1 Changes in version 0.2.9.5-rc - 2016-1?-??
4 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
5 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
6 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
7 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
8 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
11 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
12 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
13 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
14 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
15 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
16 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
17 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
18 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
19 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
21 o Minor features (geoip):
22 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
26 Changes in version 0.2.9.4-alpha - 2016-10-17
27 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha fixes a security hole in previous versions of Tor
28 that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client, hidden
29 service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to this
30 version, or to 0.2.8.9. Patches will be released for older versions
33 Tor 0.2.9.4-alpha also adds numerous small features and fix-ups to
34 previous versions of Tor, including the implementation of a feature to
35 future- proof the Tor ecosystem against protocol changes, some bug
36 fixes necessary for Tor Browser to use unix domain sockets correctly,
37 and several portability improvements. We anticipate that this will be
38 the last alpha in the Tor 0.2.9 series, and that the next release will
39 be a release candidate.
41 o Major features (security fixes):
42 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
43 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
44 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
45 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
46 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
47 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
48 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
49 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
51 o Major features (subprotocol versions):
52 - Tor directory authorities now vote on a set of recommended
53 subprotocol versions, and on a set of required subprotocol
54 versions. Clients and relays that lack support for a _required_
55 subprotocol version will not start; those that lack support for a
56 _recommended_ subprotocol version will warn the user to upgrade.
57 Closes ticket 19958; implements part of proposal 264.
58 - Tor now uses "subprotocol versions" to indicate compatibility.
59 Previously, versions of Tor looked at the declared Tor version of
60 a relay to tell whether they could use a given feature. Now, they
61 should be able to rely on its declared subprotocol versions. This
62 change allows compatible implementations of the Tor protocol(s) to
63 exist without pretending to be 100% bug-compatible with particular
64 releases of Tor itself. Closes ticket 19958; implements part of
67 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
68 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
69 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
71 o Minor features (client, directory):
72 - Since authorities now omit all routers that lack the Running and
73 Valid flags, we assume that any relay listed in the consensus must
74 have those flags. Closes ticket 20001; implements part of
77 o Minor features (compilation, portability):
78 - Compile correctly on MacOS 10.12 (aka "Sierra"). Closes
81 o Minor features (development tools, etags):
82 - Teach the "make tags" Makefile target how to correctly find
83 "MOCK_IMPL" function definitions. Patch from nherring; closes
86 o Minor features (geoip):
87 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
90 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
91 - When configuring a unix domain socket for a SocksPort,
92 ControlPort, or Hidden service, you can now wrap the address in
93 quotes, using C-style escapes inside the quotes. This allows unix
94 domain socket paths to contain spaces.
96 o Minor features (virtual addresses):
97 - Increase the maximum number of bits for the IPv6 virtual network
98 prefix from 16 to 104. In this way, the condition for address
99 allocation is less restrictive. Closes ticket 20151; feature
102 o Minor bugfixes (address discovery):
103 - Stop reordering IP addresses returned by the OS. This makes it
104 more likely that Tor will guess the same relay IP address every
105 time. Fixes issue 20163; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha, ticket 17027.
106 Reported by René Mayrhofer, patch by "cypherpunks".
108 o Minor bugfixes (client, unix domain sockets):
109 - Disable IsolateClientAddr when using AF_UNIX backed SocksPorts as
110 the client address is meaningless. Fixes bug 20261; bugfix
113 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
114 - Detect Libevent2 functions correctly on systems that provide
115 libevent2, but where libevent1 is linked with -levent. Fixes bug
116 19904; bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha. Patch from Rubiate.
118 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
119 - When parsing quoted configuration values from the torrc file,
120 handle windows line endings correctly. Fixes bug 19167; bugfix on
121 0.2.0.16-alpha. Patch from "Pingl".
123 o Minor bugfixes (getpass):
124 - Defensively fix a non-triggerable heap corruption at do_getpass()
125 to protect ourselves from mistakes in the future. Fixes bug
126 #19223; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Bug found by Guido Vranken, patch
129 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
130 - Allow hidden services to run on IPv6 addresses even when the
131 IPv6Exit option is not set. Fixes bug 18357; bugfix
135 - Add module-level internal documentation for 36 C files that
136 previously didn't have a high-level overview. Closes ticket #20385.
138 o Required libraries:
139 - When building with OpenSSL, Tor now requires version 1.0.1 or
140 later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 and earlier are no longer supported by the
141 OpenSSL team, and should not be used. Closes ticket 20303.
144 Changes in version 0.2.9.3-alpha - 2016-09-23
145 Tor 0.2.9.3-alpha adds improved support for entities that want to make
146 high-performance services available through the Tor .onion mechanism
147 without themselves receiving anonymity as they host those services. It
148 also tries harder to ensure that all steps on a circuit are using the
149 strongest crypto possible, strengthens some TLS properties, and
150 resolves several bugs -- including a pair of crash bugs from the 0.2.8
151 series. Anybody running an earlier version of 0.2.9.x should upgrade.
153 o Major bugfixes (crash, also in 0.2.8.8):
154 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
155 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
156 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
157 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
158 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
160 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler, also in 0.2.8.8):
161 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
162 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
163 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
164 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
167 o Major features (circuit building, security):
168 - Authorities, relays and clients now require ntor keys in all
169 descriptors, for all hops (except for rare hidden service protocol
170 cases), for all circuits, and for all other roles. Part of
172 - Tor authorities, relays, and clients only use ntor, except for
173 rare cases in the hidden service protocol. Part of ticket 19163.
175 o Major features (single-hop "hidden" services):
176 - Add experimental HiddenServiceSingleHopMode and
177 HiddenServiceNonAnonymousMode options. When both are set to 1,
178 every hidden service on a Tor instance becomes a non-anonymous
179 Single Onion Service. Single Onions make one-hop (direct)
180 connections to their introduction and renzedvous points. One-hop
181 circuits make Single Onion servers easily locatable, but clients
182 remain location-anonymous. This is compatible with the existing
183 hidden service implementation, and works on the current tor
184 network without any changes to older relays or clients. Implements
185 proposal 260, completes ticket 17178. Patch by teor and asn.
187 o Major features (resource management):
188 - Tor can now notice it is about to run out of sockets, and
189 preemptively close connections of lower priority. (This feature is
190 off by default for now, since the current prioritizing method is
191 yet not mature enough. You can enable it by setting
192 "DisableOOSCheck 0", but watch out: it might close some sockets
193 you would rather have it keep.) Closes ticket 18640.
195 o Major bugfixes (circuit building):
196 - Hidden service client-to-intro-point and service-to-rendezvous-
197 point cicruits use the TAP key supplied by the protocol, to avoid
198 epistemic attacks. Fixes bug 19163; bugfix on 0.2.4.18-rc.
200 o Major bugfixes (compilation, OpenBSD):
201 - Fix a Libevent-detection bug in our autoconf script that would
202 prevent Tor from linking successfully on OpenBSD. Patch from
203 rubiate. Fixes bug 19902; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
205 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
206 - Clients now require hidden services to include the TAP keys for
207 their intro points in the hidden service descriptor. This prevents
208 an inadvertent upgrade to ntor, which a malicious hidden service
209 could use to distinguish clients by consensus version. Fixes bug
210 20012; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
212 o Minor features (security, TLS):
213 - Servers no longer support clients that without AES ciphersuites.
214 (3DES is no longer considered an acceptable cipher.) We believe
215 that no such Tor clients currently exist, since Tor has required
216 OpenSSL 0.9.7 or later since 2009. Closes ticket 19998.
218 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
219 - Remove broken entries from the hard-coded fallback directory list.
220 Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
222 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.8.8):
223 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
226 o Minor feature (port flags):
227 - Add new flags to the *Port options to finer control over which
228 requests are allowed. The flags are NoDNSRequest, NoOnionTraffic,
229 and the synthetic flag OnionTrafficOnly, which is equivalent to
230 NoDNSRequest, NoIPv4Traffic, and NoIPv6Traffic. Closes enhancement
231 18693; patch by "teor".
233 o Minor features (directory authority):
234 - After voting, if the authorities decide that a relay is not
235 "Valid", they no longer include it in the consensus at all. Closes
236 ticket 20002; implements part of proposal 272.
238 o Minor features (testing):
239 - Disable memory protections on OpenBSD when performing our unit
240 tests for memwipe(). The test deliberately invokes undefined
241 behavior, and the OpenBSD protections interfere with this. Patch
242 from "rubiate". Closes ticket 20066.
244 o Minor features (testing, ipv6):
245 - Add the single-onion and single-onion-ipv6 chutney targets to
246 "make test-network-all". This requires a recent chutney version
247 with the single onion network flavours (git c72a652 or later).
248 Closes ticket 20072; patch by teor.
249 - Add the hs-ipv6 chutney target to make test-network-all's IPv6
250 tests. Remove bridges+hs, as it's somewhat redundant. This
251 requires a recent chutney version that supports IPv6 clients,
252 relays, and authorities. Closes ticket 20069; patch by teor.
254 o Minor features (Tor2web):
255 - Make Tor2web clients respect ReachableAddresses. This feature was
256 inadvertently enabled in 0.2.8.6, then removed by bugfix 19973 on
257 0.2.8.7. Implements feature 20034. Patch by teor.
259 o Minor features (unit tests):
260 - We've done significant work to make the unit tests run faster.
261 - Our link-handshake unit tests now check that when invalid
262 handshakes fail, they fail with the error messages we expected.
263 - Our unit testing code that captures log messages no longer
264 prevents them from being written out if the user asked for them
265 (by passing --debug or --info or or --notice --warn to the "test"
266 binary). This change prevents us from missing unexpected log
267 messages simply because we were looking for others. Related to
269 - The unit tests now log all warning messages with the "BUG" flag.
270 Previously, they only logged errors by default. This change will
271 help us make our testing code more correct, and make sure that we
272 only hit this code when we mean to. In the meantime, however,
273 there will be more warnings in the unit test logs than before.
274 This is preparatory work for ticket 19999.
275 - The unit tests now treat any failure of a "tor_assert_nonfatal()"
276 assertion as a test failure.
278 o Minor bug fixes (circuits):
279 - Use the CircuitBuildTimeout option whenever
280 LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled. Previously, we would respect
281 the option when a user disabled it, but not when it was disabled
282 because some other option was set. Fixes bug 20073; bugfix on
283 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch by teor.
285 o Minor bugfixes (allocation):
286 - Change how we allocate memory for large chunks on buffers, to
287 avoid a (currently impossible) integer overflow, and to waste less
288 space when allocating unusually large chunks. Fixes bug 20081;
289 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Issue identified by Guido Vranken.
290 - Always include orconfig.h before including any other C headers.
291 Sometimes, it includes macros that affect the behavior of the
292 standard headers. Fixes bug 19767; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha (the
293 first version to use AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS).
294 - Fix a syntax error in the IF_BUG_ONCE__() macro in non-GCC-
295 compatible compilers. Fixes bug 20141; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
296 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
297 - Stop trying to build with Clang 4.0's -Wthread-safety warnings.
298 They apparently require a set of annotations that we aren't
299 currently using, and they create false positives in our pthreads
300 wrappers. Fixes bug 20110; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
302 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
303 - Die with a more useful error when the operator forgets to place
304 the authority_signing_key file into the keys directory. This
305 avoids an uninformative assert & traceback about having an invalid
306 key. Fixes bug 20065; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
307 - When allowing private addresses, mark Exits that only exit to
308 private locations as such. Fixes bug 20064; bugfix
311 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
312 - Document the default PathsNeededToBuildCircuits value that's used
313 by clients when the directory authorities don't set
314 min_paths_for_circs_pct. Fixes bug 20117; bugfix on 02c320916e02
315 in tor-0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by teor, reported by Jesse V.
316 - Fix manual for the User option: it takes a username, not a UID.
317 Fixes bug 19122; bugfix on 0.0.2pre16 (the first version to have
320 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
321 - Stop logging intro point details to the client log on certain
322 error conditions. Fixed as part of bug 20012; bugfix on
323 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch by teor.
325 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, testing):
326 - Check for IPv6 correctly on Linux when running test networks.
327 Fixes bug 19905; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc; patch by teor.
329 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
330 - Add permission to run the sched_yield() and sigaltstack() system
331 calls, in order to support versions of Tor compiled with asan or
332 ubsan code that use these calls. Now "sandbox 1" and
333 "--enable-expensive-hardening" should be compatible on more
334 systems. Fixes bug 20063; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
336 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
337 - When logging a message from the BUG() macro, be explicit about
338 what we were asserting. Previously we were confusing what we were
339 asserting with what the bug was. Fixes bug 20093; bugfix
341 - When we are unable to remove the bw_accounting file, do not warn
342 if the reason we couldn't remove it was that it didn't exist.
343 Fixes bug 19964; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from 'pastly'.
345 o Minor bugfixes (option parsing):
346 - Count unix sockets when counting client listeners (SOCKS, Trans,
347 NATD, and DNS). This has no user-visible behaviour changes: these
348 options are set once, and never read. Required for correct
349 behaviour in ticket 17178. Fixes bug 19677; bugfix on
350 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
352 o Minor bugfixes (options):
353 - Check the consistency of UseEntryGuards and EntryNodes more
354 reliably. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on tor- 0.2.4.12-alpha. Patch
356 - Stop changing the configured value of UseEntryGuards on
357 authorities and Tor2web clients. Fixes bug 20074; bugfix on
358 commits 51fc6799 in tor-0.1.1.16-rc and acda1735 in tor-0.2.4.3-
359 alpha. Patch by teor.
361 o Minor bugfixes (Tor2web):
362 - Prevent Tor2web clients running hidden services, these services
363 are not anonymous due to the one-hop client paths. Fixes bug
364 19678. Patch by teor.
366 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
367 - Fix a shared-random unit test that was failing on big endian
368 architectures due to internal representation of a integer copied
369 to a buffer. The test is changed to take a full 32 bytes of data
370 and use the output of a python script that make the COMMIT and
371 REVEAL calculation according to the spec. Fixes bug 19977; bugfix
373 - The tor_tls_server_info_callback unit test no longer crashes when
374 debug-level logging is turned on. Fixes bug 20041; bugfix
378 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
379 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
380 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
381 who select public relays as their bridges.
383 o Major bugfixes (crash):
384 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
385 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
386 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
387 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
388 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
390 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
391 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
392 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
393 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
394 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
397 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
398 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
399 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
401 o Minor features (geoip):
402 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
406 Changes in version 0.2.9.2-alpha - 2016-08-24
407 Tor 0.2.9.2-alpha continues development of the 0.2.9 series with
408 several new features and bugfixes. It also includes an important
409 authority update and an important bugfix from 0.2.8.7. Everyone who
410 sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
411 encouraged to upgrade to 0.2.8.7, or to 0.2.9.2-alpha.
413 o Directory authority changes (also in 0.2.8.7):
414 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
415 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
417 o Major bugfixes (client, security, also in 0.2.8.7):
418 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
419 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
420 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
421 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
422 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
424 o Major features (user interface):
425 - Tor now supports the ability to declare options deprecated, so
426 that we can recommend that people stop using them. Previously,
427 this was done in an ad-hoc way. Closes ticket 19820.
429 o Major bugfixes (directory downloads):
430 - Avoid resetting download status for consensuses hourly, since we
431 already have another, smarter retry mechanism. Fixes bug 8625;
432 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
434 o Minor features (config):
435 - Warn users when descriptor and port addresses are inconsistent.
436 Mitigates bug 13953; patch by teor.
438 o Minor features (geoip):
439 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
442 o Minor features (user interface):
443 - There is a new --list-deprecated-options command-line option to
444 list all of the deprecated options. Implemented as part of
447 o Minor bugfixes (code style):
448 - Fix an integer signedness conversion issue in the case conversion
449 tables. Fixes bug 19168; bugfix on 0.2.1.11-alpha.
451 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
452 - Build correctly on versions of libevent2 without support for
453 evutil_secure_rng_add_bytes(). Fixes bug 19904; bugfix
455 - Fix a compilation warning on GCC versions before 4.6. Our
456 ENABLE_GCC_WARNING macro used the word "warning" as an argument,
457 when it is also required as an argument to the compiler pragma.
458 Fixes bug 19901; bugfix on 0.2.9.1-alpha.
460 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.8.7):
461 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
462 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
465 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories, also in 0.2.8.7):
466 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
467 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
468 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
470 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
471 - Log a more accurate message when we fail to dump a microdescriptor.
472 Fixes bug 17758; bugfix on 0.2.2.8-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
474 o Minor bugfixes (memory leak):
475 - Fix a series of slow memory leaks related to parsing torrc files
476 and options. Fixes bug 19466; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
478 o Deprecated features:
479 - A number of DNS-cache-related sub-options for client ports are now
480 deprecated for security reasons, and may be removed in a future
481 version of Tor. (We believe that client-side DNS cacheing is a bad
482 idea for anonymity, and you should not turn it on.) The options
483 are: CacheDNS, CacheIPv4DNS, CacheIPv6DNS, UseDNSCache,
484 UseIPv4Cache, and UseIPv6Cache.
485 - A number of options are deprecated for security reasons, and may
486 be removed in a future version of Tor. The options are:
487 AllowDotExit, AllowInvalidNodes, AllowSingleHopCircuits,
488 AllowSingleHopExits, ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses,
489 CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
490 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout,
491 ExcludeSingleHopRelays, FastFirstHopPK, TLSECGroup,
492 UseNTorHandshake, and WarnUnsafeSocks.
493 - The *ListenAddress options are now deprecated as unnecessary: the
494 corresponding *Port options should be used instead. These options
495 may someday be removed. The affected options are:
496 ControlListenAddress, DNSListenAddress, DirListenAddress,
497 NATDListenAddress, ORListenAddress, SocksListenAddress,
498 and TransListenAddress.
501 - Correct the IPv6 syntax in our documentation for the
502 VirtualAddrNetworkIPv6 torrc option. Closes ticket 19743.
505 - We no longer include the (dead, deprecated) bufferevent code in
506 Tor. Closes ticket 19450. Based on a patch from U+039b.
509 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
510 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
511 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
512 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
513 encouraged to upgrade.
515 o Directory authority changes:
516 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
517 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
519 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
520 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
521 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
522 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
523 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
524 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
526 o Minor features (geoip):
527 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
530 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
531 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
532 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
535 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
536 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
537 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
538 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
541 Changes in version 0.2.9.1-alpha - 2016-08-08
542 Tor 0.2.9.1-alpha is the first alpha release in the 0.2.9 development
543 series. It improves our support for hardened builds and compiler
544 warnings, deploys some critical infrastructure for improvements to
545 hidden services, includes a new timing backend that we hope to use for
546 better support for traffic padding, makes it easier for programmers to
547 log unexpected events, and contains other small improvements to
548 security, correctness, and performance.
550 Below are the changes since 0.2.8.6.
552 o New system requirements:
553 - Tor now requires Libevent version 2.0.10-stable or later. Older
554 versions of Libevent have less efficient backends for several
555 platforms, and lack the DNS code that we use for our server-side
556 DNS support. This implements ticket 19554.
557 - Tor now requires zlib version 1.2 or later, for security,
558 efficiency, and (eventually) gzip support. (Back when we started,
559 zlib 1.1 and zlib 1.0 were still found in the wild. 1.2 was
560 released in 2003. We recommend the latest version.)
562 o Major features (build, hardening):
563 - Tor now builds with -ftrapv by default on compilers that support
564 it. This option detects signed integer overflow (which C forbids),
565 and turns it into a hard-failure. We do not apply this option to
566 code that needs to run in constant time to avoid side-channels;
567 instead, we use -fwrapv in that code. Closes ticket 17983.
568 - When --enable-expensive-hardening is selected, stop applying the
569 clang/gcc sanitizers to code that needs to run in constant time.
570 Although we are aware of no introduced side-channels, we are not
571 able to prove that there are none. Related to ticket 17983.
573 o Major features (compilation):
574 - Our big list of extra GCC warnings is now enabled by default when
575 building with GCC (or with anything like Clang that claims to be
576 GCC-compatible). To make all warnings into fatal compilation
577 errors, pass --enable-fatal-warnings to configure. Closes
579 - Use the Autoconf macro AC_USE_SYSTEM_EXTENSIONS to automatically
580 turn on C and POSIX extensions. (Previously, we attempted to do
581 this on an ad hoc basis.) Closes ticket 19139.
583 o Major features (directory authorities, hidden services):
584 - Directory authorities can now perform the shared randomness
585 protocol specified by proposal 250. Using this protocol, directory
586 authorities generate a global fresh random value every day. In the
587 future, this value will be used by hidden services to select
588 HSDirs. This release implements the directory authority feature;
589 the hidden service side will be implemented in the future as part
590 of proposal 224. Resolves ticket 16943; implements proposal 250.
592 o Major features (downloading, random exponential backoff):
593 - When we fail to download an object from a directory service, wait
594 for an (exponentially increasing) randomized amount of time before
595 retrying, rather than a fixed interval as we did before. This
596 prevents a group of Tor instances from becoming too synchronized,
597 or a single Tor instance from becoming too predictable, in its
598 download schedule. Closes ticket 15942.
600 o Major bugfixes (exit policies):
601 - Avoid disclosing exit outbound bind addresses, configured port
602 bind addresses, and local interface addresses in relay descriptors
603 by default under ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. Instead, only reject
604 these (otherwise unlisted) addresses if
605 ExitPolicyRejectLocalInterfaces is set. Fixes bug 18456; bugfix on
606 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
608 o Major bugfixes (hidden service client):
609 - Allow Tor clients with appropriate controllers to work with
610 FetchHidServDescriptors set to 0. Previously, this option also
611 disabled descriptor cache lookup, thus breaking hidden services
612 entirely. Fixes bug 18704; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Patch by "twim".
614 o Minor features (build, hardening):
615 - Detect and work around a libclang_rt problem that would prevent
616 clang from finding __mulodi4() on some 32-bit platforms, and thus
617 keep -ftrapv from linking on those systems. Closes ticket 19079.
618 - When building on a system without runtime support for the runtime
619 hardening options, try to log a useful warning at configuration
620 time, rather than an incomprehensible warning at link time. If
621 expensive hardening was requested, this warning becomes an error.
624 o Minor features (code safety):
625 - In our integer-parsing functions, ensure that maxiumum value we
626 give is no smaller than the minimum value. Closes ticket 19063;
629 o Minor features (controller):
630 - Implement new GETINFO queries for all downloads that use
631 download_status_t to schedule retries. This allows controllers to
632 examine the schedule for pending downloads. Closes ticket 19323.
633 - Allow controllers to configure basic client authorization on
634 hidden services when they create them with the ADD_ONION control
635 command. Implements ticket 15588. Patch by "special".
636 - Fire a STATUS_SERVER controller event whenever the hibernation
637 status changes between "awake"/"soft"/"hard". Closes ticket 18685.
639 o Minor features (directory authority):
640 - Directory authorities now only give the Guard flag to a relay if
641 they are also giving it the Stable flag. This change allows us to
642 simplify path selection for clients. It should have minimal effect
643 in practice, since >99% of Guards already have the Stable flag.
644 Implements ticket 18624.
645 - Directory authorities now write their v3-status-votes file out to
646 disk earlier in the consensus process, so we have a record of the
647 votes even if we abort the consensus process. Resolves
650 o Minor features (hidden service):
651 - Stop being so strict about the payload length of "rendezvous1"
652 cells. We used to be locked in to the "TAP" handshake length, and
653 now we can handle better handshakes like "ntor". Resolves
656 o Minor features (infrastructure, time):
657 - Tor now uses the operating system's monotonic timers (where
658 available) for internal fine-grained timing. Previously we would
659 look at the system clock, and then attempt to compensate for the
660 clock running backwards. Closes ticket 18908.
661 - Tor now includes an improved timer backend, so that we can
662 efficiently support tens or hundreds of thousands of concurrent
663 timers, as will be needed for some of our planned anti-traffic-
664 analysis work. This code is based on William Ahern's "timeout.c"
665 project, which implements a "tickless hierarchical timing wheel".
668 o Minor features (logging):
669 - Provide a more useful warning message when configured with an
670 invalid Nickname. Closes ticket 18300; patch from "icanhasaccount".
671 - When dumping unparseable router descriptors, optionally store them
672 in separate files, named by digest, up to a configurable size
673 limit. You can change the size limit by setting the
674 MaxUnparseableDescSizeToLog option, and disable this feature by
675 setting that option to 0. Closes ticket 18322.
676 - Add a set of macros to check nonfatal assertions, for internal
677 use. Migrating more of our checks to these should help us avoid
678 needless crash bugs. Closes ticket 18613.
680 o Minor features (performance):
681 - Changer the "optimistic data" extension from "off by default" to
682 "on by default". The default was ordinarily overridden by a
683 consensus option, but when clients were bootstrapping for the
684 first time, they would not have a consensus to get the option
685 from. Changing this default When fetching a consensus for the
686 first time, use optimistic data. This saves a round-trip during
687 startup. Closes ticket 18815.
689 o Minor features (relay, usability):
690 - When the directory authorities refuse a bad relay's descriptor,
691 encourage the relay operator to contact us. Many relay operators
692 won't notice this line in their logs, but it's a win if even a few
693 learn why we don't like what their relay was doing. Resolves
696 o Minor features (testing):
697 - Let backtrace tests work correctly under AddressSanitizer. Fixes
698 part of bug 18934; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
699 - Move the test-network.sh script to chutney, and modify tor's test-
700 network.sh to call the (newer) chutney version when available.
701 Resolves ticket 19116. Patch by teor.
702 - Use the lcov convention for marking lines as unreachable, so that
703 we don't count them when we're generating test coverage data.
704 Update our coverage tools to understand this convention. Closes
707 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
708 - Remember the directory we fetched the consensus or previous
709 certificates from, and use it to fetch future authority
710 certificates. This change improves bootstrapping performance.
711 Fixes bug 18963; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
713 o Minor bugfixes (build):
714 - The test-stem and test-network makefile targets now depend only on
715 the tor binary that they are testing. Previously, they depended on
716 "make all". Fixes bug 18240; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha. Based on a
717 patch from "cypherpunks".
719 o Minor bugfixes (circuits):
720 - Make sure extend_info_from_router() is only called on servers.
721 Fixes bug 19639; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
723 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
724 - When building with Clang, use a full set of GCC warnings.
725 (Previously, we included only a subset, because of the way we
726 detected them.) Fixes bug 19216; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
728 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
729 - Authorities now sort the "package" lines in their votes, for ease
730 of debugging. (They are already sorted in consensus documents.)
731 Fixes bug 18840; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
732 - When parsing a detached signature, make sure we use the length of
733 the digest algorithm instead of an hardcoded DIGEST256_LEN in
734 order to avoid comparing bytes out-of-bounds with a smaller digest
735 length such as SHA1. Fixes bug 19066; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
737 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
738 - Document the --passphrase-fd option in the tor manpage. Fixes bug
739 19504; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
740 - Fix the description of the --passphrase-fd option in the
741 tor-gencert manpage. The option is used to pass the number of a
742 file descriptor to read the passphrase from, not to read the file
743 descriptor from. Fixes bug 19505; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-alpha.
745 o Minor bugfixes (ephemeral hidden service):
746 - When deleting an ephemeral hidden service, close its intro points
747 even if they are not completely open. Fixes bug 18604; bugfix
750 o Minor bugfixes (guard selection):
751 - Use a single entry guard even if the NumEntryGuards consensus
752 parameter is not provided. Fixes bug 17688; bugfix
754 - Don't mark guards as unreachable if connection_connect() fails.
755 That function fails for local reasons, so it shouldn't reveal
756 anything about the status of the guard. Fixes bug 14334; bugfix
759 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service client):
760 - Increase the minimum number of internal circuits we preemptively
761 build from 2 to 3, so a circuit is available when a client
762 connects to another onion service. Fixes bug 13239; bugfix
765 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
766 - When logging a directory ownership mismatch, log the owning
767 username correctly. Fixes bug 19578; bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta.
769 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
770 - Fix a small, uncommon memory leak that could occur when reading a
771 truncated ed25519 key file. Fixes bug 18956; bugfix
774 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
775 - Allow clients to retry HSDirs much faster in test networks. Fixes
776 bug 19702; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
777 - Disable ASAN's detection of segmentation faults while running
778 test_bt.sh, so that we can make sure that our own backtrace
779 generation code works. Fixes another aspect of bug 18934; bugfix
780 on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
781 - Fix the test-network-all target on out-of-tree builds by using the
782 correct path to the test driver script. Fixes bug 19421; bugfix
785 o Minor bugfixes (time):
786 - Improve overflow checks in tv_udiff and tv_mdiff. Fixes bug 19483;
787 bugfix on all released tor versions.
788 - When computing the difference between two times in milliseconds,
789 we now round to the nearest millisecond correctly. Previously, we
790 could sometimes round in the wrong direction. Fixes bug 19428;
791 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
793 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
794 - Display a more accurate number of suppressed messages in the log
795 rate-limiter. Previously, there was a potential integer overflow
796 in the counter. Now, if the number of messages hits a maximum, the
797 rate-limiter doesn't count any further. Fixes bug 19435; bugfix
799 - Fix a typo in the passphrase prompt for the ed25519 identity key.
800 Fixes bug 19503; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
802 o Code simplification and refactoring:
803 - Remove redundant declarations of the MIN macro. Closes
805 - Rename tor_dup_addr() to tor_addr_to_str_dup() to avoid confusion.
806 Closes ticket 18462; patch from "icanhasaccount".
807 - Split the 600-line directory_handle_command_get function into
808 separate functions for different URL types. Closes ticket 16698.
811 - Fix spelling of "--enable-tor2web-mode" in the manpage. Closes
812 ticket 19153. Patch from "U+039b".
815 - Remove support for "GET /tor/bytes.txt" DirPort request, and
816 "GETINFO dir-usage" controller request, which were only available
817 via a compile-time option in Tor anyway. Feature was added in
818 0.2.2.1-alpha. Resolves ticket 19035.
819 - There is no longer a compile-time option to disable support for
820 TransPort. (If you don't want TransPort; just don't use it.) Patch
821 from "U+039b". Closes ticket 19449.
824 - Run more workqueue tests as part of "make check". These had
825 previously been implemented, but you needed to know special
826 command-line options to enable them.
827 - We now have unit tests for our code to reject zlib "compression
828 bombs". (Fortunately, the code works fine.)
831 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
833 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
835 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
836 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
837 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
838 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
839 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
840 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
842 Changes since 0.2.8.5-rc:
844 o Minor features (geoip):
845 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
848 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
849 - Fix a compilation warning in the unit tests on systems where char
850 is signed. Fixes bug 19682; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
852 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
853 - Remove a fallback that was on the hardcoded list, then opted-out.
854 Fixes bug 19782; update to fallback list from 0.2.8.2-alpha.
856 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
857 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
858 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
859 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
860 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
861 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
862 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
863 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
866 Changes in version 0.2.8.5-rc - 2016-07-07
867 Tor 0.2.8.5-rc is the second release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8
868 series. If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable
869 0.2.8 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes
870 against previous versions.
872 o Directory authority changes:
873 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
875 o Major bugfixes (heartbeat):
876 - Fix a regression that would crash Tor when the periodic
877 "heartbeat" log messages were disabled. Fixes bug 19454; bugfix on
878 tor-0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by "kubaku".
880 o Minor features (build):
881 - Tor now again builds with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
882 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre6-dev). Closes ticket 19499.
883 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
884 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
885 Patch from intrigeri.
887 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory selection):
888 - Avoid errors during fallback selection if there are no eligible
889 fallbacks. Fixes bug 19480; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha. Patch
892 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6, microdescriptors):
893 - Don't check node addresses when we only have a routerstatus. This
894 allows IPv6-only clients to bootstrap by fetching microdescriptors
895 from fallback directory mirrors. (The microdescriptor consensus
896 has no IPv6 addresses in it.) Fixes bug 19608; bugfix
899 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
900 - Reduce pointlessly verbose log messages when directory servers
901 can't be found. Fixes bug 18849; bugfix on 0.2.8.3-alpha and
902 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
903 - When a fallback directory changes its fingerprint from the hard-
904 coded fingerprint, log a less severe, more explanatory log
905 message. Fixes bug 18812; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
907 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandboxing):
908 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
909 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
910 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
912 o Minor bugfixes (user interface):
913 - Remove a warning message "Service [scrubbed] not found after
914 descriptor upload". This message appears when one uses HSPOST
915 control command to upload a service descriptor. Since there is
916 only a descriptor and no service, showing this message is
917 pointless and confusing. Fixes bug 19464; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
919 o Fallback directory list:
920 - Add a comment to the generated fallback directory list that
921 explains how to comment out unsuitable fallbacks in a way that's
922 compatible with the stem fallback parser.
923 - Update fallback whitelist and blacklist based on relay operator
924 emails. Blacklist unsuitable (non-working, over-volatile)
925 fallbacks. Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
926 - Update hard-coded fallback list to remove unsuitable fallbacks.
927 Resolves ticket 19071. Patch by teor.
930 Changes in version 0.2.8.4-rc - 2016-06-15
931 Tor 0.2.8.4-rc is the first release candidate in the Tor 0.2.8 series.
932 If we find no new bugs or regressions here, the first stable 0.2.8
933 release will be identical to it. It has a few small bugfixes against
936 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
937 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
938 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
939 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
941 o Minor features (build):
942 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
943 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev).
945 o Minor features (geoip):
946 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 7 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
949 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
950 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
951 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
953 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
954 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
955 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
956 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
960 Changes in version 0.2.8.3-alpha - 2016-05-26
961 Tor 0.2.8.3-alpha resolves several bugs, most of them introduced over
962 the course of the 0.2.8 development cycle. It improves the behavior of
963 directory clients, fixes several crash bugs, fixes a gap in compiler
964 hardening, and allows the full integration test suite to run on
967 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
968 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
969 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
970 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
971 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
973 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
974 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
975 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
976 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
977 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
978 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
980 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
981 - Fix a crash and out-of-bounds write during authority voting, when
982 the list of relays includes duplicate ed25519 identity keys. Fixes
983 bug 19032; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
985 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
986 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
987 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
988 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
989 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
990 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
991 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
993 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
994 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
996 - Stop downloading consensuses when we have a consensus, even if we
997 don't have all the certificates for it yet. Fixes bug 18809;
998 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patches by arma and teor.
1000 o Major bugfixes (directory mirrors):
1001 - Decide whether to advertise begindir support in the the same way
1002 we decide whether to advertise our DirPort. Allowing these
1003 decisions to become out-of-sync led to surprising behavior like
1004 advertising begindir support when hibernation made us not
1005 advertise a DirPort. Resolves bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1008 o Major bugfixes (IPv6 bridges, client):
1009 - Actually use IPv6 addresses when selecting directory addresses for
1010 IPv6 bridges. Fixes bug 18921; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch
1013 o Major bugfixes (key management):
1014 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
1015 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
1016 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
1017 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
1018 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
1019 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
1022 o Major bugfixes (testing):
1023 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
1024 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on tor-0.2.7.3-rc.
1025 - Avoid "WSANOTINITIALISED" warnings in the unit tests. Fixes bug 18668;
1026 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1028 o Minor features (clients):
1029 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
1030 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
1031 ticket 18483. Patch by "teor".
1033 o Minor features (fallback directory mirrors):
1034 - Give each fallback the same weight for client selection; restrict
1035 fallbacks to one per operator; report fallback directory detail
1036 changes when rebuilding list; add new fallback directory mirrors
1037 to the whitelist; update fallback directories based on the latest
1038 OnionOO data; and any other minor simplifications and fixes.
1039 Closes tasks 17158, 17905, 18749, bug 18689, and fixes part of bug
1040 18812 on 0.2.8.1-alpha; patch by "teor".
1042 o Minor features (geoip):
1043 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the May 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
1046 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
1047 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
1048 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
1051 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
1052 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
1053 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
1055 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1056 - Remove a pair of redundant AM_CONDITIONAL declarations from
1057 configure.ac. Fixes one final case of bug 17744; bugfix
1059 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
1060 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
1062 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
1063 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
1066 o Minor bugfixes (client):
1067 - Turn all TestingClientBootstrap* into non-testing torrc options.
1068 This changes simply renames them by removing "Testing" in front of
1069 them and they do not require TestingTorNetwork to be enabled
1070 anymore. Fixes bug 18481; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1071 - Make directory node selection more reliable, mainly for IPv6-only
1072 clients and clients with few reachable addresses. Fixes bug 18929;
1073 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1075 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
1076 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
1077 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
1078 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
1079 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
1081 o Minor bugfixes (crypto, portability):
1082 - The SHA3 and SHAKE routines now produce the correct output on Big
1083 Endian systems. No code calls either algorithm yet, so this is
1084 primarily a build fix. Fixes bug 18943; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1085 - Tor now builds again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
1086 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre4 and 1.1.0-pre5-dev). Closes
1089 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
1090 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
1091 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
1092 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
1093 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
1094 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1096 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1097 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
1098 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
1099 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1100 - Stop periodic_event_dispatch() from blasting twelve lines per
1101 second at loglevel debug. Fixes bug 18729; fix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1102 - When rejecting a misformed INTRODUCE2 cell, only log at
1103 PROTOCOL_WARN severity. Fixes bug 18761; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
1105 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1106 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
1107 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
1108 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
1110 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
1111 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
1112 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
1113 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
1114 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
1115 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
1118 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
1119 - Consider more config options when relays decide whether to
1120 regenerate their descriptor. Fixes more of bug 12538; bugfix
1122 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
1123 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
1124 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
1126 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1127 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
1128 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
1130 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1131 - Allow directories in small networks to bootstrap by skipping
1132 DirPort checks when the consensus has no exits. Fixes bug 19003;
1133 bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Patch by teor.
1134 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
1135 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
1136 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1138 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
1139 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
1140 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
1141 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
1144 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
1145 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
1146 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
1147 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
1150 Changes in version 0.2.8.2-alpha - 2016-03-28
1151 Tor 0.2.8.2-alpha is the second alpha in its series. It fixes numerous
1152 bugs in earlier versions of Tor, including some that prevented
1153 authorities using Tor 0.2.7.x from running correctly. IPv6 and
1154 directory support should also be much improved.
1156 o New system requirements:
1157 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
1158 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
1159 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
1160 longer runs with, these versions.
1161 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
1162 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
1163 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
1165 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
1166 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
1167 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
1168 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
1169 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
1171 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
1172 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
1173 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
1174 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
1175 Reported by Guido Vranken.
1177 o Major bugfixes (bridges, pluggable transports):
1178 - Modify the check for OR connections to private addresses. Allow
1179 bridges on private addresses, including pluggable transports that
1180 ignore the (potentially private) address in the bridge line. Fixes
1181 bug 18517; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by gk, patch by teor.
1183 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
1184 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
1185 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
1186 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1188 o Major bugfixes (crash on shutdown):
1189 - Correctly handle detaching circuits from muxes when shutting down.
1190 Fixes bug 18116; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1191 - Fix an assert-on-exit bug related to counting memory usage in
1192 rephist.c. Fixes bug 18651; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1194 o Major bugfixes (crash on startup):
1195 - Fix a segfault during startup: If a Unix domain socket was
1196 configured as listener (such as a ControlSocket or a SocksPort
1197 "unix:" socket), and tor was started as root but not configured to
1198 switch to another user, tor would segfault while trying to string
1199 compare a NULL value. Fixes bug 18261; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1202 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
1203 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
1204 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
1206 o Major bugfixes (relays, bridge clients):
1207 - Ensure relays always allow IPv4 OR and Dir connections. Ensure
1208 bridge clients use the address configured in the bridge line.
1209 Fixes bug 18348; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb,
1212 o Major bugfixes (voting):
1213 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
1214 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
1215 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
1216 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
1218 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
1219 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
1220 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
1221 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1222 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
1223 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
1224 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
1225 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
1226 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
1227 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1229 o Minor features (security, win32):
1230 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
1231 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
1234 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
1235 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
1236 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
1237 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
1239 o Minor features (build):
1240 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
1241 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
1244 o Minor features (code hardening):
1245 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
1246 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
1247 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
1250 o Minor features (crypto):
1251 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
1252 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
1255 o Minor features (geoip):
1256 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the March 3 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
1259 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
1260 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
1261 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
1262 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
1263 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
1265 o Minor features (IPv6):
1266 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
1267 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
1268 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
1269 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
1270 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
1271 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
1272 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
1274 o Minor features (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1275 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
1276 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
1277 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
1280 o Minor features (robustness):
1281 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
1282 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
1283 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
1285 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
1286 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
1287 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
1288 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
1289 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
1290 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
1291 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
1294 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
1295 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
1296 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
1297 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
1298 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
1300 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
1301 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
1302 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
1303 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
1305 o Minor bugfixes (build):
1306 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
1307 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
1309 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
1310 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18625; bugfix on
1311 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
1312 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
1313 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
1314 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
1316 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
1317 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
1318 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
1319 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
1320 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1322 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
1323 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
1324 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
1325 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
1328 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
1329 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
1330 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1332 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
1333 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
1334 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
1335 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
1337 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
1338 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
1339 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
1340 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
1341 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
1342 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1344 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
1345 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
1346 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
1347 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
1349 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directory mirrors):
1350 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
1351 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
1352 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
1353 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
1355 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
1356 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
1357 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
1358 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
1359 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
1360 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
1361 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
1362 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
1363 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
1366 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
1367 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
1368 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
1369 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1371 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
1372 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
1373 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
1375 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1376 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
1377 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
1378 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1379 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
1380 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
1381 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1382 - Fix the sandbox's interoperability with unix domain sockets under
1383 setuid. Fixes bug 18253; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha.
1385 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1386 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
1387 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
1388 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1389 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
1390 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
1391 - Downgrade logs and backtraces about IP versions to info-level.
1392 Only log backtraces once each time tor runs. Assists in diagnosing
1393 bug 18351; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by sysrqb and
1394 Christian, patch by teor.
1396 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
1397 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
1398 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
1399 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
1401 - Correctly duplicate addresses in get_interface_address6_list().
1402 Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on 0.2.8.1-alpha. Reported by toralf,
1403 patch by "cypherpunks".
1404 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
1406 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
1407 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1409 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
1410 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
1411 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
1412 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
1414 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
1415 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
1416 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
1419 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1420 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
1421 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
1422 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
1423 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
1424 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
1426 o Minor bugfixes (time parsing):
1427 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
1428 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
1429 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
1431 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
1432 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
1433 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
1434 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
1436 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1437 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
1438 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
1439 17744. Patch from zerosion.
1440 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
1441 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
1442 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
1443 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
1444 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
1447 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
1448 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
1449 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
1452 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
1453 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
1454 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
1457 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
1459 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
1460 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
1463 Changes in version 0.2.8.1-alpha - 2016-02-04
1464 Tor 0.2.8.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
1465 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
1466 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
1467 notable features are a set of improvements to the directory subsystem.
1469 o Major features (security, Linux):
1470 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
1471 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
1472 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
1473 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
1474 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
1476 o Major features (directory system):
1477 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
1478 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
1479 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
1480 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
1481 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
1482 4483. Patch by "teor". Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
1483 "mikeperry" and "teor".
1484 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
1485 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
1486 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
1487 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by "teor".
1488 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by "weasel", "teor",
1489 "gsathya", and "karsten".
1490 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
1491 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
1492 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
1493 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
1494 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
1497 o Major key updates:
1498 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
1499 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
1502 o Minor features (security, clock):
1503 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
1504 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
1505 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
1506 "teor". Implements ticket 17188.
