647 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
27650 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
27651 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
27652 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
27653 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
27654 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
27655 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
27656 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
27657 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
27658 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
27659 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
27660 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
27661 and isolating attacks better.
27662 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
27663 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
27664 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
27665 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
27666 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
27667 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
27668 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
27669 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
27670 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
27671 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
27672 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
27674 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
27675 can answer v2 directory requests too.
27676 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
27677 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
27678 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
27679 mirrors still cache and serve it).
27680 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
27681 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
27682 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
27683 for clients and for servers.
27684 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
27685 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
27686 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
27687 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
27688 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
27689 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
27690 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
27691 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
27692 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
27693 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
27694 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
27696 o Other directory improvements:
27697 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
27698 fifth authoritative directory servers.
27699 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
27700 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
27701 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
27702 to hang up on them.
27703 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
27704 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
27705 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
27706 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
27707 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
27708 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
27710 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
27711 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
27712 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
27713 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
27714 connections more reliable.
27715 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
27716 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
27717 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
27718 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
27719 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
27720 we fail to connect).
27721 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
27723 o Controller protocol improvements:
27724 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
27725 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
27726 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
27727 applications without caring how our protocol works.
27728 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
27729 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
27730 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
27731 many bytes we've used in this time period.
27732 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
27733 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
27734 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
27735 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
27736 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
27737 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
27738 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
27739 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
27740 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
27741 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
27742 or "signal reload".
27743 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
27744 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
27745 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
27746 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
27747 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
27748 a router in its role as directory authority.
27749 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
27750 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
27751 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
27752 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
27753 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
27754 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
27755 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
27756 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
27757 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
27758 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
27759 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
27760 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
27761 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
27762 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
27763 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
27764 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
27765 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
27766 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
27768 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
27769 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
27770 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
27771 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
27772 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
27773 just tell them to go read their logs.
27775 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
27776 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
27777 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
27778 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
27779 try to be a bit more fair.
27780 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
27781 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
27782 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
27783 and we're using a default DirPort.
27784 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
27785 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
27786 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
27787 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
27788 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
27789 services faster on the service end.
27790 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
27792 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
27793 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
27794 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
27795 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
27796 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
27797 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
27798 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
27799 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
27800 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
27801 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
27802 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
27803 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
27804 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
27805 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
27806 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
27807 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
27808 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
27809 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
27810 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
27811 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
27812 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
27813 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
27814 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
27815 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
27816 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
27818 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
27819 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
27820 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
27821 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
27822 so we can be backward-compatible.
27823 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
27824 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
27825 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
27826 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
27827 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
27828 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
27829 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
27830 initial descriptor forever.
27831 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
27832 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
27833 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
27834 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
27835 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
27836 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
27837 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
27838 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
27839 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
27840 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
27841 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
27842 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
27843 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
27844 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
27845 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
27846 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
27847 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
27848 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
27849 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
27850 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
27851 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
27852 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
27853 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
27854 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
27855 ports that have changed.
27856 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
27857 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
27858 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
27859 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
27860 connections once a week.
27861 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
27862 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
27863 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
27864 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
27865 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
27866 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
27867 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
27868 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
27869 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
27870 able to discover them.
27871 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
27872 want to make it an NT service.
27873 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
27874 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
27875 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
27876 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
27877 memory leaks better.
27878 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
27879 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
27880 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
27881 statistics are now uint64_t's.
27882 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
27883 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
27884 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
27885 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
27886 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
27887 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
27888 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
27889 default ulimit -n is 1024.
27890 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
27891 and its existence is confusing some users.
27893 o Config option fixes:
27894 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
27895 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
27896 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
27897 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
27898 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
27899 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
27900 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
27901 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
27902 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
27904 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
27905 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
27906 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
27907 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
27908 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
27909 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
27910 it would silently ignore the 6668.
27911 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
27912 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
27913 silently resetting it to its default.
27914 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
27915 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
27916 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
27917 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
27918 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
27919 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
27920 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
27921 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
27922 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
27923 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
27924 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
27925 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
27926 Address config option.
27927 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
27928 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
27930 o Config option features:
27931 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
27932 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
27933 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
27934 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
27935 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
27937 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
27938 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
27939 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
27940 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
27941 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
27942 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
27943 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
27944 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
27945 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
27946 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
27947 in at least some cases.)