1508 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
1509 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
1510 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
1511 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
1512 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
1513 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1515 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
1516 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
1517 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
1518 Implements ticket 17026.
1519 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
1520 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
1521 Implements feature 17986.
1522 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
1523 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
1524 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
1525 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
1526 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
1527 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
1530 o Minor features (security, RNG):
1531 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
1532 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
1533 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
1534 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
1535 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
1536 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
1537 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
1538 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
1539 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
1540 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
1543 o Minor features (accounting):
1544 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
1545 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
1546 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
1547 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
1549 o Minor features (build):
1550 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
1551 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
1552 patch from "cypherpunks."
1553 - Tor now builds successfully with the recent OpenSSL 1.1
1554 development branch, and with the latest LibreSSL. Closes tickets
1555 17549, 17921, and 17984.
1557 o Minor features (controller):
1558 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
1559 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
1560 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
1561 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
1562 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
1563 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
1564 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
1565 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
1568 o Minor features (crypto):
1569 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
1571 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
1572 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
1573 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
1574 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
1575 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
1576 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
1577 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
1578 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
1580 o Minor features (directory downloads):
1581 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
1582 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
1583 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
1584 17864; patch by "teor".
1585 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
1586 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
1587 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by "teor".
1589 o Minor features (geoip):
1590 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the January 5 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
1593 o Minor features (IPv6):
1594 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
1595 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
1596 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
1597 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
1598 from Nick Mathewson and "teor".
1599 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
1600 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
1601 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
1602 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by "teor".
1603 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
1604 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
1606 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
1607 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1608 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
1609 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by "teor".
1611 o Minor features (logging):
1612 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
1613 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
1614 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
1615 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
1618 o Minor features (portability):
1619 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
1620 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
1622 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
1623 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
1624 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
1625 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
1626 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
1628 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
1629 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
1630 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
1631 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
1632 Resolves ticket 17951.
1634 o Minor features (replay cache):
1635 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
1636 feature 8961. Patch by "teor", issue reported by "rransom".
1638 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
1639 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
1640 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
1641 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
1642 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
1643 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
1644 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
1645 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
1646 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
1647 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
1648 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
1649 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
1650 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
1651 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
1653 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
1654 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
1655 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
1658 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
1659 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
1660 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
1661 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
1662 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
1663 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
1665 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
1668 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1669 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
1670 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
1671 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1672 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
1673 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
1674 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1675 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
1677 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
1678 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
1679 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
1680 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
1681 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
1682 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
1683 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
1684 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
1686 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
1687 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
1689 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
1690 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
1691 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1693 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
1694 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
1695 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
1696 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1698 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
1699 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
1700 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
1702 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1703 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
1704 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
1706 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1707 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
1708 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
1709 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
1710 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
1712 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
1713 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
1715 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1716 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
1717 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
1720 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
1721 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
1722 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
1723 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
1724 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
1725 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by "teor".
1727 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
1728 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
1729 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
1730 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
1731 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by "teor".
1733 o Minor bugfixes (safe logging):
1734 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
1735 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
1738 o Minor bugfixes (statistics code):
1739 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
1740 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
1741 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
1742 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
1743 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
1744 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
1745 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
1748 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1749 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
1750 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
1751 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
1752 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
1753 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
1754 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
1755 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
1756 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
1757 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
1759 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
1760 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1762 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1763 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
1764 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
1765 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
1766 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
1767 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
1768 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
1769 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
1770 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
1771 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
1773 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
1774 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
1775 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
1776 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
1778 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
1779 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
1780 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
1781 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
1782 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
1784 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
1785 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
1788 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
1789 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
1790 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
1791 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
1792 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
1793 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
1794 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
1798 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
1799 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
1800 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
1801 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
1802 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
1805 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
1806 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
1807 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by "teor".
1808 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
1809 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
1810 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
1811 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
1812 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
1813 portion of ticket 16831.
1814 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
1815 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
1816 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
1818 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
1819 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
1822 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
1823 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
1824 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
1826 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
1827 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
1828 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
1829 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
1830 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
1831 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
1834 o Minor features (geoip):
1835 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1838 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1839 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
1840 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
1841 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
1842 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
1843 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
1845 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
1846 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
1847 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
1848 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
1849 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
1850 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
1851 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
1852 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1853 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
1854 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1857 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
1858 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
1859 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
1860 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
1861 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
1862 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
1863 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
1864 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
1865 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
1866 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
1867 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
1868 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
1869 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
1870 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
1871 that would make him proud.
1873 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
1875 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
1876 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
1877 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
1878 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
1879 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
1880 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
1881 of Tor invoke which others.
1883 (This release contains no code changes since 0.2.7.4-rc.)
1886 Changes in version 0.2.7.4-rc - 2015-10-21
1887 Tor 0.2.7.4-rc is the second release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
1888 fixes some important memory leaks, and a scary-looking (but mostly
1889 harmless in practice) invalid-read bug. It also has a few small
1890 bugfixes, notably fixes for compilation and portability on different
1891 platforms. If no further significant bounds are found, the next
1892 release will the the official stable release.
1894 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
1895 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
1896 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
1897 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
1898 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
1901 o Major bugfixes (correctness):
1902 - Fix a use-after-free bug in validate_intro_point_failure(). Fixes
1903 bug 17401; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
1905 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
1906 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
1907 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1908 - Fix a memory leak in rend_cache_failure_entry_free(). Fixes bug
1909 17402; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
1910 - Fix a memory leak when reading an expired signing key from disk.
1911 Fixes bug 17403; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-rc.
1913 o Minor features (geoIP):
1914 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1917 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1918 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
1919 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
1920 - Fix an integer overflow warning in test_crypto_slow.c. Fixes bug
1921 17251; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
1922 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
1923 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
1925 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1926 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes
1927 part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from
1930 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
1931 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
1932 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
1933 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
1935 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
1936 - Add unit tests for get_interface_address* failure cases. Fixes bug
1937 17173; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by fk/teor.
1938 - Fix breakage when running 'make check' with BSD make. Fixes bug
1939 17154; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by Marcin Cieślak.
1940 - Make the get_ifaddrs_* unit tests more tolerant of different
1941 network configurations. (Don't assume every test box has an IPv4
1942 address, and don't assume every test box has a non-localhost
1943 address.) Fixes bug 17255; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by "teor".
1944 - Skip backtrace tests when backtrace support is not compiled in.
1945 Fixes part of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha. Patch from
1949 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
1950 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
1954 Changes in version 0.2.7.3-rc - 2015-09-25
1955 Tor 0.2.7.3-rc is the first release candidate in the 0.2.7 series. It
1956 contains numerous usability fixes for Ed25519 keys, safeguards against
1957 several misconfiguration problems, significant simplifications to
1958 Tor's callgraph, and numerous bugfixes and small features.
1960 This is the most tested release of Tor to date. The unit tests cover
1961 39.40% of the code, and the integration tests (accessible with "make
1962 test-full-online", requiring stem and chutney and a network
1963 connection) raise the coverage to 64.49%.
1965 o Major features (security, hidden services):
1966 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
1967 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
1968 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
1969 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
1970 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
1971 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
1972 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
1974 o Major features (Ed25519 keys, keypinning):
1975 - The key-pinning option on directory authorities is now advisory-
1976 only by default. In a future version, or when the AuthDirPinKeys
1977 option is set, pins are enforced again. Disabling key-pinning
1978 seemed like a good idea so that we can survive the fallout of any
1979 usability problems associated with Ed25519 keys. Closes
1982 o Major features (Ed25519 performance):
1983 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
1984 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
1985 available. Implements ticket 16535.
1986 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
1987 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
1990 o Major features (performance testing):
1991 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
1992 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
1993 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
1995 o Major features (relay, Ed25519):
1996 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
1997 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
1998 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
2000 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
2001 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
2002 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
2003 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
2004 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
2005 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
2007 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
2008 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
2010 o Major bugfixes (relay, Ed25519):
2011 - Avoid crashing on 'tor --keygen'. Fixes bug 16679; bugfix on
2012 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
2013 - Improve handling of expired signing keys with offline master keys.
2014 Fixes bug 16685; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha. Reported by "s7r".
2016 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
2017 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
2018 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
2019 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
2020 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
2021 own. Implements feature 15482.
2022 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
2023 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
2025 o Minor features (compilation):
2026 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
2027 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
2028 - Fail during configure if we're trying to build against an OpenSSL
2029 built without ECC support. Fixes bug 17109, bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha
2030 which started requiring ECC.
2032 o Minor features (geoip):
2033 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
2036 o Minor features (hidden services):
2037 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
2038 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
2039 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
2040 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
2041 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
2042 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
2043 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
2044 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
2046 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
2047 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
2048 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
2051 o Minor features (testing, authorities, documentation):
2052 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
2053 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
2054 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
2056 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
2057 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
2058 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
2059 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
2060 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
2062 o Minor bug fixes (torrc exit policies):
2063 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
2064 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
2065 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
2066 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2067 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
2068 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
2069 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
2070 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
2071 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
2072 Related to ticket 16069.
2073 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
2074 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
2075 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
2076 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
2077 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
2078 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2080 o Minor bugfixes (authority):
2081 - Don't assign "HSDir" to a router if it isn't Valid and Running.
2082 Fixes bug 16524; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2083 - Downgrade log messages about Ed25519 key issues if they are in old
2084 cached router descriptors. Fixes part of bug 16286; bugfix
2086 - When we find an Ed25519 key issue in a cached descriptor, stop
2087 saying the descriptor was just "uploaded". Fixes another part of
2088 bug 16286; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2090 o Minor bugfixes (control port):
2091 - Repair a warning and a spurious result when getting the maximum
2092 number of file descriptors from the controller. Fixes bug 16697;
2093 bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2095 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
2096 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
2097 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
2098 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
2099 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2101 o Minor bugfixes (documentation):
2102 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
2103 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
2104 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
2105 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
2106 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
2107 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
2108 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
2109 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
2110 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
2111 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
2114 o Minor bugfixes (Ed25519):
2115 - Fix a memory leak when reading router descriptors with expired
2116 Ed25519 certificates. Fixes bug 16539; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2118 o Minor bugfixes (linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2119 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
2120 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2121 - Allow routers with ed25519 keys to run correctly under the
2122 seccomp2 sandbox. Fixes bug 16965; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2124 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
2125 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
2126 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
2127 16274; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
2129 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2130 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
2131 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
2133 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
2134 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
2135 - Fix the behavior of crypto_rand_time_range() when told to consider
2136 times before 1970. (These times were possible when running in a
2137 simulated network environment where time()'s output starts at
2138 zero.) Fixes bug 16980; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2139 - Restore correct operation of TLS client-cipher detection on
2140 OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes bug 14047; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
2142 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2143 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
2144 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
2145 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
2146 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
2148 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
2149 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
2152 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2153 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
2154 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
2155 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
2156 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
2157 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
2158 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
2159 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
2160 function. Closes ticket 16763.
2161 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
2162 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
2163 suite of other microdesc functions.
2164 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
2165 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
2166 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
2167 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
2168 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
2169 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
2170 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
2171 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
2172 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
2173 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
2175 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
2176 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
2178 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
2181 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
2182 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
2183 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
2184 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
2188 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
2189 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
2190 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
2191 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
2192 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
2193 Closes ticket 13338.
2194 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
2195 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
2196 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
2197 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
2198 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
2199 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
2202 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
2203 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
2204 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
2205 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
2206 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
2207 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
2208 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
2210 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
2211 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
2212 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
2213 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
2214 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
2215 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
2216 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
2217 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
2218 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
2219 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
2220 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
2221 network before we begin.
2222 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
2223 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
2224 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
2225 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
2226 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
2227 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
2228 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
2229 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
2232 Changes in version 0.2.7.2-alpha - 2015-07-27
2233 This, the second alpha in the Tor 0.2.7 series, has a number of new
2234 features, including a way to manually pick the number of introduction
2235 points for hidden services, and the much stronger Ed25519 signing key
2236 algorithm for regular Tor relays (including support for encrypted
2237 offline identity keys in the new algorithm).
2239 Support for Ed25519 on relays is currently limited to signing router
2240 descriptors; later alphas in this series will extend Ed25519 key
2241 support to more parts of the Tor protocol.
2243 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
2244 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
2245 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
2246 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
2247 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
2248 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
2249 Implements part of ticket 12498.
2250 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
2251 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
2252 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
2253 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
2254 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
2255 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
2256 part of ticket 12498.
2257 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
2258 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
2259 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
2260 key). Closes ticket 13642.
2262 o Major features (Hidden services):
2263 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
2264 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
2265 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
2266 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
2267 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
2269 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
2270 introduction points, which used to change the number of
2271 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
2272 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
2274 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
2275 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
2276 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
2277 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
2278 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
2279 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
2281 o Major features (performance):
2282 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
2283 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
2284 Implements ticket 16467.
2285 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
2286 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
2287 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
2288 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
2290 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
2291 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
2292 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
2293 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
2294 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
2295 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
2297 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
2298 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
2299 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
2300 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
2301 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
2302 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
2303 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
2304 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
2307 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2308 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
2309 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
2310 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
2311 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
2312 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
2313 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
2316 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
2317 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
2318 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
2319 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
2320 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
2321 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
2323 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
2324 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
2325 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
2326 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
2327 by "cypherpunks_backup".
2328 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
2329 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
2330 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
2333 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
2334 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
2335 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
2336 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
2337 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
2338 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
2339 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
2341 o Minor features (client):
2342 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
2343 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
2344 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
2346 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
2347 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
2348 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
2349 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
2350 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
2351 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
2352 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
2355 o Minor features (control protocol):
2356 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
2357 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
2359 o Minor features (directory authorities):
2360 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
2361 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
2362 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
2363 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
2364 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
2366 o Minor features (geoip, also in 0.2.6.10):
2367 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
2368 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
2370 o Minor features (hidden services):
2371 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
2372 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
2373 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
2374 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
2377 o Minor features (portability):
2378 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
2379 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
2380 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
2382 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
2383 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
2384 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
2385 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
2387 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2388 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
2389 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
2390 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2392 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
2393 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
2394 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
2395 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
2396 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
2397 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
2399 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2400 - Fix a crash when reloading configuration while at least one
2401 configured and one ephemeral hidden service exists. Fixes bug
2402 16060; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2403 - Avoid crashing with a double-free bug when we create an ephemeral
2404 hidden service but adding it fails for some reason. Fixes bug
2405 16228; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2407 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2408 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
2409 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2411 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
2412 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
2413 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
2414 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
2416 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
2417 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
2418 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
2419 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
2421 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
2422 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
2425 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2426 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
2427 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
2430 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
2431 - Fix an accidental formatting error that broke the systemd
2432 configuration file. Fixes bug 16152; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2433 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
2434 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
2435 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
2437 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2438 - Use the configured Python executable when running test-stem-full.
2439 Fixes bug 16470; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2441 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
2442 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
2443 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
2445 o Minor bugfixes (threads, comments):
2446 - Always initialize return value in compute_desc_id in rendcommon.c
2447 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2448 - Check for NULL values in getinfo_helper_onions(). Patch by "teor".
2449 Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2450 - Remove undefined directive-in-macro in test_util_writepid clang
2451 3.7 complains that using a preprocessor directive inside a macro
2452 invocation in test_util_writepid in test_util.c is undefined.
2453 Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug 16115; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
2455 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2456 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
2457 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
2458 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
2459 haven't supported that in ages.
2460 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
2461 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
2462 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
2463 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
2466 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
2467 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
2468 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
2469 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
2470 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
2471 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
2474 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
2475 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
2476 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
2477 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
2478 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
2479 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
2480 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
2481 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
2482 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
2483 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
2484 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
2485 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
2486 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
2487 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
2488 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
2489 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
2490 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
2493 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
2494 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
2495 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
2496 Closes ticket 15817.
2497 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
2498 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
2500 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
2501 default as a part of "make check".
2502 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
2503 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
2504 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
2505 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
2509 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
2510 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
2511 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
2512 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
2513 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
2514 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
2516 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
2517 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
2518 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
2519 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
2520 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
2521 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
2522 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
2523 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
2526 o Major bugfixes (stability):
2527 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
2528 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
2529 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
2530 by "cypherpunks_backup".
2531 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
2532 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
2533 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
2536 o Minor features (geoip):
2537 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
2538 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
2540 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
2541 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
2542 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
2543 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
2544 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
2545 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
2547 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2548 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
2549 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
2550 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
2553 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
2554 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
2555 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
2556 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
2557 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
2559 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
2560 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
2561 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
2562 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
2563 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
2566 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
2567 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
2568 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
2569 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
2570 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
2571 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
2572 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
2574 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2575 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
2576 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
2577 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
2579 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2580 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
2581 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
2582 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
2583 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
2584 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
2587 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
2588 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
2589 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
2592 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
2593 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
2594 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
2595 authorities should upgrade.
2597 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
2598 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
2599 flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
2600 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
2603 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
2604 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
2605 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
2608 o Minor features (geoip):
2609 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
2610 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
2614 Changes in version 0.2.7.1-alpha - 2015-05-12
2615 Tor 0.2.7.1-alpha is the first alpha release in its series. It
2616 includes numerous small features and bugfixes against previous Tor
2617 versions, and numerous small infrastructure improvements. The most
2618 notable features are several new ways for controllers to interact with
2619 the hidden services subsystem.
2621 o New system requirements:
2622 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
2623 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
2626 o Major features (controller):
2627 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
2628 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
2630 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
2631 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
2632 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
2633 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
2634 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
2635 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
2636 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
2638 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2639 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
2640 flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
2641 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
2644 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
2645 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
2646 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
2647 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
2648 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
2650 o Minor features (command-line interface):
2651 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
2652 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
2653 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
2654 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
2656 o Minor features (controller):
2657 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
2658 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
2659 present. Implements ticket 14840.
2660 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
2661 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
2662 Closes ticket 14845.
2663 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
2664 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
2665 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
2667 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
2668 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
2669 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
2670 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
2672 o Minor features (geoip):
2673 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
2674 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
2677 o Minor features (HS popularity countermeasure):
2678 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
2679 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
2680 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
2681 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
2682 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
2683 Closes ticket 15745.
2685 o Minor features (logging):
2686 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
2687 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
2690 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
2691 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
2692 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
2693 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
2695 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
2696 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
2697 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
2698 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
2699 Resolves ticket 15435.
2701 o Minor features (testing):
2702 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
2703 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
2704 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
2705 files. Closes ticket 15180.
2706 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
2707 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
2708 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
2709 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
2710 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
2711 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
2712 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
2713 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
2714 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
2715 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
2716 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
2717 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
2719 o Minor bugfixes (build):
2720 - Improve out-of-tree builds by making non-standard rules work and
2721 clean up additional files and directories. Fixes bug 15053; bugfix
2724 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
2725 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
2726 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
2728 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
2731 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
2732 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
2733 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
2734 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
2735 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
2736 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
2737 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
2738 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2740 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
2741 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
2742 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
2744 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
2745 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
2746 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
2749 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
2750 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
2751 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
2753 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
2754 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2756 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
2757 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
2758 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
2759 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
2762 o Minor bugfixes (logs):
2763 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
2764 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
2765 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
2766 recent enough Clang.
2768 o Minor bugfixes (network):
2769 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
2770 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
2771 unsuitable for public communications.
2773 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
2774 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
2775 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
2776 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
2777 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
2778 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
2780 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
2781 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
2782 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
2783 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
2784 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
2785 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
2786 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
2787 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
2789 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2790 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
2791 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
2793 - Set the severity correctly when testing
2794 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
2795 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
2796 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
2797 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
2799 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2800 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
2801 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
2803 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
2804 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
2805 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
2806 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
2807 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
2810 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
2811 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
2813 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
2814 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
2815 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
2816 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
2817 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
2820 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
2821 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
2822 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
2823 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
2824 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
2825 Closes ticket 14922.
2828 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
2829 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
2830 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
2831 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
2832 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
2833 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
2834 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
2835 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
2836 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
2837 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
2838 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
2841 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
2842 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
2843 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
2844 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
2845 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
2847 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
2848 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
2850 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
2851 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
2852 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
2853 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
2854 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
2855 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
2856 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
2858 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
2859 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
2860 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
2861 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
2862 Resolves ticket 15515.
2865 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
2866 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
2867 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
2868 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
2869 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
2871 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
2872 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
2874 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
2875 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
2876 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
2877 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
2878 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
2879 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
2880 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
2882 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
2883 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
2884 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
2885 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
2886 Resolves ticket 15515.
2889 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
2890 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
2891 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
2892 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
2893 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
2895 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
2896 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
2898 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
2899 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
2900 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
2901 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
2902 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
2903 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
2904 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
2906 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
2907 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
2908 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
2909 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
2910 Resolves ticket 15515.
2911 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
2912 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
2913 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
2917 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
2918 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
2920 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
2921 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
2922 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
2923 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
2924 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
2925 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
2926 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
2927 bugs should be addressed.
2929 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2930 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
2931 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
2932 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2934 Changes in version 0.2.6.5-rc - 2015-03-18
2935 Tor 0.2.6.5-rc is the second and (hopefully) last release candidate in
2936 the 0.2.6. It fixes a small number of bugs found in 0.2.6.4-rc.
2938 o Major bugfixes (client):
2939 - Avoid crashing when making certain configuration option changes on
2940 clients. Fixes bug 15245; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
2943 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
2944 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
2945 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
2946 that occured when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
2947 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
2948 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2950 o Major bugfixes (portability):
2951 - Do not crash on startup when running on Solaris. Fixes a bug
2952 related to our fix for 9495; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Reported
2955 o Minor features (heartbeat):
2956 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
2957 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
2958 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
2959 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
2961 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2962 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
2963 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
2966 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
2967 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
2969 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
2970 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
2971 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
2973 o Directory authority changes:
2974 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
2975 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
2976 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
2977 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
2978 closes ticket 14487.
2980 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
2981 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
2982 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
2985 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
2986 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
2987 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
2988 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
2989 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
2990 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
2991 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
2992 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2994 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
2995 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
2996 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
2997 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
2999 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3000 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
3001 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
3002 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
3004 o Minor features (controller):
3005 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
3006 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
3007 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
3009 o Minor features (geoip):
3010 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
3011 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
3014 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
3015 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
3016 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
3017 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
3018 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
3019 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3021 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3022 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
3023 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
3024 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
3026 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
3027 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
3028 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
3029 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
3030 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3031 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
3032 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
3033 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3035 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
3036 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
3037 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
3039 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
3040 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
3041 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
3042 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
3043 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
3047 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
3048 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
3049 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
3052 o Directory authority changes:
3053 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
3054 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
3055 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
3056 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
3057 closes ticket 14487.
3059 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
3060 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
3061 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
3062 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
3064 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
3065 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
3066 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
3067 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
3068 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
3069 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
3070 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
3071 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3073 o Minor features (geoip):
3074 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
3075 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
3078 Changes in version 0.2.6.4-rc - 2015-03-09
3079 Tor 0.2.6.4-alpha fixes an issue in the directory code that an
3080 attacker might be able to use in order to crash certain Tor
3081 directories. It also resolves some minor issues left over from, or
3082 introduced in, Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha or earlier.
3084 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
3085 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
3086 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
3089 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
3090 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
3091 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
3092 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
3093 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
3094 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
3095 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
3096 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3098 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
3099 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
3100 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
3103 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3104 - Pass IPPROTO_TCP rather than 0 to socket(), so that the Linux
3105 seccomp2 sandbox doesn't fail. Fixes bug 14989; bugfix
3107 - Allow AF_UNIX hidden services to be used with the seccomp2
3108 sandbox. Fixes bug 15003; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
3109 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
3110 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
3111 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
3113 o Minor features (controller):
3114 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
3115 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
3116 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
3118 o Minor features (geoip):
3119 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
3120 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
3123 o Minor features (logs):
3124 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
3127 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
3128 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
3129 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
3130 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3131 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
3132 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
3133 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
3134 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
3135 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
3137 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3138 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
3140 - Fix a compilation warning on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 15151; bugfix
3143 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3144 - Fix endianness issues in unit test for resolve_my_address() to
3145 have it pass on big endian systems. Fixes bug 14980; bugfix on
3147 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
3148 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
3149 - When running the new 'make test-stem' target, use the configured
3150 python binary. Fixes bug 15037; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
3152 - When running the zero-length-keys tests, do not use the default
3153 torrc file. Fixes bug 15033; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported
3156 o Directory authority IP change:
3157 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
3158 closes ticket 14487.
3161 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
3162 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
3163 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
3167 Changes in version 0.2.6.3-alpha - 2015-02-19
3168 Tor 0.2.6.3-alpha is the third (and hopefully final) alpha release in
3169 the 0.2.6.x series. It introduces support for more kinds of sockets,
3170 makes it harder to accidentally run an exit, improves our
3171 multithreading backend, incorporates several fixes for the
3172 AutomapHostsOnResolve option, and fixes numerous other bugs besides.
3174 If no major regressions or security holes are found in this version,
3175 the next version will be a release candidate.
3177 o Deprecated versions:
3178 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
3179 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
3181 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
3182 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
3183 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
3184 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
3185 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
3186 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
3188 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
3189 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
3190 Implements ticket 11485.
3192 o Major features (changed defaults):
3193 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
3194 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
3195 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
3196 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
3197 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
3198 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
3200 o Major features (directory system):
3201 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
3202 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
3203 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
3204 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
3205 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
3206 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
3207 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
3208 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
3209 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
3210 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
3211 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
3212 227. Closes ticket 10395.
3214 o Major features (guards):
3215 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
3216 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
3217 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
3218 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
3219 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
3221 o Major features (performance):
3222 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
3223 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
3224 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
3225 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
3226 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
3227 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
3228 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
3229 Implements ticket 9682.
3231 o Major features (relay):
3232 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
3233 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
3234 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
3236 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
3237 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
3238 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
3239 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
3241 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
3242 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
3243 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
3244 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
3245 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
3246 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
3247 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
3249 o Minor features (build):
3250 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
3251 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
3252 Resolves ticket 13037.
3254 o Minor features (controller):
3255 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
3256 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
3258 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
3259 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
3260 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
3261 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
3262 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
3263 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
3265 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
3266 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
3267 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
3268 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
3269 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
3270 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
3271 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
3272 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
3273 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
3274 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
3276 o Minor features (geoip):
3277 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the January 7 2015 Maxmind
3278 GeoLite2 Country database.
3280 o Minor features (guard nodes):
3281 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
3282 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
3283 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
3285 o Minor features (hidden service):
3286 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
3287 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
3288 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
3289 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
3290 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
3291 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
3292 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
3293 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
3295 o Minor features (interface):
3296 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
3297 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
3298 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
3300 o Minor features (logging):
3301 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
3302 Resolves ticket 6852.
3303 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
3304 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
3305 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
3307 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
3308 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
3310 o Minor features (stability):
3311 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
3312 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
3315 o Minor features (systemd):
3316 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
3317 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
3319 o Minor features (testing networks):
3320 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
3321 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
3322 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
3323 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
3324 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
3325 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
3327 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
3328 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
3329 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
3330 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
3331 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
3333 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
3334 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
3335 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
3336 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
3337 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
3339 o Minor bugfixes (client DNS):
3340 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
3341 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
3342 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
3343 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
3344 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
3345 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
3346 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3348 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
3349 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
3350 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
3351 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
3352 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
3353 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3354 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
3355 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
3357 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
3358 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
3359 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
3362 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
3363 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
3364 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
3365 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
3366 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
3368 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
3369 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
3370 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
3371 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
3372 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3374 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3375 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
3376 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
3377 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
3378 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
3379 - Avoid warnings when building with systemd 209 or later. Fixes bug
3380 14072; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "h.venev".
3381 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
3382 Addresses ticket 14188.
3383 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
3384 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
3385 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
3386 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
3387 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
3388 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
3389 - Remove the --disable-threads configure option again. It was
3390 accidentally partially reintroduced in 29ac883606d6d. Fixes bug
3391 14819; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3393 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3394 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
3395 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
3396 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
3397 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
3398 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
3399 - Add a code for the END_CIRC_REASON_IP_NOW_REDUNDANT circuit close
3400 reason. Fixes bug 14207; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3402 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
3403 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
3404 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
3405 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
3406 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
3407 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
3408 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
3409 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3410 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
3411 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3412 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
3413 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
3414 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3416 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
3417 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
3418 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
3419 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
3420 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
3421 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
3422 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
3423 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
3424 state, and key files.
3425 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
3426 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
3429 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
3430 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
3431 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
3432 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
3433 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3434 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
3435 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
3436 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3437 - Successfully launch Tor with a nonexistent hidden service
3438 directory. Our fix for bug 13942 didn't catch this case. Fixes bug
3439 14106; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3441 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3442 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
3443 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3444 - Add a string representation for LD_SCHED. Fixes bug 14740; bugfix
3446 - Don't log messages to stdout twice when starting up. Fixes bug
3447 13993; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3449 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
3450 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
3451 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
3452 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
3453 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
3454 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
3456 o Minor bugfixes (path counting):
3457 - When deciding whether the consensus lists any exit nodes, count
3458 the number listed in the consensus, not the number we have
3459 descriptors for. Fixes part of bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3460 - When deciding whether we have any exit nodes, only examine
3461 ExitNodes when the ExitNodes option is actually set. Fixes part of
3462 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3463 - Get rid of redundant and possibly scary warnings that we are
3464 missing directory information while we bootstrap. Fixes part of
3465 bug 14918; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3467 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
3468 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
3469 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
3471 - Fix scheduler compilation on targets where char is unsigned. Fixes
3472 bug 14764; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Reported by Christian Kujau.
3474 o Minor bugfixes (sandbox):
3475 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
3476 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
3477 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
3478 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
3480 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
3481 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
3482 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
3483 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
3486 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
3487 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
3488 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
3491 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
3492 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
3493 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
3495 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
3496 - Fix detection and operation of systemd watchdog. Fixes part of bug
3497 14141; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
3498 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
3499 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
3500 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
3501 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
3503 - Cause the "--disable-systemd" option to actually disable systemd
3504 support. Fixes bug 14350; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch
3507 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
3508 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
3509 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
3511 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
3512 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
3513 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
3516 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3517 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
3518 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
3519 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
3520 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
3521 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
3522 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
3523 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
3524 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
3526 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
3527 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
3529 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
3533 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
3534 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
3535 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
3536 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
3537 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
3538 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
3540 o Downgraded warnings:
3541 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
3542 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
3545 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
3546 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
3547 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
3548 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
3549 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
3553 - Make the checkdir/perms test complete successfully even if the
3554 global umask is not 022. Fixes bug 14215; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3555 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
3556 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
3557 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
3558 (existing behavior).
3559 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
3560 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
3561 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
3562 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
3563 Closes ticket 14107.
3564 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
3565 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
3566 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
3567 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
3569 - Avoid undefined behavior when sampling huge values from the
3570 Laplace distribution. This made unittests fail on Raspberry Pi.
3571 Bug found by Device. Fixes bug 14090; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
3574 Changes in version 0.2.6.2-alpha - 2014-12-31
3575 Tor 0.2.6.2-alpha is the second alpha release in the 0.2.6.x series.
3576 It introduces a major new backend for deciding when to send cells on
3577 channels, which should lead down the road to big performance
3578 increases. It contains security and statistics features for better
3579 work on hidden services, and numerous bugfixes.
3581 This release contains many new unit tests, along with major
3582 performance improvements for running testing networks using Chutney.
3583 Thanks to a series of patches contributed by "teor", testing networks
3584 should now bootstrap in seconds, rather than minutes.
3586 o Major features (relay, infrastructure):
3587 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
3588 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
3589 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
3590 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
3591 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
3593 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
3594 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
3595 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
3596 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
3597 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
3598 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
3599 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
3602 o Major features (hidden services):
3603 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
3604 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
3605 Closes ticket 13667.
3606 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
3607 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
3608 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
3609 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
3610 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
3611 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
3612 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
3613 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
3614 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
3615 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
3616 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
3618 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
3619 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
3620 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
3621 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
3622 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
3623 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
3626 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
3627 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
3628 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
3629 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
3630 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
3631 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
3633 o Directory authority changes:
3634 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
3635 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
3636 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
3638 o Major removed features:
3639 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
3640 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
3641 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
3642 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
3644 o Minor features (client):
3645 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
3646 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
3647 Resolves ticket 13315.
3649 o Minor features (controller):
3650 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
3651 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
3654 o Minor features (geoip):
3655 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the November 15 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
3658 o Minor features (hidden services):
3659 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
3660 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
3661 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
3662 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
3663 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
3664 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
3666 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
3667 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
3668 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
3670 o Minor features (systemd):
3671 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
3672 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
3673 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
3674 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
3676 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
3677 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
3678 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
3679 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
3680 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
3683 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
3684 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
3685 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
3686 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
3687 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
3689 - Clear all memory targetted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
3690 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
3691 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
3694 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
3695 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
3696 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
3697 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
3698 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
3700 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
3701 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
3702 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3704 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3705 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
3706 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
3707 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
3708 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
3710 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
3711 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
3714 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
3715 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
3716 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
3717 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
3718 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
3719 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
3720 - When adding a new hidden service (for example, via SETCONF), Tor
3721 no longer congratulates the user for running a relay. Fixes bug
3722 13941; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
3723 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
3724 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
3725 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
3726 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
3727 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
3730 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
3731 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
3732 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
3733 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
3734 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
3735 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
3737 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3738 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
3739 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
3740 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
3742 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
3743 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
3745 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
3746 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
3747 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
3748 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
3751 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
3752 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
3753 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
3754 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
3755 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
3756 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
3758 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
3759 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
3760 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
3761 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
3762 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
3763 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
3764 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
3765 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
3766 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
3767 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
3768 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
3769 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
3770 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
3771 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
3772 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
3773 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
3774 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
3775 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
3776 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
3777 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
3778 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
3779 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
3780 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
3781 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
3782 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
3783 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
3784 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
3785 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
3786 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
3787 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
3788 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
3789 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
3791 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
3792 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
3793 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
3794 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
3795 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
3797 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3798 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
3799 with a function instead.
3800 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
3801 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
3802 Closes ticket 13172.
3803 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
3804 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
3805 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
3806 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
3807 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
3808 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
3809 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
3810 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
3811 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
3812 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
3813 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
3814 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
3818 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
3819 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
3820 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
3821 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
3822 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
3823 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
3824 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
3825 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
3826 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
3827 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
3828 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
3829 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
3832 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
3833 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
3834 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
3835 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
3836 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
3837 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
3839 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
3843 Changes in version 0.2.6.1-alpha - 2014-10-30
3844 Tor 0.2.6.1-alpha is the first release in the Tor 0.2.6.x series. It
3845 includes numerous code cleanups and new tests, and fixes a large
3846 number of annoying bugs. Out-of-memory conditions are handled better
3847 than in 0.2.5, pluggable transports have improved proxy support, and
3848 clients now use optimistic data for contacting hidden services. Also,
3849 we are now more robust to changes in what we consider a parseable
3850 directory object, so that tightening restrictions does not have a risk
3851 of introducing infinite download loops.
3853 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
3854 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should stay
3855 with 0.2.5.x for now.
3857 o New compiler and system requirements:
3858 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
3859 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
3860 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
3861 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
3863 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
3864 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
3865 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
3866 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
3867 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
3868 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
3869 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
3870 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
3871 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
3873 o Removed platform support:
3874 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
3875 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
3876 Closes ticket 11446.
3878 o Major features (bridges):
3879 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
3880 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
3881 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
3884 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
3885 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
3886 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
3887 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
3890 o Major features (directory system):
3891 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
3892 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
3893 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
3894 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
3896 o Major features (sample torrc):
3897 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
3898 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
3899 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
3900 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
3901 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
3902 generally useful "sample torrc".
3904 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
3905 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
3906 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3908 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
3909 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
3910 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
3911 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
3912 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
3914 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
3915 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
3916 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
3917 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
3919 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
3920 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
3921 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
3922 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
3923 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
3924 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
3927 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
3928 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
3929 document. Implements feature 10427.
3931 o Minor features (client):
3932 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
3933 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
3934 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
3935 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
3937 o Minor features (directory authorities):
3938 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
3939 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
3940 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
3941 argument more than once.
3942 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
3943 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
3944 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
3945 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
3946 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
3947 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
3949 o Minor features (logging):
3950 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
3951 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
3952 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
3953 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
3954 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
3955 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
3956 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
3957 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
3958 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
3960 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
3961 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
3962 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
3963 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
3965 o Minor features (relay):
3966 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
3967 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
3968 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
3970 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
3971 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
3972 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
3973 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
3975 o Minor features (testing networks):
3976 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
3977 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
3978 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
3979 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
3980 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
3983 o Minor features (validation):
3984 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
3985 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
3986 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
3987 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
3988 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
3989 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
3990 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
3991 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
3993 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
3994 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
3995 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
3996 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3998 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3999 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
4000 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
4001 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4003 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
4004 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
4005 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
4007 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
4008 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
4009 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
4011 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
4012 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4013 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
4014 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
4015 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
4016 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
4017 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
4019 o Minor bugfixes (client):
4020 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
4021 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
4022 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
4023 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
4024 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4025 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
4026 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
4027 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
4029 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
4030 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
4031 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
4032 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
4033 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
4035 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
4036 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
4037 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
4039 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4040 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
4041 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
4042 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
4043 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
4045 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
4046 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
4047 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
4048 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4049 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
4050 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
4051 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4052 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
4053 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
4054 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
4055 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
4058 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
4059 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
4060 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
4061 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
4062 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4064 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
4065 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
4066 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
4067 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
4068 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
4071 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
4072 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
4073 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4074 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
4075 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
4076 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
4078 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4079 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
4080 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
4081 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4083 o Minor bugfixes (testing, Windows):
4084 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
4085 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
4086 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4088 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
4089 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
4090 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
4091 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
4094 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
4095 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
4096 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
4099 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
4100 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4101 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
4102 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
4103 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
4106 o Code simplification and refactoring:
4107 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
4108 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
4110 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
4111 Resolves ticket 12205.
4112 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
4113 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
4114 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
4115 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
4117 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
4118 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
4119 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
4121 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
4122 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
4124 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
4125 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
4126 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
4127 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
4128 or_options_t structure.
4131 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
4132 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
4133 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
4134 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
4138 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
4139 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
4140 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
4141 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
4142 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
4143 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
4144 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
4145 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
4146 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
4148 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
4149 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
4151 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
4152 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
4153 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
4154 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
4155 anymore, and ignore it.
4158 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
4159 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
4160 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
4161 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
4162 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
4163 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
4164 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
4165 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
4166 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
4167 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
4168 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
4169 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
4171 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
4172 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
4173 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
4175 o Distribution (systemd):
4176 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
4177 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
4178 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
4179 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
4180 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
4182 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
4183 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
4185 o Removed features (directory authorities):
4186 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
4187 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
4188 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
4189 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
4190 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
4191 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
4192 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
4193 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
4194 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
4196 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
4197 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
4198 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
4199 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
4202 o Testing (test-network.sh):
4203 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
4204 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
4206 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
4208 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
4209 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
4210 Partially implements ticket 13161.
4213 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
4214 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
4216 It adds several new security features, including improved
4217 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
4218 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
4219 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
4220 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
4221 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
4222 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
4223 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
4224 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
4225 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
4226 and features mentioned below.
4228 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
4229 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
4231 o Deprecated versions:
4232 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
4233 attention for some while.
4236 Changes in version 0.2.5.9-rc - 2014-10-20
4237 Tor 0.2.5.9-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
4238 series. It disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
4239 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
4240 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
4241 (which does affect Tor). It also contains a few miscellaneous fixes.
4243 o Major security fixes:
4244 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
4245 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
4246 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
4248 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
4249 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
4250 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
4251 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
4254 - Disable the sandbox name resolver cache when running tor-resolve:
4255 tor-resolve doesn't use the sandbox code, and turning it on was
4256 breaking attempts to do tor-resolve on a non-default server on
4257 Linux. Fixes bug 13295; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4259 o Compilation fixes:
4260 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
4261 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
4262 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
4264 o Downgraded warnings:
4265 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
4266 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
4269 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
4270 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
4271 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
4272 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
4273 (which does affect Tor).
4275 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
4276 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
4277 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
4278 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
4280 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
4281 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
4282 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
4283 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
4286 Changes in version 0.2.5.8-rc - 2014-09-22
4287 Tor 0.2.5.8-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x
4288 series. It fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
4289 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
4290 the directory authorities.
4293 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
4294 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
4295 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
4296 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
4297 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
4298 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
4299 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
4300 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
4301 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
4302 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
4303 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
4304 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4306 o Directory authority changes:
4307 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
4310 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
4311 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
4312 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
4313 the directory authorities.
4316 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
4317 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
4318 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
4319 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
4320 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
4321 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
4322 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
4323 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
4324 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
4325 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
4326 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
4327 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4329 o Directory authority changes:
4330 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
4332 o Minor features (geoip):
4333 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
4337 Changes in version 0.2.5.7-rc - 2014-09-11
4338 Tor 0.2.5.7-rc fixes several regressions from earlier in the 0.2.5.x
4339 release series, and some long-standing bugs related to ORPort reachability
4340 testing and failure to send CREATE cells. It is the first release
4341 candidate for the Tor 0.2.5.x series.
4343 o Major bugfixes (client, startup):
4344 - Start making circuits as soon as DisabledNetwork is turned off.
4345 When Tor started with DisabledNetwork set, it would correctly
4346 conclude that it shouldn't build circuits, but it would mistakenly
4347 cache this conclusion, and continue believing it even when
4348 DisableNetwork is set to 0. Fixes the bug introduced by the fix
4349 for bug 11200; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4350 - Resume expanding abbreviations for command-line options. The fix
4351 for bug 4647 accidentally removed our hack from bug 586 that
4352 rewrote HashedControlPassword to __HashedControlSessionPassword
4353 when it appears on the commandline (which allowed the user to set
4354 her own HashedControlPassword in the torrc file while the
4355 controller generates a fresh session password for each run). Fixes
4356 bug 12948; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4357 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
4358 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
4360 o Major bugfixes (relay):
4361 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
4362 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
4363 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
4364 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
4365 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
4366 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
4367 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
4369 o Minor features (bridge):
4370 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
4371 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
4373 o Minor features (geoip):
4374 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
4377 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4378 - Reduce the log severity of the "Pluggable transport proxy does not
4379 provide any needed transports and will not be launched." message,
4380 since Tor Browser includes several ClientTransportPlugin lines in
4381 its torrc-defaults file, leading every Tor Browser user who looks
4382 at her logs to see these notices and wonder if they're dangerous.
4383 Resolves bug 13124; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4384 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
4385 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
4386 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
4387 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
4388 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
4389 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
4390 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
4391 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
4393 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
4394 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
4395 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
4396 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
4397 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
4399 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
4400 - Restore the functionality of CookieAuthFileGroupReadable. Fixes
4401 bug 12864; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4402 - Actually send TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED and HS_DESC events to
4403 controllers. Fixes bug 13085; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
4406 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4407 - Fix compilation of test.h with MSVC. Patch from Gisle Vanem;
4408 bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
4409 - Make the nmake make files work again. Fixes bug 13081. Bugfix on
4410 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
4411 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
4412 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
4413 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
4414 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
4415 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
4416 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
4419 o Distribution (systemd):
4420 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
4421 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
4422 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
4423 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
4424 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
4425 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
4426 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
4427 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
4428 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
4432 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
4433 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
4435 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
4439 Changes in version 0.2.5.6-alpha - 2014-07-28
4440 Tor 0.2.5.6-alpha brings us a big step closer to slowing down the
4441 risk from guard rotation, and fixes a variety of other issues to get
4442 us closer to a release candidate.
4444 o Major features (also in 0.2.4.23):
4445 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
4446 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
4447 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
4448 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
4450 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
4451 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
4452 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
4453 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
4454 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
4455 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
4456 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
4457 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
4458 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
4462 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
4463 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
4464 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
4465 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
4466 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
4467 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
4468 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
4472 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
4473 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
4474 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
4475 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
4476 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
4477 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
4478 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
4479 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
4481 - Slightly enhance the diagnostic message for bug 12184.
4483 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.4.23):
4484 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
4485 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
4486 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
4487 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
4488 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
4489 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
4490 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
4491 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
4492 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4495 - Fix compilation when building with bufferevents enabled. (This
4496 configuration is still not expected to work, however.)
4497 Fixes bugs 12438, 12474, 11578; bugfixes on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
4498 0.2.5.3-alpha. Patches from Anthony G. Basile and Sathyanarayanan
4500 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
4501 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
4502 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
4505 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
4506 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
4507 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
4508 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
4511 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
4512 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
4513 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
4514 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
4515 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
4516 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
4517 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
4518 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
4519 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
4520 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
4523 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
4524 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
4525 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
4526 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
4527 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
4528 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
4529 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
4530 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
4534 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
4535 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
4536 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
4537 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
4538 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
4539 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
4540 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
4541 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
4542 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4543 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
4544 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
4545 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
4546 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
4549 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
4553 Changes in version 0.2.5.5-alpha - 2014-06-18
4554 Tor 0.2.5.5-alpha fixes a wide variety of remaining issues in the Tor
4555 0.2.5.x release series, including a couple of DoS issues, some
4556 performance regressions, a large number of bugs affecting the Linux
4557 seccomp2 sandbox code, and various other bugfixes. It also adds
4558 diagnostic bugfixes for a few tricky issues that we're trying to
4561 o Major features (security, traffic analysis resistance):
4562 - Several major improvements to the algorithm used to decide when to
4563 close TLS connections. Previous versions of Tor closed connections
4564 at a fixed interval after the last time a non-padding cell was
4565 sent over the connection, regardless of the target of the
4566 connection. Now, we randomize the intervals by adding up to 50% of
4567 their base value, we measure the length of time since connection
4568 last had at least one circuit, and we allow connections to known
4569 ORs to remain open a little longer (15 minutes instead of 3
4570 minutes minimum). These changes should improve Tor's resistance
4571 against some kinds of traffic analysis, and lower some overhead
4572 from needlessly closed connections. Fixes ticket 6799.
4573 Incidentally fixes ticket 12023; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4575 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
4576 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
4577 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
4578 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
4581 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
4582 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
4583 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
4585 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
4586 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
4587 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
4588 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
4589 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
4590 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
4591 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
4592 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
4593 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
4594 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
4595 router's identity is not forgeable.
4597 o Major bugfixes (relay):
4598 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
4599 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
4600 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
4601 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
4602 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
4603 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
4604 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
4605 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
4606 bugfix on every version of Tor.
4608 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
4609 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
4610 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
4611 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
4614 o Minor features (diagnostic):
4615 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
4616 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
4617 help diagnose bug 7164.
4618 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
4619 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
4620 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
4621 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
4622 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
4624 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
4625 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
4626 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
4627 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
4628 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
4629 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
4630 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
4632 o Minor features (security, memory management):
4633 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
4634 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
4635 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
4636 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
4637 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
4638 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
4640 o Minor features (security):
4641 - Apply the secure SipHash-2-4 function to the hash table mapping
4642 circuit IDs and channels to circuits. We missed this one when we
4643 were converting all the other hash functions to use SipHash back
4644 in 0.2.5.3-alpha. Resolves ticket 11750.
4646 o Minor features (build):
4647 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
4648 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
4649 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
4651 o Minor features (other):
4652 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the June 4 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
4655 o Minor bugfixes (security, new since 0.2.5.4-alpha, also in 0.2.4.22):
4656 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0;
4657 this will keep the hidden service from running, and also
4658 make it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
4659 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4661 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
4662 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
4663 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
4664 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
4665 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
4666 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
4667 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
4668 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
4669 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
4670 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
4671 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
4672 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
4674 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4675 - Fix compilation of test_status.c when building with MVSC. Bugfix
4676 on 0.2.5.4-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4677 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
4678 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
4679 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
4680 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
4681 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
4682 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
4683 - Make Tor compile correctly with --disable-buf-freelists. Fixes bug
4684 11623; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4685 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
4686 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
4687 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
4688 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
4689 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
4690 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
4691 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
4694 o Minor bugfixes (Directory server):
4695 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
4696 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
4697 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
4698 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
4699 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
4700 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
4702 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp sandbox):
4703 - Make the seccomp sandbox code compile under ARM Linux. Fixes bug
4704 11622; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4705 - Avoid crashing when re-opening listener ports with the seccomp
4706 sandbox active. Fixes bug 12115; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4707 - Avoid crashing with the seccomp sandbox enabled along with
4708 ConstrainedSockets. Fixes bug 12139; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4709 - When we receive a SIGHUP with the sandbox enabled, correctly
4710 support rotating our log files. Fixes bug 12032; bugfix
4712 - Avoid crash when running with sandboxing enabled and
4713 DirReqStatistics not disabled. Fixes bug 12035; bugfix
4715 - Fix a "BUG" warning when trying to write bridge-stats files with
4716 the Linux syscall sandbox filter enabled. Fixes bug 12041; bugfix
4718 - Prevent the sandbox from crashing on startup when run with the
4719 --enable-expensive-hardening configuration option. Fixes bug
4720 11477; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
4721 - When running with DirPortFrontPage and sandboxing both enabled,
4722 reload the DirPortFrontPage correctly when restarting. Fixes bug
4723 12028; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4724 - Don't try to enable the sandbox when using the Tor binary to check
4725 its configuration, hash a passphrase, or so on. Doing so was
4726 crashing on startup for some users. Fixes bug 11609; bugfix
4728 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing and node statistics
4729 enabled at the same time. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on
4730 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Michael Wolf.
4731 - Avoid warnings when running with sandboxing enabled at the same
4732 time as cookie authentication, hidden services, or directory
4733 authority voting. Fixes part of 12064; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4734 - Do not allow options that require calls to exec to be enabled
4735 alongside the seccomp2 sandbox: they will inevitably crash. Fixes
4736 bug 12043; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4737 - Handle failures in getpwnam()/getpwuid() when running with the
4738 User option set and the Linux syscall sandbox enabled. Fixes bug
4739 11946; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4740 - Refactor the getaddrinfo workaround that the seccomp sandbox uses
4741 to avoid calling getaddrinfo() after installing the sandbox
4742 filters. Previously, it preloaded a cache with the IPv4 address
4743 for our hostname, and nothing else. Now, it loads the cache with
4744 every address that it used to initialize the Tor process. Fixes
4745 bug 11970; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4747 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
4748 - Enable the ExtORPortCookieAuthFile option, to allow changing the
4749 default location of the authentication token for the extended OR
4750 Port as used by sever-side pluggable transports. We had
4751 implemented this option before, but the code to make it settable
4752 had been omitted. Fixes bug 11635; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
4753 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
4754 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
4755 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
4758 o Minor bugfixes (client):
4759 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
4760 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
4761 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
4762 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4764 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
4765 - The Python parts of the test scripts now work on Python 3 as well
4766 as Python 2, so systems where '/usr/bin/python' is Python 3 will
4767 no longer have the tests break. Fixes bug 11608; bugfix
4769 - When looking for versions of python that we could run the tests
4770 with, check for "python2.7" and "python3.3"; previously we were
4771 only looking for "python", "python2", and "python3". Patch from
4772 Dana Koch. Fixes bug 11632; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
4773 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
4774 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
4775 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
4776 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
4778 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
4779 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
4780 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
4781 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
4784 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
4785 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
4786 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
4787 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
4788 versions. Found by "skruffy".
4789 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
4790 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
4791 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
4794 o Minor bugfixes (relay, oom prevention):
4795 - Correctly detect the total available system memory. We tried to do
4796 this in 0.2.5.4-alpha, but the code was set up to always return an
4797 error value, even on success. Fixes bug 11805; bugfix
4800 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
4801 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
4802 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
4803 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
4805 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS module
4806 using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers used by the
4807 v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found
4809 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
4810 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
4811 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
4813 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
4814 - Fix a misformatted log message about delayed directory fetches.
4815 Fixes bug 11654; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
4816 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
4817 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
4821 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
4822 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
4823 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
4824 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
4827 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
4828 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
4829 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
4830 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
4832 - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
4833 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
4835 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
4836 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
4837 caches don't get confused.
4840 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
4841 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
4842 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
4843 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
4844 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
4847 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
4848 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes ticket 11742.
4849 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
4850 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
4851 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
4852 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
4856 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
4857 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
4858 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
4859 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
4860 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
4861 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
4862 of RAM, and several others.
4864 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
4865 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
4866 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
4867 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
4868 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
4870 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
4871 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
4872 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
4873 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
4876 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
4877 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
4878 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
4879 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
4880 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
4881 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
4882 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
4883 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
4884 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
4885 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
4886 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
4887 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
4888 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
4889 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
4890 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
4891 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
4892 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
4893 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
4894 Resolves ticket 11438.
4896 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
4897 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
4898 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
4899 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
4900 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
4901 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
4903 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
4904 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
4905 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
4907 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
4908 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
4909 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
4911 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
4912 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
4913 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
4914 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4916 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
4917 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
4918 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
4920 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
4921 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
4922 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
4925 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
4926 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
4927 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
4928 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
4931 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
4932 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
4933 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
4934 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
4936 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
4937 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
4938 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
4939 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
4941 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
4942 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
4943 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
4947 Changes in version 0.2.5.4-alpha - 2014-04-25
4948 Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha includes several security and performance
4949 improvements for clients and relays, including blacklisting authority
4950 signing keys that were used while susceptible to the OpenSSL
4951 "heartbleed" bug, fixing two expensive functions on busy relays,
4952 improved TLS ciphersuite preference lists, support for run-time
4953 hardening on compilers that support AddressSanitizer, and more work on
4954 the Linux sandbox code.
4956 There are also several usability fixes for clients (especially clients
4957 that use bridges), two new TransPort protocols supported (one on
4958 OpenBSD, one on FreeBSD), and various other bugfixes.
4960 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.2.x; those Tor versions
4961 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
4963 o Major features (security):
4964 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
4965 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
4966 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
4967 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
4968 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
4969 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
4970 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
4971 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
4973 o Major features (relay performance):
4974 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
4975 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
4976 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
4977 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
4978 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
4979 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
4980 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
4981 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
4982 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
4983 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
4985 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
4986 - The seccomp2 sandbox can now run a test network for multiple hours
4987 without crashing. The sandbox is still experimental, and more bugs
4988 will probably turn up. To try it, enable "Sandbox 1" on a Linux
4989 host. Resolves ticket 11351.
4990 - Strengthen sandbox code: the sandbox can now test the arguments
4991 for rename(), and blocks _sysctl() entirely. Resolves another part
4993 - When the sandbox blocks a system call, it now tries to log a stack
4994 trace before exiting. Resolves ticket 11465.
4996 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection):
4997 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
4998 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
4999 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
5000 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
5001 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
5002 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5003 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
5004 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
5005 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
5006 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
5007 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
5008 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
5009 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
5010 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
5011 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
5012 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
5013 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
5014 Resolves ticket 11438.
5016 o Major bugfixes (bridge client):
5017 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
5018 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
5019 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5021 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
5022 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
5023 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
5024 10267; patch from "yurivict".
5025 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
5026 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
5027 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
5028 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
5029 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
5030 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
5032 o Minor features (security):
5033 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
5034 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
5035 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
5036 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
5039 o Minor features (log verbosity):
5040 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
5041 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
5042 Resolves ticket 5286.
5043 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
5044 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
5045 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
5046 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
5047 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
5048 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
5049 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
5050 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
5051 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
5053 o Minor features (relay):
5054 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
5055 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
5056 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
5058 o Minor features (controller):
5059 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
5060 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
5062 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
5063 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
5064 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
5066 o Minor features (bridge client):
5067 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
5068 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
5069 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from FĂ¡bio J. Bertinatto.
5071 o Minor features (diagnostic):
5072 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
5073 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
5074 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
5075 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
5076 still referenced by a live node_t object.
5078 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
5079 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
5080 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
5081 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
5083 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
5084 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
5085 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
5086 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
5089 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay):
5090 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
5091 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5093 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
5094 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
5095 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
5096 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5097 - Avoid a 60-second delay in the bootstrapping process when a Tor
5098 client with pluggable transports re-reads its configuration at
5099 just the wrong time. Re-fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5101 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
5102 - Warn only once if we start logging in an unsafe way. Previously,
5103 we complain as many times as we had problems. Fixes bug 9870;
5104 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5105 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
5106 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
5107 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5108 - Be more helpful when trying to run sandboxed on Linux without
5109 libseccomp. Instead of saying "Sandbox is not implemented on this
5110 platform", we now explain that we need to be built with
5111 libseccomp. Fixes bug 11543; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5112 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
5113 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
5116 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
5117 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
5118 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
5119 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
5120 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
5122 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
5123 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
5124 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
5127 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5128 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
5129 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
5131 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
5132 - Allow tor-fw-helper to build again by adding src/ext to its
5133 CPPFLAGS. Fixes bug 11296; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5135 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
5136 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
5137 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
5138 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
5140 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
5141 - Fix compilation on Solaris, which does not have <endian.h>. Fixes
5142 bug 11426; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
5143 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
5144 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
5146 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
5147 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
5148 early. Fixes bug 10081.
5150 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
5151 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
5152 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
5153 - Free placeholder entries in our circuit table at exit; fixes a
5154 harmless memory leak. Fixes bug 11278; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5155 - Don't re-initialize a second set of OpenSSL mutexes when starting
5156 up. Previously, we'd make one set of mutexes, and then immediately
5157 replace them with another. Fixes bug 11726; bugfix on
5159 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
5160 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
5161 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
5162 should never have affected anyone in practice.
5164 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
5165 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
5166 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5168 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
5169 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
5170 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
5171 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
5172 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
5173 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
5174 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
5175 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
5176 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
5177 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
5178 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
5179 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
5180 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
5181 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
5183 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
5184 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
5185 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
5186 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
5187 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
5188 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
5189 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
5190 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
5194 - Build the torify.1 manpage again. Previously, we were only trying
5195 to build it when also building tor-fw-helper. That's why we didn't
5196 notice that we'd broken the ability to build it. Fixes bug 11321;
5197 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5198 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
5199 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5200 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
5201 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
5203 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
5205 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5206 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
5207 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
5208 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
5209 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
5212 o Deprecated versions:
5213 - Tor 0.2.2.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
5214 attention for some while. Directory authorities no longer accept
5215 descriptors from relays running any version of Tor prior to Tor
5216 0.2.3.16-alpha. Resolves ticket 11149.
5219 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
5220 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
5221 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
5222 Patch from Dana Koch.
5225 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
5226 Resolves ticket 11070.
5229 Changes in version 0.2.5.3-alpha - 2014-03-22
5230 Tor 0.2.5.3-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.21. It contains
5231 two new anti-DoS features for Tor relays, resolves a bug that kept
5232 SOCKS5 support for IPv6 from working, fixes several annoying usability
5233 issues for bridge users, and removes more old code for unused
5236 The Tor 0.2.5.x release series is now in patch-freeze: no feature
5237 patches not already written will be considered for inclusion in 0.2.5.x.
5239 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
5240 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
5241 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
5242 streams attached to each circuit.
5244 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
5245 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
5246 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
5247 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
5248 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
5249 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
5250 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
5251 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
5252 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
5253 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
5254 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
5255 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
5256 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
5258 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInQueues to 256 MBytes (but leave
5259 the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi users. Fixes
5260 bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
5262 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
5263 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
5264 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
5265 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
5266 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
5267 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
5268 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
5269 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
5270 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
5272 o Minor features (other):
5273 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
5274 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
5275 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
5276 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
5277 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
5278 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
5279 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
5280 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
5281 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the February 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
5284 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.2-alpha, also in 0.2.4.21):
5285 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
5286 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
5287 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
5288 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
5289 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
5290 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
5291 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
5293 o Minor bugfixes (client):
5294 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
5295 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
5296 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
5297 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5298 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
5299 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
5300 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
5302 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
5303 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
5304 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
5305 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
5306 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
5307 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5308 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
5309 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
5310 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
5311 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
5312 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
5313 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5315 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
5316 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
5317 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
5318 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
5319 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
5320 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
5321 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
5322 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
5323 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5324 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
5325 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
5326 - Stop giving annoying warning messages when we decide not to launch
5327 a pluggable transport proxy that we don't need (because there are
5328 no bridges configured to use it). Resolves ticket 5018; bugfix
5330 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
5331 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
5333 o Minor bugfixes (backtrace support):
5334 - Support automatic backtraces on more platforms by using the
5335 "-fasynchronous-unwind-tables" compiler option. This option is
5336 needed for platforms like 32-bit Intel where "-fomit-frame-pointer"
5337 is on by default and table generation is not. This doesn't yet
5338 add Windows support; only Linux, OSX, and some BSDs are affected.
5339 Reported by 'cypherpunks'; fixes bug 11047; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5340 - Avoid strange behavior if two threads hit failed assertions at the
5341 same time and both try to log backtraces at once. (Previously, if
5342 this had happened, both threads would have stored their intermediate
5343 results in the same buffer, and generated junk outputs.) Reported by
5344 "cypherpunks". Fixes bug 11048; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
5345 - Fix a compiler warning in format_number_sigsafe(). Bugfix on
5346 0.2.5.2-alpha; patch from Nick Hopper.
5348 o Minor bugfixes (unit tests):
5349 - Fix a small bug in the unit tests that might have made the tests
5350 call 'chmod' with an uninitialized bitmask. Fixes bug 10928;
5351 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
5354 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
5355 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
5356 the rest of bug 10841.
5359 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
5360 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
5361 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
5362 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
5363 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
5364 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
5365 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
5366 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
5367 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
5368 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
5369 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
5370 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5371 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
5372 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
5373 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
5375 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
5376 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
5377 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
5379 o Test infrastructure:
5380 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
5381 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
5382 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
5383 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
5386 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
5387 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
5388 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
5389 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
5391 o Major features (client security):
5392 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
5393 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
5394 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
5395 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
5396 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
5397 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
5400 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
5401 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
5402 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
5403 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5405 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5406 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
5407 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
5408 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
5409 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
5412 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
5413 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
5415 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
5416 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
5417 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
5418 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
5419 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
5420 GeoLite2 Country database.
5423 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
5424 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
5425 bugfix on every released Tor.
5426 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
5427 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
5428 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
5429 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5430 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
5431 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
5432 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
5433 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
5434 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
5435 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5436 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
5437 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
5438 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5439 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
5440 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
5442 o Documentation fixes:
5443 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
5444 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
5447 Changes in version 0.2.5.2-alpha - 2014-02-13
5448 Tor 0.2.5.2-alpha includes all the fixes from 0.2.4.18-rc and 0.2.4.20,
5449 like the "poor random number generation" fix and the "building too many
5450 circuits" fix. It also further improves security against potential
5451 adversaries who find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and launches
5452 pluggable transports on demand (which gets us closer to integrating
5453 pluggable transport support by default -- not to be confused with Tor
5454 bundles enabling pluggable transports and bridges by default).
5456 o Major features (client security):
5457 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
5458 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
5459 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
5460 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
5461 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
5462 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
5463 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
5464 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
5465 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
5466 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
5467 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
5468 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
5470 o Major features (bridges):
5471 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
5472 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
5473 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
5474 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
5475 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
5476 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
5477 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
5478 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
5481 o Major features (other):
5482 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
5483 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
5484 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
5485 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
5486 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
5487 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
5488 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
5489 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
5490 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
5491 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
5492 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
5493 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
5496 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
5497 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
5498 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
5499 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
5500 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
5501 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
5502 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5504 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
5505 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
5506 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
5507 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
5508 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
5509 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
5510 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
5511 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
5512 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
5514 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
5515 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5516 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
5517 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
5518 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
5519 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
5521 o Major bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
5522 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
5523 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
5524 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
5525 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
5526 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
5529 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
5530 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
5531 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
5532 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
5533 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
5534 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
5535 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
5537 o Minor features (security):
5538 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
5539 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
5542 o Minor features (config options and command line):
5543 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
5544 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
5545 Implements ticket 10060.
5546 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
5547 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
5548 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
5550 o Minor features (controller):
5551 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
5552 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
5553 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
5554 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
5555 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
5558 o Minor features (build):
5559 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
5560 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
5561 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
5562 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
5563 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
5564 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
5565 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
5567 o Minor features (testing):
5568 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
5569 the unit test scripts.
5570 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
5571 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
5572 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
5573 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
5575 o Minor features (log messages):
5576 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
5577 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
5578 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
5579 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
5580 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
5581 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
5582 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
5583 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
5584 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
5585 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
5587 o Minor features (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
5588 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
5589 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
5590 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
5591 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
5592 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
5593 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
5594 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
5595 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
5596 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5598 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
5599 - When closing a channel that has already been open, do not close
5600 pending circuits that were waiting to connect to the same relay.
5601 Fixes bug 9880; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Thanks to skruffy for
5604 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
5605 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
5606 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
5607 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
5608 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
5610 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
5611 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
5612 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
5613 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
5614 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
5615 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
5616 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
5618 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
5619 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
5620 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
5621 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
5622 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
5623 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
5624 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5626 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
5627 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
5628 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
5629 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
5631 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
5632 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
5633 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
5634 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
5635 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
5636 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
5637 - When a command-line option such as --version or --help that
5638 ordinarily implies --hush appears on the command line along with
5639 --quiet, then actually obey --quiet. Previously, we obeyed --quiet
5640 only if it appeared later on the command line. Fixes bug 9578;
5641 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5643 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
5644 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
5645 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
5646 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
5647 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
5648 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
5649 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
5650 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
5651 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
5652 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
5654 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
5655 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
5656 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
5657 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
5660 o Minor bugfixes (build):
5661 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
5662 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
5663 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
5664 - Fix compilation warnings and startup issues when running with
5665 "Sandbox 1" and libseccomp-2.1.0. Fixes bug 10563; bugfix on
5667 - Fix compilation on Solaris 9, which didn't like us having an
5668 identifier named "sun". Fixes bug 10565; bugfix in 0.2.5.1-alpha.
5670 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
5671 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
5672 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
5673 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5675 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
5676 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
5677 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
5678 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
5679 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
5680 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
5681 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
5682 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5683 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
5684 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
5685 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
5686 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
5687 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
5688 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
5690 o Minor bugfixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.20):
5691 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
5692 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5693 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
5694 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
5695 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
5697 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.4.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
5698 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
5699 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5700 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
5701 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
5702 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
5703 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
5704 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
5705 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
5706 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5707 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
5708 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
5710 o Minor bugfixes on 0.2.3.x (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
5711 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
5712 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
5713 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
5714 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
5715 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
5716 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
5717 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
5718 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5719 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
5720 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
5721 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
5722 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
5723 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
5724 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
5725 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
5728 o Removed code and features:
5729 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
5730 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
5731 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
5732 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
5733 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
5734 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
5736 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
5737 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
5738 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
5739 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
5740 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
5741 part of a fix for bug 10841.
5743 o Code simplification and refactoring:
5744 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
5745 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
5746 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
5747 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
5748 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
5749 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
5750 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
5751 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the addition
5752 of a timestamp to the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which
5753 we did in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve ticket 9093. Implements
5756 o Documentation (man page) fixes:
5757 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
5758 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
5759 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
5760 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
5762 o Documentation fixes (new since 0.2.5.1-alpha, also in 0.2.4.18-rc):
5763 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
5764 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
5765 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
5766 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
5767 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
5768 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
5771 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
5772 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
5773 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
5776 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
5777 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
5778 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
5779 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
5780 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
5781 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
5782 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
5784 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
5785 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
5788 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
5789 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
5790 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
5791 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
5792 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
5793 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
5794 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
5795 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
5797 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
5798 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5799 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
5800 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
5801 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
5802 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
5805 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
5806 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5807 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
5808 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
5809 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
5812 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
5813 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
5814 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
5815 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
5816 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
5817 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
5818 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
5819 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
5821 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
5822 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
5823 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
5824 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
5825 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
5826 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
5827 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
5828 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
5829 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
5830 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
5831 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
5832 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
5833 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
5834 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
5835 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
5836 security, and privacy fixes.
5839 Changes in version 0.2.4.18-rc - 2013-11-16
5840 Tor 0.2.4.18-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
5841 series. It takes a variety of fixes from the 0.2.5.x branch to improve
5842 stability, performance, and better handling of edge cases.
5845 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
5846 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
5847 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
5848 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
5849 them to solve bug 6033.)
5852 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
5853 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
5854 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
5855 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
5856 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
5857 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5858 - Stop trying to bootstrap all our directory information from
5859 only our first guard. Discovered while fixing bug 9946; bugfix
5861 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
5862 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
5863 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
5864 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
5866 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.4.x):
5867 - Correctly log long IPv6 exit policies, instead of truncating them
5868 or reporting an error. Fixes bug 9596; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
5869 - Our default TLS ecdhe groups were backwards: we meant to be using
5870 P224 for relays (for performance win) and P256 for bridges (since
5871 it is more common in the wild). Instead we had it backwards. After
5872 reconsideration, we decided that the default should be P256 on all
5873 hosts, since its security is probably better, and since P224 is
5874 reportedly used quite little in the wild. Found by "skruffy" on
5875 IRC. Fix for bug 9780; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
5876 - Free directory authority certificate download statuses on exit
5877 rather than leaking them. Fixes bug 9644; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
5879 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x and earlier):
5880 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
5881 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
5882 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
5883 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
5884 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
5885 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
5886 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
5887 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5888 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
5889 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
5890 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
5891 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
5892 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
5893 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
5894 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
5897 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
5898 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
5899 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
5900 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
5901 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
5902 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
5903 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
5904 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
5905 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
5906 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
5907 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
5908 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
5909 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
5910 Implements part of proposal 222.
5912 o Minor features (other):
5913 - Improve the circuit queue out-of-memory handler. Previously, when
5914 we ran low on memory, we'd close whichever circuits had the most
5915 queued cells. Now, we close those that have the *oldest* queued
5916 cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for us
5917 running low on memory. Based on analysis from a forthcoming paper
5918 by Jansen, Tschorsch, Johnson, and Scheuermann. Fixes bug 9093.
5919 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
5920 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
5921 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
5923 o Documentation fixes:
5924 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
5925 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
5926 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
5927 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
5928 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
5929 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
5932 Changes in version 0.2.5.1-alpha - 2013-10-02
5933 Tor 0.2.5.1-alpha introduces experimental support for syscall sandboxing
5934 on Linux, allows bridges that offer pluggable transports to report usage
5935 statistics, fixes many issues to make testing easier, and provides
5936 a pile of minor features and bugfixes that have been waiting for a
5937 release of the new branch.
5939 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
5940 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
5941 stay with 0.2.4.x for now.
5943 o Major features (security):
5944 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
5945 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
5946 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
5947 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
5948 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
5949 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
5950 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
5951 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
5952 Google Summer of Code.
5953 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
5954 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
5955 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
5956 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
5957 them to solve bug 6033.)
5959 o Major features (other):
5960 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
5961 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
5962 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
5963 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
5964 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
5966 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
5967 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
5968 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
5969 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
5970 Implements ticket 8530.
5971 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
5972 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
5975 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
5976 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
5977 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
5978 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
5979 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
5980 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5981 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
5982 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
5983 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5984 - The new channel code sometimes lost track of in-progress circuits,
5985 causing long-running clients to stop building new circuits. The
5986 fix is to always call circuit_n_chan_done(chan, 0) from
5987 channel_closed(). Fixes bug 9776; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
5990 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
5991 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
5992 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
5993 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
5994 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
5995 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
5996 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
5997 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
5998 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
5999 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
6003 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
6004 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
6005 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
6006 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
6007 invoking the other functions it calls.
6008 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
6009 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
6010 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
6011 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
6013 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
6014 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
6015 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
6016 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
6017 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
6018 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
6019 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
6020 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
6021 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
6022 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
6023 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
6024 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
6025 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
6026 Implements part of proposal 222.
6028 o Minor features (config options):
6029 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
6030 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
6031 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
6032 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
6033 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
6034 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
6035 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
6036 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
6037 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
6038 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
6039 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
6040 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
6041 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
6042 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
6043 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
6044 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
6045 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
6048 o Minor features (build):
6049 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
6050 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
6051 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
6052 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
6053 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
6056 o Minor features (other):
6057 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
6058 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
6059 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
6060 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
6061 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
6062 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
6063 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
6064 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
6065 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
6066 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
6067 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
6068 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
6070 - Update to the September 4 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6073 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
6074 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
6075 bugfix on every released Tor.
6076 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
6077 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
6078 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
6079 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
6080 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
6081 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
6083 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
6084 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
6085 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
6086 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6087 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
6088 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
6089 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
6090 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
6092 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
6093 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
6094 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
6095 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
6096 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
6098 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
6099 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
6101 o Minor fixes (build, auxiliary programs):
6102 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
6103 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
6105 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
6106 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
6107 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
6108 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
6109 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6111 o Minor code improvements:
6112 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
6113 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
6115 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
6116 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
6117 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
6118 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
6119 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
6122 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
6123 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
6124 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
6125 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
6127 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6128 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
6129 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
6130 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
6131 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
6132 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
6133 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
6134 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
6135 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
6136 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
6137 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
6138 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
6139 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
6140 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
6141 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
6142 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
6145 Changes in version 0.2.4.17-rc - 2013-09-05
6146 Tor 0.2.4.17-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
6147 series. It adds an emergency step to help us tolerate the massive
6148 influx of users: 0.2.4 clients using the new (faster and safer) "NTor"
6149 circuit-level handshakes now effectively jump the queue compared to
6150 the 0.2.3 clients using "TAP" handshakes. This release also fixes a
6151 big bug hindering bridge reachability tests.
6154 - Relays now process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
6155 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
6156 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
6157 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
6158 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
6159 Implements ticket 9574.
6162 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
6163 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
6164 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6165 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
6166 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
6167 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
6168 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
6169 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
6170 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
6171 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
6172 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
6173 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
6177 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
6178 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
6179 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
6180 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
6182 o Minor fixes (config options):
6183 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
6184 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
6185 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
6186 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
6187 message is logged at notice, not at info.
6188 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
6189 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
6190 or we just won't work.)
6193 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
6194 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
6195 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
6196 - Update to the August 7 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6199 Changes in version 0.2.4.16-rc - 2013-08-10
6200 Tor 0.2.4.16-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
6201 series. It fixes several crash bugs in the 0.2.4 branch.
6204 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
6205 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
6206 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6207 - Fix an uninitialized read that could in some cases lead to a remote
6208 crash while parsing INTRODUCE2 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6209 Anybody running a hidden service on the experimental 0.2.4.x
6210 branch should upgrade. (This is, so far as we know, unrelated to
6212 - Avoid an assertion failure when processing DNS replies without the
6213 answer types we expected. Fixes bug 9337; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6214 - Avoid a crash when using --hash-password. Fixes bug 9295; bugfix on
6215 0.2.4.15-rc. Found by stem integration tests.
6218 - Fix an invalid memory read that occured when a pluggable
6219 transport proxy failed its configuration protocol.
6220 Fixes bug 9288; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6221 - When evaluating whether to use a connection that we haven't
6222 decided is canonical using a recent link protocol version,
6223 decide that it's canonical only if it used address _does_
6224 match the desired address. Fixes bug 9309; bugfix on
6225 0.2.4.4-alpha. Reported by skruffy.
6226 - Make the default behavior of NumDirectoryGuards be to track
6227 NumEntryGuards. Now a user who changes only NumEntryGuards will get
6228 the behavior she expects. Fixes bug 9354; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6229 - Fix a spurious compilation warning with some older versions of
6230 GCC on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 9254; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
6233 - Update to the July 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6236 Changes in version 0.2.4.15-rc - 2013-07-01
6237 Tor 0.2.4.15-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.4.x
6238 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
6239 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
6242 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
6243 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
6244 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
6247 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
6248 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
6249 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
6252 Changes in version 0.2.4.14-alpha - 2013-06-18
6253 Tor 0.2.4.14-alpha fixes a pair of client guard enumeration problems
6254 present in 0.2.4.13-alpha.
6257 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
6258 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits consuming the most
6259 memory. This prevents us from running out of memory as a relay if
6260 circuits fill up faster than they can be drained. Fixes bug 9063;
6261 bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond
6262 bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
6264 This change also fixes an earlier approach taken in 0.2.4.13-alpha,
6265 where we tried to solve this issue simply by imposing an upper limit
6266 on the number of queued cells for a single circuit. That approach
6267 proved to be problematic, since there are ways to provoke clients to
6268 send a number of cells in excess of any such reasonable limit. Fixes
6269 bug 9072; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
6271 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
6272 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
6273 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
6276 Changes in version 0.2.4.13-alpha - 2013-06-14
6277 Tor 0.2.4.13-alpha fixes a variety of potential remote crash
6278 vulnerabilities, makes socks5 username/password circuit isolation
6279 actually actually work (this time for sure!), and cleans up a bunch
6280 of other issues in preparation for a release candidate.
6282 o Major bugfixes (robustness):
6283 - Close any circuit that has too many cells queued on it. Fixes
6284 bug 9063; bugfix on the 54th commit of Tor. This bug is a further
6285 fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
6286 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
6287 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
6288 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
6290 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
6291 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
6292 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
6294 - Fix a directory authority crash bug when building a consensus
6295 using an older consensus as its basis. Fixes bug 8833. Bugfix
6299 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
6300 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
6301 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
6303 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
6304 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
6305 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
6306 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
6307 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
6308 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
6310 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
6311 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
6312 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
6313 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
6314 - Prevent failures on Windows Vista and later when rebuilding the
6315 microdescriptor cache. Diagnosed by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 8822;
6316 bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
6319 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
6320 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
6321 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
6322 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
6323 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
6324 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
6325 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6326 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
6327 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6328 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
6329 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
6330 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta and 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6331 - Relays now treat a changed IPv6 ORPort as sufficient reason to
6332 publish an updated descriptor. Fixes bug 6026; bugfix on
6334 - When launching a resolve request on behalf of an AF_UNIX control
6335 socket, omit the address field of the new entry connection, used in
6336 subsequent controller events, rather than letting tor_dup_addr()
6337 set it to "<unknown address type>". Fixes bug 8639; bugfix on
6340 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
6341 - Fix a scaling issue in the path bias accounting code that
6342 resulted in "Bug:" log messages from either
6343 pathbias_scale_close_rates() or pathbias_count_build_success().
6344 This represents a bugfix on a previous bugfix: the original fix
6345 attempted in 0.2.4.10-alpha was incomplete. Fixes bug 8235; bugfix
6347 - Give a less useless error message when the user asks for an IPv4
6348 address on an IPv6-only port, or vice versa. Fixes bug 8846; bugfix
6352 - Downgrade "unexpected SENDME" warnings to protocol-warn for 0.2.4.x,
6353 to tolerate bug 8093 for now.
6354 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
6355 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
6356 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
6357 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
6358 - Update to the June 5 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6360 o Removed documentation:
6361 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
6362 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
6364 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6365 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
6366 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
6367 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
6370 Changes in version 0.2.4.12-alpha - 2013-04-18
6371 Tor 0.2.4.12-alpha moves Tor forward on several fronts: it starts the
6372 process for lengthening the guard rotation period, makes directory
6373 authority opinions in the consensus a bit less gameable, makes socks5
6374 username/password circuit isolation actually work, and fixes a wide
6375 variety of other issues.
6378 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
6379 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
6380 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
6381 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
6382 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
6383 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
6384 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
6385 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
6387 - Directory authorities that have more than a threshold number
6388 of relays with measured bandwidths now treat relays with unmeasured
6389 bandwidths as having bandwidth 0. Resolves ticket 8435.
6391 o Major bugfixes (assert / resource use):
6392 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
6393 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
6394 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6395 - Avoid an assertion when we discover that we'd like to write a cell
6396 onto a closing connection: just discard the cell. Fixes another
6397 case of bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
6399 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
6400 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
6401 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
6402 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
6403 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
6404 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
6405 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
6406 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6407 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
6408 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
6409 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
6410 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
6411 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6412 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
6413 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
6414 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
6415 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
6416 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
6417 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
6418 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
6419 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
6421 o Major bugfixes (other):
6422 - When unable to find any working directory nodes to use as a
6423 directory guard, give up rather than adding the same non-working
6424 nodes to the directory guard list over and over. Fixes bug 8231;
6425 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6428 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
6429 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
6430 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
6431 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
6433 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
6434 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
6436 - Update to the April 3 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6438 o Minor features (build):
6439 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
6440 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
6442 - Clarify that when autoconf is checking for nacl, it is checking
6443 specifically for nacl with a fast curve25519 implementation.
6445 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
6446 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
6447 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
6450 o Minor bugfixes (build):
6451 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
6452 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
6453 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6454 - Add the old src/or/micro-revision.i filename to CLEANFILES.
6455 On the off chance that somebody has one, it will go away as soon
6456 as they run "make clean". Fix for bug 7143; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
6457 - Build Tor correctly on 32-bit platforms where the compiler can build
6458 but not run code using the "uint128_t" construction. Fixes bug 8587;
6459 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6460 - Fix compilation warning with some versions of clang that would
6461 prefer the -Wswitch-enum compiler flag to warn about switch
6462 statements with missing enum values, even if those switch
6463 statements have a "default:" statement. Fixes bug 8598; bugfix
6466 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
6467 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
6468 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
6469 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
6470 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
6471 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
6472 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
6473 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
6474 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
6475 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
6476 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy."
6477 - Correct our check for which versions of Tor support the EXTEND2
6478 cell. We had been willing to send it to Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha and
6479 later, when support was really added in version 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6480 Fixes bug 8464; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6482 o Minor bugfixes (other):
6483 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors with
6484 an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6485 Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
6486 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
6487 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
6488 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
6489 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6490 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
6491 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
6492 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
6493 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
6494 Should help resolve bug 8235.
6495 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
6496 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
6497 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
6498 on 0.2.3.21-rc, 0.2.4.5-alpha, 0.2.4.8-alpha, and 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6500 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls):
6501 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
6502 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
6503 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
6504 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
6505 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
6506 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
6507 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
6510 o Minor bugfixes (config):
6511 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
6512 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
6514 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
6515 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
6516 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6517 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
6518 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
6519 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
6520 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6521 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
6522 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
6523 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
6524 - Allow TestingTorNetworks to override the 4096-byte minimum for
6525 the Fast threshold. Otherwise they can't bootstrap until they've
6526 observed more traffic. Fixes bug 8508; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6527 - Fix some logic errors when the user manually overrides the
6528 PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option in torrc. Fixes bug 8599; bugfix
6531 o Minor bugfixes (log messages to help diagnose bugs):
6532 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
6533 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
6534 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
6535 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
6536 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
6537 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
6538 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
6540 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
6541 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
6542 or at least make it more diagnosable.
6543 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
6544 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
6545 - Log the purpose of a path-bias testing circuit correctly.
6546 Improves a log message from bug 8477; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6548 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
6549 - Don't attempt to relax the timeout of already opened 1-hop circuits.
6550 They might never timeout. This should eliminate some/all cases of
6551 the relaxed timeout log message.
6552 - Use circuit creation time for network liveness evaluation. This
6553 should eliminate warning log messages about liveness caused
6554 by changes in timeout evaluation. Fixes bug 6572; bugfix on
6556 - Reduce a path bias length check from notice to info. The message
6557 is triggered when creating controller circuits. Fixes bug 8196;
6558 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6559 - Fix a path state issue that triggered a notice during relay startup.
6560 Fixes bug 8320; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6561 - Reduce occurrences of warns about circuit purpose in
6562 connection_ap_expire_building(). Fixes bug 8477; bugfix on
6565 o Minor bugfixes (pre-0.2.4.x log messages that were too noisy):
6566 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
6567 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
6568 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
6569 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6570 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
6571 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6572 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
6573 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
6574 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
6575 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
6576 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
6577 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
6578 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
6579 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
6580 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
6581 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
6583 o Documentation fixes:
6584 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
6585 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
6586 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
6587 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
6588 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
6589 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
6590 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
6591 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
6594 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
6595 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
6599 Changes in version 0.2.4.11-alpha - 2013-03-11
6600 Tor 0.2.4.11-alpha makes relay measurement by directory authorities
6601 more robust, makes hidden service authentication work again, and
6602 resolves a DPI fingerprint for Tor's SSL transport.
6604 o Major features (directory authorities):
6605 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
6606 where they cap the published bandwidth of servers for which
6607 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
6608 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
6609 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
6610 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
6611 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
6612 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
6613 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
6614 Implements ticket 8151.
6616 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
6617 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
6618 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
6619 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
6620 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
6622 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
6623 - Allow hidden service authentication to succeed again. When we
6624 refactored the hidden service introduction code back
6625 in 0.2.4.1-alpha, we didn't update the code that checks
6626 whether authentication information is present, causing all
6627 authentication checks to return "false". Fix for bug 8207; bugfix
6628 on 0.2.4.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this is CID 718615.
6630 o Minor features (relays, bridges):
6631 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
6632 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
6634 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
6635 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
6636 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
6637 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
6638 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
6639 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
6640 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2 bridges when making
6641 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
6642 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
6643 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
6644 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
6645 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
6646 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
6647 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
6648 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
6649 - Support a new version of the link protocol that allows 4-byte circuit
6650 IDs. Previously, circuit IDs were limited to 2 bytes, which presented
6651 a possible resource exhaustion issue. Closes ticket 7351; implements
6654 o Minor features (portability):
6655 - Tweak the curve25519-donna*.c implementations to tolerate systems
6656 that lack stdint.h. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6657 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
6658 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
6659 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
6660 - Detect the sign of enum values, rather than assuming that MSC is the
6661 only compiler where enum types are all signed. Fixes bug 7727;
6662 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6664 o Minor features (other):
6665 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
6666 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
6667 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
6668 - Clear the high bit on curve25519 public keys before passing them to
6669 our backend, in case we ever wind up using a backend that doesn't do
6670 so itself. If we used such a backend, and *didn't* clear the high bit,
6671 we could wind up in a situation where users with such backends would
6672 be distinguishable from users without. Fixes bug 8121; bugfix on
6674 - Update to the March 6 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6676 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
6677 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
6678 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
6679 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
6680 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
6681 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
6682 - Downgrade an assertion in connection_ap_expire_beginning to an
6683 LD_BUG message. The fix for bug 8024 should prevent this message
6684 from displaying, but just in case, a warn that we can diagnose
6685 is better than more assert crashes. Fixes bug 8065; bugfix on
6687 - Lower path use bias thresholds to .80 for notice and .60 for warn.
6688 Also make the rate limiting flags for the path use bias log messages
6689 independent from the original path bias flags. Fixes bug 8161;
6690 bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6692 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
6693 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
6694 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
6695 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
6696 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
6697 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
6698 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
6700 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
6701 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
6702 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
6703 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
6704 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
6706 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
6707 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
6708 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
6709 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
6711 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
6712 - Directory authorities now use less space when formatting identical
6713 microdescriptor lines in directory votes. Fixes bug 8158; bugfix
6716 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks spotted by Coverity -- bug 7816):
6717 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
6718 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
6719 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
6721 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
6722 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
6723 - Avoid memory leak of IPv6 policy content if we fail to format it into
6724 a router descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6726 o Minor bugfixes (other code correctness issues):
6727 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
6728 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
6730 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
6731 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
6732 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
6733 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
6735 - Fix a copy-and-paste error when adding a missing A1 to a routerset
6736 because of GeoIPExcludeUnknown. Fix for Coverity CID 980650.