27948 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
27949 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
27950 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
27951 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
27952 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
27953 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
27954 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
27955 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
27956 even if we know they're jerks.
27957 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
27958 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
27959 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
27960 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
27961 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
27962 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
27963 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
27964 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
27965 because older Tors do not understand it.
27966 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
27967 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
27968 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
27969 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
27970 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
27971 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
27972 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
27973 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
27974 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
27975 unattached before we fail it?
27976 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
27977 at least this many seconds ago.
27978 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
27979 at least this many seconds ago.
27980 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
27981 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
27983 o Improved and clearer log messages:
27984 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
27985 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
27986 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
27988 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
27989 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
27990 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
27991 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
27992 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
27993 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
27994 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
27995 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
27996 temporarily unreachable.
27997 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
27998 Windows-style errno back.
27999 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
28000 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
28002 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
28003 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
28004 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
28005 exactly for this case.
28006 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
28007 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
28008 don't warn twice about the same name.
28009 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
28011 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
28012 it was self-testing that told us so.
28013 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
28014 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
28015 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
28016 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
28017 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
28018 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
28019 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
28020 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
28021 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
28022 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
28023 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
28024 established a circuit.
28025 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
28026 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
28027 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
28028 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
28029 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
28030 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
28031 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
28032 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
28033 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
28034 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
28035 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
28036 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
28037 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
28038 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
28039 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
28040 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
28041 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
28042 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
28043 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
28044 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
28045 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
28046 testing for reachability.
28047 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
28048 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
28050 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
28053 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
28054 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28055 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
28056 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
28058 o Other important bugfixes:
28059 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
28060 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
28061 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
28062 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
28064 o Backported features:
28065 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
28066 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
28067 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
28068 without getting overloaded.
28069 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
28070 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
28071 503's whenever they feel busy.
28072 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
28073 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
28074 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
28075 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
28076 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
28079 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
28080 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28081 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
28082 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
28083 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
28084 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
28085 too -- so detect and avoid this.
28086 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
28088 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
28089 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
28090 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
28091 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
28092 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
28093 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
28094 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
28095 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
28096 rendezvous circuits.
28097 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
28099 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28100 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
28101 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
28102 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
28103 advertising it because of hibernation.
28104 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
28105 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
28106 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
28107 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
28108 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
28109 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
28110 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
28111 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
28112 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
28113 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
28114 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
28115 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
28116 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
28117 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
28118 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
28121 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
28122 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28123 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
28124 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
28125 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
28126 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
28127 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
28128 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
28129 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
28130 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
28131 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
28132 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
28133 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
28134 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
28135 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
28138 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
28139 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28140 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
28142 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
28143 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
28146 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
28147 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28148 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
28149 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
28150 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
28151 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
28152 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
28154 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
28155 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
28159 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
28160 o New directory servers:
28161 - tor26 has changed IP address.
28163 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28164 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
28165 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
28166 pthreads libraries.
28167 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
28168 claims its dirport is 0.
28169 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
28170 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
28174 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
28175 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
28176 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
28177 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
28178 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
28179 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
28180 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
28181 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
28184 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
28186 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
28187 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
28188 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
28189 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
28190 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
28191 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
28192 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
28193 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
28194 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
28196 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
28197 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
28199 o Assert / crash bugs:
28200 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28201 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28202 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28204 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28205 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
28206 TLS errors better in other situations too.
28207 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
28208 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
28211 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
28212 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
28213 duplicate ram over time.
28214 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
28215 reentry and threadsafeness.
28216 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
28217 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
28218 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
28220 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
28221 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
28222 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
28223 point at your Tor server.
28224 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
28226 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
28227 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
28230 o Protocol correctness:
28231 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
28232 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
28233 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
28234 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
28235 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
28236 to abandon partially built circuits.
28237 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
28238 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
28239 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
28240 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
28241 descriptors we just dropped.
28242 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
28243 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
28244 and to take errno into account where possible.
28245 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
28246 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
28247 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
28248 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
28250 o Robustness improvements:
28251 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
28252 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
28253 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
28255 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
28256 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
28257 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
28258 that will want high uptime circuits.
28259 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
28260 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
28261 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
28262 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
28263 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
28264 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
28265 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
28266 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
28267 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
28268 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
28269 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
28270 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
28271 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
28272 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
28273 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
28274 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
28275 for google.com" problem.