6737 Bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6738 - Fix an impossible-to-trigger integer overflow when estimating how
6739 long our onionskin queue would take. (This overflow would require us
6740 to accept 4 million onionskins before processing 100 of them.) Fixes
6741 bug 8210; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
6743 o Code simplification and refactoring:
6744 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
6748 Changes in version 0.2.4.10-alpha - 2013-02-04
6749 Tor 0.2.4.10-alpha adds defenses at the directory authority level from
6750 certain attacks that flood the network with relays; changes the queue
6751 for circuit create requests from a sized-based limit to a time-based
6752 limit; resumes building with MSVC on Windows; and fixes a wide variety
6755 o Major bugfixes (directory authority):
6756 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
6757 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
6758 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
6760 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
6761 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
6762 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
6766 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
6767 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
6768 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug
6769 7708; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
6770 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
6771 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
6772 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
6773 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
6774 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
6775 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
6776 - Rename all macros in our local copy of queue.h to begin with "TOR_".
6777 This change seems the only good way to permanently prevent conflicts
6778 with queue.h on various operating systems. Fixes bug 8107; bugfix
6781 o Major features (relay):
6782 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
6783 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
6784 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
6785 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
6786 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
6787 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
6788 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
6790 o Major features (portability):
6791 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
6792 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
6793 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
6794 - Make the ntor and curve25519 code build correctly with MSVC.
6795 Fix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6798 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
6799 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
6800 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
6801 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
6802 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
6803 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
6805 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
6806 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
6807 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
6808 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
6809 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
6810 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
6811 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
6812 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
6814 o Minor features (path selection):
6815 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
6816 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
6817 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
6818 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
6819 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
6820 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
6821 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
6822 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
6823 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
6824 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
6825 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
6826 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
6827 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
6828 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
6829 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
6830 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
6831 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
6832 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
6833 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
6835 o Minor features (log messages):
6836 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
6837 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
6838 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
6839 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
6842 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
6843 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
6844 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6845 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
6846 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
6847 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
6848 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
6849 - Detect nacl when its headers are in a nacl/ subdirectory. Also,
6850 actually link against nacl when we're configured to use it. Fixes
6851 bug 7972; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6852 - Compile correctly with the --disable-curve25519 option. Fixes
6853 bug 8153; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
6855 o Build improvements:
6856 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
6857 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
6858 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
6859 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
6860 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
6861 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
6862 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
6863 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
6864 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
6865 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
6866 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
6867 than to perform erroneously.
6870 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
6871 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
6872 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
6874 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
6875 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer;
6876 warning the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket
6879 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
6880 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
6882 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
6883 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
6887 Changes in version 0.2.4.9-alpha - 2013-01-15
6888 Tor 0.2.4.9-alpha provides a quick fix to make the new ntor handshake
6892 - Fix backward compatibility logic when receiving an embedded ntor
6893 handshake tunneled in a CREATE cell. This clears up the "Bug:
6894 couldn't format CREATED cell" warning. Fixes bug 7959; bugfix
6898 Changes in version 0.2.4.8-alpha - 2013-01-14
6899 Tor 0.2.4.8-alpha introduces directory guards to reduce user enumeration
6900 risks, adds a new stronger and faster circuit handshake, and offers
6901 stronger and faster link encryption when both sides support it.
6904 - Preliminary support for directory guards (proposal 207): when
6905 possible, clients now use their entry guards for non-anonymous
6906 directory requests. This can help prevent client enumeration. Note
6907 that this behavior only works when we have a usable consensus
6908 directory, and when options about what to download are more or less
6909 standard. In the future we should re-bootstrap from our guards,
6910 rather than re-bootstrapping from the preconfigured list of
6911 directory sources that ships with Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
6912 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
6913 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
6914 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
6917 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
6918 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
6919 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
6920 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
6921 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
6922 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
6923 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
6924 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
6925 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
6926 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
6927 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
6929 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
6930 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
6931 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
6933 Clients don't currently use this protocol by default, since
6934 comparatively few clients support it so far. To try it, set
6935 UseNTorHandshake to 1.
6937 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
6939 o Major features (better link encryption):
6940 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
6941 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
6942 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
6943 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
6944 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
6945 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
6948 Enabling these ciphers was a little tricky, since for a long time,
6949 clients had been claiming to support them without actually doing
6950 so, in order to foil fingerprinting. But with the client-side
6951 implementation of proposal 198 in 0.2.3.17-beta, clients can now
6952 match the ciphers from recent Firefox versions *and* list the
6953 ciphers they actually mean, so relays can believe such clients
6954 when they advertise ECDHE support in their TLS ClientHello messages.
6956 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
6957 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
6958 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
6959 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
6961 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
6964 - Avoid crashing when, as a relay without IPv6-exit support, a
6965 client insists on getting an IPv6 address or nothing. Fixes bug
6966 7814; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
6969 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
6970 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
6971 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
6972 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
6973 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
6974 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
6975 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
6976 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
6977 - Update to the January 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6979 o Minor features (testing):
6980 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
6981 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
6982 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
6984 o Minor features (path bias detection):
6985 - Alter the Path Bias log messages to be more descriptive in terms
6986 of reporting timeouts and other statistics.
6987 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
6988 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
6989 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
6990 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
6991 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
6992 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
6993 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
6994 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
6995 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
6996 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
6997 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
6998 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
6999 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
7000 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
7001 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
7002 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
7003 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
7004 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
7005 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
7006 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
7007 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
7008 detection capability loss.
7010 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
7011 - Rate-limit the "No circuits are opened. Relaxed timeout for a
7012 circuit with channel state open..." message to once per hour to
7013 keep it from filling the notice logs. Mitigates bug 7799 but does
7014 not fix the underlying cause. Bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
7015 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
7016 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
7017 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
7020 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7021 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
7022 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
7023 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
7024 and the different handshakes it supports.
7025 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
7026 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
7027 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
7028 any encoding is overkill.
7031 Changes in version 0.2.4.7-alpha - 2012-12-24
7032 Tor 0.2.4.7-alpha introduces a new approach to providing fallback
7033 directory mirrors for more robust bootstrapping; fixes more issues where
7034 clients with changing network conditions refuse to make any circuits;
7035 adds initial support for exiting to IPv6 addresses; resumes being able
7036 to update our GeoIP database, and includes the geoip6 file this time;
7037 turns off the client-side DNS cache by default due to privacy risks;
7038 and fixes a variety of other issues.
7040 o Major features (client resilience):
7041 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
7042 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
7043 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
7044 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
7045 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
7046 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
7047 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
7048 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
7049 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
7050 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
7051 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
7052 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
7053 95-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
7054 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
7055 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
7057 o Major features (IPv6):
7058 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
7059 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
7060 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
7061 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
7062 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait until the
7063 authorities have upgraded, wait for enough exits to support IPv6,
7064 apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort, and use Socks5. Closes
7065 ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as revised in proposal 208.
7067 We DO NOT recommend that clients with actual anonymity needs start
7068 using IPv6 over Tor yet, since not enough exits support it yet.
7070 o Major features (geoip database):
7071 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
7072 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
7073 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
7074 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
7075 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
7076 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
7077 Fixes bug 6266. Also update to the December 5 2012 Maxmind GeoLite
7078 Country database, as modified above.
7080 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
7081 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
7082 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
7083 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
7084 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
7085 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
7086 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
7087 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
7088 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
7089 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
7090 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
7091 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
7092 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
7093 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
7094 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
7095 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
7096 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
7099 o Major bugfixes (other):
7100 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
7101 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
7102 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
7103 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
7104 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
7105 - Fix an assertion that could trigger in hibernate_go_dormant() when
7106 closing an or_connection_t: call channel_mark_for_close() rather
7107 than connection_mark_for_close(). Fixes bug 7267. Bugfix on
7109 - Include the geoip6 IPv6 GeoIP database in the tarball. Fixes bug
7110 7655; bugfix on 0.2.4.6-alpha.
7113 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
7114 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
7115 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
7116 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
7117 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
7118 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
7119 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
7120 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
7122 o Minor features (IPv6):
7123 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
7124 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
7125 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
7126 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
7127 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
7128 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
7129 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
7130 connect to the wrong addresses.
7131 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
7132 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
7133 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
7134 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
7138 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
7139 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
7140 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
7142 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
7143 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
7144 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
7146 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
7147 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
7148 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
7151 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
7152 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
7154 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7155 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
7156 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
7157 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
7158 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
7161 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
7162 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
7163 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
7164 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
7165 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
7166 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
7167 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
7168 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
7170 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
7171 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
7172 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
7173 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
7174 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
7175 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
7176 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
7177 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
7178 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
7179 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
7180 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
7183 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
7184 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
7185 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
7186 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
7187 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
7188 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
7189 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
7190 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
7191 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
7192 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
7195 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
7196 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
7200 Changes in version 0.2.4.6-alpha - 2012-11-13
7201 Tor 0.2.4.6-alpha fixes an assert bug that has been plaguing relays,
7202 makes our defense-in-depth memory wiping more reliable, and begins to
7203 count IPv6 addresses in bridge statistics,
7206 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur when closing a connection
7207 with a spliced rendezvous circuit. Fix for bug 7212; bugfix on
7209 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
7210 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
7211 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
7212 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
7213 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
7214 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
7215 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
7216 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
7217 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
7218 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
7221 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
7223 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
7224 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
7225 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
7226 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
7227 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
7230 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
7231 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
7232 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7233 - Fix a harmless bug when opting against publishing a relay descriptor
7234 because DisableNetwork is set. Fixes bug 7464; bugfix on
7236 - Add warning message when a managed proxy dies during configuration.
7237 Fixes bug 7195; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7238 - Fix a linking error when building tor-fw-helper without miniupnp.
7239 Fixes bug 7235; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha. Fix by Anthony G. Basile.
7240 - Check for closing an or_connection_t without going through correct
7241 channel functions; emit a warning and then call
7242 connection_or_close_for_error() so we don't assert as in bugs 7212
7244 - Compile correctly on compilers without C99 designated initializer
7245 support. Fixes bug 7286; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7246 - Avoid a possible assert that can occur when channel_send_destroy() is
7247 called on a channel in CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSING, CHANNEL_STATE_CLOSED,
7248 or CHANNEL_STATE_ERROR when the Tor process is resumed after being
7249 blocked for a long interval. Fixes bug 7350; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7250 - Fix a memory leak on failing cases of channel_tls_process_certs_cell.
7251 Fixes bug 7422; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
7253 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7254 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
7255 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
7256 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
7257 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
7258 present the same extensions.)
7261 Changes in version 0.2.4.5-alpha - 2012-10-25
7262 Tor 0.2.4.5-alpha comes hard at the heels of 0.2.4.4-alpha, to fix
7263 two important security vulnerabilities that could lead to remotely
7264 triggerable relay crashes, fix a major bug that was preventing clients
7265 from choosing suitable exit nodes, and refactor some of our code.
7267 o Major bugfixes (security, also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
7268 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
7269 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
7270 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
7272 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
7273 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
7274 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
7275 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7277 o Major bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
7278 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
7279 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
7280 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
7281 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
7282 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
7283 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
7284 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
7285 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7287 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.24-rc):
7288 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
7289 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
7290 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
7291 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7294 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
7295 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
7296 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
7298 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7299 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
7301 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
7302 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
7306 Changes in version 0.2.3.24-rc - 2012-10-25
7307 Tor 0.2.3.24-rc fixes two important security vulnerabilities that
7308 could lead to remotely triggerable relay crashes, and fixes
7309 a major bug that was preventing clients from choosing suitable exit
7312 o Major bugfixes (security):
7313 - Fix a group of remotely triggerable assertion failures related to
7314 incorrect link protocol negotiation. Found, diagnosed, and fixed
7315 by "some guy from France". Fix for CVE-2012-2250; bugfix on
7317 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
7318 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
7319 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
7320 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7323 - When parsing exit policy summaries from microdescriptors, we had
7324 previously been ignoring the last character in each one, so that
7325 "accept 80,443,8080" would be treated by clients as indicating
7326 a node that allows access to ports 80, 443, and 808. That would
7327 lead to clients attempting connections that could never work,
7328 and ignoring exit nodes that would support their connections. Now
7329 clients parse these exit policy summaries correctly. Fixes bug 7192;
7330 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7333 - Clients now consider the ClientRejectInternalAddresses config option
7334 when using a microdescriptor consensus stanza to decide whether
7335 an exit relay would allow exiting to an internal address. Fixes
7336 bug 7190; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7339 Changes in version 0.2.4.4-alpha - 2012-10-20
7340 Tor 0.2.4.4-alpha adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
7341 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, fixes a remotely
7342 triggerable assert, and adds new channel_t and circuitmux_t abstractions
7343 that will make it easier to test new connection transport and cell
7344 scheduling algorithms.
7346 o New directory authorities (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
7347 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
7348 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
7350 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy, also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
7351 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
7352 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
7353 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
7354 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
7355 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
7356 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
7357 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
7358 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
7359 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
7360 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
7362 o Internal abstraction features:
7363 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
7364 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
7365 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
7366 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
7367 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
7368 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
7369 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
7370 - Also new is the channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it
7371 to the existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
7372 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
7373 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
7374 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
7375 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
7376 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
7377 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
7378 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
7379 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
7381 o Required libraries:
7382 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
7383 strongly recommended.
7386 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
7387 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
7388 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
7389 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
7390 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
7391 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
7392 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
7393 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
7394 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
7396 o Minor bugfixes (also in 0.2.3.23-rc):
7397 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a
7398 relay's DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it
7399 might make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
7400 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
7401 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
7402 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
7403 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7404 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
7405 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
7406 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
7407 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
7408 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
7409 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
7410 more accurate picture. Fixes bug 7037; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
7413 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
7414 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
7415 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
7416 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
7417 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
7418 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
7419 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
7420 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
7421 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
7422 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
7423 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
7424 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
7425 - Make clients running with IPv6 bridges connect over IPv6 again,
7426 even without setting new config options ClientUseIPv6 and
7427 ClientPreferIPv6ORPort. Fixes bug 6757; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7428 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
7429 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
7430 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
7431 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
7433 o Code refactoring and cleanup:
7434 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
7435 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
7436 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
7437 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
7438 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
7439 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
7442 Changes in version 0.2.3.23-rc - 2012-10-20
7443 Tor 0.2.3.23-rc adds a new v3 directory authority, fixes a privacy
7444 vulnerability introduced by a change in OpenSSL, and fixes a variety
7445 of smaller bugs in preparation for the release.
7447 o New directory authorities:
7448 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
7449 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
7451 o Major bugfixes (security/privacy):
7452 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
7453 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
7454 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
7455 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
7456 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
7457 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
7458 - Discard extraneous renegotiation attempts once the V3 link
7459 protocol has been initiated. Failure to do so left us open to
7460 a remotely triggerable assertion failure. Fixes CVE-2012-2249;
7461 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "some guy from France".
7464 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
7465 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
7466 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
7468 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
7469 - Fix two cases in src/or/transports.c where we were calling
7470 fmt_addr() twice in a parameter list. Bug found by David
7471 Fifield. Fixes bug 7014; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7472 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
7473 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
7474 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
7475 - Fix memory leaks whenever we logged any message about the "path
7476 bias" detection. Fixes bug 7022; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc.
7478 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
7479 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
7480 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
7481 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
7482 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
7483 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
7484 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
7485 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
7486 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
7487 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
7488 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
7489 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
7490 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
7491 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
7492 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
7493 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
7494 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
7495 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
7497 o Documentation fixes:
7498 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
7501 Changes in version 0.2.4.3-alpha - 2012-09-22
7502 Tor 0.2.4.3-alpha fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
7503 assertion, resumes letting relays test reachability of their DirPort,
7504 and cleans up a bunch of smaller bugs.
7507 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
7508 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
7509 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7512 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
7513 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
7514 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
7515 - Allow routers to detect that their own DirPorts are running. When
7516 we removed support for versions_supports_begindir, we also
7517 accidentally removed the mechanism we used to self-test our
7518 DirPort. Diagnosed with help from kargig. Fixes bugs 6814 and 6815;
7519 bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7521 o Security features:
7522 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
7523 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
7524 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
7525 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
7526 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
7527 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
7528 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
7529 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
7530 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
7534 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
7535 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
7536 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
7539 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
7540 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
7541 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
7542 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
7543 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7544 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
7545 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
7546 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
7547 - Convert an assert in the pathbias code to a log message. The assert
7548 appears to only be triggerable by Tor2Web mode. Fixes bug 6866;
7549 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
7550 - Our new buildsystem was overzealous about rebuilding manpages: it
7551 would rebuild them all whenever any one of them changed. Now our
7552 dependency checking should be correct. Fixes bug 6843; bugfix on
7554 - Don't do reachability testing over IPv6 unless AuthDirPublishIPv6
7555 is set. Fixes bug 6880. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7556 - Correct log printout about which address family is preferred
7557 when connecting to a bridge with both an IPv4 and IPv6 OR port.
7558 Fixes bug 6884; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7560 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
7561 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
7562 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
7563 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7564 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
7565 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
7566 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7567 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
7568 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
7569 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
7570 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
7571 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
7572 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
7573 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7574 - Fix building with older versions of GCC (2.95, for one) that don't
7575 like preprocessor directives inside macro arguments. Found by
7576 grarpamp. Fixes bug 6842; bugfix on 0.2.4.2-alpha.
7577 - Switch weighted node selection rule from using a list of doubles
7578 to using a list of int64_t. This change should make the process
7579 slightly easier to debug and maintain. Needed to finish ticket 6538.
7581 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7582 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
7583 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
7584 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
7585 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
7586 testable, and a little less fragile too.
7587 - Removed the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
7588 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
7590 o Documentation fixes:
7591 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
7592 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
7596 Changes in version 0.2.3.22-rc - 2012-09-11
7597 Tor 0.2.3.22-rc fixes another opportunity for a remotely triggerable
7601 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
7602 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
7603 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7606 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
7607 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
7611 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
7612 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
7616 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
7617 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
7618 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7619 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
7620 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
7621 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
7622 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
7626 Changes in version 0.2.4.2-alpha - 2012-09-10
7627 Tor 0.2.4.2-alpha enables port forwarding for pluggable transports,
7628 raises the default rate limiting even more, and makes the bootstrapping
7629 log messages less noisy.
7632 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
7633 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
7637 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
7638 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
7639 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
7640 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
7641 last time we raised it).
7644 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
7645 one we compiled with. This has occasionally given people hard-to-
7647 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
7648 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
7649 part of ticket 6736.
7650 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
7651 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
7652 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
7656 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
7657 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
7658 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
7659 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
7660 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
7662 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
7663 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
7664 - Don't follow the NULL pointer if microdescriptor generation fails.
7665 (This does not appear to be triggerable, but it's best to be safe.)
7666 Found by "f. tp.". Fixes bug 6797; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7667 - Fix mis-declared dependencies on src/common/crypto.c and
7668 src/or/tor_main.c that could break out-of-tree builds under some
7669 circumstances. Fixes bug 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7670 - Avoid a warning when building common_sha1.i out of tree. Fixes bug
7671 6778; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7672 - Fix a harmless (in this case) build warning for implicitly
7673 converting a strlen() to an int. Bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
7676 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
7677 need to work around their missing features. Thus we can remove a
7678 bunch of compatibility code.
7681 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
7682 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
7683 the ORPort and the DirPort.
7686 Changes in version 0.2.4.1-alpha - 2012-09-05
7687 Tor 0.2.4.1-alpha lets bridges publish their pluggable transports to
7688 bridgedb; lets relays use IPv6 addresses and directory authorities
7689 advertise them; and switches to a cleaner build interface.
7691 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to
7692 be bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
7693 stay with 0.2.3.x for now.
7695 o Major features (bridges):
7696 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
7697 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
7698 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
7701 o Major features (IPv6):
7702 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
7703 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
7704 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
7705 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
7706 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
7707 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
7708 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
7709 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports using the new consensus
7710 method 14. Implements ticket 6363.
7712 o Major features (build):
7713 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
7714 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
7715 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
7716 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
7717 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
7718 fixes by Jim Meyering.
7719 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
7720 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
7721 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
7723 o Minor features (code security and spec conformance):
7724 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
7725 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
7726 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
7727 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
7728 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
7729 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
7730 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
7731 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
7732 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
7733 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
7735 o Minor features (streamlining);
7736 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
7737 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
7739 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
7740 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
7741 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
7742 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
7743 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
7744 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7746 o Minor features (controller):
7747 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
7749 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
7750 Implements ticket 4971.
7752 o Minor features (IPv6):
7753 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
7754 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
7755 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
7756 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
7757 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
7759 o Minor features (log messages):
7760 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
7761 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
7762 Resolves ticket 6758.
7763 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
7764 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
7765 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
7766 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7767 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
7768 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
7769 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
7771 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
7772 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
7773 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
7774 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
7775 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
7778 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
7779 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
7780 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
7781 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
7782 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
7784 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
7785 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
7786 Implements ticket 5529.
7787 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
7788 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
7789 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
7790 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
7791 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
7792 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
7793 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
7794 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
7795 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
7796 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
7799 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
7800 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
7801 from a source distribution.)
7804 Changes in version 0.2.3.21-rc - 2012-09-05
7805 Tor 0.2.3.21-rc is the fourth release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
7806 series. It fixes a trio of potential security bugs, fixes a bug where
7807 we were leaving some of the fast relays out of the microdescriptor
7808 consensus, resumes interpreting "ORPort 0" and "DirPort 0" correctly,
7809 and cleans up other smaller issues.
7811 o Major bugfixes (security):
7812 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
7813 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
7814 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
7815 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
7816 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
7817 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0. We had committed
7818 this patch previously, but we had to revert it because of bug 6271.
7819 Now that 6271 is fixed, this patch appears to work.
7820 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
7821 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
7822 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
7823 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
7824 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
7825 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
7826 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
7827 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
7831 - Remove the upper bound on microdescriptor length. We were hitting
7832 the limit for routers with complex exit policies or family
7833 declarations, causing clients to not use them. Fixes the first
7834 piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7835 - Detect "ORPort 0" as meaning, uniformly, that we're not running
7836 as a relay. Previously, some of our code would treat the presence
7837 of any ORPort line as meaning that we should act like a relay,
7838 even though our new listener code would correctly not open any
7839 ORPorts for ORPort 0. Similar bugs in other Port options are also
7840 fixed. Fixes the first half of bug 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
7843 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
7844 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
7845 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
7846 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
7847 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7848 - Allow one-hop directory fetching circuits the full "circuit build
7849 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
7850 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
7851 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
7852 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
7853 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
7855 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
7856 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
7857 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
7859 - Detect and reject attempts to specify both "FooPort" and
7860 "FooPort 0" in the same configuration domain. (It's still okay
7861 to have a FooPort in your configuration file, and use "FooPort 0"
7862 on the command line to disable it.) Fixes the second half of bug
7863 6507; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
7864 - Make wildcarded addresses (that is, ones beginning with "*.") work
7865 when provided via the controller's MapAddress command. Previously,
7866 they were accepted, but we never actually noticed that they were
7867 wildcards. Fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
7868 - Avoid crashing on a malformed state file where EntryGuardPathBias
7869 precedes EntryGuard. Fix for bug 6774; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
7870 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
7871 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
7872 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
7875 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
7876 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
7877 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
7878 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
7879 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
7880 - Downgrade path-bias warning messages to "info". We'll try to get
7881 them working better in 0.2.4. Add internal circuit construction
7882 state to protect against the noisy warn message "Unexpectedly high
7883 circuit_successes". Also add some additional rate-limited notice
7884 messages to help determine the root cause of the warn. Fixes bug
7885 6475. Bugfix against 0.2.3.17-beta.
7886 - Move log message when unable to find a microdesc in a routerstatus
7887 entry to parse time. Previously we'd spam this warning every time
7888 we tried to figure out which microdescriptors to download. Fixes
7889 the third piece of bug 6404; fix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
7892 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
7893 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
7894 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
7895 - Add missing documentation for consensus and microdesc files.
7896 Resolves ticket 6732.
7899 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
7900 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
7901 attack that could in theory leak path information.
7904 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
7905 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
7906 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7907 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
7908 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
7909 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
7910 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
7911 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
7912 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
7913 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
7914 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
7915 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
7916 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
7917 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
7920 Changes in version 0.2.3.20-rc - 2012-08-05
7921 Tor 0.2.3.20-rc is the third release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
7922 series. It fixes a pair of code security bugs and a potential anonymity
7923 issue, updates our RPM spec files, and cleans up other smaller issues.
7926 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
7927 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
7928 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7929 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
7930 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
7931 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
7932 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
7933 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
7934 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
7935 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
7936 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
7937 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
7938 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
7939 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
7940 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
7941 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
7942 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
7945 - Try to make the warning when giving an obsolete SOCKSListenAddress
7946 a little more useful.
7947 - Terminate active server managed proxies if Tor stops being a
7948 relay. Addresses parts of bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7949 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
7950 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
7951 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
7952 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
7953 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
7956 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
7957 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7958 - Ignore ServerTransportPlugin lines when Tor is not configured as
7959 a relay. Fixes bug 6274; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
7960 - When disabling guards for having too high a proportion of failed
7961 circuits, make sure to look at each guard. Fixes bug 6397; bugfix
7965 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
7966 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
7967 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
7968 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
7969 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
7972 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
7973 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
7974 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
7977 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
7979 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
7981 o Code simplification and refactoring:
7982 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
7983 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
7984 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
7985 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
7988 Changes in version 0.2.3.19-rc - 2012-07-06
7989 Tor 0.2.3.19-rc is the second release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
7990 series. It fixes the compile on Windows, reverts to a GeoIP database
7991 that isn't as broken, and fixes a flow control bug that has been around
7992 since the beginning of Tor.
7995 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
7996 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
7997 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
7998 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
7999 - Revert to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database. In the
8000 June 2012 database, Maxmind marked many Tor relays as country "A1",
8001 which will cause risky behavior for clients that set EntryNodes
8002 or ExitNodes. Addresses bug 6334; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
8003 - Instead of ENOBUFS on Windows, say WSAENOBUFS. Fixes compilation
8004 on Windows. Fixes bug 6296; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc.
8007 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
8008 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
8011 Changes in version 0.2.3.18-rc - 2012-06-28
8012 Tor 0.2.3.18-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.3.x
8013 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
8014 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
8017 - Allow wildcarded mapaddress targets to be specified on the
8018 controlport. Partially fixes bug 6244; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8019 - Make our linker option detection code more robust against linkers
8020 such as on FreeBSD 8, where a bad combination of options completes
8021 successfully but makes an unrunnable binary. Fixes bug 6173;
8022 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
8024 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
8025 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
8026 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
8027 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
8028 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
8029 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
8030 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8031 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
8032 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
8033 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
8034 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
8035 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
8036 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
8037 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
8038 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
8039 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
8040 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8041 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
8042 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
8044 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
8045 - Make format_helper_exit_status() avoid unnecessary space padding
8046 and stop confusing log_from_pipe(). Fixes ticket 5557; bugfix
8048 - Downgrade a message about cleaning the microdescriptor cache to
8049 "info" from "notice". Fixes bug 6238; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8050 - Log a BUG message at severity INFO if we have a networkstatus with
8051 a missing entry for some microdescriptor. Continues on a patch
8053 - Improve the log message when a managed proxy fails to launch. Fixes
8054 bug 5099; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8055 - Don't do DNS lookups when parsing corrupted managed proxy protocol
8056 messages. Fixes bug 6226; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8057 - When formatting wildcarded address mappings for the controller,
8058 be sure to include "*." as appropriate. Partially fixes bug 6244;
8059 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8060 - Avoid a warning caused by using strcspn() from glibc with clang 3.0.
8061 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
8062 - Stop logging messages about running with circuit timeout learning
8063 enabled at severity LD_BUG. Fixes bug 6169; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
8064 - Disable a spurious warning about reading on a marked and flushing
8065 connection. We shouldn't be doing that, but apparently we
8066 sometimes do. Fixes bug 6203; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
8067 - Fix a bug that stopped AllowDotExit from working on addresses
8068 that had an entry in the DNS cache. Fixes bug 6211; bugfix on
8071 o Code simplification, refactoring, unit tests:
8072 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
8073 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
8074 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
8075 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal function.
8078 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new (in 0.2.3)
8079 semantics for overriding, extending, and clearing lists of
8080 options. Closes bug 4748.
8083 Changes in version 0.2.3.17-beta - 2012-06-15
8084 Tor 0.2.3.17-beta enables compiler and linker hardening by default,
8085 gets our TLS handshake back on track for being able to blend in with
8086 Firefox, fixes a big bug in 0.2.3.16-alpha that broke Tor's interaction
8087 with Vidalia, and otherwise continues to get us closer to a release
8091 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
8092 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
8094 - Implement the client side of proposal 198: remove support for
8095 clients falsely claiming to support standard ciphersuites that
8096 they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL versions, it's not
8097 necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite, and doing so prevents
8098 us from using better ciphersuites in the future, since servers
8099 can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite is really supported or
8100 not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very old versions of OpenSSL
8101 or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC disabled -- will stand
8102 out because of this change; TBB users should not be affected.
8105 - Change the default value for DynamicDHGroups (introduced in
8106 0.2.3.9-alpha) to 0. This feature can make Tor relays less
8107 identifiable by their use of the mod_ssl DH group, but at
8108 the cost of some usability (#4721) and bridge tracing (#6087)
8109 regressions. Resolves ticket 5598.
8110 - Send a CRLF at the end of each STATUS_* control protocol event. This
8111 bug tickled a bug in Vidalia which would make it freeze. Fixes
8112 bug 6094; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
8115 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
8116 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
8117 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
8118 case for flushing marked connections.
8119 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
8120 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
8121 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
8122 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
8123 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
8124 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
8125 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8126 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
8127 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8128 - Make sure circuitbuild.c checks LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in all the
8129 right places and never depends on the consensus parameters or
8130 computes adaptive timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049;
8131 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
8132 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
8133 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
8134 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
8135 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
8136 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
8137 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
8138 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
8139 and relays all have an uptime of zero, where the private Tor network
8140 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
8141 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
8142 - Correct the manpage's descriptions for the default values of
8143 DirReqStatistics and ExtraInfoStatistics. Fixes bug 2865; bugfix
8145 - Fix the documentation for the --hush and --quiet command line
8146 options, which changed their behavior back in 0.2.3.3-alpha.
8147 - Fix compilation warning with clang 3.1. Fixes bug 6141; bugfix on
8151 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
8152 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
8153 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
8154 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
8155 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
8156 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
8157 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
8158 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
8159 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
8160 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
8161 - Issue a notice if a guard completes less than 40% of your circuits.
8162 Threshold is configurable by torrc option PathBiasNoticeRate and
8163 consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is additional, off-by-
8164 default code to disable guards which fail too many circuits.
8165 Addresses ticket 5458.
8166 - Update to the June 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8168 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8169 - Remove validate_pluggable_transports_config(): its warning
8170 message is now handled by connection_or_connect().
8173 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
8174 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
8175 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
8179 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
8180 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
8181 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
8182 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
8183 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
8184 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
8185 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8186 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
8187 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
8188 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
8189 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8192 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
8193 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
8196 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
8197 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
8200 Changes in version 0.2.3.16-alpha - 2012-06-05
8201 Tor 0.2.3.16-alpha introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
8202 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
8203 currently). It also fixes a variety of smaller bugs and other cleanups
8204 that get us closer to a release candidate.
8206 o Major bugfixes (general):
8207 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
8208 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
8209 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
8210 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
8211 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
8212 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
8213 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8214 - Pass correct OR address to managed proxies (like obfsproxy),
8215 even when ORListenAddress is used. Fixes bug 4865; bugfix on
8217 - The advertised platform of a router now includes only its operating
8218 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not its
8219 service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture (for Unix).
8220 We also no longer include the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Resolves
8223 o Major bugfixes (clients):
8224 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
8225 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
8226 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
8227 which introduced predicted ports.
8228 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
8229 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
8230 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
8231 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8232 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
8233 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
8234 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
8235 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
8236 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
8237 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
8238 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8239 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
8240 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
8242 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
8243 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
8244 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
8245 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
8246 value: now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Partial
8247 fix for 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
8248 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
8249 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
8250 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
8251 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
8252 but would let it pass otherwise. Partial fix for bug 5786; bugfix
8256 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
8257 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
8258 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
8259 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
8260 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
8261 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
8262 - Allow packagers to insert an extra string in server descriptor
8263 platform lines by setting the preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG.
8264 Resolves the rest of ticket 2988.
8265 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
8266 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
8267 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
8268 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
8269 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
8271 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the
8272 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
8273 - Improve log messages about managed transports. Resolves ticket 5070.
8274 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
8275 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
8276 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
8277 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
8278 sure. Closes bug 5139.
8279 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
8280 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
8281 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
8282 it's dormant (bug 4718). Fixes bug 5954.
8283 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
8284 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
8285 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8287 o Minor bugfixes (already included in 0.2.2.36):
8288 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
8289 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
8290 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
8291 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
8292 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
8293 Esteban Manchado VelĂ¡zques.
8294 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
8295 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
8296 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
8297 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
8298 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
8299 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
8300 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
8301 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
8302 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
8303 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
8304 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
8305 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
8306 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
8308 o Minor bugfixes (coding cleanup, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
8309 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
8310 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
8311 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
8312 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
8313 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
8314 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
8315 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
8316 network is disabled or the nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes
8317 bug 5916; bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha (for the unconfigurable
8318 nameserver case) and on 0.2.3.9-alpha (for the DisableNetwork case).
8319 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
8320 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
8322 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
8323 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8324 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
8325 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
8327 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
8328 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
8329 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8330 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed
8331 SETCIRCUITPURPOSE command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796;
8332 bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8333 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
8334 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
8335 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
8336 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
8338 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
8339 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
8340 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
8342 o Minor bugfixes (correctness, on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
8343 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
8344 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
8345 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
8346 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
8347 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
8348 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
8349 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
8350 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
8351 - If the configuration tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
8352 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
8353 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
8354 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
8355 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
8356 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
8357 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8358 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
8359 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
8360 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
8361 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
8363 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
8364 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
8365 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
8366 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
8367 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
8368 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
8370 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
8371 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
8372 by Esteban Manchado VelĂ¡zquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
8374 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
8375 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
8376 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
8377 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
8378 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
8379 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36 and 0.2.3.13-alpha.
8381 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
8382 - Turn an assertion (that the number of handshakes received as a
8383 server is not < 1) into a warning. Fixes bug 4873; bugfix on
8385 - Format IPv4 addresses correctly in ADDRMAP events. (Previously,
8386 we had reversed them when the answer was cached.) Fixes bug
8387 5723; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8388 - Work correctly on Linux systems with accept4 support advertised in
8389 their headers, but without accept4 support in the kernel. Fix
8390 by murb. Fixes bug 5762; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8391 - When told to add a bridge with the same addr:port as a preexisting
8392 bridge but a different transport, change the transport as
8393 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
8394 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
8395 - Avoid a "double-reply" warning when replying to a SOCKS request
8396 with a parse error. Patch from Fabian Keil. Fixes bug 4108;
8397 bugfix on 0.2.3.4-alpha.
8398 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes if it has seen no
8399 directory requests when it's time to write statistics to disk.
8400 Fixes bug 5891; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Also fixes bug 5508 in
8402 - Don't try to open non-control listeners when DisableNetwork is set.
8403 Previously, we'd open all listeners, then immediately close them.
8404 Fixes bug 5604; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8405 - Don't abort the managed proxy protocol if the managed proxy
8406 sends us an unrecognized line; ignore it instead. Fixes bug
8407 5910; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8408 - Fix a compile warning in crypto.c when compiling with clang 3.1.
8409 Fixes bug 5969, bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8410 - Fix a compilation issue on GNU Hurd, which doesn't have PATH_MAX.
8411 Fixes bug 5355; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8412 - Remove bogus definition of "_WIN32" from src/win32/orconfig.h, to
8413 unbreak the MSVC build. Fixes bug 5858; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
8414 - Resolve numerous small warnings and build issues with MSVC. Resolves
8417 o Documentation fixes:
8418 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
8419 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
8420 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
8421 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
8422 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
8423 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
8426 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
8427 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
8431 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
8432 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
8433 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
8434 and fixes several crash bugs.
8436 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
8437 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
8438 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
8439 those packages and upgrade anyway.
8441 o Directory authority changes:
8442 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
8443 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
8447 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
8448 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
8449 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
8450 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
8451 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
8452 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
8453 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
8454 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
8455 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
8456 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
8457 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
8458 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
8459 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
8460 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
8461 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
8462 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
8463 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
8464 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
8465 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
8466 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
8467 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
8468 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
8469 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
8470 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
8471 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
8472 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
8473 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
8476 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
8477 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8478 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
8479 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
8481 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
8482 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
8484 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
8485 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
8486 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
8487 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
8488 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
8489 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
8490 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
8491 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
8494 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
8495 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
8496 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
8497 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
8498 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
8499 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
8500 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
8501 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
8502 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
8503 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
8504 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
8505 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
8506 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
8507 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
8508 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
8509 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
8510 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
8511 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
8512 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
8513 Esteban Manchado VelĂ¡zques.
8514 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
8515 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
8516 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
8517 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
8518 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
8519 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
8520 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
8521 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
8522 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado VelĂ¡zquez, and
8523 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
8524 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
8525 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
8526 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8527 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
8528 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8529 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
8530 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
8531 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
8532 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
8533 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8534 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
8535 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
8536 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
8537 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
8538 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
8539 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
8541 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
8542 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
8543 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
8544 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
8545 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
8546 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
8547 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
8548 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
8549 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
8550 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
8551 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8552 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
8553 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
8554 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
8555 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
8558 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
8559 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
8560 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
8561 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
8563 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8566 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
8567 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
8568 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
8569 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
8570 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
8571 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
8572 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
8575 Changes in version 0.2.3.15-alpha - 2012-04-30
8576 Tor 0.2.3.15-alpha fixes a variety of smaller bugs, including making
8577 the development branch build on Windows again.
8579 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
8580 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
8581 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
8582 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
8583 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
8584 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
8585 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
8586 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
8587 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
8588 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
8589 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
8590 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
8591 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
8592 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
8593 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
8595 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
8596 - When Tor is built with kernel headers from a recent (last few
8597 years) Linux kernel, do not fail to run on older (pre-2.6.28
8598 Linux kernels). Fixes bug 5112; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8599 - Fix cross-compilation issues with mingw. Bugfixes on 0.2.3.6-alpha
8601 - Fix compilation with miniupnpc version 1.6; patch from
8602 Anthony G. Basile. Fixes bug 5434; bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha.
8603 - Fix compilation with MSVC, which had defined MS_WINDOWS. Bugfix
8604 on 0.2.3.13-alpha; found and fixed by Gisle Vanem.
8605 - Fix compilation on platforms without unistd.h, or where environ
8606 is defined in stdlib.h. Fixes bug 5704; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
8609 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
8610 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
8611 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
8612 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
8613 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
8614 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
8615 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
8616 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
8617 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
8620 - Remove the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays option;
8621 authorities needed to use it for a while to keep the network working
8622 as people upgraded to 0.2.1.31, 0.2.2.34, or 0.2.3.6-alpha, but
8623 that was six months ago. As of now, it should no longer be needed
8627 Changes in version 0.2.3.14-alpha - 2012-04-23
8628 Tor 0.2.3.14-alpha fixes yet more bugs to get us closer to a release
8629 candidate. It also dramatically speeds up AES: fast relays should
8630 consider switching to the newer OpenSSL library.
8632 o Directory authority changes:
8633 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
8637 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
8638 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
8639 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
8640 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
8642 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
8643 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
8644 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
8645 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
8647 - When we start a Tor client with a normal consensus already cached,
8648 be willing to download a microdescriptor consensus. Fixes bug 4011;
8649 fix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8651 o Major features (performance):
8652 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
8653 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
8654 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
8655 much faster than other AES implementations.
8657 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.2.x and earlier):
8658 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
8659 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
8660 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
8661 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
8662 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
8663 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
8664 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
8665 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
8666 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
8667 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
8668 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
8669 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
8670 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
8671 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
8672 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
8673 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
8674 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
8676 o Minor bugfixes (0.2.3.x):
8677 - Fix a bug where a bridge authority crashes (on a failed assert)
8678 if it has seen no directory requests when it's time to write
8679 statistics to disk. Fixes bug 5508. Bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8680 - Fix bug stomping on ORPort option NoListen and ignoring option
8681 NoAdvertise. Fixes bug 5151; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8682 - In the testsuite, provide a large enough buffer in the tor_sscanf
8683 unit test. Otherwise we'd overrun that buffer and crash during
8684 the unit tests. Found by weasel. Fixes bug 5449; bugfix on
8686 - Make sure we create the keys directory if it doesn't exist and we're
8687 about to store the dynamic Diffie-Hellman parameters. Fixes bug
8688 5572; bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
8689 - Fix a small memory leak when trying to decode incorrect base16
8690 authenticator during SAFECOOKIE authentication. Found by
8691 Coverity Scan. Fixes CID 507. Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha.
8694 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
8695 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
8696 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
8697 please let us know about it.
8698 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
8699 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
8700 - Resolve IPv6 addresses in bridge and entry statistics to country
8701 code "??" which means we at least count them. Resolves ticket 5053;
8702 improves on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8703 - Update to the April 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8704 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
8705 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
8707 o Default torrc changes:
8708 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
8709 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
8711 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
8712 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
8713 - Document unit of bandwidth related options in sample torrc.
8717 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
8718 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
8719 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
8720 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
8723 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
8724 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
8725 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
8726 it would be a bad idea to start.
8729 Changes in version 0.2.3.13-alpha - 2012-03-26
8730 Tor 0.2.3.13-alpha fixes a variety of stability and correctness bugs
8731 in managed pluggable transports, as well as providing other cleanups
8732 that get us closer to a release candidate.
8734 o Directory authority changes:
8735 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
8738 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
8739 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
8740 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
8741 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
8742 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
8743 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
8744 this attack. Fixes bug 5185, implements proposal 193.
8745 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
8746 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
8747 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
8748 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
8749 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
8750 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
8751 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
8752 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
8753 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
8755 o Major bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
8756 - Avoid an assert when managed proxies like obfsproxy are configured,
8757 and we receive HUP signals or setconf attempts too rapidly. This
8758 situation happens most commonly when Vidalia tries to attach to
8759 Tor or tries to configure the Tor it's attached to. Fixes bug 5084;
8760 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8761 - Fix a relay-side pluggable transports bug where managed proxies were
8762 unreachable from the Internet, because Tor asked them to bind on
8763 localhost. Fixes bug 4725; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8764 - Stop discarding command-line arguments when TestingTorNetwork
8765 is set. Discovered by Kevin Bauer. Fixes bug 5373; bugfix on
8766 0.2.3.9-alpha, where task 4552 added support for two layers of
8768 - Resume allowing the unit tests to run in gdb. This was accidentally
8769 made impossible when the DisableDebuggerAttachment option was
8770 introduced. Fixes bug 5448; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8771 - Resume building with nat-pmp support. Fixes bug 4955; bugfix on
8772 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
8774 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
8775 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
8776 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
8777 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
8778 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
8779 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
8780 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
8781 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
8782 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado VelĂ¡zquez, and
8783 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
8784 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
8785 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
8786 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8787 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
8788 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
8789 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
8790 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
8791 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
8792 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
8793 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
8794 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
8795 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
8798 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
8799 - On a failed pipe() call, don't leak file descriptors. Fixes bug
8800 4296; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8801 - Spec conformance: on a v3 handshake, do not send a NETINFO cell
8802 until after we have received a CERTS cell. Fixes bug 4361; bugfix
8803 on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by "frosty".
8804 - When binding to an IPv6 address, set the IPV6_V6ONLY socket
8805 option, so that the IP stack doesn't decide to use it for IPv4
8806 too. Fixes bug 4760; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
8807 - Ensure that variables set in Tor's environment cannot override
8808 environment variables that Tor passes to a managed
8809 pluggable-transport proxy. Previously, Tor would pass every
8810 variable in its environment to managed proxies along with the new
8811 ones, in such a way that on many operating systems, the inherited
8812 environment variables would override those which Tor tried to
8813 explicitly set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.12-alpha for most Unixoid systems;
8814 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha for Windows.
8817 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado VelĂ¡zquez.
8818 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
8819 - Update to the March 6 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8822 Changes in version 0.2.3.12-alpha - 2012-02-13
8823 Tor 0.2.3.12-alpha lets fast exit relays scale better, allows clients
8824 to use bridges that run Tor 0.2.2.x, and resolves several big bugs
8825 when Tor is configured to use a pluggable transport like obfsproxy.
8828 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
8829 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
8831 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
8832 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
8833 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
8834 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
8835 - Allow 0.2.3.x clients to use 0.2.2.x bridges. Previously the client
8836 would ask the bridge for microdescriptors, which are only supported
8837 in 0.2.3.x, and then fail to bootstrap when it didn't get the
8838 answers it wanted. Fixes bug 4013; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
8839 - Properly set up obfsproxy's environment when in managed mode. The
8840 Tor Browser Bundle needs LD_LIBRARY_PATH to be passed to obfsproxy,
8841 and when you run your Tor as a daemon, there's no HOME. Fixes bugs
8842 5076 and 5082; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
8845 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
8846 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
8847 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
8848 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
8849 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
8850 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
8851 - Update to the February 7 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8854 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
8855 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
8856 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
8857 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8858 - Don't put "TOR_PT_EXTENDED_SERVER_PORT=127.0.0.1:4200" in a
8859 managed pluggable transport server proxy's environment.
8860 Previously, we would put it there, even though Tor doesn't
8861 implement an 'extended server port' yet, and even though Tor
8862 almost certainly isn't listening at that address. For now, we set
8863 it to an empty string to avoid crashing older obfsproxies. Bugfix
8865 - Log the heartbeat message every HeartbeatPeriod seconds, not every
8866 HeartbeatPeriod + 1 seconds. Fixes bug 4942; bugfix on
8867 0.2.3.1-alpha. Bug reported by Scott Bennett.
8868 - Calculate absolute paths correctly on Windows. Fixes bug 4973;
8869 bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
8870 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
8871 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
8872 - Use the correct CVE number for CVE-2011-4576 in our comments and
8873 log messages. Found by "fermenthor". Resolves bug 5066; bugfix on
8876 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8877 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
8878 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
8882 Changes in version 0.2.3.11-alpha - 2012-01-22
8883 Tor 0.2.3.11-alpha marks feature-freeze for the 0.2.3 tree. It deploys
8884 the last step of the plan to limit maximum circuit length, includes
8885 a wide variety of hidden service performance and correctness fixes,
8886 works around an OpenSSL security flaw if your distro is too stubborn
8887 to upgrade, and fixes a bunch of smaller issues.
8890 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
8891 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
8892 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
8893 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
8894 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
8895 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
8896 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
8897 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
8899 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
8900 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
8901 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
8902 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
8903 software warned about binding to UDP sockets, regardless of
8904 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
8905 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
8906 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
8908 o Major security workaround:
8909 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
8910 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
8911 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
8912 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
8913 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
8914 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
8915 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
8916 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
8917 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
8918 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
8919 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
8922 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
8923 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
8924 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
8925 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
8926 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
8927 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
8928 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
8929 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha and 0.2.3.1-alpha.
8930 - Do not use OpenSSL 1.0.0's counter mode: it has a critical bug
8931 that was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a. We test for the counter mode
8932 bug at runtime, not compile time, because some distributions hack
8933 their OpenSSL to mis-report its version. Fixes bug 4779; bugfix
8934 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by Pascal.
8936 o Minor features (controller):
8937 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
8938 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
8939 file. Resolves bug 1101.
8940 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
8941 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
8942 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
8943 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
8944 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
8945 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
8947 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
8948 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
8949 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
8950 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
8951 part of ticket 3457.
8952 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
8953 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
8954 circuit-status' control-port command.
8956 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8957 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
8958 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
8959 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
8960 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
8962 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
8963 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
8964 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
8965 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
8966 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
8967 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
8968 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
8970 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
8971 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
8973 o Minor features (other):
8974 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
8975 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
8976 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
8977 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
8978 - Prepend an informative header to generated dynamic_dh_params files.
8979 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
8980 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
8981 - Log more useful messages when we fail to disable debugger
8983 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
8984 them from the other auths.
8985 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
8986 - Add missing documentation for the MaxClientCircuitsPending,
8987 UseMicrodescriptors, UserspaceIOCPBuffers, and
8988 _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents options, all introduced during
8990 - Update to the January 3 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8992 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8993 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
8994 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
8995 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
8996 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
8997 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
8998 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
8999 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
9000 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
9001 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
9002 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9003 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
9004 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
9005 be disabled using the new
9006 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
9007 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
9008 - Make sure we never mark the wrong rendezvous circuit as having
9009 had its introduction cell acknowleged by the introduction-point
9010 relay. Previously, when we received an INTRODUCE_ACK cell on a
9011 client-side hidden-service introduction circuit, we might have
9012 marked a rendezvous circuit other than the one we specified in
9013 the INTRODUCE1 cell as INTRO_ACKED, which would have produced
9014 a warning message and interfered with the hidden service
9015 connection-establishment process. Fixes bug 4759; bugfix on
9016 0.2.3.3-alpha, when we added the stream-isolation feature which
9017 might cause Tor to open multiple rendezvous circuits for the same
9019 - Don't trigger an assertion failure when we mark a new client-side
9020 hidden-service introduction circuit for close during the process
9021 of creating it. Fixes bug 4796; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported
9024 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
9025 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
9026 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta and
9028 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
9029 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
9030 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
9031 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
9032 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9033 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
9034 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
9036 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
9037 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
9038 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
9039 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
9040 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
9041 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
9042 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
9043 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
9045 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
9046 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
9047 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
9048 - Preprocessor directives should not be put inside the arguments
9049 of a macro. This would break compilation with GCC releases prior
9050 to version 3.3. We would never recommend such an old GCC version,
9051 but it is apparently required for binary compatibility on some
9052 platforms (namely, certain builds of Haiku). Fixes the other part
9053 of bug 4727; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin
9056 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9057 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
9058 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
9059 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
9060 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
9061 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
9062 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
9063 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
9064 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
9065 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un". This was
9066 erroneously listed as fixed in 0.2.3.9-alpha, but the fix had
9067 accidentally been reverted.
9068 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
9069 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
9070 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
9071 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
9072 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
9073 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
9074 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
9075 - Fix an assertion failure when, while running with bufferevents, a
9076 connection finishes connecting after it is marked for close, but
9077 before it is closed. Fixes bug 4697; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9078 - test_util_spawn_background_ok() hardcoded the expected value
9079 for ENOENT to 2. This isn't portable as error numbers are
9080 platform specific, and particularly the hurd has ENOENT at
9081 0x40000002. Construct expected string at runtime, using the correct
9082 value for ENOENT. Fixes bug 4733; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9083 - Reject attempts to disable DisableDebuggerAttachment while Tor is
9084 running. Fixes bug 4650; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
9085 - Use an appropriate-width type for sockets in tor-fw-helper on
9086 win64. Fixes bug 1983 at last. Bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
9089 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
9090 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
9091 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
9092 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
9093 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
9094 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
9095 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
9097 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9098 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
9099 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
9100 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
9101 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
9102 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
9103 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
9105 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
9106 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
9107 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
9108 invalid value, rather than just -1.
9109 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
9110 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
9111 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
9112 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
9113 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
9114 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
9115 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
9119 Changes in version 0.2.3.10-alpha - 2011-12-16
9120 Tor 0.2.3.10-alpha fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in
9121 Tor's buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
9123 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
9124 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
9125 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
9126 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
9127 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
9128 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
9129 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
9130 (which Tor does not do by default).
9132 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
9133 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
9134 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
9135 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
9136 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
9138 This release also contains a few minor bugfixes for issues discovered
9142 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
9143 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
9144 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
9145 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
9148 - If we can't attach streams to a rendezvous circuit when we
9149 finish connecting to a hidden service, clear the rendezvous
9150 circuit's stream-isolation state and try to attach streams
9151 again. Previously, we cleared rendezvous circuits' isolation
9152 state either too early (if they were freshly built) or not at all
9153 (if they had been built earlier and were cannibalized). Bugfix on
9154 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 4655.
9155 - Fix compilation of the libnatpmp helper on non-Windows. Bugfix on
9156 0.2.3.9-alpha; fixes bug 4691. Reported by Anthony G. Basile.
9157 - Fix an assertion failure when a relay with accounting enabled
9158 starts up while dormant. Fixes bug 4702; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
9161 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9164 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
9165 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
9166 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
9168 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
9169 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
9170 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
9171 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
9172 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
9173 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
9174 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
9175 (which Tor does not do by default).
9177 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
9178 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
9179 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
9180 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
9181 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
9183 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
9184 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
9185 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
9188 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
9189 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
9190 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
9191 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
9192 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
9194 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
9195 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
9198 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
9199 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
9200 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
9201 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
9202 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
9203 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
9204 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
9205 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
9207 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
9208 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
9209 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
9210 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
9211 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
9212 close based on processing a cell on it.
9213 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
9214 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
9215 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
9216 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9217 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
9218 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
9219 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9220 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
9221 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
9222 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
9223 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
9224 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
9225 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
9226 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
9227 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
9230 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
9231 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
9232 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
9233 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
9234 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
9235 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
9236 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
9238 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
9239 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
9240 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
9241 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
9242 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
9243 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
9244 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
9245 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
9246 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9247 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
9248 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
9249 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
9250 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
9251 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9252 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
9253 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
9254 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
9255 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
9256 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
9257 Reported by "troll_un".
9258 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
9259 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9260 Reported by "troll_un".
9261 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
9262 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
9263 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
9264 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
9267 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
9268 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
9269 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
9270 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
9271 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
9272 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
9273 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
9274 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
9275 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
9276 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
9277 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9279 o Packaging changes:
9280 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
9281 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
9284 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
9285 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
9286 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
9287 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
9288 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
9290 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
9291 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
9293 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
9294 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
9295 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
9296 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
9297 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9298 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
9299 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
9300 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
9301 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
9304 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9307 Changes in version 0.2.3.9-alpha - 2011-12-08
9308 Tor 0.2.3.9-alpha introduces initial IPv6 support for bridges, adds
9309 a "DisableNetwork" security feature that bundles can use to avoid
9310 touching the network until bridges are configured, moves forward on
9311 the pluggable transport design, fixes a flaw in the hidden service
9312 design that unnecessarily prevented clients with wrong clocks from
9313 reaching hidden services, and fixes a wide variety of other issues.
9316 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
9317 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
9318 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
9319 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
9320 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
9321 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
9322 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
9323 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
9324 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
9325 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
9326 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
9327 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
9328 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
9329 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins. It
9330 implements the "managed proxy" part of proposal 180 (ticket 3472).
9331 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
9332 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
9333 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
9334 Resolves ticket 4526.
9335 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
9336 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
9337 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
9338 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
9339 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
9340 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
9341 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
9342 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
9343 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
9344 no effect unless Tor has been built with support for bufferevents,
9345 is running on Windows, and has enabled IOCP. This may, in the long
9346 run, help solve or mitigate bug 98.
9347 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
9348 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
9349 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
9350 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
9353 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
9354 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
9355 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
9356 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
9357 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
9358 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
9359 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
9360 - Only use the EVP interface when AES acceleration is enabled,
9361 to avoid a 5-7% performance regression. Resolves issue 4525;
9362 bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
9364 o Privacy/anonymity features (bridge detection):
9365 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
9366 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
9367 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
9368 - Introduce a new config option "DynamicDHGroups", enabled by
9369 default, which provides each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus
9370 to be used during SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help
9371 against censors who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static
9372 identifier for bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
9374 o Minor features (new/different config options):
9375 - New configuration option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
9376 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
9377 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
9378 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
9379 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
9380 Implements issue 933.
9381 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
9382 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
9383 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
9384 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
9385 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
9386 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
9387 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
9388 appending to the list.
9389 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
9390 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
9391 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
9392 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
9394 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
9395 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
9396 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
9397 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
9398 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
9399 reloads both files. (Note: This is an experimental feature; its
9400 behavior will probably be refined in future 0.2.3.x-alpha versions
9401 to better meet packagers' needs.) Implements task 4552.
9404 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
9405 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
9406 Resolves ticket 2474.
9407 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
9408 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
9409 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
9410 Required by fix for bug 3460.
9411 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
9412 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
9413 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
9414 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
9415 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
9416 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
9417 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
9418 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
9419 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
9421 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier):
9422 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
9423 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
9425 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
9427 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
9428 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
9430 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
9431 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
9432 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
9433 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
9434 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
9435 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
9436 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
9438 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str() on an address of
9439 unknown type, we would have done a strdup() on an uninitialized
9440 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
9441 Reported by "troll_un".
9442 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
9443 tor_addr_lookup(). Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9444 Reported by "troll_un".
9445 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
9446 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
9447 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
9448 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
9450 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.3.x):
9451 - Fix a compile warning in tor_inet_pton(). Bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha;
9453 - Don't send two ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cells when opening a new
9454 circuit for use as a hidden service client's rendezvous point.
9455 Fixes bugs 4641 and 4171; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Diagnosed
9456 with help from wanoskarnet.
9457 - Restore behavior of overriding SocksPort, ORPort, and similar
9458 options from the command line. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
9461 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
9462 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
9463 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
9464 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9466 o Code simplifications, cleanups, and refactorings:
9467 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
9468 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
9469 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
9470 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
9471 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
9472 - Remove some dead code spotted by coverity. Fixes cid 432.
9473 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha, closes bug 4637.
9476 Changes in version 0.2.3.8-alpha - 2011-11-22
9477 Tor 0.2.3.8-alpha fixes some crash and assert bugs, including a
9478 socketpair-related bug that has been bothering Windows users. It adds
9479 support to serve microdescriptors to controllers, so Vidalia's network
9480 map can resume listing relays (once Vidalia implements its side),
9481 and adds better support for hardware AES acceleration. Finally, it
9482 starts the process of adjusting the bandwidth cutoff for getting the
9483 "Fast" flag from 20KB to (currently) 32KB -- preliminary results show
9484 that tiny relays harm performance more than they help network capacity.
9487 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
9488 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
9489 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
9490 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
9492 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
9493 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
9494 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
9495 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
9496 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
9497 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
9498 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
9499 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
9500 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
9501 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
9502 - Fix a rare assertion failure when checking whether a v0 hidden
9503 service descriptor has any usable introduction points left, and
9504 we don't have enough information to build a circuit to the first
9505 intro point named in the descriptor. The HS client code in
9506 0.2.3.x no longer uses v0 HS descriptors, but this assertion can
9507 trigger on (and crash) v0 HS authorities. Fixes bug 4411.
9508 Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha; diagnosed by frosty_un.
9509 - Make bridge authorities not crash when they are asked for their own
9510 descriptor. Bugfix on 0.2.3.7-alpha, reported by Lucky Green.
9511 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
9512 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
9513 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
9514 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
9515 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34 and 0.2.3.7-alpha.
9518 - Allow Tor controllers like Vidalia to obtain the microdescriptor
9519 for a relay by identity digest or nickname. Previously,
9520 microdescriptors were only available by their own digests, so a
9521 controller would have to ask for and parse the whole microdescriptor
9522 consensus in order to look up a single relay's microdesc. Fixes
9523 bug 3832; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9524 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
9525 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
9528 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
9529 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
9530 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
9531 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
9532 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
9533 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
9534 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
9535 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
9536 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
9537 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
9538 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
9539 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
9540 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
9541 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
9542 tor_inet_ntop. Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
9544 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
9545 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
9546 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
9547 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
9548 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
9549 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
9550 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
9551 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9552 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
9553 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
9554 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
9555 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
9556 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
9557 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9558 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
9559 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
9560 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
9562 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
9563 - Make util unit tests build correctly with MSVC. Bugfix on
9564 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Gisle Vanem.
9565 - Successfully detect AUTH_CHALLENGE cells with no recognized
9566 authentication type listed. Fixes bug 4367; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9568 - If a relay receives an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell it can't answer,
9569 it should still send a NETINFO cell to allow the connection to
9570 become open. Fixes bug 4368; fix on 0.2.3.6-alpha; bug found by
9572 - Log less loudly when we get an invalid authentication certificate
9573 from a source other than a directory authority: it's not unusual
9574 to see invalid certs because of clock skew. Fixes bug 4370; bugfix
9576 - Tolerate servers with more clock skew in their authentication
9577 certificates than previously. Fixes bug 4371; bugfix on
9579 - Fix a couple of compile warnings on Windows. Fixes bug 4469; bugfix
9580 on 0.2.3.4-alpha and 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9583 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
9584 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
9585 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
9586 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
9587 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
9588 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
9589 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
9590 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
9591 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
9592 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
9593 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
9594 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
9595 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
9596 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
9598 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
9599 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
9600 - Update to the November 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9602 o Packaging changes:
9603 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
9604 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
9606 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9607 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
9608 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
9609 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
9610 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
9611 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
9612 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
9613 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
9614 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
9617 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
9619 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
9620 ./src/test/bench binary.
9621 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
9622 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
9625 Changes in version 0.2.3.7-alpha - 2011-10-30
9626 Tor 0.2.3.7-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.3.6-alpha introduced by
9627 the new v3 handshake. It also resolves yet another bridge address
9631 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
9632 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
9633 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
9634 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
9635 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
9636 close based on processing a cell on it.
9637 - Fix a double-free bug that would occur when we received an invalid
9638 certificate in a CERT cell in the new v3 handshake. Fixes bug 4343;
9639 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
9640 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
9641 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
9642 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
9643 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
9644 cells were introduced.
9647 - Fixed a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
9648 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
9651 Changes in version 0.2.3.6-alpha - 2011-10-26
9652 Tor 0.2.3.6-alpha includes the fix from 0.2.2.34 for a critical
9653 anonymity vulnerability where an attacker can deanonymize Tor
9654 users. Everybody should upgrade.
9656 This release also features support for a new v3 connection handshake
9657 protocol, and fixes to make hidden service connections more robust.
9660 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
9661 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
9662 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
9663 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
9664 - Allow variable-length padding cells to disguise the length of
9665 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
9667 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
9668 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
9669 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
9670 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
9671 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
9672 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
9673 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
9674 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
9675 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
9676 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
9677 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
9678 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
9679 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
9680 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
9681 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
9682 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
9683 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
9684 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
9687 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9688 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
9689 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
9690 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
9691 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
9692 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
9693 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
9694 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
9695 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
9696 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
9697 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
9698 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
9699 Partly fixes bug 3825.
9700 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
9701 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
9702 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
9703 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
9704 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
9705 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
9706 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
9708 o Major bugfixes (other):
9709 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
9710 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
9711 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
9712 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9713 Found by "frosty_un".
9714 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
9715 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
9716 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
9717 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
9718 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by BryonEldridge, who also helped
9719 immensely in tracking this bug down.
9720 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
9721 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
9724 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
9725 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
9726 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
9727 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
9728 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
9729 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
9730 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
9731 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
9732 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
9733 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
9734 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
9735 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
9736 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
9737 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
9738 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
9739 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
9740 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
9741 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
9742 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
9743 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
9744 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
9746 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x):
9747 - Fix a bug in configure.in that kept it from building a configure
9748 script with autoconf versions earlier than 2.61. Fixes bug 2430;
9749 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
9750 - Don't warn users that they are exposing a client port to the
9751 Internet if they have specified an RFC1918 address. Previously,
9752 we would warn if the user had specified any non-loopback
9753 address. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha. Fixes bug 4018; reported by Tas.
9754 - Fix memory leaks in the failing cases of the new SocksPort and
9755 ControlPort code. Found by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha;
9756 fixes coverity CIDs 485, 486, and 487.
9759 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
9760 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
9761 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
9762 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
9763 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
9764 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
9765 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
9766 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
9767 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
9768 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
9769 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
9770 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
9771 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
9772 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9774 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
9775 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
9776 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
9777 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
9778 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
9779 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
9780 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
9781 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
9784 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
9785 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
9786 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
9788 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
9789 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
9790 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
9791 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
9792 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
9793 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
9794 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
9795 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
9796 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
9797 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
9798 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
9799 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
9800 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
9802 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
9803 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
9804 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
9805 currently connected to them.
9807 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
9808 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
9809 remain; see for example proposal 188.
9811 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
9812 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
9813 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
9814 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
9815 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
9816 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
9817 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
9818 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
9819 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
9820 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
9821 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
9822 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
9823 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
9824 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
9825 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
9826 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
9827 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
9828 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
9831 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
9832 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
9833 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
9834 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
9835 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
9836 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
9837 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
9838 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
9839 when bridges were introduced.
9840 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
9841 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
9842 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
9843 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9844 Found by "frosty_un".
9847 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
9848 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
9850 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
9851 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
9852 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
9853 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
9854 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
9855 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
9856 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
9859 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
9860 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
9861 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
9862 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
9863 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
9864 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
9865 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
9866 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
9867 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
9868 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
9869 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
9870 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
9871 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
9872 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
9873 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
9874 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
9875 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
9876 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
9878 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
9879 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
9880 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
9881 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
9882 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
9883 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
9884 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
9885 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
9886 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
9887 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
9888 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
9889 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
9892 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
9893 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
9894 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
9895 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
9898 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
9899 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
9900 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
9901 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
9902 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
9904 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
9905 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
9906 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
9907 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
9908 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
9909 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
9910 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
9911 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
9912 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
9913 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
9915 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
9916 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
9917 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
9918 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
9919 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
9920 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
9921 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
9922 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
9923 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
9924 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
9925 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
9926 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
9927 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
9928 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
9929 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9930 Found by "frosty_un".
9931 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
9932 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
9933 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
9934 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
9935 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
9936 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
9937 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
9938 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
9939 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
9940 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
9941 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
9942 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
9943 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9944 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
9945 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
9946 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
9947 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
9948 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
9949 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
9951 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
9952 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
9953 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
9954 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
9955 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
9956 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
9957 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
9958 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
9960 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
9961 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
9962 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
9963 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
9964 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
9965 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
9966 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
9967 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
9968 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
9969 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
9970 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
9971 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
9973 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
9974 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9975 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
9976 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9977 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
9978 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9979 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
9980 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
9981 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
9983 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
9985 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
9986 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
9987 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
9988 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9989 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
9990 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
9991 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
9992 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
9994 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
9995 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
9996 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
9997 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
9998 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
10000 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
10001 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
10002 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
10003 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
10004 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10007 Changes in version 0.2.3.5-alpha - 2011-09-28
10008 Tor 0.2.3.5-alpha fixes two bugs that make it possible to enumerate
10009 bridge relays; fixes an assertion error that many users started hitting
10010 today; and adds the ability to refill token buckets more often than
10011 once per second, allowing significant performance improvements.
10014 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
10015 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
10016 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
10017 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
10018 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
10019 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
10020 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
10021 when bridges were introduced.
10024 - Fix an "Assertion md->held_by_node == 1 failed" error that could
10025 occur when the same microdescriptor was referenced by two node_t
10026 objects at once. Fix for bug 4118; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10028 o Major features (networking):
10029 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
10030 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
10031 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
10032 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
10033 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
10037 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
10038 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
10039 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
10041 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
10042 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
10043 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
10044 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
10045 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
10047 o Minor features (diagnostics):
10048 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
10049 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
10052 Changes in version 0.2.3.4-alpha - 2011-09-13
10053 Tor 0.2.3.4-alpha includes the fixes from 0.2.2.33, including a slight
10054 tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run
10055 this new version reachable from Iran again. It also fixes a few new
10056 bugs in 0.2.3.x, and teaches relays to recognize when they're not
10057 listed in the network consensus and republish.
10059 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
10060 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
10061 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
10062 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
10064 o Minor features (security, also part of 0.2.2.33):
10065 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
10066 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
10067 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
10068 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
10069 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
10070 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
10071 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
10072 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
10073 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
10074 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
10076 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.33):
10077 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
10078 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
10079 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
10080 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
10081 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
10082 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
10083 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
10084 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
10085 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10087 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
10088 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
10089 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
10090 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
10091 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
10092 fixes part of bug 2442.
10093 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
10094 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
10095 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
10097 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
10098 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
10099 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
10100 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
10101 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10103 o Build fixes (also part of 0.2.2.33):
10104 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
10105 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
10106 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
10107 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
10110 - Fix a bug where the SocksPort option (for example) would get
10111 ignored and replaced by the default if a SocksListenAddress
10112 option was set. Bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha; fixes bug 3936. Fix by
10116 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
10117 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
10118 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
10119 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
10120 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
10121 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
10122 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
10125 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
10126 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
10127 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
10128 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
10129 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
10130 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
10131 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
10134 - Abort if tor_vasprintf fails in connection_printf_to_buf (a
10135 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
10136 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
10137 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
10138 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
10139 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
10140 - Make 'FetchUselessDescriptors' cause all descriptor types and
10141 all consensus types (including microdescriptors) to get fetched.
10142 Fixes bug 3851; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10144 o Code refactoring:
10145 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
10146 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
10149 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
10150 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
10151 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
10152 reachable from Iran again.
10155 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
10156 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
10157 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
10159 o Minor features (security):
10160 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
10161 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
10162 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
10163 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
10164 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
10165 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
10166 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
10167 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
10168 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
10169 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
10172 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
10173 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
10174 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
10175 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
10176 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
10177 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
10178 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
10179 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
10180 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10182 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
10183 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
10184 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
10185 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
10186 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
10187 raised by bug 3898.
10188 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
10189 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
10190 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
10191 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
10192 fixes part of bug 2442.
10193 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
10194 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
10195 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
10197 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
10198 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
10199 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
10200 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
10201 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10204 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
10205 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
10206 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
10207 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
10208 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
10209 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
10212 Changes in version 0.2.3.3-alpha - 2011-09-01
10213 Tor 0.2.3.3-alpha adds a new "stream isolation" feature to improve Tor's
10214 security, and provides client-side support for the microdescriptor
10215 and optimistic data features introduced earlier in the 0.2.3.x
10216 series. It also includes numerous critical bugfixes in the (optional)
10217 bufferevent-based networking backend.
10219 o Major features (stream isolation):
10220 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
10221 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
10222 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
10223 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
10224 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
10225 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
10226 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
10227 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
10228 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
10229 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
10230 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
10231 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
10232 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
10233 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
10235 o Major features (other):
10236 - Enable microdescriptor fetching by default for clients. This allows
10237 clients to download a much smaller amount of directory information.
10238 To disable it (and go back to the old-style consensus and
10239 descriptors), set "UseMicrodescriptors 0" in your torrc file.
10240 - Tor's firewall-helper feature, introduced in 0.2.3.1-alpha (see the
10241 "PortForwarding" config option), now supports Windows.
10242 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
10243 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
10244 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
10245 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
10246 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
10247 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
10248 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
10250 o Major bugfixes (bufferevents, fixes on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
10251 - When using IOCP on Windows, we need to enable Libevent windows
10253 - The IOCP backend now works even when the user has not specified
10254 the (internal, debugging-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option.
10255 Fixes part of bug 3752.
10256 - Correctly record the bytes we've read and written when using
10257 bufferevents, so that we can include them in our bandwidth history
10258 and advertised bandwidth. Fixes bug 3803.
10259 - Apply rate-limiting only at the bottom of a chain of filtering
10260 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal read
10261 buffers and violating rate-limits when filtering bufferevents
10262 are enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
10263 - Add high-watermarks to the output buffers for filtered
10264 bufferevents. This prevents us from filling up internal write
10265 buffers and wasting CPU cycles when filtering bufferevents are
10266 enabled. Fixes part of bug 3804.
10267 - Correctly notice when data has been written from a bufferevent
10268 without flushing it completely. Fixes bug 3805.
10269 - Fix a bug where server-side tunneled bufferevent-based directory
10270 streams would get closed prematurely. Fixes bug 3814.
10271 - Fix a use-after-free error with per-connection rate-limiting
10272 buckets. Fixes bug 3888.
10274 o Major bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
10275 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
10276 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
10277 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
10278 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
10279 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
10282 - Added a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
10283 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
10284 user. Implements ticket 1692.
10285 - Use evbuffer_copyout() in inspect_evbuffer(). This fixes a memory
10286 leak when using bufferevents, and lets Libevent worry about how to
10287 best copy data out of a buffer.
10288 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
10289 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
10290 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
10292 o Minor features (build compatibility):
10293 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
10294 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
10295 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
10297 o Minor features (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
10298 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10300 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.x-alpha):
10301 - Fix a spurious warning when parsing SOCKS requests with
10302 bufferevents enabled. Fixes bug 3615; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
10303 - Get rid of a harmless warning that could happen on relays running
10304 with bufferevents. The warning was caused by someone doing an http
10305 request to a relay's orport. Also don't warn for a few related
10306 non-errors. Fixes bug 3700; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
10308 o Minor bugfixes (on 2.2.x and earlier):
10309 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
10310 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
10311 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
10312 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
10313 raised by bug 3898.
10314 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
10315 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
10316 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
10319 o Minor bugfixes (also part of 0.2.2.31-rc):
10320 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
10321 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
10322 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
10323 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
10324 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
10325 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
10326 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
10327 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
10328 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
10329 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
10330 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10331 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
10332 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
10333 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
10334 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
10335 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
10336 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
10337 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
10340 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10341 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
10342 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
10346 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
10347 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
10348 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
10349 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
10350 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
10351 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
10354 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
10355 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
10356 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
10357 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
10358 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
10359 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
10360 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
10361 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
10362 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
10363 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
10365 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
10366 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
10367 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
10368 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
10369 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
10370 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
10371 many many other features and bugfixes.
10374 Changes in version 0.2.2.31-rc - 2011-08-17
10375 Tor 0.2.2.31-rc is the second and hopefully final release candidate
10376 for the Tor 0.2.2.x series.
10379 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
10380 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
10381 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
10382 - If we're configured to write our ControlPorts to disk, only write
10383 them after switching UID and creating the data directory. This way,
10384 we don't fail when starting up with a nonexistent DataDirectory
10385 and a ControlPortWriteToFile setting based on that directory. Fixes
10386 bug 3747; bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.26-beta.
10389 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10392 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
10393 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
10394 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10395 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
10396 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
10397 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
10398 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
10399 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
10400 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
10401 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
10402 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
10403 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
10404 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
10405 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10406 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
10407 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
10408 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
10409 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
10413 Changes in version 0.2.3.2-alpha - 2011-07-18
10414 Tor 0.2.3.2-alpha introduces two new experimental features:
10415 microdescriptors and pluggable transports. It also continues cleaning
10416 up a variety of recently introduced features.
10419 - Clients can now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
10420 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
10421 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change
10422 very rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is
10423 designed to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
10424 connections. It's off by default for now, since nearly no caches
10425 support it, but it will be on-by-default for clients in a future
10426 version. You can use the UseMicrodescriptors option to turn it on.
10427 - Tor clients using bridges can now be configured to use a separate
10428 'transport' proxy for each bridge. This approach helps to resist
10429 censorship by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation
10430 plugins. It implements part of proposal 180. Implements ticket 2841.
10431 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
10432 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
10433 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
10434 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
10436 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
10437 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes (as with
10438 'EntryNodes {cc}' or 'EntryNodes 1.1.1.1/16'), choose only a
10439 random subset to be guards, and choose them in random
10440 order. Fixes bug 2798.
10441 - Tor could crash when remembering a consensus in a non-used consensus
10442 flavor without having a current consensus set. Fixes bug 3361.
10443 - Comparing an unknown address to a microdescriptor's shortened exit
10444 policy would always give a "rejected" result. Fixes bug 3599.
10445 - Using microdescriptors as a client no longer prevents Tor from
10446 uploading and downloading hidden service descriptors. Fixes
10450 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
10451 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
10452 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
10453 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
10455 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
10456 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
10457 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
10458 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
10459 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
10460 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
10461 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
10462 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
10463 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
10464 Implements ticket 3264.
10465 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
10466 implements ticket 3439.
10468 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.3.1-alpha):
10469 - Do not free all general-purpose regular descriptors just
10470 because microdescriptor use is enabled. Fixes bug 3113.
10471 - Correctly link libevent_openssl when --enable-static-libevent
10472 is passed to configure. Fixes bug 3118.
10473 - Bridges should not complain during their heartbeat log messages that
10474 they are unlisted in the consensus: that's more or less the point
10475 of being a bridge. Fixes bug 3183.
10476 - Report a SIGNAL event to controllers when acting on a delayed
10477 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Previously, we would report a SIGNAL
10478 event to the controller if we acted on a SIGNAL NEWNYM command
10479 immediately, and otherwise not report a SIGNAL event for the
10480 command at all. Fixes bug 3349.
10481 - Fix a crash when handling the SIGNAL controller command or
10482 reporting ERR-level status events with bufferevents enabled. Found
10483 by Robert Ransom. Fixes bug 3367.
10484 - Always ship the tor-fw-helper manpage in our release tarballs.
10485 Fixes bug 3389. Reported by Stephen Walker.
10486 - Fix a class of double-mark-for-close bugs when bufferevents
10487 are enabled. Fixes bug 3403.
10488 - Update tor-fw-helper to support libnatpmp-20110618. Fixes bug 3434.
10489 - Add SIGNAL to the list returned by the 'GETINFO events/names'
10490 control-port command. Fixes part of bug 3465.
10491 - Prevent using negative indices during unit test runs when read_all()
10492 fails. Spotted by coverity.
10493 - Fix a rare memory leak when checking the nodelist without it being
10494 present. Found by coverity.
10495 - Only try to download a microdescriptor-flavored consensus from
10496 a directory cache that provides them.
10498 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x and earlier):
10499 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
10500 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
10501 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
10502 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
10503 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
10505 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
10506 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
10507 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
10508 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
10509 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
10510 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
10511 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
10512 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
10514 o Code simplification and refactoring:
10515 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
10516 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
10517 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
10518 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
10519 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
10520 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
10522 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
10526 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
10527 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
10528 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
10531 Changes in version 0.2.2.30-rc - 2011-07-07
10532 Tor 0.2.2.30-rc is the first release candidate for the Tor 0.2.2.x
10533 series. It fixes a few smaller bugs, but generally appears stable.
10534 Please test it and let us know whether it is!
10537 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
10538 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
10539 discovered by katmagic.
10540 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
10541 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
10542 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
10543 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10544 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
10545 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
10546 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
10547 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
10548 - Add BUILDTIMEOUT_SET to the list returned by the 'GETINFO
10549 events/names' control-port command. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha;
10550 fixes part of bug 3465.
10551 - Fix a memory leak when receiving a descriptor for a hidden
10552 service we didn't ask for. Found by Coverity; CID #30. Bugfix
10556 - Update to the July 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10559 Changes in version 0.2.2.29-beta - 2011-06-20
10560 Tor 0.2.2.29-beta reverts an accidental behavior change for users who
10561 have bridge lines in their torrc but don't want to use them; gets
10562 us closer to having the control socket feature working on Debian;
10563 and fixes a variety of smaller bugs.
10566 - Revert the UseBridges option to its behavior before 0.2.2.28-beta.
10567 When we changed the default behavior to "use bridges if any
10568 are listed in the torrc", we surprised users who had bridges
10569 in their torrc files but who didn't actually want to use them.
10570 Partial resolution for bug 3354.
10573 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
10574 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
10575 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
10576 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
10577 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
10578 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
10581 - Fix a bug when using ControlSocketsGroupWritable with User. The
10582 directory's group would be checked against the current group, not
10583 the configured group. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio. Fixes bug 3393;
10584 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
10585 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
10586 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
10587 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
10588 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
10589 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
10590 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
10591 fixes part of bug 3407.
10592 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
10593 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
10594 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
10595 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
10596 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
10597 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
10598 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
10599 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
10600 - Avoid a segfault when reading a malformed circuit build state
10601 with more than INT_MAX entries. Found by wanoskarnet. Bugfix on
10603 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
10604 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
10605 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
10606 - Fix a rare memory leak during stats writing. Found by coverity.
10609 - Update to the June 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10611 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10612 - Remove some dead code as indicated by coverity.
10613 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
10615 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
10617 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
10620 Changes in version 0.2.2.28-beta - 2011-06-04
10621 Tor 0.2.2.28-beta makes great progress towards a new stable release: we
10622 fixed a big bug in whether relays stay in the consensus consistently,
10623 we moved closer to handling bridges and hidden services correctly,
10624 and we started the process of better handling the dreaded "my Vidalia
10625 died, and now my Tor demands a password when I try to reconnect to it"
10629 - Don't decide to make a new descriptor when receiving a HUP signal.
10630 This bug has caused a lot of 0.2.2.x relays to disappear from the
10631 consensus periodically. Fixes the most common case of triggering
10632 bug 1810; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
10633 - Actually allow nameservers with IPv6 addresses. Fixes bug 2574.
10634 - Don't try to build descriptors if "ORPort auto" is set and we
10635 don't know our actual ORPort yet. Fix for bug 3216; bugfix on
10637 - Resolve a crash that occurred when setting BridgeRelay to 1 with
10638 accounting enabled. Fixes bug 3228; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
10639 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
10640 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
10641 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
10642 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
10643 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
10644 - Use the same circuit timeout for client-side introduction
10645 circuits as for other four-hop circuits, rather than the timeout
10646 for single-hop directory-fetch circuits; the shorter timeout may
10647 have been appropriate with the static circuit build timeout in
10648 0.2.1.x and earlier, but caused many hidden service access attempts
10649 to fail with the adaptive CBT introduced in 0.2.2.2-alpha. Bugfix
10650 on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes another part of bug 1297.
10651 - In ticket 2511 we fixed a case where you could use an unconfigured
10652 bridge if you had configured it as a bridge the last time you ran
10653 Tor. Now fix another edge case: if you had configured it as a bridge
10654 but then switched to a different bridge via the controller, you
10655 would still be willing to use the old one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha;
10659 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
10660 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
10661 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
10662 - If "UseBridges 1" is set and no bridges are configured, Tor will
10663 now refuse to build any circuits until some bridges are set.
10664 If "UseBridges auto" is set, Tor will use bridges if they are
10665 configured and we are not running as a server, but otherwise will
10666 make circuits as usual. The new default is "auto". Patch by anonym,
10667 so the Tails LiveCD can stop automatically revealing you as a Tor
10671 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
10672 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
10673 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
10675 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows builds.
10677 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
10678 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
10679 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
10680 - Remove dead code from rend_cache_lookup_v2_desc_as_dir. Fixes
10681 part of bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
10682 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
10683 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
10684 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
10685 info-level messages. Fixes the other part of bug 2748; bugfix
10687 - Clear the table recording the time of the last request for each
10688 hidden service descriptor from each HS directory on SIGNAL NEWNYM.
10689 Previously, we would clear our HS descriptor cache on SIGNAL
10690 NEWNYM, but if we had previously retrieved a descriptor (or tried
10691 to) from every directory responsible for it, we would refuse to
10692 fetch it again for up to 15 minutes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha;
10694 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
10695 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
10697 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
10698 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
10699 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
10702 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
10703 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
10704 Resolves ticket 3252.
10705 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
10706 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
10707 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
10708 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
10709 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
10710 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
10713 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
10714 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
10717 Changes in version 0.2.2.27-beta - 2011-05-18
10718 Tor 0.2.2.27-beta fixes a bridge-related stability bug in the previous
10719 release, and also adds a few more general bugfixes.
10722 - Fix a crash bug when changing bridges in a running Tor process.
10723 Fixes bug 3213; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
10724 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
10725 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
10726 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
10729 - Require that onion keys have exponent 65537 in microdescriptors too.
10730 Fixes more of bug 3207; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
10731 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
10732 Changed the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
10733 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
10734 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
10735 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
10736 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
10737 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
10741 Changes in version 0.2.2.26-beta - 2011-05-17
10742 Tor 0.2.2.26-beta fixes a variety of potential privacy problems. It
10743 also introduces a new "socksport auto" approach that should make it
10744 easier to run multiple Tors on the same system, and does a lot of
10745 cleanup to get us closer to a release candidate.
10747 o Security/privacy fixes:
10748 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
10749 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
10750 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
10751 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
10752 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
10753 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
10754 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
10755 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
10756 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
10757 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
10758 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
10759 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
10760 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
10761 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
10762 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10765 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
10766 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
10767 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
10768 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
10769 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
10770 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
10771 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
10772 part of ticket 3076.
10773 - Set SO_REUSEADDR on all sockets, not just listeners. This should
10774 help busy exit nodes avoid running out of useable ports just
10775 because all the ports have been used in the near past. Resolves
10779 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
10780 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
10781 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
10782 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
10783 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
10784 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
10785 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
10786 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
10788 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
10789 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
10790 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
10791 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
10792 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
10793 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
10794 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
10795 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
10796 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
10797 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
10798 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
10799 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
10800 - Update to the May 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
10803 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
10804 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
10805 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
10806 on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 2230.
10807 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
10808 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
10809 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
10811 - Avoid a bug that would keep us from replacing a microdescriptor
10812 cache on Windows. (We would try to replace the file while still
10813 holding it open. That's fine on Unix, but Windows doesn't let us
10814 do that.) Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; bug found by wanoskarnet.
10815 - Add missing explanations for the authority-related torrc options
10816 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey in the
10817 man page. Resolves issue 2379.
10818 - As an authority, do not upload our own vote or signature set to
10819 ourself. It would tell us nothing new, and as of 0.2.2.24-alpha,
10820 it would get flagged as a duplicate. Resolves bug 3026.
10821 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
10822 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
10823 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
10824 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
10825 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
10826 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
10828 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
10829 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
10831 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
10832 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
10834 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
10835 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
10837 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
10838 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
10839 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
10841 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanup):
10842 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
10843 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
10844 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
10845 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10846 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
10847 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
10848 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
10849 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
10850 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
10851 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
10853 - Avoid a possible null-pointer dereference when rebuilding the mdesc
10854 cache without actually having any descriptors to cache. Bugfix on
10855 0.2.2.6-alpha. Issue discovered using clang's static analyzer.
10856 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
10857 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
10858 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
10859 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
10860 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
10861 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
10862 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
10863 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
10864 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
10865 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
10868 o Removed features:
10869 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
10870 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
10871 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
10875 Changes in version 0.2.3.1-alpha - 2011-05-05
10876 Tor 0.2.3.1-alpha adds some new experimental features, including support
10877 for an improved network IO backend, IOCP networking on Windows,
10878 microdescriptor caching, "fast-start" support for streams, and automatic
10879 home router configuration. There are also numerous internal improvements
10880 to try to make the code easier for developers to work with.
10882 This is the first alpha release in a new series, so expect there to be
10883 bugs. Users who would rather test out a more stable branch should
10884 stay with 0.2.2.x for now.
10887 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
10888 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
10889 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
10890 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
10891 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
10892 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
10893 zero-copy transports where available.
10894 - As an experimental feature, Tor can use IOCP for networking on Windows.
10895 Once this code is tuned and optimized, it promises much better
10896 performance than the select-based backend we've used in the past. To
10897 try this feature, you must build Tor with Libevent 2, configure Tor
10898 with the "bufferevents" buffered IO backend, and add "DisableIOCP 0" to
10899 your torrc. There are known bugs here: only try this if you can help
10900 debug it as it breaks.
10901 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
10902 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these options
10903 because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up to
10904 date. Fixes bug 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved issue here.
10905 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
10906 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the stream was
10907 connected, which slowed down all connections. This change will enable
10908 clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams and send data without
10909 having to wait for a confirmation that the stream has opened. (Patch
10910 from Ian Goldberg; implements the server side of Proposal 174.)