28276 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
28277 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
28278 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
28279 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
28280 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
28283 o Reachability testing.
28284 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
28285 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
28286 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
28287 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
28288 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
28289 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
28290 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
28291 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
28292 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
28293 already connected to them.
28294 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
28298 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
28299 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
28300 nickname+key are allowed.
28301 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
28302 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
28303 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
28304 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
28305 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
28306 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
28307 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
28308 have quite wrong clocks).
28309 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
28310 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
28311 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
28312 their descriptors are being rejected.
28314 o Efficiency improvements:
28315 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
28316 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
28317 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
28318 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
28319 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
28320 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
28321 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
28322 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
28323 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
28324 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
28326 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
28327 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
28328 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
28329 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
28330 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
28331 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
28332 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
28333 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
28334 of CPU time plus memory.
28335 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
28336 directory every time you regenerate it.
28337 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
28338 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
28339 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
28340 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
28341 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
28342 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
28343 lowercase when you first see them.
28346 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
28347 hidden services better.
28348 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
28349 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
28350 when we try to launch one.
28351 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
28352 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
28353 attempts to build a circuit.
28354 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
28355 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
28356 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
28357 normal web requests.
28360 - More Tor controller support. See
28361 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
28362 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
28363 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
28364 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
28365 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
28366 to make it easier to write controllers.
28367 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
28368 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
28369 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
28370 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
28371 new log event types.
28373 o New config options/defaults:
28374 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
28375 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
28376 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
28377 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
28378 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
28380 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
28382 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
28383 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
28384 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
28385 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
28386 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
28388 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
28389 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
28390 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
28391 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
28392 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
28393 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
28394 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
28395 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
28396 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
28397 required exit node for certain sites.
28398 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
28399 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
28400 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
28401 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
28402 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
28403 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
28404 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
28405 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
28406 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
28408 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
28409 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
28410 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
28411 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
28412 private-IP addresses.
28413 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
28414 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
28415 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
28416 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
28417 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
28418 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
28419 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
28420 is valid without actually launching Tor.
28422 o Logging improvements:
28423 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
28424 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
28425 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
28426 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
28428 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
28429 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
28430 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
28431 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
28432 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
28433 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
28434 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
28435 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
28436 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
28438 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
28440 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
28441 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
28442 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
28443 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
28444 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
28445 pretend that getting these occasionally is normal and fine.
28447 o New contrib scripts:
28448 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
28449 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
28451 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
28452 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
28453 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
28454 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
28455 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
28456 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
28458 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
28459 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
28460 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
28461 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
28465 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
28466 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
28467 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
28468 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
28469 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
28470 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
28471 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
28473 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
28474 something more reasonable when first installing.
28475 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
28476 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
28477 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
28478 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
28480 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
28481 artificially capped at 500kB.
28482 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
28484 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
28485 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
28486 they could use instead.
28487 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
28488 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
28489 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
28490 the user asks you to.
28493 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
28494 rather than just rejecting it.
28495 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
28496 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
28497 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
28498 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
28499 rather than just "success" or "failure".
28500 - A more sane version numbering system. See
28501 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
28502 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
28503 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
28504 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
28505 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
28506 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
28508 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
28509 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
28510 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
28511 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
28513 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
28514 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
28516 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
28517 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
28518 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
28519 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
28521 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
28522 whether the server is hibernating.
28525 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
28526 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
28527 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
28528 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
28529 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
28533 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
28534 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28535 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
28536 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
28537 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
28540 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
28541 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28542 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
28543 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
28544 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
28545 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
28546 busy for more than 100 seconds.
28549 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
28550 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28551 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
28552 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
28553 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
28554 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
28555 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
28556 creating actual system users.
28557 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
28558 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
28562 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
28563 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
28564 - Add new end stream reasons to maintenance branch. Fix bug where
28565 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
28566 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
28567 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
28568 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
28569 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
28570 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
28571 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
28572 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
28573 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
28574 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
28575 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
28576 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
28578 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
28579 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
28580 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
28581 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
28582 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
28583 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
28584 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
28585 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
28586 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
28587 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
28588 existing torrc files.
28589 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
28592 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
28593 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
28594 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
28595 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
28596 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
28597 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
28598 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
28599 the win32 SYSTEM account.