10911 - Tor now has initial support for automatic port mapping on the many
10912 home routers that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. (Not yet supported on
10913 Windows). To build the support code, you'll need to have libnatpnp
10914 library and/or the libminiupnpc library, and you'll need to enable the
10915 feature specifically by passing "--enable-upnp" and/or
10916 "--enable-natpnp" to configure. To turn it on, use the new
10917 PortForwarding option.
10918 - Caches now download, cache, and serve multiple "flavors" of the
10919 consensus, including a flavor that describes microdescriptors.
10920 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors -- small
10921 summaries of router descriptors that are authenticated by all of the
10922 directory authorities. Once enough caches are running this code,
10923 clients will be able to save significant amounts of directory bandwidth
10924 by downloading microdescriptors instead of router descriptors.
10927 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
10928 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
10929 Implements enhancement 1668.
10930 - We log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements ticket
10932 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
10933 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
10934 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
10935 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
10936 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
10937 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
10938 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
10940 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
10941 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
10942 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
10943 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
10944 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
10945 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
10946 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
10948 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
10949 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
10950 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
10951 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
10952 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
10953 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
10954 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
10956 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.25-alpha):
10957 - When loading the microdesc journal, remember its current size.
10958 In 0.2.2, this helps prevent the microdesc journal from growing
10959 without limit on authorities (who are the only ones to use it in
10960 0.2.2). Fixes a part of bug 2230; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
10961 Fix posted by "cypherpunks."
10962 - The microdesc journal is supposed to get rebuilt only if it is
10963 at least _half_ the length of the store, not _twice_ the length
10964 of the store. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes part of bug 2230.
10965 - If as an authority we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3
10966 legacy keypair, warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead.
10967 Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
10968 - Authorities now clean their microdesc cache periodically and when
10969 reading from disk initially, not only when adding new descriptors.
10970 This prevents a bug where we could lose microdescriptors. Bugfix
10973 o Minor features (controller):
10974 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
10975 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
10976 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
10977 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
10978 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
10979 - Implement some GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
10980 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
10983 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
10984 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
10985 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
10986 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
10987 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
10988 - Our autogen.sh script uses autoreconf to launch autoconf, automake, and
10989 so on. This is more robust against some of the failure modes
10990 associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
10992 o Minor packaging issues:
10993 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it is not
10994 already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
10996 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
10997 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
10998 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
10999 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
11000 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
11001 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
11002 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
11003 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
11004 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
11005 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
11006 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
11007 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
11008 our library structure used to force them to link it.
11010 o Removed features:
11011 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
11012 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
11013 are no longer in use as servers.
11015 o Documentation fixes:
11016 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
11017 - Add missing documentation for the authority-related torrc options
11018 RephistTrackTime, BridgePassword, and V3AuthUseLegacyKey. Resolves
11022 Changes in version 0.2.2.25-alpha - 2011-04-29
11023 Tor 0.2.2.25-alpha fixes many bugs: hidden service clients are more
11024 robust, routers no longer overreport their bandwidth, Win7 should crash
11025 a little less, and NEWNYM (as used by Vidalia's "new identity" button)
11026 now prevents hidden service-related activity from being linkable. It
11027 provides more information to Vidalia so you can see if your bridge is
11028 working. Also, 0.2.2.25-alpha revamps the Entry/Exit/ExcludeNodes and
11029 StrictNodes configuration options to make them more reliable, more
11030 understandable, and more regularly applied. If you use those options,
11031 please see the revised documentation for them in the manual page.
11034 - Relays were publishing grossly inflated bandwidth values because
11035 they were writing their state files wrong--now they write the
11036 correct value. Also, resume reading bandwidth history from the
11037 state file correctly. Fixes bug 2704; bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
11038 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
11039 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
11040 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
11041 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
11042 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
11043 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11044 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
11045 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
11046 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
11047 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
11048 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
11049 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
11051 o Security and stability fixes:
11052 - Don't double-free a parsable, but invalid, microdescriptor, even if
11053 it is followed in the blob we're parsing by an unparsable
11054 microdescriptor. Fixes an issue reported in a comment on bug 2954.
11055 Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fix by "cypherpunks".
11056 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
11057 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
11058 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
11059 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
11060 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
11061 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
11062 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
11063 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
11064 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11065 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
11066 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
11067 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
11070 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
11071 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
11072 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
11073 contributions to the network.
11075 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
11076 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
11077 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and StrictNodes
11078 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
11079 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
11080 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
11081 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
11082 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
11083 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
11084 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
11085 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
11086 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
11087 connections to directory servers.
11088 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
11089 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
11090 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
11091 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
11092 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
11093 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
11094 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
11095 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
11096 information, or fetch directory information.
11097 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
11098 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
11099 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
11100 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
11101 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
11102 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
11103 unless you really want your Tor to break.
11104 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
11105 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
11106 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
11107 - When StrictNodes is 1:
11108 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
11109 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
11110 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
11111 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
11112 reachability self-tests.
11113 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
11114 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
11115 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
11116 - Remove a misfeature that caused us to ignore the Fast/Stable flags
11117 when ExitNodes is set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11118 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
11119 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
11121 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
11122 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11123 - Revert a change where we would be laxer about attaching streams to
11124 circuits than when building the circuits. This was meant to prevent
11125 a set of bugs where streams were never attachable, but our improved
11126 code here should make this unnecessary. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
11127 - Keep track of how many times we launch a new circuit to handle a
11128 given stream. Too many launches could indicate an inconsistency
11129 between our "launch a circuit to handle this stream" logic and our
11130 "attach this stream to one of the available circuits" logic.
11131 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
11134 - Fix a spurious warning when moving from a short month to a long
11135 month on relays with month-based BandwidthAccounting. Bugfix on
11136 0.2.2.17-alpha; fixes bug 3020.
11137 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
11138 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
11139 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
11140 - Add a forgotten cast that caused a compile warning on OS X 10.6.
11141 Bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
11142 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
11143 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
11144 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
11145 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11146 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
11147 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
11148 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
11149 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
11150 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
11152 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
11153 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
11154 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
11155 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
11156 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11157 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
11158 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
11159 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP control-port command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
11160 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
11161 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
11162 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
11163 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
11164 - Write the current time into the LastWritten line in our state file,
11165 rather than the time from the previous write attempt. Also, stop
11166 trying to use a time of -1 in our log statements. Fixes bug 3039;
11167 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
11168 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
11169 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
11170 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
11171 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
11174 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
11175 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
11176 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
11177 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
11178 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
11179 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
11180 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
11181 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
11182 Required by fix for bug 3000.
11183 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
11184 by fix for bug 3000.
11185 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
11186 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
11188 o Code simplification and refactoring:
11189 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
11190 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
11191 send a body too). Since only server versions before
11192 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
11193 keep the workaround in place.
11194 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
11195 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
11196 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
11197 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
11198 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
11199 want to do it differently.
11200 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
11201 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
11202 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
11203 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
11204 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch by
11208 Changes in version 0.2.2.24-alpha - 2011-04-08
11209 Tor 0.2.2.24-alpha fixes a variety of bugs, including a big bug that
11210 prevented Tor clients from effectively using "multihomed" bridges,
11211 that is, bridges that listen on multiple ports or IP addresses so users
11212 can continue to use some of their addresses even if others get blocked.
11215 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
11216 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
11217 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it should be
11218 able to advertise those addresses independently and any non-blocked
11219 addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.x. Fixes
11221 - If you configured Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
11222 configured Tor to use bridge B instead, it would happily continue
11223 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
11224 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
11225 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
11226 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
11227 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
11228 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
11229 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
11230 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
11231 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
11232 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
11235 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
11236 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
11237 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
11238 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
11239 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
11240 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
11241 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
11243 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
11244 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
11245 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
11246 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
11247 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
11248 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on
11249 versions 0.2.1.23/0.2.2.8-alpha (the versions introducing
11250 the --with-static-libevent configure option).
11251 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
11252 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
11253 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
11254 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
11255 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
11256 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
11257 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
11258 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
11259 - Avoid a double-mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
11260 transparent proxy connection. (We thought we had fixed this in
11261 0.2.2.23-alpha, but it turns out our fix was checking the wrong
11262 connection.) Fixes bug 2757; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha (the original
11263 bug) and 0.2.2.23-alpha (the incorrect fix).
11264 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
11265 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11268 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
11269 networkstatus vote.
11270 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
11271 --enable-gcc-warnings by removing two warning options that clang
11272 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Implements
11274 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
11275 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
11276 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
11277 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
11279 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
11280 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
11281 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
11282 - Update to the April 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
11285 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
11286 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
11288 o Documentation changes:
11289 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
11290 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
11292 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
11295 Changes in version 0.2.2.23-alpha - 2011-03-08
11296 Tor 0.2.2.23-alpha lets relays record their bandwidth history so when
11297 they restart they don't lose their bandwidth capacity estimate. This
11298 release also fixes a diverse set of user-facing bugs, ranging from
11299 relays overrunning their rate limiting to clients falsely warning about
11300 clock skew to bridge descriptor leaks by our bridge directory authority.
11303 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
11304 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
11305 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
11306 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
11307 the rest of bug 1074.
11308 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
11309 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
11310 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
11311 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
11312 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
11313 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
11314 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
11315 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
11316 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
11317 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
11318 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
11319 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
11320 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
11321 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11324 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
11325 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved)
11326 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
11327 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
11328 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
11329 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
11330 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
11331 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
11332 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
11333 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
11334 change could take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
11335 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
11336 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
11337 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
11339 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
11340 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
11341 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
11342 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
11343 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
11344 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
11346 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
11347 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
11348 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
11349 - Country codes aren't supported in EntryNodes until 0.2.3.x, so
11350 don't mention them in the manpage. Fixes bug 2450; issue
11351 spotted by keb and G-Lo.
11352 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
11353 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
11354 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
11355 Tor 0.1.1.11-alpha.
11356 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
11357 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
11358 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
11359 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
11360 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
11361 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
11362 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
11363 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
11364 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
11365 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
11366 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
11367 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
11368 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
11369 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
11370 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
11371 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
11373 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
11374 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
11375 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
11376 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
11377 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
11378 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
11380 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
11381 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
11382 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
11384 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
11385 - Clients should not weight BadExit nodes as Exits in their node
11386 selection. Similarly, directory authorities should not count BadExit
11387 bandwidth as Exit bandwidth when computing bandwidth-weights.
11388 Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 2203.
11389 - Correctly clear our dir_read/dir_write history when there is an
11390 error parsing any bw history value from the state file. Bugfix on
11391 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha.
11392 - Resolve a bug in verifying signatures of directory objects
11393 with digests longer than SHA1. Bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
11394 Fixes bug 2409. Found by "piebeer".
11395 - Bridge authorities no longer crash on SIGHUP when they try to
11396 publish their relay descriptor to themselves. Fixes bug 2572. Bugfix
11400 - Log less aggressively about circuit timeout changes, and improve
11401 some other circuit timeout messages. Resolves bug 2004.
11402 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
11403 accepting new connections. Resolves bug 2181.
11404 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
11405 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
11406 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
11407 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
11408 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
11409 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
11410 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
11411 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
11413 - Update to the March 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
11415 o Minor features (log subsystem):
11416 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
11417 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
11418 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
11420 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
11421 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
11423 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
11424 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
11425 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
11428 o Packaging changes:
11429 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
11430 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
11431 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
11434 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
11435 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
11436 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
11437 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
11438 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
11439 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
11442 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
11443 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
11444 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
11445 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
11446 the rest of bug 1074.
11447 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
11448 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11449 Found by "piebeer".
11450 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
11451 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
11452 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
11453 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
11454 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
11455 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
11456 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
11459 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
11461 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
11464 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
11465 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
11466 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
11467 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
11468 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
11469 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
11470 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
11471 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
11472 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
11473 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
11474 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11476 o Packaging changes:
11477 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
11478 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
11479 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
11480 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
11481 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
11482 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
11485 Changes in version 0.2.2.22-alpha - 2011-01-25
11486 Tor 0.2.2.22-alpha fixes a few more less-critical security issues. The
11487 main other change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes
11488 relays and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
11489 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
11490 will buy us a bit more time until we roll out a better solution.
11493 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
11494 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
11495 Found by "piebeer".
11496 - Don't assert when changing from bridge to relay or vice versa
11497 via the controller. The assert happened because we didn't properly
11498 initialize our keys in this case. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha; fixes
11499 bug 2433. Reported by bastik.
11502 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
11504 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
11505 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
11506 Implements ticket 2432.
11509 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
11510 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
11511 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28 / 0.2.2.20-alpha. Found by "doorss".
11514 Changes in version 0.2.2.21-alpha - 2011-01-15
11515 Tor 0.2.2.21-alpha includes all the patches from Tor 0.2.1.29, which
11516 continues our recent code security audit work. The main fix resolves
11517 a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote code
11518 execution (CVE-2011-0427). Other fixes address a variety of assert
11519 and crash bugs, most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
11521 o Major bugfixes (security), also included in 0.2.1.29:
11522 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
11523 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
11524 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
11526 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
11527 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
11528 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
11529 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
11530 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
11531 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
11532 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
11533 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
11535 o Major bugfixes (crashes), also included in 0.2.1.29:
11536 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
11537 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
11538 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
11539 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
11540 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
11541 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
11542 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
11543 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
11544 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
11545 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
11546 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
11547 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
11548 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
11551 o Minor bugfixes (other), also included in 0.2.1.29:
11552 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
11553 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
11554 bug reported by doorss.
11555 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
11556 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
11557 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11558 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
11559 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
11561 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
11562 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
11563 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
11564 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
11565 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
11567 o Minor features, also included in 0.2.1.29:
11568 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
11569 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
11571 o Build changes, also included in 0.2.1.29:
11572 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
11573 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
11574 Automake 1.7 or later.
11575 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
11576 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
11577 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
11578 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
11580 o Major bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
11581 - Prevent crash/heap corruption when the cbtnummodes consensus
11582 parameter is set to 0 or large values. Fixes bug 2317; bugfix
11585 o Major features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
11586 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
11587 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
11588 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
11590 o Minor features, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
11591 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
11592 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
11593 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
11594 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
11595 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
11596 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
11597 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
11598 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
11600 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
11601 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
11602 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
11605 o Minor bugfixes, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
11606 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
11607 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
11608 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
11609 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
11610 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
11611 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
11612 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
11613 - Correctly detect failures to create DNS requests when using Libevent
11614 versions before v2. (Before Libevent 2, we used our own evdns
11615 implementation. Its return values for Libevent's evdns_resolve_*()
11616 functions are not consistent with those from Libevent.) Fixes bug
11617 2363; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha. Found by "lodger".
11619 o Documentation, new in 0.2.2.21-alpha:
11620 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
11624 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
11625 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
11626 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
11627 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
11628 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
11630 o Major bugfixes (security):
11631 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
11632 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
11633 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
11635 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
11636 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
11637 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
11638 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
11639 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
11640 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
11641 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
11642 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
11644 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
11645 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
11646 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
11647 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
11648 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
11649 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
11650 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
11651 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
11652 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
11653 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
11654 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
11655 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
11656 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
11657 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
11660 o Minor bugfixes (other):
11661 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
11662 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
11663 bug reported by doorss.
11664 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
11665 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
11666 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11667 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
11668 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
11670 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
11671 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
11672 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
11673 - Correctly handle wrapping around to when we run out of virtual
11674 address space. Found by cypherpunks, bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
11675 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
11676 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
11677 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
11678 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
11681 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
11682 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
11685 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
11686 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
11687 Automake 1.7 or later.
11690 Changes in version 0.2.2.20-alpha - 2010-12-17
11691 Tor 0.2.2.20-alpha does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
11692 exploitable bugs. We also fix a variety of other significant bugs,
11693 change the IP address for one of our directory authorities, and update
11694 the minimum version that Tor relays must run to join the network.
11697 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
11698 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
11699 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
11700 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
11701 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
11702 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
11703 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
11704 - Fix a logic error in directory_fetches_from_authorities() that
11705 would cause all _non_-exits refusing single-hop-like circuits
11706 to fetch from authorities, when we wanted to have _exits_ fetch
11707 from authorities. Fixes more of 2097. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha;
11709 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
11710 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
11711 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
11712 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
11714 o Directory authority changes:
11715 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
11718 - Avoid crashes when AccountingMax is set on clients. Fixes bug 2235.
11719 Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha. Diagnosed by boboper.
11720 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
11721 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
11722 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
11723 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
11724 - Do not dereference NULL if a bridge fails to build its
11725 extra-info descriptor. Found by an anonymous commenter on
11726 Trac. Bugfix on 0.2.2.19-alpha.
11729 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
11730 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
11731 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
11732 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
11733 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
11734 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
11735 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
11736 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
11737 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
11738 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
11742 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
11743 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
11744 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
11745 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
11749 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
11750 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
11751 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
11752 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
11754 o Directory authority changes:
11755 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
11758 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
11761 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
11762 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
11763 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
11764 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
11765 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
11768 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
11769 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
11770 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
11771 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
11772 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11773 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
11774 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
11775 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
11776 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
11777 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11778 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
11779 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
11780 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
11781 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
11782 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
11783 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
11784 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
11785 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
11786 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
11787 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
11788 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
11789 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
11790 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
11793 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
11794 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
11795 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
11796 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
11798 o New directory authorities:
11799 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
11803 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
11804 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
11805 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
11807 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
11808 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
11809 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
11810 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
11811 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
11812 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
11814 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
11815 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
11816 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
11819 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
11820 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
11821 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
11822 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
11823 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
11824 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
11825 Patch from mingw-san.
11828 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
11829 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
11830 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
11831 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
11832 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
11833 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
11836 Changes in version 0.2.2.19-alpha - 2010-11-22
11837 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
11838 Tor 0.2.2.19-alpha makes relays work with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b.
11841 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
11842 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
11843 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
11844 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
11845 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
11848 - Try harder not to exceed the maximum length of 50 KB when writing
11849 statistics to extra-info descriptors. This bug was triggered by very
11850 fast relays reporting exit-port, entry, and dirreq statistics.
11851 Reported by Olaf Selke. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes bug 2183.
11852 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
11853 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
11854 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
11855 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
11856 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
11859 Changes in version 0.2.2.18-alpha - 2010-11-16
11860 Tor 0.2.2.18-alpha fixes several crash bugs that have been nagging
11861 us lately, makes unpublished bridge relays able to detect their IP
11862 address, and fixes a wide variety of other bugs to get us much closer
11863 to a stable release.
11866 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
11867 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
11868 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
11869 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
11870 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
11871 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
11872 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
11873 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
11874 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
11875 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
11876 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
11877 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
11878 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
11879 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
11880 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
11881 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
11882 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
11883 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
11884 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
11885 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
11886 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
11887 - Avoid an assertion failure when we as an authority receive a
11888 duplicate upload of a router descriptor that we already have,
11889 but which we previously considered an obsolete descriptor.
11890 Fixes another case of bug 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
11891 - Avoid a crash bug triggered by looking at a dangling pointer while
11892 setting the network status consensus. Found by Robert Ransom.
11893 Bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Fixes bug 2097.
11894 - Fix a logic error where servers that _didn't_ act as exits would
11895 try to keep their server lists more aggressively up to date than
11896 exits, when it was supposed to be the other way around. Bugfix
11899 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.1.x and earlier):
11900 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
11901 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
11902 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
11903 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
11904 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
11905 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
11906 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
11907 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
11908 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
11909 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
11910 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
11911 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
11912 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
11913 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
11914 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
11915 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
11917 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
11918 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
11919 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produced during
11920 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
11921 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
11923 o Minor bugfixes (on Tor 0.2.2.x):
11924 - Enable protection of small arrays whenever we build with gcc
11925 hardening features, not only when also building with warnings
11926 enabled. Fixes bug 2031; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha. Reported by keb.
11929 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
11930 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
11931 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
11932 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
11933 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
11934 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
11935 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
11936 - Update to the November 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
11938 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
11939 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
11940 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
11941 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
11942 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
11943 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
11944 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
11945 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
11946 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
11947 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
11948 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
11949 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
11950 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
11951 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
11952 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
11955 Changes in version 0.2.2.17-alpha - 2010-09-30
11956 Tor 0.2.2.17-alpha introduces a feature to make it harder for clients
11957 to use one-hop circuits (which can put the exit relays at higher risk,
11958 plus unbalance the network); fixes a big bug in bandwidth accounting
11959 for relays that want to limit their monthly bandwidth use; fixes a
11960 big pile of bugs in how clients tolerate temporary network failure;
11961 and makes our adaptive circuit build timeout feature (which improves
11962 client performance if your network is fast while not breaking things
11963 if your network is slow) better handle bad networks.
11966 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
11967 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
11968 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
11969 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
11970 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751.
11972 o Major bugfixes (0.2.1.x and earlier):
11973 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
11974 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
11975 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
11976 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
11977 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
11978 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
11979 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
11980 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
11981 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
11982 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
11983 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
11984 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
11985 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
11987 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
11988 - Fix compilation on Windows. Bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha; related to
11990 - Fix a segfault that could happen when operating a bridge relay with
11991 no GeoIP database set. Fixes bug 1964; bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
11992 - The consensus bandwidth-weights (used by clients to choose fast
11993 relays) entered an unexpected edge case in September where
11994 Exits were much scarcer than Guards, resulting in bad weight
11995 recommendations. Now we compute them using new constraints that
11996 should succeed in all cases. Also alter directory authorities to
11997 not include the bandwidth-weights line if they fail to produce
11998 valid values. Fixes bug 1952; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
11999 - When weighting bridges during path selection, we used to trust
12000 the bandwidths they provided in their descriptor, only capping them
12001 at 10MB/s. This turned out to be problematic for two reasons:
12002 Bridges could claim to handle a lot more traffic then they
12003 actually would, thus making more clients pick them and have a
12004 pretty effective DoS attack. The other issue is that new bridges
12005 that might not have a good estimate for their bw capacity yet
12006 would not get used at all unless no other bridges are available
12007 to a client. Fixes bug 1912; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
12009 o Major bugfixes (on the circuit build timeout feature, 0.2.2.x):
12010 - Ignore cannibalized circuits when recording circuit build times.
12011 This should provide for a minor performance improvement for hidden
12012 service users using 0.2.2.14-alpha, and should remove two spurious
12013 notice log messages. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1740.
12014 - Simplify the logic that causes us to decide if the network is
12015 unavailable for purposes of recording circuit build times. If we
12016 receive no cells whatsoever for the entire duration of a circuit's
12017 full measured lifetime, the network is probably down. Also ignore
12018 one-hop directory fetching circuit timeouts when calculating our
12019 circuit build times. These changes should hopefully reduce the
12020 cases where we see ridiculous circuit build timeouts for people
12021 with spotty wireless connections. Fixes part of bug 1772; bugfix
12023 - Prevent the circuit build timeout from becoming larger than
12024 the maximum build time we have ever seen. Also, prevent the time
12025 period for measurement circuits from becoming larger than twice that
12026 value. Fixes the other part of bug 1772; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12029 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
12030 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
12031 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
12032 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
12033 - Be more generous with how much bandwidth we'd use up (with
12034 accounting enabled) before entering "soft hibernation". Previously,
12035 we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd used up 95% of
12036 our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment, AND make sure
12037 that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of expected traffic,
12038 whichever is lower) remaining before we enter soft hibernation.
12039 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
12040 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
12041 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
12042 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
12043 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
12044 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
12045 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
12046 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
12047 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
12050 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
12051 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
12052 based on the time during which we were active and not in
12053 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
12054 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
12055 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
12056 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
12057 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
12059 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
12060 - Resume generating CIRC FAILED REASON=TIMEOUT control port messages,
12061 which were disabled by the circuit build timeout changes in
12062 0.2.2.14-alpha. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1739.
12063 - Make sure we don't warn about missing bandwidth weights when
12064 choosing bridges or other relays not in the consensus. Bugfix on
12065 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1805.
12066 - In our logs, do not double-report signatures from unrecognized
12067 authorities both as "from unknown authority" and "not
12068 present". Fixes bug 1956, bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
12071 Changes in version 0.2.2.16-alpha - 2010-09-17
12072 Tor 0.2.2.16-alpha fixes a variety of old stream fairness bugs (most
12073 evident at exit relays), and also continues to resolve all the little
12074 bugs that have been filling up trac lately.
12076 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
12077 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
12078 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
12079 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
12080 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
12081 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
12082 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
12083 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
12084 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
12085 the longest-lived bug prize.
12086 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
12087 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
12088 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
12089 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
12090 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
12091 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
12093 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
12094 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
12095 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
12096 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
12097 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
12098 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
12102 - Update to the September 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
12103 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
12104 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
12105 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
12106 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
12107 got suppressed since the last warning.
12108 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
12109 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
12110 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
12111 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
12112 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
12113 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
12114 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
12115 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
12116 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
12117 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
12118 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
12119 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
12120 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
12121 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
12122 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
12123 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
12124 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
12125 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
12126 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
12128 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
12129 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
12130 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
12132 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
12133 - Authorities will now attempt to download consensuses if their
12134 own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This change
12135 means authorities that restart will fetch a valid consensus, and
12136 it means authorities that didn't agree with the current consensus
12137 will still fetch and serve it if it has enough signatures. Bugfix
12138 on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
12139 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
12140 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
12141 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
12142 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
12143 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
12144 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
12145 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
12146 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
12148 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
12149 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
12150 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
12151 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
12152 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
12153 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12154 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
12156 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
12157 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
12158 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
12159 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
12160 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
12163 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
12164 - Fix a regression introduced in 0.2.2.7-alpha that marked relays
12165 down if a directory fetch fails and you've configured either
12166 bridges or EntryNodes. The intent was to mark the relay as down
12167 _unless_ you're using bridges or EntryNodes, since if you are
12168 then you could quickly run out of entry points.
12169 - Fix the Windows directory-listing code. A bug introduced in
12170 0.2.2.14-alpha could make Windows directory servers forget to load
12171 some of their cached v2 networkstatus files.
12172 - Really allow clients to use relays as bridges. Fixes bug 1776;
12173 bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha.
12174 - Demote a warn to info that happens when the CellStatistics option
12175 was just enabled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.15-alpha; fixes bug 1921.
12176 Reported by Moritz Bartl.
12177 - On Windows, build correctly either with or without Unicode support.
12178 This is necessary so that Tor can support fringe platforms like
12179 Windows 98 (which has no Unicode), or Windows CE (which has no
12180 non-Unicode). Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes bug 1797.
12183 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
12186 Changes in version 0.2.2.15-alpha - 2010-08-18
12187 Tor 0.2.2.15-alpha fixes a big bug in hidden service availability,
12188 fixes a variety of other bugs that were preventing performance
12189 experiments from moving forward, fixes several bothersome memory leaks,
12190 and generally closes a lot of smaller bugs that have been filling up
12194 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
12195 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
12196 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
12197 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
12198 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
12199 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
12200 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
12201 - The PerConnBWRate and Burst config options, along with the
12202 bwconnrate and bwconnburst consensus params, initialized each conn's
12203 token bucket values only when the connection is established. Now we
12204 update them if the config options change, and update them every time
12205 we get a new consensus. Otherwise we can encounter an ugly edge
12206 case where we initialize an OR conn to client-level bandwidth,
12207 but then later the relay joins the consensus and we leave it
12208 throttled. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 1830.
12209 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
12210 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
12213 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
12214 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
12215 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
12216 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
12217 they first get the Guard flag.
12218 - Allow enabling or disabling the *Statistics config options while
12222 - Update to the August 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
12223 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
12224 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
12225 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
12226 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
12227 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
12228 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
12229 Patch from mingw-san.
12230 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
12231 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
12233 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
12234 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
12235 Implements enhancement 1790.
12237 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x and earlier):
12238 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
12239 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
12240 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
12241 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
12242 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
12243 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
12244 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
12245 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
12246 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
12247 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
12248 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
12249 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
12250 - Users can't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It didn't
12251 work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
12252 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
12253 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
12254 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
12255 0.1.1.9-alpha. Bug 1776 not yet fixed because now we immediately
12256 refetch the descriptor with router purpose 'general', disabling
12258 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
12259 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
12260 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
12261 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
12262 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
12263 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
12264 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
12265 it. Also update the spec to reflect this new reason. Bugfix on
12266 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
12267 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
12268 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
12269 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
12270 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug
12272 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
12273 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
12274 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
12275 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in caches or bridge users
12276 when using a very short voting interval on a testing network.
12277 Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
12279 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
12280 - Alter directory authorities to always consider Exit-flagged nodes
12281 as potential Guard nodes in their votes. The actual decision to
12282 use Exits as Guards is done in the consensus bandwidth weights.
12283 Fixes bug 1294; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
12284 - When the controller is reporting the purpose of circuits that
12285 didn't finish building before the circuit build timeout, it was
12286 printing UNKNOWN_13. Now print EXPIRED. Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
12287 - Our libevent version parsing code couldn't handle versions like
12288 1.4.14b-stable and incorrectly warned the user about using an
12289 old and broken version of libevent. Treat 1.4.14b-stable like
12290 1.4.14-stable when parsing the version. Fixes bug 1731; bugfix
12292 - Don't use substitution references like $(VAR:MOD) when
12293 $(asciidoc_files) is empty -- make(1) on NetBSD transforms
12294 '$(:x)' to 'x' rather than the empty string. This bites us in
12295 doc/ when configured with --disable-asciidoc. Bugfix on
12296 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1773.
12297 - Remove a spurious hidden service server-side log notice about
12298 "Ancient non-dirty circuits". Bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha; fixes
12300 - Fix compilation with --with-dmalloc set. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha;
12302 - Correctly report written bytes on linked connections. Found while
12303 implementing 1790. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
12304 - Fix three memory leaks: one in circuit_build_times_parse_state(),
12305 one in dirvote_add_signatures_to_pending_consensus(), and one every
12306 time we parse a v3 network consensus. Bugfixes on 0.2.2.14-alpha,
12307 0.2.2.6-alpha, and 0.2.2.10-alpha respectively; fixes bug 1831.
12309 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12310 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
12311 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
12312 structures and defines in or.h for now.
12313 - Remove a bunch of unused function declarations as well as a block of
12314 #if 0'd code from the unit tests. Closes bug 1824.
12315 - New unit tests for exit-port history statistics; refactored exit
12316 statistics code to be more easily tested.
12317 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
12318 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
12319 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
12322 Changes in version 0.2.2.14-alpha - 2010-07-12
12323 Tor 0.2.2.14-alpha greatly improves client-side handling of
12324 circuit build timeouts, which are used to estimate speed and improve
12325 performance. We also move to a much better GeoIP database, port Tor to
12326 Windows CE, introduce new compile flags that improve code security,
12327 add an eighth v3 directory authority, and address a lot of more
12331 - Tor directory authorities no longer crash when started with a
12332 cached-microdesc-consensus file in their data directory. Bugfix
12333 on 0.2.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 1532.
12334 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
12335 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
12336 - Ignore negative and large circuit build timeout values that can
12337 happen during a suspend or hibernate. These values caused various
12338 asserts to fire. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1245.
12339 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Xm' for
12340 Circuit Build Timeout learning to use the weighted average of the
12341 top N=3 modes (because we have three entry guards). Considering
12342 multiple modes should improve the timeout calculation in some cases,
12343 and prevent extremely high timeout values. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha;
12345 - Alter calculation of Pareto distribution parameter 'Alpha' to use a
12346 right censored distribution model. This approach improves over the
12347 synthetic timeout generation approach that was producing insanely
12348 high timeout values. Now we calculate build timeouts using truncated
12349 times. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bugs 1245 and 1335.
12350 - Do not close circuits that are under construction when they reach
12351 the circuit build timeout. Instead, leave them building (but do not
12352 use them) for up until the time corresponding to the 95th percentile
12353 on the Pareto CDF or 60 seconds, whichever is greater. This is done
12354 to provide better data for the new Pareto model. This percentile
12355 can be controlled by the consensus.
12358 - Move to the June 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather than the
12359 June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that count
12360 how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we have
12361 more accurate data for many African countries.
12362 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
12363 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
12364 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
12365 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
12366 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
12367 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
12368 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
12369 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
12370 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
12371 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
12372 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
12373 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
12375 o New directory authorities:
12376 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
12380 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
12381 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
12382 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
12383 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
12384 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
12385 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
12386 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
12387 what should go in a patch.
12388 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
12389 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
12390 over our stored history.
12391 - Add ability to disable circuit build time learning via consensus
12392 parameter and via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. Also
12393 automatically disable circuit build time calculation if we are
12394 either a AuthoritativeDirectory, or if we fail to write our state
12395 file. Fixes bug 1296.
12396 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
12397 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
12398 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
12402 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
12404 - When a2x fails, mention that the user could disable manpages instead
12405 of trying to fix their asciidoc installation.
12406 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
12407 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
12408 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
12409 - If you run a bridge that listens on multiple IP addresses, and
12410 some user configures a bridge address that uses a different IP
12411 address than your bridge writes in its router descriptor, and the
12412 user doesn't specify an identity key, their Tor would discard the
12413 descriptor because "it isn't one of our configured bridges", and
12414 fail to bootstrap. Now believe the descriptor and bootstrap anyway.
12415 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12416 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
12417 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
12418 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
12419 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
12420 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
12421 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
12422 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
12423 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
12424 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
12425 two-hop circuits are actually created.
12426 - Make directory mirrors report non-zero dirreq-v[23]-shares again.
12427 Fixes bug 1564; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
12428 - Eliminate a case where a circuit build time warning was displayed
12429 after network connectivity resumed. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
12432 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
12433 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
12434 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
12435 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
12436 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
12438 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
12439 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
12442 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
12443 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
12444 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
12445 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
12446 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
12447 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
12448 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
12449 their directory fetches over TLS).
12450 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
12451 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
12452 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
12453 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
12454 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
12455 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
12456 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
12457 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
12460 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
12461 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
12465 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
12466 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12467 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
12468 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
12469 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
12470 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
12471 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12474 Changes in version 0.2.2.13-alpha - 2010-04-24
12475 Tor 0.2.2.13-alpha addresses the recent connection and memory overload
12476 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
12477 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
12478 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
12481 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
12482 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
12483 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
12484 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
12485 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
12486 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
12487 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
12488 their directory fetches over TLS).
12491 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
12492 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
12494 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
12495 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
12496 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
12497 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
12498 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
12499 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
12500 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
12501 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
12502 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
12503 hour of their uptime.
12506 Changes in version 0.2.2.12-alpha - 2010-04-20
12507 Tor 0.2.2.12-alpha fixes a critical bug in how directory authorities
12508 handle and vote on descriptors. It was causing relays to drop out of
12512 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
12513 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
12514 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
12515 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
12516 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
12517 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
12519 - Fix two typos in tor_vasprintf() that broke the compile on Windows,
12520 and a warning in or.h related to bandwidth_weight_rule_t that
12521 prevented clean compile on OS X. Fixes bug 1363; bugfix on
12523 - Fix a segfault on relays when DirReqStatistics is enabled
12524 and 24 hours pass. Bug found by keb. Fixes bug 1365; bugfix on
12528 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
12529 someone tries to talk to their OrPort. It is neither the operator's
12530 fault nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
12534 Changes in version 0.2.2.11-alpha - 2010-04-15
12535 Tor 0.2.2.11-alpha fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL
12536 libraries that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
12539 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
12540 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
12541 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
12542 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
12543 - Fix a parsing error that made every possible value of
12544 CircPriorityHalflifeMsec get treated as "1 msec". Bugfix
12545 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Rename CircPriorityHalflifeMsec to
12546 CircuitPriorityHalflifeMsec, so authorities can tell newer relays
12547 about the option without breaking older ones.
12548 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
12549 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
12550 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
12551 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
12554 - Experiment with a more aggressive approach to preventing clients
12555 from making one-hop exit streams. Exit relays who want to try it
12556 out can set "RefuseUnknownExits 1" in their torrc, and then look
12557 for "Attempt by %s to open a stream" log messages. Let us know
12559 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
12560 --enable-static-zlib, to go with our support for statically linking
12561 openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
12564 - Fix a segfault that happens whenever a Tor client that is using
12565 libevent2's bufferevents gets a hup signal. Bugfix on 0.2.2.5-alpha;
12567 - When we cleaned up the contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file, we left
12568 out the first line. Fixes bug 1295.
12569 - When building the manpage from a tarball, we required asciidoc, but
12570 the asciidoc -> roff/html conversion was already done for the
12571 tarball. Make 'make' complain only when we need asciidoc (either
12572 because we're compiling directly from git, or because we altered
12573 the asciidoc manpage in the tarball). Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
12574 - When none of the directory authorities vote on any params, Tor
12575 segfaulted when trying to make the consensus from the votes. We
12576 didn't trigger the bug in practice, because authorities do include
12577 params in their votes. Bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha; fixes bug 1322.
12580 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
12581 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12582 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
12583 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
12584 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
12585 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
12586 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
12589 Changes in version 0.2.2.10-alpha - 2010-03-07
12590 Tor 0.2.2.10-alpha fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.2.9-alpha that
12591 could prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also
12592 starts the groundwork for another client-side performance boost, since
12593 currently we're not making efficient use of relays that have both the
12594 Guard flag and the Exit flag.
12597 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
12598 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
12599 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
12600 0.2.2.9-alpha; fixes bug 1269.
12602 o Major features (performance):
12603 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
12604 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
12605 and no flag. Clients that use these weightings will distribute
12606 network load more evenly across these different relay types. The
12607 weightings are in the consensus so we can change them globally in
12608 the future. Extra thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty
12609 security bugs in the first implementation of this feature.
12611 o Minor features (performance):
12612 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
12613 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
12614 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
12615 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
12616 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
12620 - Allow disabling building of the manpages. Skipping the manpage
12621 speeds up the build considerably.
12623 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.2.x):
12624 - Fix a memleak in the EXTENDCIRCUIT logic. Spotted by coverity.
12625 Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
12626 - Disallow values larger than INT32_MAX for PerConnBWRate|Burst
12627 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
12628 - Ship the asciidoc-helper file in the tarball, so that people can
12629 build from source if they want to, and touching the .1.txt files
12630 doesn't break the build. Bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
12632 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x or earlier):
12633 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
12634 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
12636 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
12637 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
12638 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
12639 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
12641 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12642 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
12643 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
12644 - Don't use sed in asciidoc-helper anymore.
12645 - Make the build process fail if asciidoc cannot be found and
12646 building with asciidoc isn't disabled.
12649 Changes in version 0.2.2.9-alpha - 2010-02-22
12650 Tor 0.2.2.9-alpha makes Tor work again on the latest OS X, updates the
12651 location of a directory authority, and cleans up a bunch of small bugs.
12653 o Directory authority changes:
12654 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
12655 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
12656 service directory authority) from the list.
12659 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
12660 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
12661 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
12662 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
12663 libraries in a security patch.
12664 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
12665 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
12666 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
12667 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
12669 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
12670 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
12671 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
12672 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
12673 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
12674 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
12675 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
12678 - Fix static compilation by listing the openssl libraries in the right
12679 order. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha; fixes bug 1237.
12680 - Resume handling .exit hostnames in a special way: originally we
12681 stripped the .exit part and used the requested exit relay. In
12682 0.2.2.1-alpha we stopped treating them in any special way, meaning
12683 if you use a .exit address then Tor will pass it on to the exit
12684 relay. Now we reject the .exit stream outright, since that behavior
12685 might be more expected by the user. Found and diagnosed by Scott
12686 Bennett and Downie on or-talk.
12687 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
12688 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
12689 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
12690 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
12692 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
12693 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
12694 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
12695 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
12696 control-spec.txt said they were.
12697 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
12698 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
12699 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
12700 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
12701 parakeep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
12703 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
12704 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
12705 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
12706 produce nicer HTML.
12707 - Remove the --enable-iphone option. According to reports from Marco
12708 Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special tweaking on recent
12709 iPhone SDK versions.
12710 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
12711 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
12712 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
12713 projects directory in svn.
12714 - Enabled various circuit build timeout constants to be controlled
12715 by consensus parameters. Also set better defaults for these
12716 parameters based on experimentation on broadband and simulated
12717 high latency links.
12720 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
12721 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
12722 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
12724 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
12725 to the circuit build timeout.
12726 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
12727 arguments we do not recognize.
12728 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
12729 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
12730 open() without checking it.
12733 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
12734 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
12735 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
12736 several minor potential security bugs.
12739 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
12740 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
12741 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
12742 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
12743 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
12744 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
12745 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
12748 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
12749 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
12751 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
12752 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
12753 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
12754 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
12758 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
12759 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
12763 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
12764 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
12765 customized patches to run/build.
12768 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
12769 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
12770 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
12773 o Major bugfixes (performance):
12774 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
12775 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
12776 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
12777 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
12778 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
12779 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
12780 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
12783 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
12784 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
12785 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
12786 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
12787 libraries in a security patch.
12788 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
12789 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
12790 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
12791 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
12794 o Directory authority changes:
12795 - Change IP address for dannenberg (v3 directory authority), and
12796 remove moria2 (obsolete v1, v2 directory authority and v0 hidden
12797 service directory authority) from the list.
12800 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
12801 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
12804 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
12805 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
12806 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
12807 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
12808 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
12811 Changes in version 0.2.2.8-alpha - 2010-01-26
12812 Tor 0.2.2.8-alpha fixes a crash bug in 0.2.2.7-alpha that has been
12813 causing bridge relays to disappear. If you're running a bridge,
12817 - Fix a memory corruption bug on bridges that occured during the
12818 inclusion of stats data in extra-info descriptors. Also fix the
12819 interface for geoip_get_bridge_stats* to prevent similar bugs in
12820 the future. Diagnosis by Tas, patch by Karsten and Sebastian.
12821 Fixes bug 1208; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
12824 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
12825 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
12826 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
12830 Changes in version 0.2.2.7-alpha - 2010-01-19
12831 Tor 0.2.2.7-alpha fixes a huge client-side performance bug, as well
12832 as laying the groundwork for further relay-side performance fixes. It
12833 also starts cleaning up client behavior with respect to the EntryNodes,
12834 ExitNodes, and StrictNodes config options.
12836 This release also rotates two directory authority keys, due to a
12837 security breach of some of the Torproject servers.
12839 o Directory authority changes:
12840 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
12843 o Major features (performance):
12844 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
12845 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
12846 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
12847 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
12848 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
12849 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
12850 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
12851 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays can now favor
12852 circuits that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency
12853 for low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
12854 feature based on a setting in the consensus. You can override
12855 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
12856 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
12858 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
12859 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
12860 but never per-conn write limits.
12861 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
12862 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
12863 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
12864 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
12866 o Major features (relay selection options):
12867 - Switch to a StrictNodes config option, rather than the previous
12868 "StrictEntryNodes" / "StrictExitNodes" separation that was missing a
12869 "StrictExcludeNodes" option.
12870 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
12871 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
12872 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
12873 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
12875 - If EntryNodes or ExitNodes are set, be more willing to use an
12876 unsuitable (e.g. slow or unstable) circuit. The user asked for it,
12878 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
12879 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
12880 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
12881 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
12882 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
12883 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
12884 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
12885 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
12886 the network changes.
12889 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
12890 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
12891 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12894 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
12895 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
12896 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
12897 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
12898 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
12899 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
12900 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
12901 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
12902 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
12903 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
12904 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
12905 generated while acting as a relay.
12906 - Ship the bridges spec file in the tarball too.
12907 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
12908 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
12909 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
12910 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
12911 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
12913 o Minor bugfixes (compiling):
12914 - Fix compilation on OS X 10.3, which has a stub mlockall() but
12915 hides it. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
12916 - Fix compilation on Solaris by removing support for the
12917 DisableAllSwap config option. Solaris doesn't have an rlimit for
12918 mlockall, so we cannot use it safely. Fixes bug 1198; bugfix on
12921 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
12922 - Do not segfault when writing buffer stats when we haven't observed
12923 a single circuit to report about. Found by Fabian Lanze. Bugfix on
12925 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
12926 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
12927 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
12929 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
12930 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
12932 o Minor bugfixes (privacy):
12933 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
12934 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
12936 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
12937 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
12940 o Minor bugfixes (other):
12941 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
12942 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
12943 - Fix statistics on client numbers by country as seen by bridges that
12944 were broken in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Also switch to reporting full 24-hour
12945 intervals instead of variable 12-to-48-hour intervals.
12946 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
12947 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
12948 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
12950 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
12953 o Removed features:
12954 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
12955 service authorities could have used to track statistics of overall
12956 hidden service usage.
12959 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
12960 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
12961 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
12962 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
12963 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
12965 o Directory authority changes:
12966 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
12970 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
12971 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
12972 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
12975 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
12976 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
12977 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
12978 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
12979 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
12982 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
12983 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
12984 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
12985 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
12986 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
12987 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
12988 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
12991 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
12992 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
12993 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
12994 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
12995 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
12996 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
12998 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
12999 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
13002 Changes in version 0.2.2.6-alpha - 2009-11-19
13003 Tor 0.2.2.6-alpha lays the groundwork for many upcoming features:
13004 support for the new lower-footprint "microdescriptor" directory design,
13005 future-proofing our consensus format against new hash functions or
13006 other changes, and an Android port. It also makes Tor compatible with
13007 the upcoming OpenSSL 0.9.8l release, and fixes a variety of bugs.
13010 - Directory authorities can now create, vote on, and serve multiple
13011 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
13012 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
13014 - Directory authorities can now agree on and publish small summaries
13015 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
13016 server descriptors. This transition will eventually allow clients
13017 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
13018 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
13019 download consensus + microdescriptors".
13020 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
13021 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
13022 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
13023 hash algorithm in the future.
13024 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
13025 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
13026 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
13027 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
13028 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
13029 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
13030 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
13031 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
13032 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
13035 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
13036 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
13037 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, but OpenSSL 0.9.8l
13038 won't work unless we say we are.
13041 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
13042 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
13043 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
13044 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
13045 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
13046 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
13047 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
13048 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
13049 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13050 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
13051 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
13052 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
13053 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
13054 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
13055 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
13056 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
13057 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
13058 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
13059 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
13060 on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1113.
13061 - Fix a memory leak on directory authorities during voting that was
13062 introduced in 0.2.2.1-alpha. Found via valgrind.
13065 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
13066 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
13067 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
13068 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
13070 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
13071 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
13073 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
13074 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
13075 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
13076 in the Vidalia Settings window.
13079 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
13080 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
13081 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
13082 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
13083 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
13085 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
13086 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
13088 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
13089 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
13090 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
13093 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
13094 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
13095 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
13097 o New directory authorities:
13098 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
13100 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
13103 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
13104 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
13106 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
13107 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
13108 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13109 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
13110 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
13111 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
13112 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13113 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
13114 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
13115 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
13116 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
13117 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
13118 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
13119 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
13120 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
13121 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
13122 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
13124 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
13125 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
13126 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
13128 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
13129 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
13133 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
13134 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
13135 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
13136 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
13137 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
13140 Changes in version 0.2.2.5-alpha - 2009-10-11
13141 Tor 0.2.2.5-alpha fixes a few compile problems in 0.2.2.4-alpha.
13144 - Make the tarball compile again. Oops. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
13146 o Directory authorities:
13147 - Temporarily (just for this release) move dizum to an alternate
13151 Changes in version 0.2.2.4-alpha - 2009-10-10
13152 Tor 0.2.2.4-alpha fixes more crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha. It also
13153 introduces a new unit test framework, shifts directry authority
13154 addresses around to reduce the impact from recent blocking events,
13155 and fixes a few smaller bugs.
13158 - Fix several more asserts in the circuit_build_times code, for
13159 example one that causes Tor to fail to start once we have
13160 accumulated 5000 build times in the state file. Bugfixes on
13161 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1108.
13163 o New directory authorities:
13164 - Move moria1 and Tonga to alternate IP addresses.
13167 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
13168 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
13169 SSL handshake issues.
13170 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
13171 during the TLS handshake.
13172 - Revert to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file. The September one
13173 seems to have removed most US IP addresses.
13174 - Directory authorities now reject Tor relays with versions less than
13175 0.1.2.14. This step cuts out four relays from the current network,
13176 none of which are very big.
13179 - Fix a couple of smaller issues with gathering statistics. Bugfixes
13181 - Fix two memory leaks in the error case of
13182 circuit_build_times_parse_state(). Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13183 - Don't count one-hop circuits when we're estimating how long it
13184 takes circuits to build on average. Otherwise we'll set our circuit
13185 build timeout lower than we should. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13186 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
13187 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
13188 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
13191 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
13192 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
13193 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
13194 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
13195 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
13198 Changes in version 0.2.2.3-alpha - 2009-09-23
13199 Tor 0.2.2.3-alpha fixes a few crash bugs in 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13202 - Fix an overzealous assert in our new circuit build timeout code.
13203 Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha; fixes bug 1103.
13206 - If the networkstatus consensus tells us that we should use a
13207 negative circuit package window, ignore it. Otherwise we'll
13208 believe it and then trigger an assert. Bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
13211 Changes in version 0.2.2.2-alpha - 2009-09-21
13212 Tor 0.2.2.2-alpha introduces our latest performance improvement for
13213 clients: Tor tracks the average time it takes to build a circuit, and
13214 avoids using circuits that take too long to build. For fast connections,
13215 this feature can cut your expected latency in half. For slow or flaky
13216 connections, it could ruin your Tor experience. Let us know if it does!
13219 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
13220 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
13221 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
13222 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
13223 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
13224 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
13225 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
13226 We are especially looking for reports (good and bad) from users with
13227 both EDGE and broadband connections that can move from broadband
13228 to EDGE and find out if the build-time data in the .tor/state gets
13229 reset without loss of Tor usability. You should also see a notice
13230 log message telling you that Tor has reset its timeout.
13231 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
13232 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
13233 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
13234 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
13235 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
13236 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
13239 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
13240 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
13244 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
13245 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
13246 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
13247 - Fix parsing for memory or time units given without a space between
13248 the number and the unit. Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1076.
13249 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
13250 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13251 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
13252 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
13253 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
13254 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13255 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
13256 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
13257 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
13258 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
13259 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
13260 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
13261 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
13262 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
13263 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
13264 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
13266 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
13267 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
13268 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090, but more problems
13269 remain. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13270 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
13271 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
13273 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
13274 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
13275 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
13278 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
13279 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
13280 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
13281 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
13282 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
13283 - Update to the "September 4 2009" ip-to-country file.
13286 Changes in version 0.2.2.1-alpha - 2009-08-26
13287 Tor 0.2.2.1-alpha disables ".exit" address notation by default, allows
13288 Tor clients to bootstrap on networks where only port 80 is reachable,
13289 makes it more straightforward to support hardware crypto accelerators,
13290 and starts the groundwork for gathering stats safely at relays.
13293 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
13294 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
13295 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
13298 o New directory authorities:
13299 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
13303 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
13304 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
13305 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
13306 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
13307 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
13310 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
13311 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
13312 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
13313 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
13314 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
13317 o New options for gathering stats safely:
13318 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
13319 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
13320 --enable-geoip-stats flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few improvements:
13321 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours; 2) estimated
13322 shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean values, not at
13323 the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved requests are listed
13324 with country code '??'; 4) directories also measure download times.
13325 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
13326 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
13328 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
13329 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
13330 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
13331 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
13333 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
13334 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
13335 their extra-info documents.
13338 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
13339 source files Tor was built with.
13340 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
13341 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
13342 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
13343 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
13344 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
13345 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
13347 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
13348 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
13349 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
13350 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
13351 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
13353 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
13354 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
13357 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
13358 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
13359 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
13360 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
13361 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
13363 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
13364 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
13366 o Deprecated and removed features:
13367 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
13368 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
13369 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
13370 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
13371 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
13372 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
13373 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
13374 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
13376 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
13377 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
13378 via application-level web tricks.
13380 o Packaging changes:
13381 - Upgrade Vidalia from 0.1.15 to 0.2.3 in the Windows and OS X
13382 installer bundles. See
13383 https://trac.vidalia-project.net/browser/vidalia/tags/vidalia-0.2.3/CHANGELOG
13384 for details of what's new in Vidalia 0.2.3.
13385 - Windows Vidalia Bundle: update Privoxy from 3.0.6 to 3.0.14-beta.
13386 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: move to Polipo 1.0.4 with Tor specific
13387 configuration file, rather than the old Privoxy.
13388 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: Vidalia, Tor, and Polipo are compiled as
13389 x86-only for better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
13390 - OS X Tor Expert Bundle: Tor is compiled as x86-only for
13391 better compatibility with OS X 10.6, aka Snow Leopard.
13392 - OS X Vidalia Bundle: The multi-package installer is now replaced
13393 by a simple drag and drop to the /Applications folder. This change
13394 occurred with the upgrade to Vidalia 0.2.3.
13397 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
13398 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
13399 services on Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18.
13402 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
13403 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
13404 part of patch provided by "optimist".
13407 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
13408 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
13409 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
13410 and confuse fewer users.
13413 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
13414 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
13415 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
13416 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
13417 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
13418 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
13419 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
13422 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
13423 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
13424 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
13425 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
13426 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
13427 other features and bug fixes.
13430 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
13433 Changes in version 0.2.1.17-rc - 2009-07-07
13434 Tor 0.2.1.17-rc marks the fourth -- and hopefully last -- release
13435 candidate for the 0.2.1.x series. It lays the groundwork for further
13436 client performance improvements, and also fixes a big bug with directory
13437 authorities that were causing them to assign Guard and Stable flags
13440 The Windows bundles also finally include the geoip database that we
13441 thought we'd been shipping since 0.2.0.x (oops), and the OS X bundles
13442 should actually install Torbutton rather than giving you a cryptic
13443 failure message (oops).
13446 - Clients now use the bandwidth values in the consensus, rather than
13447 the bandwidth values in each relay descriptor. This approach opens
13448 the door to more accurate bandwidth estimates once the directory
13449 authorities start doing active measurements. Implements more of
13453 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
13454 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
13455 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
13456 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
13457 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
13458 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
13459 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13460 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
13461 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
13462 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
13463 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
13464 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu"
13465 and "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable
13466 flags very wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and
13467 969. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
13470 - Serve the DirPortFrontPage page even when we have been approaching
13471 our quotas recently. Fixes bug 1013; bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
13472 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
13473 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
13474 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
13475 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fixed a spurious
13476 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
13477 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
13478 by Marcus Griep. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
13479 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
13480 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
13481 Workaround for bug 1024.
13482 - Fix a log message that did not respect the SafeLogging option.
13486 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
13487 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
13488 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
13491 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
13493 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
13494 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
13495 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
13496 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
13497 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
13500 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
13501 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
13502 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
13503 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
13504 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
13505 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
13506 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
13507 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
13508 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
13509 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
13512 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
13513 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
13514 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
13515 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
13516 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
13517 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
13518 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
13519 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
13522 Changes in version 0.2.1.16-rc - 2009-06-20
13523 Tor 0.2.1.16-rc speeds up performance for fast exit relays, and fixes
13524 a bunch of minor bugs.
13527 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
13528 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
13529 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
13531 o Major performance improvements (on 0.2.0.x):
13532 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
13533 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
13534 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Found
13536 - Disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
13540 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
13541 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
13542 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
13544 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
13545 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
13547 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
13548 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
13550 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
13551 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
13552 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
13553 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
13554 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
13555 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
13556 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
13557 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
13559 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
13560 - Don't warn users about low port and hibernation mix when they
13561 provide a *ListenAddress directive to fix that. Bugfix on
13563 - When switching back and forth between bridge mode, do not start
13564 gathering GeoIP data until two hours have passed.
13565 - Do not complain that the user has requested an excluded node as
13566 an exit when the node is not really an exit. This could happen
13567 because the circuit was for testing, or an introduction point.
13571 Changes in version 0.2.1.15-rc - 2009-05-25
13572 Tor 0.2.1.15-rc marks the second release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
13573 series. It fixes a major bug on fast exit relays, as well as a variety
13574 of more minor bugs.
13576 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
13577 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
13578 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
13579 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
13581 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
13582 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
13583 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
13584 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13585 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
13586 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
13587 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
13588 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
13589 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
13590 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
13591 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
13592 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13593 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
13594 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
13595 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
13596 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
13597 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
13599 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
13600 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
13601 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
13602 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
13604 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
13605 - Fix use of freed memory when deciding to mark a non-addable
13606 descriptor as never-downloadable. Bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
13609 Changes in version 0.2.1.14-rc - 2009-04-12
13610 Tor 0.2.1.14-rc marks the first release candidate for the 0.2.1.x
13611 series. It begins fixing some major performance problems, and also
13612 finally addresses the bug that was causing relays on dynamic IP
13613 addresses to fall out of the directory.
13616 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
13617 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
13618 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
13619 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
13621 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0):
13622 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
13623 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
13624 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
13625 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
13626 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
13627 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
13628 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
13629 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
13630 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
13631 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
13632 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
13633 if bandwidthrate or bandwidthburst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
13634 patch by Sebastian.
13635 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
13636 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
13639 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
13640 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
13641 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
13642 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
13643 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
13644 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
13646 - Raise the minimum bandwidth to be a relay from 20000 bytes to 20480
13647 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also update
13648 directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag to relays
13649 with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't suddenly
13650 find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets faster
13652 - Update to the "April 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
13655 - Avoid trying to print raw memory to the logs when we decide to
13656 give up on downloading a given relay descriptor. Bugfix on
13658 - In tor-resolve, when the Tor client to use is specified by
13659 <hostname>:<port>, actually use the specified port rather than
13660 defaulting to 9050. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13661 - Make directory usage recording work again. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13662 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
13663 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
13665 - Avoid double-free on list of successfully uploaded hidden
13666 service discriptors. Fix for bug 948. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13667 - Change memarea_strndup() implementation to work even when
13668 duplicating a string at the end of a page. This bug was
13669 harmless for now, but could have meant crashes later. Fix by
13670 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13671 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
13672 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
13673 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
13674 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
13675 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
13676 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
13680 Changes in version 0.2.1.13-alpha - 2009-03-09
13681 Tor 0.2.1.13-alpha includes another big pile of minor bugfixes and
13682 cleanups. We're finally getting close to a release candidate.
13685 - Correctly update the list of which countries we exclude as
13686 exits, when the GeoIP file is loaded or reloaded. Diagnosed by
13687 lark. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
13689 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and earlier):
13690 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
13691 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
13692 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
13693 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
13694 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
13695 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
13696 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
13697 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
13698 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
13699 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
13700 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
13701 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
13702 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
13703 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
13704 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
13705 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
13706 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
13707 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
13708 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
13709 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
13710 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
13711 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
13712 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
13713 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
13714 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
13716 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
13717 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
13718 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
13719 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
13720 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
13721 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
13722 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
13723 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
13724 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
13725 of 0. Suggested by lark.
13727 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
13728 - Don't re-extend introduction circuits if we ran out of RELAY_EARLY
13729 cells. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Fixes more of bug 878.
13730 - If we're an exit node, scrub the IP address to which we are exiting
13731 in the logs. Bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
13734 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the user
13736 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
13737 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
13738 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
13739 - Update to the "February 26 2009" ip-to-country file.
13742 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
13743 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
13744 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
13745 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
13746 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
13748 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
13749 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
13750 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
13751 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
13754 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
13755 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
13756 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
13757 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
13758 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
13759 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
13760 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
13761 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
13764 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
13765 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
13766 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
13767 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
13770 Changes in version 0.2.1.12-alpha - 2009-02-08
13771 Tor 0.2.1.12-alpha features several more security-related fixes. You
13772 should upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or
13773 a directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
13774 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit). It also
13775 includes a big pile of minor bugfixes and cleanups.
13778 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
13779 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
13780 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
13781 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
13782 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
13783 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
13786 - Let controllers actually ask for the "clients_seen" event for
13787 getting usage summaries on bridge relays. Bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha;
13788 reported by Matt Edman.
13789 - Fix a compile warning on OSX Panther. Fixes bug 913; bugfix against
13791 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
13792 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
13793 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
13794 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
13796 - Remove a bash-ism from configure.in to build properly on non-Linux
13797 platforms. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
13798 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
13799 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
13800 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
13801 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
13802 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
13803 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
13804 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
13805 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
13806 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
13807 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
13808 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
13809 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
13810 - Support changing value of ServerDNSRandomizeCase during SIGHUP.
13811 Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
13812 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
13813 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
13814 request. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
13817 - Support platforms where time_t is 64 bits long. (Congratulations,
13818 NetBSD!) Patch from Matthias Drochner.
13819 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
13820 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
13823 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
13824 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
13825 the letter of C99's alias rules.
13828 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
13829 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
13830 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
13831 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
13833 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
13834 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
13835 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
13838 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
13839 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
13842 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
13843 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
13844 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
13845 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
13846 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
13847 reported by "wood".
13848 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
13849 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
13850 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
13851 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
13852 identify a connection.
13853 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
13854 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
13855 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
13856 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
13857 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
13858 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
13859 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
13860 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
13861 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
13862 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
13864 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
13865 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
13866 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
13867 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
13868 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
13869 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
13870 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
13873 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
13874 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
13876 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
13877 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
13878 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
13879 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
13880 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
13881 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
13882 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
13883 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
13885 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
13886 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
13887 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
13888 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
13889 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
13890 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
13891 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
13892 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
13893 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
13894 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
13895 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
13896 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
13897 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
13898 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
13899 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
13900 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
13901 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
13902 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
13903 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
13904 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
13905 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
13906 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
13907 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
13908 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
13909 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
13910 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
13911 840. Patch from rovv.
13912 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
13913 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
13914 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
13916 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
13917 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
13918 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
13919 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
13920 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
13921 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
13922 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
13924 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
13925 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
13926 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
13929 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
13930 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
13932 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
13933 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
13934 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
13935 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
13936 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
13937 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
13938 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
13939 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
13940 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
13942 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
13944 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
13945 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
13949 Changes in version 0.2.1.11-alpha - 2009-01-20
13950 Tor 0.2.1.11-alpha finishes fixing the "if your Tor is off for a
13951 week it will take a long time to bootstrap again" bug. It also fixes
13952 an important security-related bug reported by Ilja van Sprundel. You
13953 should upgrade. (We'll send out more details about the bug once people
13954 have had some time to upgrade.)
13957 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
13958 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
13961 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
13962 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
13963 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion
13964 keys in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Bugfix
13965 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
13968 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
13969 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
13971 - Make setting ServerDNSRandomizeCase to 0 actually work. Bugfix
13972 for bug 905. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
13973 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
13974 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
13975 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
13976 entirely. Patch from coderman.
13979 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
13980 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
13981 - When our circuit fails at the first hop (e.g. we get a destroy
13982 cell back), avoid using that OR connection anymore, and also
13983 tell all the one-hop directory requests waiting for it that they
13984 should fail. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
13985 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
13989 Changes in version 0.2.1.10-alpha - 2009-01-06
13990 Tor 0.2.1.10-alpha fixes two major bugs in bridge relays (one that
13991 would make the bridge relay not so useful if it had DirPort set to 0,
13992 and one that could let an attacker learn a little bit of information
13993 about the bridge's users), and a bug that would cause your Tor relay
13994 to ignore a circuit create request it can't decrypt (rather than reply
13995 with an error). It also fixes a wide variety of other bugs.
13998 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
13999 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could
14000 be useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in
14001 practice it just means we spend many minutes trying directory
14002 mirrors that are long gone from the network. Helps bug 887 a bit;
14004 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
14005 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
14006 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
14007 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
14008 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
14009 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
14010 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
14011 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
14012 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
14013 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
14017 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
14018 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
14019 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
14021 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later built
14022 without support for deprecated functions.
14023 - Update to the "December 19 2008" ip-to-country file.
14025 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
14026 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
14027 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
14028 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
14029 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
14030 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
14031 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
14032 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
14033 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
14034 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
14035 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
14036 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
14037 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
14038 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
14039 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
14040 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
14041 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
14042 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
14043 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
14044 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
14045 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
14046 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
14047 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
14049 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x):
14050 - Make get_interface_address() function work properly again; stop
14051 guessing the wrong parts of our address as our address.
14052 - Do not cannibalize a circuit if we're out of RELAY_EARLY cells to
14053 send on that circuit. Otherwise we might violate the proposal-110
14054 limit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Partial fix for bug 878. Diagnosis
14056 - When we're sending non-EXTEND cells to the first hop in a circuit,
14057 for example to use an encrypted directory connection, we don't need
14058 to use RELAY_EARLY cells: the first hop knows what kind of cell
14059 it is, and nobody else can even see the cell type. Conserving
14060 RELAY_EARLY cells makes it easier to cannibalize circuits like
14062 - Stop logging nameserver addresses in reverse order.
14063 - If we are retrying a directory download slowly over and over, do
14064 not automatically give up after the 254th failure. Bugfix on
14066 - Resume reporting accurate "stream end" reasons to the local control
14067 port. They were lost in the changes for Proposal 148. Bugfix on
14070 o Deprecated and removed features:
14071 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
14072 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
14073 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
14076 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14077 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
14078 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
14079 with log.h on Android.
14080 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
14081 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
14084 Changes in version 0.2.1.9-alpha - 2008-12-25
14085 Tor 0.2.1.9-alpha fixes many more bugs, some of them security-related.
14087 o New directory authorities:
14088 - gabelmoo (the authority run by Karsten Loesing) now has a new
14092 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
14093 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
14094 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
14095 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
14096 - Avoid a possible memory corruption bug when receiving hidden service
14097 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14100 - Fix a logic error that would automatically reject all but the first
14101 configured DNS server. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Possible fix for
14102 part of bug 813/868. Bug spotted by coderman.
14103 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
14104 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
14105 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
14106 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
14107 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in 0.1.2.1-alpha;
14108 reported by "wood".
14109 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
14110 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, retry failed
14111 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
14112 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
14115 - Give a better error message when an overzealous init script says
14116 "sudo -u username tor --user username". Makes Bug 882 easier for
14118 - When a directory authority gives us a new guess for our IP address,
14119 log which authority we used. Hopefully this will help us debug
14120 the recent complaints about bad IP address guesses.
14121 - Detect svn revision properly when we're using git-svn.
14122 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
14123 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
14124 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
14125 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
14126 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate.
14127 Partial implementation of proposal 157.
14128 - Start serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
14129 pairs. Partial implementation of proposal 157.
14130 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
14131 Implements proposal 148.
14132 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
14133 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
14134 system to do it for us.
14135 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
14136 or for every cell. On systems where time() is a slow syscall,
14137 this fix will be slightly helpful.
14138 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
14139 - When we download a descriptor that we then immediately (as
14140 a directory authority) reject, do not retry downloading it right
14141 away. Should save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug
14142 888. Patch by Sebastian Hahn.
14143 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
14144 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
14145 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
14146 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
14149 o Minor features (controller):
14150 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
14151 been fetched and validated.
14152 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
14153 descriptors file, print out a more useful error message rather
14154 than triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
14155 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
14156 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the
14157 configuration. Fixes bug 856.
14160 - Resume using the correct "REASON=" stream when telling the
14161 controller why we closed a stream. Bugfix in 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14162 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
14163 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
14164 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
14166 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
14167 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
14168 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
14169 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
14170 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
14171 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
14172 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
14173 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
14174 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
14176 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
14177 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP (bugfix on
14178 0.0.6pre1); also, do not stall hidden services because we're
14179 throwing away introduction points; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Spotted
14180 by John Brooks. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
14181 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous
14182 descriptor to the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor
14183 with the same ID. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
14185 o Deprecated and removed features:
14186 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
14188 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
14189 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
14190 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
14192 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14193 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
14194 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
14196 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
14197 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
14198 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
14199 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
14200 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
14201 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
14204 Changes in version 0.2.1.8-alpha - 2008-12-08
14205 Tor 0.2.1.8-alpha fixes some crash bugs in earlier alpha releases,
14206 builds better on unusual platforms like Solaris and old OS X, and
14207 fixes a variety of other issues.
14210 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
14211 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
14212 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
14213 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
14216 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
14217 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
14218 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
14219 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
14222 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
14223 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14224 - Fix a possible segfault when establishing an exit connection. Bugfix
14228 - Get file locking working on win32. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fixes
14230 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
14231 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
14232 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
14233 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fix for bug 862.
14234 - Fix a crash bug when changing EntryNodes from the controller. Bugfix
14235 on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Fix for bug 867. Patched by Sebastian.
14236 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
14238 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
14239 rest, and don't automatically fail.
14240 - Use fcntl() for locking when flock() is not available. Should fix
14241 compilation on Solaris. Should fix Bug 873. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
14242 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
14243 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
14245 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
14246 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
14247 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
14248 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
14249 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
14250 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
14251 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
14252 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
14253 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
14254 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880. Bugfix
14256 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
14260 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
14261 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
14262 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
14264 o Minor features (controller):
14265 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status. Fixes
14269 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
14270 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
14271 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
14272 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
14273 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
14274 variety of other issues.
14277 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
14278 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
14279 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
14280 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
14281 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
14282 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
14283 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
14284 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
14285 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
14286 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
14287 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
14288 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
14291 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
14292 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14294 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
14295 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
14296 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
14297 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
14298 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
14299 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
14300 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14301 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
14302 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
14303 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
14304 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
14305 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
14306 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
14307 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
14308 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
14312 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
14313 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
14314 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
14315 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
14316 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
14317 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
14318 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
14319 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
14320 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
14321 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
14322 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
14323 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
14324 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
14325 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
14326 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
14327 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
14328 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
14329 list. It has been gone for many months.
14330 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
14331 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
14332 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
14335 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14336 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
14337 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
14340 Changes in version 0.2.1.7-alpha - 2008-11-08
14341 Tor 0.2.1.7-alpha fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
14342 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
14343 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
14344 services, adds better defense against DNS poisoning attacks on exit
14345 relays, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
14346 variety of other issues.
14349 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
14350 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
14351 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
14352 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
14353 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
14354 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
14355 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
14356 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
14357 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
14358 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
14359 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
14360 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848.
14361 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
14362 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
14365 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
14366 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
14367 Suggested by Lucky Green.
14368 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
14369 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
14370 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
14371 ServerDNSRandomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
14372 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
14373 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
14375 - Preserve case in replies to DNSPort requests in order to support
14376 the 0x20 hack for resisting DNS poisoning attacks.
14378 o Hidden service performance improvements:
14379 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
14380 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
14381 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
14382 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
14383 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
14384 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
14385 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
14386 faster after restart.
14389 - Minor fix in the warning messages when you're having problems
14390 bootstrapping; also, be more forgiving of bootstrap problems when
14391 we're still making incremental progress on a given bootstrap phase.
14392 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
14393 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
14394 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
14395 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
14396 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
14397 840. Patch from rovv.
14398 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
14399 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
14400 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
14401 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
14402 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
14403 Fixes another case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
14404 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
14405 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
14406 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
14408 - Avoid using a negative right-shift when comparing 32-bit
14409 addresses. Possible fix for bug 845 and bug 811.
14410 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
14411 have already been marked for close.
14412 - Fix read-off-the-end-of-string error in unit tests when decoding
14413 introduction points.
14414 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
14415 memory performance during directory parsing.
14416 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
14417 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
14418 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
14419 because of a pending download.
14422 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-30
14423 Tor 0.2.1.6-alpha further improves performance and robustness of
14424 hidden services, starts work on supporting per-country relay selection,
14425 and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
14428 - Implement proposal 121: make it possible to build hidden services
14429 that only certain clients are allowed to connect to. This is
14430 enforced at several points, so that unauthorized clients are unable
14431 to send INTRODUCE cells to the service, or even (depending on the
14432 type of authentication) to learn introduction points. This feature
14433 raises the bar for certain kinds of active attacks against hidden
14434 services. Code by Karsten Loesing.
14435 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
14436 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
14437 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
14438 lookups more reliable.
14439 - Start work to allow node restrictions to include country codes. The
14440 syntax to exclude nodes in a country with country code XX is
14441 "ExcludeNodes {XX}". Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
14442 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
14443 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
14444 - Allow ExitNodes list to include IP ranges and country codes, just
14445 like the Exclude*Nodes lists. Patch from Robert Hogan.
14448 - Fix a bug when parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse() that caused
14449 Tor to fail to start if you had it configured to use a bridge
14450 relay. Fixes bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14451 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
14452 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
14453 requests failed, because the router descriptor had not been
14454 downloaded yet. In these cases, we now wait until the router
14455 descriptor is downloaded, and then retry. Likewise, clients
14456 now skip over a hidden service directory if they don't yet have
14457 its router descriptor, rather than futilely requesting it and
14458 putting mysterious complaints in the logs. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
14460 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
14461 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
14462 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
14463 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
14464 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
14465 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
14466 - DNS replies need to have names matching their requests, but
14467 these names should be in the questions section, not necessarily
14468 in the answers section. Fixes bug 823. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14471 - Update to the "September 1 2008" ip-to-country file.
14472 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
14473 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
14474 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
14475 locked down these days.
14476 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
14477 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
14478 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
14479 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
14480 - Better logging about stability/reliability calculations on directory
14482 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
14483 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
14484 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
14485 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
14486 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
14487 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
14488 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
14489 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
14490 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
14491 people find host:port too confusing.
14492 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
14493 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
14494 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
14497 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
14499 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
14500 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
14501 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
14502 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
14503 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
14505 - Catch and report a few more bootstrapping failure cases when Tor
14506 fails to establish a TCP connection. Cleanup on 0.2.1.x.
14507 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
14508 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
14509 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
14510 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
14511 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
14512 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
14513 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
14514 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
14515 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
14516 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
14518 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
14519 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
14520 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
14521 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch by rovv.
14522 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
14523 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
14524 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
14525 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
14526 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
14528 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
14529 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
14530 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
14531 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
14532 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
14533 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
14534 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
14535 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
14536 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
14537 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
14538 bug 820, reported by seeess.
14539 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
14540 list. It has been gone for many months.
14542 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
14543 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
14544 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
14545 actual mistakes we're making here.
14546 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
14547 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
14548 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
14549 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
14552 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
14553 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
14554 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
14555 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
14558 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
14559 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
14560 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
14561 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
14562 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
14563 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
14565 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
14566 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
14567 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
14568 pointed out by rovv.
14571 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
14572 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14573 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
14574 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
14575 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
14576 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
14577 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
14578 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
14579 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
14580 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14581 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
14582 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
14583 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
14584 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
14585 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
14586 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
14587 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
14588 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
14589 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
14590 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
14591 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
14594 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
14595 Tor 0.2.1.5-alpha moves us closer to handling IPv6 destinations, puts
14596 in a lot of the infrastructure for adding authorization to hidden
14597 services, lays the groundwork for having clients read their load
14598 balancing information out of the networkstatus consensus rather than
14599 the individual router descriptors, addresses two potential anonymity
14600 issues, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
14603 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
14605 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
14606 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
14607 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
14608 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
14609 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
14610 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
14611 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
14613 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
14614 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
14615 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
14616 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
14617 known descriptor before building circuits.
14619 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
14620 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
14621 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
14622 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
14623 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
14624 identify a connection.
14625 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
14626 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
14627 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
14629 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
14630 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
14631 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
14632 pointed out by rovv.
14635 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
14636 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14637 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
14638 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
14639 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
14640 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
14641 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
14642 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
14643 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
14644 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
14645 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
14646 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
14647 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
14648 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
14649 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
14652 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
14653 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
14654 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
14655 answer sections match.
14656 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
14657 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
14660 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
14661 Tor 0.2.1.4-alpha fixes a pair of crash bugs in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
14664 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
14665 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
14666 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
14668 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
14669 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
14670 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
14673 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
14674 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
14675 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
14676 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
14679 o Removed features:
14680 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
14681 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
14684 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
14685 Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha implements most of the pieces to prevent
14686 infinite-length circuit attacks (see proposal 110); fixes a bug that
14687 might cause exit relays to corrupt streams they send back; allows
14688 address patterns (e.g. 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in ExcludeNodes and
14689 ExcludeExitNodes config options; and fixes a big pile of bugs.
14691 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
14692 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
14693 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
14696 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
14697 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
14698 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
14699 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
14700 be sent using an "early" cell.
14703 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
14704 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
14705 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
14706 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
14707 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
14708 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
14709 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
14712 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
14713 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
14714 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
14715 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
14716 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
14717 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
14718 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
14719 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
14720 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
14721 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
14722 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
14723 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
14724 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
14725 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
14726 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
14727 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
14730 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
14731 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
14732 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
14733 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
14734 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
14735 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
14736 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
14737 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
14738 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
14740 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
14741 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
14742 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
14743 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
14744 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
14747 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
14748 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
14749 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
14750 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
14752 o Removed features:
14753 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
14754 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
14758 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
14760 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
14761 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
14762 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
14765 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
14766 Tor 0.2.0.29-rc fixes two big bugs with using bridges, fixes more
14767 hidden-service performance bugs, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
14770 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
14771 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
14772 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
14773 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
14774 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14775 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
14776 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
14777 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
14778 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14779 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
14780 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
14781 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
14782 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
14783 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
14784 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
14785 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
14786 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
14787 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
14788 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
14789 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
14790 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
14791 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
14792 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
14795 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
14796 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
14798 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
14799 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
14800 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
14801 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
14802 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
14803 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
14804 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
14806 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
14807 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be trying
14808 session resumption at this point, but apparently some did, in
14809 ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug
14810 found by Geoff Goodell.
14813 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
14814 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
14815 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
14816 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
14817 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
14818 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
14821 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
14822 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
14823 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
14826 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
14827 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
14828 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
14829 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
14830 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14831 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
14832 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
14833 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
14834 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
14835 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
14836 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
14837 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
14838 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
14839 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
14842 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
14843 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
14844 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
14846 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
14847 fingerprints with or without space.
14848 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
14849 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
14850 partway through and wants to catch up.
14851 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
14852 state to start out in.
14855 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
14856 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
14857 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
14858 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
14859 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
14862 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
14863 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
14864 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
14865 some of the connection attempts fail.
14866 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
14867 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
14868 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
14869 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
14870 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
14871 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
14873 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
14874 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
14875 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
14878 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
14879 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
14880 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
14881 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
14882 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
14883 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
14884 and adds a variety of smaller features.
14887 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
14888 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
14889 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
14890 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
14892 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
14893 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
14894 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
14895 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
14897 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
14898 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
14899 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
14900 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
14901 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
14902 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
14903 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
14906 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
14907 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
14908 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
14909 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
14910 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
14912 o Memory fixes and improvements:
14913 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
14914 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
14915 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
14916 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
14917 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
14918 on a typical directory cache.
14919 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
14920 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
14921 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
14922 and may reduce fragmentation.
14923 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
14924 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
14925 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
14927 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
14928 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
14929 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
14931 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
14932 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
14936 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
14937 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
14938 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
14939 done that for a long time.
14940 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
14941 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
14942 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
14943 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
14946 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
14947 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
14948 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
14949 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
14950 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
14951 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
14953 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
14954 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
14955 output to messages of warning and error severity.
14956 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
14957 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
14958 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
14959 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
14960 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
14961 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
14962 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
14963 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
14964 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
14965 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
14966 directory requests we should expect to see.
14967 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
14969 - Lots of new unit tests.
14970 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
14971 two parallel lists in lockstep.
14974 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
14975 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
14976 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
14979 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
14980 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
14981 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
14982 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
14983 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
14984 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
14985 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
14988 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
14989 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
14990 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
14994 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
14995 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
14996 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
14999 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
15000 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
15001 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
15003 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
15004 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
15006 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
15007 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
15008 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
15009 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
15010 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15011 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
15012 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
15014 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
15015 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
15016 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
15017 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
15018 - Fix compile on Windows.
15021 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
15022 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
15023 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
15024 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
15025 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
15026 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
15027 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
15030 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
15031 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
15034 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
15035 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
15036 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
15037 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
15039 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
15040 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
15041 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
15044 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
15045 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
15046 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
15047 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
15051 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
15052 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
15053 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
15054 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
15056 o Major security fixes:
15057 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
15058 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
15059 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
15060 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
15061 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
15064 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
15065 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15068 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
15069 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
15072 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
15073 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
15076 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
15077 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
15078 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
15081 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
15082 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15085 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
15086 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
15087 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
15088 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
15089 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
15091 o New directory authorities:
15092 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
15093 it has been down for months.
15094 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
15098 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
15099 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
15101 o Minor features (security):
15102 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
15103 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
15104 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
15107 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
15108 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
15109 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
15110 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
15111 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
15112 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
15113 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
15114 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
15115 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15117 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
15118 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
15119 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15120 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
15121 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
15122 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
15123 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15124 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
15125 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
15127 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
15128 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
15129 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
15130 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
15131 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
15132 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
15133 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
15134 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
15135 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
15136 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
15137 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15138 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
15139 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
15140 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
15141 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
15142 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
15143 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
15144 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
15145 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
15148 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
15149 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
15150 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
15151 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
15154 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
15155 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
15156 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
15157 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
15160 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
15161 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
15162 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
15163 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
15164 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
15167 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
15168 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
15169 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
15170 certain censored countries by default again.
15173 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
15174 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15175 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
15176 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
15177 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15178 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
15179 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
15180 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
15182 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
15183 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
15184 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
15185 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
15186 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
15187 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
15188 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
15189 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
15190 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
15191 a directory. Fix from lodger.
15193 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
15194 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
15195 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
15196 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
15197 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
15198 RelayBandwidth* values.
15199 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
15200 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
15201 CPUs. Fixes bug 625.
15202 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
15203 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
15204 get_interface_address6().
15205 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
15206 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
15207 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
15209 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
15210 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
15211 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
15212 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15213 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
15214 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
15215 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
15216 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
15217 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
15218 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
15221 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
15222 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
15223 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
15226 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
15227 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
15228 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
15229 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
15230 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
15233 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
15234 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
15235 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
15236 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
15237 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
15238 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
15239 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
15240 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
15241 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
15244 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
15245 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
15246 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
15247 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
15250 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
15251 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
15252 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
15253 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
15254 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
15255 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
15256 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
15259 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
15260 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
15261 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
15262 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
15263 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
15264 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
15265 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
15267 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
15268 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
15269 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
15270 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
15271 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
15274 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
15275 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
15276 and 0.2.0.19-alpha.
15277 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
15278 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
15279 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
15280 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15281 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
15282 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
15283 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
15284 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
15285 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
15286 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
15287 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
15288 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
15289 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15290 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
15291 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15292 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15293 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
15294 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
15295 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
15296 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
15297 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
15298 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
15299 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
15301 o Minor features (performance):
15302 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
15304 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
15305 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
15306 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
15307 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
15308 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
15309 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
15310 non-system include paths.
15311 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
15312 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
15315 o Minor features (other):
15316 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
15318 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
15319 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
15320 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
15323 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
15324 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
15325 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
15326 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
15328 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
15329 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
15330 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
15331 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
15332 Should fix bug 537.
15333 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
15334 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
15335 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15336 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
15337 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
15339 o Minor bugfixes (other):
15340 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
15341 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
15342 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
15343 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
15344 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
15345 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
15346 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
15347 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
15348 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
15349 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
15350 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
15351 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
15352 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
15353 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
15354 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15355 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
15356 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
15357 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
15358 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
15359 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
15360 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
15361 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
15362 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
15363 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
15366 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15367 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
15368 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
15372 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
15373 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
15374 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
15375 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
15376 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
15379 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
15380 Tor's x509 certificates.
15383 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
15384 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
15385 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15386 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
15387 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
15388 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15390 o Minor features (security):
15391 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
15392 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
15394 o Minor features (directory authority):
15395 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
15396 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
15397 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
15398 bandwidthburst values.
15400 o Minor features (controller):
15401 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
15402 processes from running us out of memory.
15404 o Minor features (misc):
15405 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
15406 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
15407 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
15408 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
15410 o Deprecated features (controller):
15411 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
15412 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
15413 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
15416 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
15417 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
15419 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
15420 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
15421 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15422 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
15423 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
15424 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15425 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
15426 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
15428 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
15429 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15430 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
15431 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15432 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
15433 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
15434 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
15435 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
15437 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
15438 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
15439 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
15440 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
15441 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15442 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
15443 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15444 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
15445 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15446 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
15447 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
15448 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15450 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
15451 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
15453 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
15454 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
15455 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
15456 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
15457 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
15458 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
15461 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
15462 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
15463 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
15464 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
15465 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
15467 o New directory authorities:
15468 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
15472 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
15473 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
15474 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
15475 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
15476 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
15477 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
15478 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
15479 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
15483 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
15484 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
15485 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
15486 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
15487 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
15488 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
15489 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
15490 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
15491 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
15492 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
15495 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
15496 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
15497 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
15498 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
15502 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
15503 the request isn't encrypted.
15504 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
15505 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
15506 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
15507 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
15508 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
15511 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
15512 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
15515 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
15518 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
15519 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
15520 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
15522 o New directory authorities:
15523 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
15526 o Major performance improvements:
15527 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
15528 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
15529 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
15530 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
15531 memory fragmentation.
15534 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
15535 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
15536 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
15537 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
15538 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
15539 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
15540 bodies when they receive them.
15541 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
15542 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
15543 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
15545 o Minor performance improvements:
15546 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
15547 of them were actually distinct.
15548 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
15549 interested in a given message.
15552 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
15553 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
15554 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
15555 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
15556 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
15557 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
15558 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
15559 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
15560 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
15561 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
15562 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
15564 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
15565 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
15566 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
15567 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
15568 this country" and "1 person from this country".
15569 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
15570 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
15571 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
15572 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
15573 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
15575 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
15576 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
15577 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
15579 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
15580 but client versions are not.
15581 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
15582 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
15584 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
15585 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
15586 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
15587 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
15588 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
15590 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
15591 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
15592 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
15595 o Minor features (controller):
15596 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
15597 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
15598 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
15599 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
15601 o Minor features (directory authorities):
15602 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
15603 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
15604 running a test network on a single host.
15605 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
15606 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
15608 o Minor features (bridges):
15609 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
15610 unencrypted connections.
15612 o Minor features (other):
15613 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
15614 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
15615 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
15616 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
15619 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
15620 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
15621 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
15622 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
15625 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
15626 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
15627 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
15628 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
15629 on network address.
15632 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
15633 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
15634 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
15635 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
15636 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
15637 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
15638 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
15639 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
15640 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
15641 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
15642 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
15643 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
15646 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
15647 rebuild our server descriptor.
15648 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
15649 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
15650 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
15651 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
15652 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
15653 nonstandard integer types.
15654 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
15655 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
15656 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
15657 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
15658 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
15660 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
15661 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
15662 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
15663 when they receive them.
15664 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
15665 This includes some 64-bit systems.
15666 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
15667 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
15668 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
15669 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
15670 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
15671 router_get_by_hexdigest().
15672 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
15673 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
15677 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
15678 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
15679 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
15682 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
15683 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
15684 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
15685 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
15686 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
15687 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
15688 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
15689 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15692 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
15693 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
15694 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
15695 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
15697 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
15698 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
15701 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
15702 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
15705 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
15707 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
15708 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
15710 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
15711 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
15712 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
15713 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15714 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
15715 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
15716 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
15717 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
15718 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
15719 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
15723 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
15724 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
15725 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
15728 - Make the unit tests build again.
15729 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
15730 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
15731 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
15732 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
15733 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
15734 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15735 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
15736 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
15737 the next one as a duplicate.
15740 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
15741 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
15742 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
15743 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
15746 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
15747 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
15748 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
15751 o New directory authorities:
15752 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
15756 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
15757 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
15758 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
15759 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
15760 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
15761 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
15762 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
15764 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
15765 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
15767 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
15768 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
15769 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
15770 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
15771 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
15772 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
15774 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
15775 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
15776 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
15777 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
15778 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
15779 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15782 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
15783 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
15784 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
15785 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
15786 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
15787 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
15788 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
15789 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
15790 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
15791 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
15792 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
15793 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
15794 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
15795 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
15796 where Tor is blocked.