28600 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
28601 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
28602 file descriptors available.
28603 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
28604 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
28605 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
28608 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
28609 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28610 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
28611 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
28613 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
28614 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
28615 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
28616 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
28617 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
28619 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
28620 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
28621 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
28622 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
28623 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
28624 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
28625 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
28626 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
28627 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
28628 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
28629 800kB/s of capacity.
28630 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
28633 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
28634 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28635 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
28636 need as much processor time.
28637 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
28638 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
28639 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
28640 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
28641 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
28642 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
28643 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
28644 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
28645 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
28646 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
28647 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
28648 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
28650 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
28651 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
28652 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
28653 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
28654 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
28655 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
28656 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
28659 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
28660 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
28661 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
28663 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
28664 style address, then we'd crash.
28665 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
28666 a dirserver is broken.
28667 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
28669 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
28670 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
28671 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
28673 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
28674 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
28675 name out of the warning/assert messages.
28676 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
28677 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
28678 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
28680 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
28681 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
28682 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
28684 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
28686 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
28687 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
28688 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
28689 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
28690 values at once couldn't work.
28691 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
28692 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
28693 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
28694 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
28695 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
28696 they can handle any number of routers.
28697 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
28698 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
28699 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
28700 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
28701 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
28702 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
28703 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
28704 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
28705 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
28708 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
28709 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
28710 - Make hibernation actually work.
28711 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
28712 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
28713 don't use the stream status code.
28716 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
28717 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
28718 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
28719 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
28720 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
28721 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
28722 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
28723 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
28724 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
28725 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
28726 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
28727 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
28730 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
28731 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
28732 win32 socket errors better.
28733 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
28734 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
28735 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
28736 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
28738 - Make unit tests work on win32.
28740 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
28741 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
28742 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
28743 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
28744 right after sending the begin cell.
28745 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
28746 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
28747 exit nodes too. Oops.
28748 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
28749 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
28750 the user would get no response.
28751 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
28752 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
28753 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
28755 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
28756 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
28757 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
28758 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
28759 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
28761 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
28762 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
28763 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
28764 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
28765 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
28766 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
28767 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
28768 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
28769 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
28770 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
28771 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
28773 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
28774 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
28775 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
28776 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
28777 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
28778 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
28779 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
28780 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
28781 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
28782 so we don't see those messages days later.
28783 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
28784 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
28786 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
28787 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
28788 they ran out of file descriptors.
28789 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
28790 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
28791 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
28792 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
28794 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
28795 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
28796 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
28797 the ones we find in directories.)
28798 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
28799 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
28800 if you don't want it open.
28801 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
28802 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
28803 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
28804 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
28805 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
28806 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
28808 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
28809 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
28811 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
28813 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
28814 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
28816 o Features (circuits and streams):
28817 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
28818 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
28819 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
28820 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
28821 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
28822 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
28823 the user knows which one it's talking about.
28824 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
28825 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
28826 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
28827 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
28828 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
28829 from Geoff Goodell.
28830 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
28832 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
28833 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
28834 to fill the last cell completely.
28835 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
28836 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
28838 o Features (bandwidth):
28839 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
28840 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
28841 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
28842 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
28843 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
28844 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
28845 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
28846 your billing cycle starts on.
28847 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
28848 hibernation properties by
28849 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
28850 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
28851 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
28852 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
28853 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
28855 o Features (directories):
28856 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
28857 nickname to its identity key.
28858 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
28859 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
28860 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
28861 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
28862 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
28864 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
28865 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
28867 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
28868 will be able to get a directory.
28869 - Http proxy support
28870 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
28871 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
28872 be routed through this host.
28873 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
28874 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
28875 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
28876 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
28877 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
28878 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
28880 o Features (packages and install):
28881 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
28882 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
28883 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
28884 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
28885 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
28886 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
28887 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
28888 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
28889 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
28890 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
28893 o Features (ui controller):
28894 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
28895 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
28896 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
28897 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
28898 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
28899 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
28900 with the control port.
28901 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
28902 use in authenticating to the control interface.
28903 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
28904 configuration to torrc.
28905 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
28906 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
28907 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
28909 o Features (config and command-line):
28910 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
28911 not on the command line.