15797 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
15798 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
15799 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
15800 to a file periodically.
15801 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
15802 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
15803 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
15807 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
15808 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
15809 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
15810 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
15811 in the relevant networkstatus document.
15812 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
15813 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
15814 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
15815 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
15816 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
15817 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
15818 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
15819 by Karsten Loesing.
15820 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
15821 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
15822 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
15823 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
15824 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
15825 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15826 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
15827 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
15828 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
15829 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15830 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
15831 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
15832 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
15833 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15834 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
15835 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
15836 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
15837 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
15838 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
15839 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15840 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15841 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
15842 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15843 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
15844 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
15845 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
15846 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
15847 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15850 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
15851 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
15852 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
15853 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
15854 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
15855 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
15856 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
15857 even if your DirPort isn't on.
15858 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
15859 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
15860 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
15862 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
15863 multiple controller passwords.
15864 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
15865 router based on the router's purpose.
15866 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
15867 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
15868 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
15869 the approved-routers file.
15872 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
15873 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
15874 well as a few minor bugs.
15877 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
15878 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
15879 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
15881 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
15882 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
15883 rebuild our server descriptor.
15885 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
15886 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
15887 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
15888 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
15889 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
15890 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
15891 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
15892 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
15893 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
15894 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
15896 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
15897 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
15898 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
15899 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
15900 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
15901 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
15902 then be flexible about families.
15905 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
15906 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
15907 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
15911 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
15912 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
15913 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
15914 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
15915 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
15918 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
15919 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
15920 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
15921 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
15922 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
15925 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
15926 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
15928 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
15929 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
15930 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
15931 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
15932 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
15933 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
15934 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
15936 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
15937 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
15938 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
15939 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
15942 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
15943 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
15946 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
15947 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
15948 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
15951 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
15952 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
15953 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
15954 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
15955 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
15956 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
15957 addresses many more minor issues.
15959 o New directory authorities:
15960 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
15963 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
15964 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
15965 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
15966 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
15968 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
15969 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
15970 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
15971 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
15972 and are reaching it.
15973 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
15974 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
15975 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
15976 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
15977 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
15978 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
15981 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
15982 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
15984 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
15985 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
15986 no longer work for clients.
15987 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
15988 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
15990 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
15991 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
15992 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
15993 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
15994 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
15995 enough directory information to build a circuit.
15996 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
15997 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
15998 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
15999 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
16000 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
16001 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
16003 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
16004 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
16005 requests for all of them.
16006 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
16008 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
16009 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
16010 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
16012 o New requirements:
16013 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
16014 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
16018 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
16019 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
16020 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
16021 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
16022 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
16023 networkstatuses that we already have.
16024 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
16025 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
16026 we start knowing some directory caches.
16027 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
16028 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
16029 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
16030 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
16031 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
16032 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
16033 Good in combination with --hash-password.
16034 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
16035 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
16037 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
16038 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
16039 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
16041 o Minor features (bridges):
16042 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
16043 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
16044 back to trying the bridge directly.
16045 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
16046 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
16048 o Minor features (controller):
16049 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
16050 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
16051 report the value as a "minimum skew."
16054 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
16055 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
16059 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
16060 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
16061 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
16062 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
16063 reported by tup and ioerror.
16064 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
16065 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
16067 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
16068 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
16070 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
16071 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
16072 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
16074 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
16075 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16076 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
16077 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16078 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
16079 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16080 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
16082 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
16083 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
16084 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16086 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
16087 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
16088 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
16089 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
16090 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
16093 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
16094 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
16095 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
16096 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
16097 lists for a few hours each day.
16099 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
16100 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
16101 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
16102 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
16103 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
16104 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
16105 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
16106 rend_process_relay_cell().
16108 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16109 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
16110 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
16111 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
16112 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
16113 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
16114 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
16115 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
16117 o Major bugfixes (other):
16118 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
16119 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
16120 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
16121 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
16122 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
16123 circuit cannibalization).
16124 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
16125 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
16126 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
16127 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
16128 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
16129 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
16132 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
16133 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
16135 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
16136 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
16137 absent. Resolves bug 467.
16138 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
16139 a way to trigger this remotely.)
16140 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
16141 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
16142 were reporting the dir port.)
16143 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
16144 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
16145 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
16146 the future. Fixes bug 434.
16147 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
16149 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
16150 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
16151 the onion key from getting rotated.
16152 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
16153 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
16154 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
16155 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
16156 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
16157 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
16158 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
16159 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
16160 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
16163 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
16164 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
16165 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
16166 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
16167 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
16168 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
16170 o Major features (directory system):
16171 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
16172 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
16173 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
16174 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
16175 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
16176 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
16177 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
16178 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
16179 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
16180 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
16181 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
16182 Partially implements proposal 122.
16183 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
16184 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
16187 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
16188 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
16189 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
16190 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
16192 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
16193 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
16194 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
16195 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
16196 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
16197 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
16198 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
16199 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
16200 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16202 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
16203 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
16205 - Allow certificates to include an address.
16206 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
16207 and download operations.
16208 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
16209 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
16210 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
16211 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
16212 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
16213 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
16215 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
16216 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
16219 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
16220 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
16221 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
16222 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
16224 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
16225 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
16226 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
16228 o Minor features (performance):
16229 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
16230 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
16231 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
16232 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
16233 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
16234 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
16235 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
16238 o Minor features (compilation):
16239 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
16240 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
16242 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
16243 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
16244 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
16245 stick around indefinitely.
16246 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
16248 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
16249 v3 directory authority.
16250 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
16251 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
16253 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
16254 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
16255 "moria on moria:9031."
16256 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
16257 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
16258 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
16259 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
16260 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
16261 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
16262 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
16263 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
16265 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
16266 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
16267 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
16268 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
16269 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
16270 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
16271 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
16272 downloads than for other types.
16274 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
16275 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
16277 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
16278 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
16279 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
16281 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16282 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
16283 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
16284 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
16285 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
16286 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
16287 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
16288 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
16290 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
16291 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
16292 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
16293 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
16294 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16295 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
16296 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
16297 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
16298 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
16299 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
16300 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
16302 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
16303 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
16306 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16307 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
16308 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
16309 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
16310 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
16311 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
16312 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
16313 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
16314 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
16315 so that they all take the same named flags.
16318 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
16319 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
16320 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
16323 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
16324 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
16325 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
16326 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
16327 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
16328 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
16330 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
16331 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
16332 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
16333 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
16334 annotations along with descriptors.
16335 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
16336 source, and its purpose.
16337 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
16339 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
16340 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
16341 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
16342 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
16345 o Major features (directory authorities):
16346 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
16348 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
16349 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
16350 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
16351 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
16352 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
16353 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
16355 o Major features (v3 directory system):
16356 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
16357 and download the descriptors listed in them.
16358 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
16359 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
16360 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
16362 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
16363 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
16364 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
16365 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
16368 o Major bugfixes (performance):
16369 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
16370 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
16371 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
16372 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
16374 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
16375 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
16376 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
16377 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
16378 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
16379 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
16381 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
16382 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
16384 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
16385 certificate is requested.
16386 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
16387 certificate requests.
16389 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
16390 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
16391 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
16392 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
16395 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16396 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
16397 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
16398 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
16400 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
16401 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
16403 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
16404 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
16405 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16406 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
16407 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
16408 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
16409 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
16410 downloads more sensible.
16411 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
16412 another when serving certificates.
16414 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
16415 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
16416 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
16417 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
16419 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
16420 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16421 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
16423 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
16424 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
16426 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
16427 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
16428 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
16429 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
16430 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
16432 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
16433 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
16434 WARN-severity events.
16435 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
16436 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
16437 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
16439 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
16440 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
16441 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
16443 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
16444 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
16445 circuit cannibalization).
16447 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16448 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
16449 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
16450 new module, networkstatus.c.
16451 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
16452 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
16453 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
16454 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
16455 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
16456 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
16457 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
16458 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
16459 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
16461 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
16463 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
16464 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
16467 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
16468 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
16469 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
16470 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
16472 o New directory authorities:
16473 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
16474 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
16476 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
16477 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
16478 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
16480 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
16481 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
16482 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
16483 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
16484 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
16485 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
16486 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
16487 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
16488 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
16489 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
16490 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16492 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
16493 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
16494 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
16495 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
16496 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
16497 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
16498 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
16499 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
16500 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
16502 o Minor features (security):
16503 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
16504 address maps to an internal address space.
16505 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
16506 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
16508 o Minor features (guard nodes):
16509 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
16510 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
16511 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
16512 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
16514 o Minor features (speed):
16515 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
16516 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
16517 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
16518 on big-endian hosts.)
16520 o Minor features (controller):
16521 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
16522 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
16523 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
16524 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
16527 o Removed features:
16528 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
16529 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
16530 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
16531 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
16532 implementation of proposal 104.
16533 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
16534 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
16535 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
16536 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
16537 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
16538 patch from Karsten Loesing.
16539 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
16540 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
16543 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
16544 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
16545 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
16546 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
16547 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
16548 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
16549 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
16550 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
16551 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
16552 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
16553 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
16554 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
16555 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
16556 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
16557 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
16558 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
16559 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
16560 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
16561 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
16562 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
16564 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
16565 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
16566 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
16568 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
16569 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
16570 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
16571 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
16574 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
16575 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
16576 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
16577 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
16578 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
16581 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
16582 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
16585 o Major bugfixes (security):
16586 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
16587 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
16588 become more of a headache than it's worth.
16590 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
16591 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
16592 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
16594 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
16595 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
16596 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
16597 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
16598 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
16599 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
16601 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
16602 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
16603 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
16604 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
16605 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
16607 o Minor features (controller):
16608 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
16609 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
16610 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
16611 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
16613 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
16614 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
16615 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
16616 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
16617 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
16618 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
16619 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
16620 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
16622 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
16623 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
16624 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
16625 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
16626 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
16627 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
16628 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
16629 if we ran off the end of the list.
16630 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
16631 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
16632 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
16633 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
16634 every time we change any piece of our config.
16635 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
16636 encourage people using them to stop.
16637 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
16639 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
16640 servers to choose a circuit.
16641 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
16642 unparseable piece of it.
16645 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
16646 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
16647 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
16648 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
16651 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
16652 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
16653 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
16654 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
16655 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
16657 o New directory authorities:
16658 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
16661 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
16662 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
16663 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
16664 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
16666 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
16667 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
16668 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
16670 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
16671 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
16672 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
16673 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
16674 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
16675 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
16677 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
16678 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
16679 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
16682 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
16683 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
16684 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
16685 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
16689 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
16690 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
16691 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
16692 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
16694 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
16695 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
16697 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
16698 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
16699 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
16700 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
16701 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
16702 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
16703 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
16704 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
16705 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
16706 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
16709 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
16710 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
16711 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
16712 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
16713 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
16714 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
16716 o Removed features:
16717 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
16718 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
16719 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
16720 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
16723 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
16724 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
16725 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
16726 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
16727 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
16730 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
16731 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
16732 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
16733 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
16734 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
16735 reported by lodger.
16737 o Minor features (directory servers):
16738 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
16739 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
16741 o Minor features (directory voting):
16742 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
16745 o Minor features (security):
16746 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
16747 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
16748 encourage people using them to stop.
16750 o Minor features (controller):
16751 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
16752 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
16753 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
16754 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
16755 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
16756 cookie authentication file, and config option
16757 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
16759 o Minor features (unit testing):
16760 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
16761 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
16762 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
16763 logging for the unit tests.
16765 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
16766 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
16767 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
16768 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
16769 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
16770 every time we change any piece of our config.
16771 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
16772 the future. Fixes bug 434.
16773 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
16775 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
16776 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
16777 the onion key from getting rotated.
16778 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
16779 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
16780 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
16783 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
16784 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
16785 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
16787 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
16788 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
16789 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
16790 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
16793 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
16794 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
16795 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
16796 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
16797 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
16798 TorK, etc. Or worse.
16800 o Major security fixes:
16801 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
16802 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
16805 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
16806 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
16807 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
16808 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
16810 o Major security fixes:
16811 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
16812 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
16814 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
16815 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
16818 o Minor features (performance):
16819 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
16820 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
16821 performance-intensive.
16822 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
16823 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
16824 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
16825 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
16826 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
16827 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
16831 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
16832 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
16833 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
16834 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
16838 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
16839 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
16840 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
16841 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
16842 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
16844 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
16845 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
16846 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
16847 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
16849 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
16850 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
16851 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
16852 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
16853 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
16855 o Major features (experimental):
16856 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
16857 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
16858 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
16859 handling before it's ready for use.
16862 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
16863 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
16864 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
16865 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
16866 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
16867 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
16869 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
16870 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
16871 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
16872 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
16873 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
16875 o Major bugfixes (directory):
16876 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
16877 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
16879 o Minor features (controller):
16880 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
16881 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
16882 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
16883 from Robert Hogan.)
16884 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
16885 from Robert Hogan.)
16886 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
16887 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
16889 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
16890 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
16891 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
16892 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
16893 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
16894 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
16895 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
16898 o Minor features (misc):
16899 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
16901 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
16902 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
16903 the authority identity key.
16904 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
16906 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
16907 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
16908 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
16911 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
16912 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
16913 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
16914 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
16915 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
16916 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
16917 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
16918 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
16920 o Performance improvements:
16921 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
16923 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
16924 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
16927 o Deprecated and removed features:
16928 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
16929 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
16930 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
16931 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
16933 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
16934 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
16935 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
16936 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
16937 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
16938 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
16939 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
16940 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
16941 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
16944 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
16945 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
16946 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
16947 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
16948 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
16950 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
16951 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
16954 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
16955 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
16956 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
16957 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
16958 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
16959 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
16960 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
16961 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
16962 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
16965 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
16966 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
16967 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
16968 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
16970 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
16971 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
16973 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
16974 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
16975 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
16976 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
16977 routerlist while inserting a new router.
16978 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
16979 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
16981 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
16982 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
16983 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
16985 o Major bugfixes (security):
16986 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
16988 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
16989 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
16990 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
16991 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
16992 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
16993 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
16994 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
16995 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
16996 guard list unless we need to.
16998 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
16999 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
17000 don't get overused as guards.
17002 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
17003 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
17004 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
17005 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
17006 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
17008 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17009 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
17010 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
17013 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
17014 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
17015 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
17016 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
17017 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
17018 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
17019 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
17020 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
17023 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
17024 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
17025 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
17026 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
17028 o Minor features (directory):
17029 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
17030 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
17031 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
17032 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
17034 o Minor build issues:
17035 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
17036 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
17037 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
17038 in the tarball, not as "x".
17041 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
17042 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
17043 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
17044 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
17045 forward on a lot of fronts.
17047 o Major features, server usability:
17048 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
17049 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
17050 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
17051 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
17053 o Major features, client usability:
17054 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
17055 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
17056 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
17057 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
17058 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
17059 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
17060 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
17061 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
17063 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
17064 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
17065 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
17066 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
17067 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
17068 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
17070 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
17071 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
17072 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
17074 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
17075 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
17076 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
17077 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
17078 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
17080 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
17081 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
17082 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
17083 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
17085 o Major features, other:
17086 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
17087 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
17088 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
17089 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
17090 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
17093 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
17094 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
17095 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
17098 o Minor fixes (resource management):
17099 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
17100 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
17101 our allocated connection limit.
17102 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
17103 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
17104 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
17105 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
17106 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
17108 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
17109 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
17110 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
17112 o Minor features (build):
17113 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
17114 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
17115 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
17116 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
17118 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
17119 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
17120 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
17121 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
17122 Use this version consistently in log messages.
17124 o Minor features (logging):
17125 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
17126 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
17127 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
17128 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
17129 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
17132 o Minor features (directory system):
17133 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
17134 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
17135 not to serve V2 directory information.
17136 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
17137 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
17138 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
17140 o Minor features (controller):
17141 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
17142 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
17144 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
17145 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
17146 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
17147 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
17148 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
17149 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
17151 o Minor features (hidden services):
17152 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
17153 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
17154 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
17155 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
17157 o Minor features (other):
17159 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
17160 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
17161 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
17162 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
17163 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
17164 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
17165 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
17166 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
17167 longer a completely silly thing to do.
17168 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
17169 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
17170 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
17171 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
17173 o Removed features:
17174 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
17175 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
17176 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
17177 back an error and close the connection.
17178 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
17179 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
17182 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
17183 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
17184 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
17185 makes the log messages nicer.
17186 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
17187 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
17188 partial results on small file reads.
17190 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
17191 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
17192 more often than they are allowed to appear.
17193 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
17194 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
17196 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
17197 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
17198 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
17199 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
17201 o Minor bugfixes (other):
17202 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
17203 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
17204 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
17205 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
17206 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
17207 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
17208 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
17209 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
17210 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
17211 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
17213 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
17214 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
17215 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
17217 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
17218 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
17219 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
17220 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
17222 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17223 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
17224 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
17226 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
17227 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
17230 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
17231 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
17232 implicit in other procedure arguments.
17233 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
17234 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
17235 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
17236 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
17237 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
17238 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
17239 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
17240 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
17241 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
17244 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
17245 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
17246 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
17247 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
17249 o Directory authority changes:
17250 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
17251 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
17252 or use hidden services.
17254 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
17255 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
17256 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
17257 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
17258 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
17259 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
17260 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
17261 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
17262 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
17265 o Major bugfixes (security):
17266 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
17267 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
17268 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
17270 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
17271 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
17272 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
17273 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
17274 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
17275 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
17276 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
17277 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
17278 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
17279 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
17282 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
17283 purpose=controller.
17284 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
17285 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
17287 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
17288 having a hard time downloading.
17289 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
17290 partial results on small file reads.
17291 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
17292 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
17293 the gaps in the store get very large.
17296 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
17297 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
17299 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
17300 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
17303 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
17304 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
17305 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
17306 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
17307 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
17308 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
17310 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
17311 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
17312 free speech on the Internet.
17315 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
17316 get one we don't recognize.
17317 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
17318 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
17321 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
17323 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
17324 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
17325 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
17326 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
17329 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
17330 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
17333 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
17334 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
17335 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
17336 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
17337 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
17338 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
17339 ask for GUARDS too.
17342 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
17343 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
17344 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
17345 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
17346 on Win98 and friends again.
17348 o Minor bugfixes (other):
17349 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
17350 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
17353 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
17354 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
17355 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
17356 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
17357 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
17358 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
17359 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
17360 and maybe also bug 397.)
17362 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
17363 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
17364 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
17366 o Minor bugfixes (server):
17367 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
17370 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
17371 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
17372 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
17373 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
17374 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
17376 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
17377 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
17378 load on authorities.
17380 o Minor bugfixes (other):
17381 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
17382 cleared EntryNodes. Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.
17383 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
17385 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
17387 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
17388 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
17389 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
17390 the last of bug 326.)
17391 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
17392 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
17396 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
17397 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
17398 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
17399 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
17400 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
17401 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
17402 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
17404 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
17405 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
17407 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
17408 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
17409 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
17411 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
17412 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
17413 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
17415 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17416 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
17417 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
17418 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. Resolves part
17420 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
17421 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
17423 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
17424 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
17425 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
17428 o Minor bugfixes (other):
17429 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
17430 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
17431 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
17432 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
17433 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
17434 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
17435 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
17436 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
17437 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
17438 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
17439 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
17440 other than file-not-found.
17441 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
17442 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
17443 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
17444 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
17445 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
17446 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
17447 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
17448 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
17449 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
17450 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
17451 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
17452 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
17453 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
17454 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
17455 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
17457 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
17459 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
17460 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
17462 o Minor features (controller):
17463 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
17464 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
17465 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
17467 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
17468 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
17469 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
17470 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
17471 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
17472 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
17473 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
17474 connected or resolved cell.
17476 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
17477 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
17478 some profiles, but not others.)
17479 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
17480 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
17481 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
17484 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
17486 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
17487 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
17488 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
17489 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
17490 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
17491 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
17492 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
17493 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
17494 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
17495 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
17496 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
17497 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
17498 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
17499 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
17500 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
17502 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
17505 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
17506 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
17507 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
17508 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
17509 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
17510 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
17511 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
17513 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
17514 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
17515 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
17516 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
17517 buckets go absurdly negative.
17518 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
17519 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
17522 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
17523 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
17524 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
17525 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
17526 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
17527 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
17528 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
17529 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
17532 o Major bugfixes (other):
17533 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
17534 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
17535 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
17536 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
17538 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
17540 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
17541 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
17543 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
17544 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
17545 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
17546 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
17547 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
17548 to wait for 0.2.0.)
17550 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
17551 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
17552 possible memory-stomping bugs.
17553 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
17554 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
17556 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
17557 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
17558 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
17559 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
17560 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
17561 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
17563 o Minor bugfixes (other):
17564 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
17565 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
17566 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
17568 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
17569 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
17570 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
17571 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
17572 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
17573 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
17574 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
17575 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
17576 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
17577 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
17578 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
17579 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
17580 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
17582 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
17583 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
17584 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
17585 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
17586 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
17587 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
17588 to the resulting address.
17591 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
17592 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
17593 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
17594 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
17597 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
17598 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
17600 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
17601 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
17602 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
17603 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
17604 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
17605 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
17606 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
17607 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
17608 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
17609 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
17610 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
17611 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
17612 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
17613 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
17614 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
17615 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
17616 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
17619 o Minor features (controller):
17620 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
17621 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
17622 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
17623 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
17624 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
17625 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
17626 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
17630 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
17632 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
17633 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
17634 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
17635 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
17636 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
17637 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
17640 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
17641 weren't planning to resolve.
17642 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
17643 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
17644 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
17645 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
17646 the controller from learning about current events.
17648 o Minor features (more controller status events):
17649 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
17650 learn when our address changes.
17651 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
17652 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
17653 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
17654 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
17656 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
17657 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
17658 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
17659 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
17660 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
17661 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
17662 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
17663 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
17664 are accepted by a directory.
17665 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
17666 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
17667 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
17668 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
17669 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
17671 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
17672 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
17673 about changes to DNS server status.
17675 o Minor features (directory):
17676 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
17677 too much load to the exit nodes.
17680 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
17682 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
17683 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
17684 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
17685 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
17686 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
17688 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
17689 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
17690 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
17692 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
17693 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
17694 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
17695 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
17696 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
17697 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
17698 config options if you like.
17700 o Minor features (config and docs):
17701 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
17702 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
17703 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
17704 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
17705 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
17707 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
17708 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
17709 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
17710 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
17711 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
17713 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
17714 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
17715 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
17716 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
17717 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
17718 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
17719 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
17720 documentation: "make check-docs".
17721 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
17722 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
17724 o Minor features (DNS):
17725 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
17726 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
17727 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
17728 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
17729 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
17730 our tests for DNS hijacking.
17732 o Minor features (directory):
17733 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
17734 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
17735 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
17736 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
17737 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
17738 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
17739 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
17740 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
17741 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
17742 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
17743 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
17744 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
17745 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
17746 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
17747 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
17748 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
17749 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
17750 for the thing we're trying to download.
17751 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
17752 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
17753 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
17755 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
17756 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
17757 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
17760 o Minor features (controller):
17761 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
17762 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
17764 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
17765 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
17766 entry guard status as it changes.
17768 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
17769 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
17770 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
17771 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
17772 to set log options.
17773 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
17774 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
17775 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
17776 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
17779 o Major bugfixes (security):
17780 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
17781 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
17782 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
17783 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
17785 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
17786 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
17787 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
17788 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
17789 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
17791 o Major bugfixes (other):
17792 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
17793 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
17794 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
17795 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
17797 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
17798 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
17799 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
17800 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
17801 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
17802 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
17806 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
17807 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
17808 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
17809 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
17810 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
17812 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
17813 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
17815 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
17816 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
17817 family lists conveniently.
17818 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
17819 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
17820 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
17822 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
17823 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
17825 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
17826 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
17827 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
17828 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
17829 if their identity keys are as expected.
17830 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
17831 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
17832 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
17834 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
17835 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
17836 reported by Mike Perry.
17837 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
17838 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
17839 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
17840 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
17843 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
17844 o Security bugfixes:
17845 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
17846 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
17847 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
17848 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
17852 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
17853 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
17854 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
17857 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
17859 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
17860 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
17861 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
17864 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
17865 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
17866 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
17867 watching for STREAM events.
17868 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
17869 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
17870 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
17871 operations, for profiling.
17874 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
17875 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
17876 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
17877 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
17878 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
17879 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
17881 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
17885 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
17886 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
17887 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
17888 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
17889 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
17891 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
17892 correctly in the Windows installer.
17893 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
17894 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
17895 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
17896 MIPSpro C compiler.
17897 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
17898 when we're running as a client.
17901 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
17903 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
17904 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
17905 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
17906 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
17907 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
17908 its circuits on demand.
17909 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
17910 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
17911 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
17912 connections more stable on average.
17913 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
17914 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
17915 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
17917 o Security bugfixes:
17918 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
17919 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
17922 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
17924 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
17925 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
17926 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
17927 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
17928 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
17929 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
17930 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
17931 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
17934 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
17936 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
17937 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
17938 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
17939 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
17940 routers for even longer.
17941 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
17942 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
17943 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
17944 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
17945 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
17946 caching HTTP proxies.
17947 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
17950 o Minor features, controller:
17951 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
17952 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
17953 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
17954 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
17956 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
17957 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
17958 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
17959 working much like those for circuit events.
17960 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
17961 about the current status of a router.
17962 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
17963 a router's status has changed.
17964 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
17965 can tell which events and features are supported.
17966 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
17967 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
17969 o Security bugfixes:
17970 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
17971 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
17974 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
17975 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
17976 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
17977 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
17978 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
17979 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
17980 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
17981 long nicknames where appropriate.
17982 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
17983 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
17984 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
17985 chews through many circuits before giving up.
17986 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
17987 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
17988 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
17989 stop. Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.
17990 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
17991 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
17993 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
17994 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
17995 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
17997 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
17998 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
17999 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
18000 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
18001 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
18002 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
18003 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
18004 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
18005 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
18006 (reported by fookoowa).
18007 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
18008 and reported by some Centos users.
18009 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
18010 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
18011 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
18012 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
18013 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
18014 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
18015 before we check for libevent.
18018 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
18020 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
18021 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
18022 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
18023 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
18024 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
18025 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
18026 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
18027 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
18028 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
18029 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
18030 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
18031 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
18032 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
18033 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
18034 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
18035 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
18036 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
18037 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
18038 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
18039 lets you turn it off.
18040 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
18041 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
18042 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
18043 us into the directory more quickly.
18045 o New/improved config options:
18046 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
18047 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
18048 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
18049 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
18050 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
18051 all the machines on the same subnet.
18052 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
18053 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
18054 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
18055 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
18056 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
18057 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
18058 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
18059 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
18060 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
18061 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
18063 o Minor features, controller:
18064 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
18065 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
18066 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
18067 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
18068 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
18069 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
18070 for more information.
18071 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
18072 best guess to the user.
18073 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
18074 descriptor has changed.
18075 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
18077 o Minor features, other:
18078 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
18079 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
18080 useful to the network.
18081 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
18082 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
18083 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
18084 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
18085 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
18086 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
18087 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
18088 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
18089 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
18090 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
18091 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
18092 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
18093 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
18094 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
18095 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
18097 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
18098 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
18099 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
18100 could return an unnamed server instead.
18101 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
18102 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
18103 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
18104 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
18105 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
18106 a more attractive target for compromise.)
18107 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
18108 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
18109 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
18111 o Major bugfixes, other:
18112 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
18113 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
18114 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
18115 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
18116 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
18117 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
18118 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
18119 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
18120 its circuits on demand.
18121 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
18122 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
18123 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
18124 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
18126 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
18127 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
18128 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
18129 we don't recognize.
18130 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
18132 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
18133 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
18134 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
18135 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
18136 "extendcircuit" request.
18137 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
18138 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
18139 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
18141 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
18142 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
18143 instead of "X resolved to X".
18144 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
18145 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
18146 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
18147 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
18148 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
18149 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
18150 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
18151 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
18152 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
18154 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
18155 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
18156 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
18157 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
18158 result more than once.
18159 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
18160 non-versioning dirservers.
18161 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
18162 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
18164 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
18165 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
18166 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
18167 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
18168 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
18169 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
18170 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
18171 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
18172 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
18174 o Packaging, features:
18175 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
18176 now universal binaries.
18177 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
18178 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
18179 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
18181 o Packaging, bugfixes:
18182 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
18183 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
18184 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
18185 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
18187 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
18188 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
18189 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
18192 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
18193 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
18194 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
18198 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
18200 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
18201 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
18202 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
18203 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
18204 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
18205 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
18206 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
18207 it can't resolve its hostname.
18210 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
18211 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
18212 "extendcircuit" request.
18213 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
18214 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
18215 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
18216 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
18218 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
18219 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
18220 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
18222 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
18223 methods: these are known to be buggy.
18224 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
18225 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
18226 we don't recognize.
18229 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
18231 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
18232 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
18233 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
18234 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
18235 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
18236 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
18237 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
18238 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
18239 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
18240 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
18241 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
18242 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
18243 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
18244 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
18245 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
18246 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
18247 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
18248 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
18249 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
18250 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
18251 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
18252 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
18253 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
18254 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
18257 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
18258 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
18259 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
18260 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
18261 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
18262 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
18263 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
18264 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
18265 recommendation system saner.)
18266 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
18268 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
18269 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
18270 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
18271 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
18272 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
18273 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
18274 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
18275 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
18276 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
18277 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
18278 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
18279 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
18280 your ORPort is set.
18281 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
18282 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
18283 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
18284 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
18285 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
18286 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
18287 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
18288 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
18289 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
18290 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
18291 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
18292 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
18294 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
18295 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
18296 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
18297 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
18298 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
18299 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
18302 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
18303 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
18304 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
18305 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
18306 our DirPort now, etc.
18307 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
18308 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
18309 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
18310 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
18311 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
18312 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
18313 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
18315 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
18316 whether the config options are bad or good.
18317 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
18318 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
18319 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
18320 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
18321 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
18322 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
18323 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
18324 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
18327 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
18328 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
18329 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
18330 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
18331 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
18332 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
18333 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
18334 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
18335 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
18336 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
18337 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
18338 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
18339 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
18340 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
18341 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
18342 of it), is not therefore "up".
18343 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
18344 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
18345 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
18346 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
18347 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
18348 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
18351 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
18353 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
18354 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
18355 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
18356 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
18357 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
18358 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
18359 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
18360 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
18361 test reachability, so you won't publish.
18364 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
18365 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
18366 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
18367 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
18368 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
18370 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
18371 own server descriptor yet.
18374 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
18376 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
18377 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
18378 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
18379 make sure to test via one of these.
18380 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
18381 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
18382 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
18383 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
18384 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
18386 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
18387 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
18388 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
18391 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
18392 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
18393 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
18394 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
18395 directory authority.
18396 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
18397 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
18398 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
18399 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
18402 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
18403 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
18404 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
18406 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
18407 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
18408 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
18409 current guards when picking a new guard.
18410 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
18411 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
18412 when we had more than one pending.
18413 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
18414 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
18415 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
18416 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
18417 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
18418 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
18419 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
18420 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
18421 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
18422 debug the reachability problems better.
18424 o Log / documentation fixes:
18425 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
18426 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
18427 about protocol violations by others.
18428 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
18429 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
18430 about what happened to our old torrc.
18433 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
18435 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
18437 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
18438 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
18439 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
18440 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
18443 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
18445 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
18446 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
18447 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
18448 old ORPort and receive connections.
18449 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
18451 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
18452 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
18453 and network-statuses.
18454 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
18455 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
18456 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
18457 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
18459 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
18462 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
18463 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
18464 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
18467 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
18469 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
18470 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
18471 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
18472 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
18473 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
18476 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
18477 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
18479 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
18480 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
18481 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
18482 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
18483 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
18484 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
18485 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
18486 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
18487 rather than not sending anything back at all.
18488 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
18489 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
18490 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
18491 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
18492 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
18493 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
18494 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
18495 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
18496 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
18497 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
18498 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
18499 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
18500 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
18501 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
18502 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
18503 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
18504 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
18505 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
18506 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
18507 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
18508 default ulimit -n is 1024.
18511 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
18512 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
18513 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
18514 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
18517 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
18519 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
18520 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
18521 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
18522 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
18523 entry guards running these flawed versions.
18524 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
18525 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
18526 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
18527 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
18528 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
18531 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
18532 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
18534 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
18535 and it is confusing some users.
18536 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
18537 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
18538 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
18539 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
18540 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
18543 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
18545 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
18546 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
18547 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
18548 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
18549 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
18550 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
18551 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
18552 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
18553 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
18554 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
18555 dirport is set for now.
18557 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
18558 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
18559 unattached before we fail it?
18560 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
18561 at least this many seconds ago.
18562 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
18563 at least this many seconds ago.
18566 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
18567 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
18568 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
18569 or resolve-wait stream.
18570 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
18571 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
18572 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
18573 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
18574 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
18575 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
18576 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
18577 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
18579 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
18580 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
18581 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
18582 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
18583 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
18584 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
18585 given as hex digests.
18586 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
18587 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
18588 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
18589 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
18590 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
18591 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
18592 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
18593 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
18596 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18597 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
18598 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
18599 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
18600 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
18601 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
18602 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
18603 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
18604 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
18605 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
18606 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
18609 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
18610 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
18611 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
18612 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
18613 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
18614 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
18615 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
18618 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
18619 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
18620 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
18621 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
18622 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
18623 misreading their logs.
18624 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
18625 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
18626 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
18627 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
18628 valid router descriptors.
18629 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
18630 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
18631 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
18632 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
18633 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
18634 silently resetting it to its default.
18635 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
18637 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
18640 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
18641 use clean circuits.
18642 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
18643 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
18644 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
18645 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
18646 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
18648 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
18649 because older Tors do not understand it.
18650 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
18654 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
18655 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
18656 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
18657 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
18658 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
18659 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
18660 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
18661 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
18662 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
18663 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
18664 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
18666 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
18667 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
18668 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
18669 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
18671 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
18672 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
18675 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
18676 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
18677 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
18678 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
18679 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
18680 without getting overloaded.
18681 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
18683 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
18684 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
18685 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
18686 be forward-compatible.
18687 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
18688 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
18689 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
18690 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
18692 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
18693 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
18694 and OR conns to port 443.
18695 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
18696 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
18698 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
18699 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
18700 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
18701 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
18702 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
18703 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
18704 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
18707 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
18708 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18709 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
18710 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
18712 o Other important bugfixes:
18713 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
18714 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
18715 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
18716 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
18718 o Backported features:
18719 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
18720 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
18721 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
18722 without getting overloaded.
18723 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
18724 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
18725 503's whenever they feel busy.
18726 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
18727 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
18728 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
18729 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
18730 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
18733 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
18734 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
18735 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
18736 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
18737 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
18738 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
18739 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
18740 know if the crashes continue.
18741 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
18742 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
18743 seg faults in at least some cases.)
18744 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
18745 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
18746 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
18749 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
18750 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
18751 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
18752 try to be a bit more fair.
18753 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
18754 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
18755 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
18756 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
18757 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
18758 bug that let it go negative.
18759 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
18760 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
18761 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
18762 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
18763 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
18764 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
18765 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
18766 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
18767 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
18768 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
18769 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
18772 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
18774 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
18775 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
18776 service descriptors.
18779 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
18780 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
18781 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
18782 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
18784 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
18785 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
18786 versions *are* still recommended.
18787 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
18788 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
18789 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
18790 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
18791 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
18792 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
18793 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
18794 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
18796 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
18797 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
18798 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
18799 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
18800 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
18801 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
18802 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
18803 on it. Not used by clients yet.
18804 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
18805 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
18806 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
18807 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
18808 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
18809 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
18810 established a circuit.
18811 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
18812 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
18813 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
18814 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
18817 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
18818 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
18819 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
18820 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
18821 quickly enough. Oops.
18822 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
18824 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18825 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
18828 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
18829 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
18830 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
18831 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
18832 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
18833 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
18834 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
18835 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
18836 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
18837 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
18838 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
18839 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
18840 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
18841 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
18842 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
18843 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
18844 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
18847 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
18848 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
18849 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
18850 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
18851 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
18852 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
18853 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
18854 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
18855 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
18856 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
18857 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
18858 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
18859 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
18860 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
18861 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
18862 connections more reliable.
18865 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
18866 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
18867 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
18868 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
18869 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
18870 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
18871 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
18872 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
18873 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
18874 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
18875 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
18876 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
18877 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
18878 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
18882 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
18883 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
18884 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
18885 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
18886 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
18887 need to be uint64_t's.
18888 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
18889 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
18890 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
18892 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
18894 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
18895 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
18896 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
18897 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
18898 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
18899 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
18900 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
18902 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
18903 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
18904 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
18905 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
18906 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
18907 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
18908 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
18909 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
18910 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
18911 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
18912 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
18913 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
18914 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
18917 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
18918 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
18919 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
18920 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
18921 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
18922 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
18923 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
18925 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
18926 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
18927 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
18928 can answer v2 directory requests too.
18929 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
18930 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
18931 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
18932 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
18934 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
18935 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
18936 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
18937 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
18938 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
18939 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
18940 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
18941 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
18942 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
18943 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
18944 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
18945 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
18946 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
18947 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
18948 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
18950 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
18951 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
18954 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
18955 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18956 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
18957 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
18958 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
18959 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
18960 too -- so detect and avoid this.
18961 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
18963 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
18964 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
18965 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
18966 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
18967 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
18968 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
18969 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
18970 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
18971 rendezvous circuits.
18972 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
18974 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18975 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
18976 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
18977 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
18978 advertising it because of hibernation.
18979 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
18980 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
18981 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
18982 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
18983 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
18984 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
18985 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
18986 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
18987 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
18988 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
18989 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
18990 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
18991 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
18992 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
18995 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
18996 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
18997 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
18998 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
18999 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
19000 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
19001 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
19002 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
19003 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
19004 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
19005 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
19006 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
19007 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
19008 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
19009 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
19010 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
19011 connections once a week.
19012 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
19013 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
19014 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
19015 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
19016 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
19017 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
19019 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
19020 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
19021 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
19023 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19024 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
19025 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
19026 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
19027 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
19028 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
19029 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
19030 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
19031 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
19032 firewall options forbid.
19033 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
19034 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
19035 can only proxy to certain destinations.
19036 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
19037 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
19038 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
19039 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
19040 aids some statistical attacks.
19041 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
19042 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
19043 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
19044 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
19046 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
19047 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
19048 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
19049 server descriptor sometimes.
19050 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
19051 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
19052 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
19053 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
19054 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
19055 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
19056 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
19057 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
19059 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
19060 case the controller wants to change that too.
19061 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
19062 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
19063 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
19064 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
19066 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
19067 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
19068 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
19070 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
19071 descriptors that they know they will reject.
19073 o Features and updates:
19074 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
19075 significantly faster.
19076 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
19077 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
19078 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
19079 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
19080 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
19081 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
19082 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
19083 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
19084 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
19085 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
19086 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
19087 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
19088 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
19089 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
19090 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
19091 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
19092 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
19093 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
19094 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
19095 as authoritative dirserver.
19096 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
19097 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
19098 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
19101 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
19102 o Usability improvements:
19103 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
19104 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
19106 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
19107 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
19108 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
19110 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
19111 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
19112 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
19113 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
19114 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
19115 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
19116 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
19117 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
19118 memory leaks better.
19119 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
19120 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
19121 their operators to pay close attention.
19122 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
19123 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
19125 o Performance improvements:
19126 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
19127 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
19128 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
19129 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
19130 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
19131 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
19132 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
19133 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
19134 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
19135 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
19136 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
19137 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
19138 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
19139 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
19140 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
19141 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
19142 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
19144 o Security improvements:
19145 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
19146 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
19147 fingerprint of server.
19148 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
19149 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
19150 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
19152 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19153 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
19154 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
19155 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
19156 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
19157 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
19158 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
19159 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
19160 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
19161 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
19162 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
19163 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
19164 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
19165 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
19166 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
19167 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
19168 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
19169 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
19170 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
19171 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
19172 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
19174 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
19175 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
19176 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
19178 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
19179 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
19181 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
19182 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
19183 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
19184 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
19185 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
19186 of the controller protocol.
19187 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
19188 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
19189 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
19192 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
19193 o New features (major):
19194 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
19195 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
19196 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
19197 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
19198 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
19199 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
19200 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
19201 we're using a default DirPort.
19202 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
19204 o New features (minor):
19205 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
19206 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
19207 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
19208 mirrors still cache and serve it).
19209 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
19210 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
19211 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
19212 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
19213 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
19214 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
19215 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
19216 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
19217 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
19218 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
19219 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
19220 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
19221 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
19222 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
19223 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
19225 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
19226 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
19227 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
19228 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
19229 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
19230 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
19231 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
19232 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
19234 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
19235 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
19236 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
19237 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
19238 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
19239 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
19240 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
19241 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
19242 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
19243 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
19245 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
19246 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
19247 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
19248 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
19249 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
19251 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
19252 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
19253 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
19255 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
19256 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
19258 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
19259 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
19260 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
19261 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
19262 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
19263 don't warn twice about the same name.
19264 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
19265 if we've not heard of the server.
19266 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
19267 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
19270 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
19271 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19272 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
19273 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
19274 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
19275 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
19276 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
19277 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
19278 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
19279 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
19280 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
19281 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
19282 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
19283 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
19284 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
19287 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
19288 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
19289 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
19290 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
19291 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
19293 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
19294 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
19295 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
19296 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
19297 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
19298 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
19302 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
19303 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
19304 nickname) is reachable by you.
19305 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
19308 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
19309 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
19310 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
19311 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
19312 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
19313 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
19314 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
19315 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
19316 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
19317 we fail to connect).
19318 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
19319 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
19320 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
19321 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
19323 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
19324 it was self-testing that told us so.
19327 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
19328 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
19329 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
19330 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
19331 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
19332 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
19333 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
19334 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
19335 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
19336 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
19337 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
19338 exit policy using him for any exits.
19339 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
19342 o New controller features/fixes:
19343 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
19344 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
19345 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
19346 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
19347 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
19348 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
19349 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
19350 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
19351 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
19353 o Start on the new directory design:
19354 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
19355 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
19357 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
19358 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
19359 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
19360 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
19362 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
19363 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
19364 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
19365 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
19366 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
19367 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
19368 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
19369 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
19372 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
19373 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
19374 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
19375 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
19376 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
19377 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
19378 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
19379 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
19380 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
19381 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
19383 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
19384 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
19385 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
19386 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
19387 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
19388 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
19389 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
19390 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
19391 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
19393 o Config option changes:
19394 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
19395 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
19396 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
19397 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
19398 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
19399 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
19401 o Fixes on 0.1.0.x:
19402 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
19403 people have started using them for spam too.
19404 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
19405 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
19406 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
19407 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
19408 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
19409 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
19410 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
19411 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
19412 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
19413 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
19414 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
19415 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
19416 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
19417 services faster on the service end.
19418 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
19419 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
19420 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
19421 it a fair shake next time we try.
19422 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
19423 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
19424 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
19425 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
19426 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
19427 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
19428 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
19429 able to discover them.
19430 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
19431 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
19432 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
19433 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
19434 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
19435 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
19436 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
19437 testing for reachability.
19438 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
19439 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
19441 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
19443 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
19444 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
19447 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
19448 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
19450 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19451 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
19452 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
19453 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
19456 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
19457 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19458 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
19460 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
19461 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
19464 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
19465 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
19468 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
19469 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
19470 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
19471 options, getinfo keys.
19474 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
19475 