28912 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
28914 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
28915 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
28916 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
28917 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
28918 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
28919 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
28920 - New log format in config:
28921 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
28922 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
28923 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
28924 from their dirserver.
28925 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
28927 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
28928 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
28929 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
28930 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
28931 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
28932 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
28933 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
28934 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
28935 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
28936 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
28937 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
28938 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
28939 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
28940 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
28941 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
28942 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
28943 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
28944 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
28945 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
28946 than once per minute.
28948 o Features (other):
28949 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
28950 get back to normal.)
28951 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
28952 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
28953 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
28954 log more informatively.
28955 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
28956 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
28957 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
28958 from each other, to hinder linkability.
28959 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
28960 them act more like real nodes.
28961 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
28962 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
28963 1024) file descriptors.
28964 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
28967 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
28969 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
28970 clients/servers with an open dirport.
28971 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
28972 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
28973 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
28974 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
28975 intermittent connections.
28976 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
28977 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
28979 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
28980 in reporting stats locally.
28981 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
28982 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
28983 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
28986 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
28988 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
28989 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
28990 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
28991 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
28992 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
28993 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
28994 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
28995 list to decide who's running.
28996 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
28997 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
28998 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
28999 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
29000 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
29001 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
29002 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
29003 for pointing out this bug.)
29004 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
29006 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
29007 don't put it into the client dns cache.
29008 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
29009 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
29010 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
29012 o Protocol changes:
29013 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
29014 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
29015 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
29016 hadn't heard of before.
29019 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
29020 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
29021 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
29022 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
29023 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
29024 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
29025 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
29026 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
29027 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
29028 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
29029 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
29030 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
29031 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
29032 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
29033 - Directory caching.
29034 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
29035 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
29036 directory they've pulled down.
29037 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
29038 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
29039 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
29040 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
29041 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
29042 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
29043 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
29045 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
29046 This isn't used yet.
29047 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
29048 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
29049 clients don't use this yet.)
29050 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
29051 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
29052 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
29053 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
29054 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
29055 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
29056 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
29057 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
29058 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
29059 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
29060 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
29061 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
29062 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
29063 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
29064 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
29065 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
29066 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
29067 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
29068 - File and name management:
29069 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
29070 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
29072 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
29073 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
29074 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
29075 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
29076 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
29077 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
29078 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
29080 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
29081 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
29082 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
29084 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
29085 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
29086 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
29087 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
29088 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
29089 - New docs in the tarball:
29091 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
29092 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
29093 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
29094 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
29095 know you might want to get it verified.
29096 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
29097 kazaa, gnutella ports.
29098 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
29099 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
29100 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
29101 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
29102 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
29103 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
29104 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
29106 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
29108 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
29109 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
29111 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
29112 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
29113 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
29116 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
29117 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
29118 ask them to resolve the host "".
29121 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
29122 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
29123 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
29126 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
29127 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
29128 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
29131 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
29132 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
29133 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
29134 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
29136 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
29137 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
29138 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
29140 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
29141 hidden service per 15-minute period.
29142 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
29143 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
29144 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
29145 o Fixes for security bugs:
29146 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
29147 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
29148 a trusted dirserver.
29150 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
29151 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
29152 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
29153 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
29154 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
29155 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
29156 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
29157 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
29158 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
29159 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
29161 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
29162 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
29163 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
29164 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
29165 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
29166 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
29168 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
29171 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
29172 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
29173 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
29174 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
29175 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
29176 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
29177 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
29178 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
29179 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
29180 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
29181 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
29182 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
29183 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
29184 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
29187 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
29188 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
29189 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
29190 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29193 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
29194 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
29195 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
29196 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
29197 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
29198 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
29199 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
29203 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
29205 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
29206 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
29207 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
29208 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
29209 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
29210 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
29211 if you decrypted them correctly.
29212 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
29213 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
29214 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
29215 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
29216 in-memory directories too.
29217 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
29218 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
29219 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
29220 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
29221 just close the circ.
29222 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
29223 - Better debugging for tls errors
29224 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
29225 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
29227 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
29228 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
29229 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
29230 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
29231 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
29232 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
29233 it tells you about the first error.
29234 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
29235 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
29236 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
29237 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
29238 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
29239 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
29240 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
29241 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
29242 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
29243 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
29245 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
29246 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
29249 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
29250 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
29252 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
29253 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
29254 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
29255 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
29256 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
29257 expect it to have a nickname.
29258 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
29259 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
29260 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
29261 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
29262 the dns farm to do it.
29263 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
29264 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
29266 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
29267 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
29268 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
29269 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
29270 but that aren't warnings
29273 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
29274 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
29278 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
29279 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
29280 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
29281 - include missing header fcntl.h
29282 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
29283 - deal with hardware word alignment
29284 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
29285 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
29286 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
29287 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
29288 by kill -USR1 currently.
29289 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
29290 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
29291 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
29294 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
29295 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
29296 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
29299 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
29301 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
29302 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
29303 - And fix a few endian issues.
29306 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
29308 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
29309 try that circuit again: try a new one.
29310 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
29311 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
29312 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
29313 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
29314 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
29315 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
29317 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
29318 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
29319 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
29321 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
29323 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
29324 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
29325 side isn't reading right then.
29326 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
29327 RecommendedVersions
29328 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
29329 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
29330 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
29333 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
29335 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
29336 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
29339 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
29343 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
29345 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
29346 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
29347 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
29348 connection is finished.
29349 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
29350 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
29351 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
29352 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
29353 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
29354 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
29355 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
29356 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
29357 rather than warn and continue.
29358 - Make --version work
29359 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
29362 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
29364 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
29365 knows it's working.
29366 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
29367 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
29369 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
29370 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
29371 so you can collect coredumps there.
29373 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
29374 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
29375 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
29376 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
29377 dns cache actually gets populated.
29378 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
29379 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
29380 end cell down it first.
29381 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
29382 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
29385 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
29387 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
29388 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
29390 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
29391 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
29392 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
29393 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
29394 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
29395 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
29397 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
29399 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
29400 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
29401 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
29402 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
29403 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
29404 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
29406 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
29407 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
29410 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
29412 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
29413 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
29414 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
29415 tor. It even has a man page.
29416 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
29417 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
29418 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
29419 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
29421 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
29423 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
29426 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
29428 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
29429 it, apt-getters. :)
29430 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
29431 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
29432 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
29433 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
29434 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
29435 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
29436 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
29437 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
29438 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
29439 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
29440 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
29442 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
29443 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
29446 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
29448 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
29449 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
29452 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
29454 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
29455 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
29456 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
29457 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
29458 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
29459 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
29460 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
29461 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
29462 logfile so you know it's working.
29463 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
29464 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
29467 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
29469 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
29470 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
29471 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
29474 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
29476 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
29477 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
29478 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
29481 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
29482 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
29483 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
29485 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
29486 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
29488 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
29489 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
29490 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
29492 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
29493 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
29497 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
29499 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
29500 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
29501 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
29504 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
29505 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
29506 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
29507 - Add port ranges to exit policies
29508 - Add a conservative default exit policy
29509 - Warn if you're running tor as root
29510 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
29511 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
29512 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
29513 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
29515 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
29518 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
29519 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29520 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
29521 really screw things up.
29522 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
29524 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
29525 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
29527 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
29528 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
29529 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
29530 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
29531 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
29532 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
29535 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
29538 - Change default loglevel to warn.
29539 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
29540 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
29542 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
29545 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
29546 o Robustness and bugfixes:
29547 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
29548 - to get ownership/permissions right
29549 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
29550 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
29551 pull down a directory again
29552 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
29553 causing server crashes
29554 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
29555 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
29556 - exit if bind() fails
29557 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
29558 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
29559 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
29560 - fix minor bias in PRNG
29561 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
29564 - Wrote the design document (woo)
29566 o Circuit building and exit policies:
29567 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
29569 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
29570 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
29571 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
29572 exists, rather than failing
29573 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
29574 which AP connections are standing by
29575 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
29576 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
29577 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
29579 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
29580 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
29583 - APPort is now called SocksPort
29584 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
29586 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
29587 hardcoded (for dirservers)
29588 - Reloads config on HUP
29589 - Usage info on -h or --help
29590 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
29592 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
29593 o General stability:
29594 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
29595 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
29596 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
29597 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
29598 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
29599 to take down the network when I approve a new router
29600 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
29603 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
29604 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
29606 o Autoconf improvements:
29607 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
29608 - Make install now works
29609 - create var/lib/tor on make install
29610 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
29611 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
29613 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
29614 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
29615 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
29616 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup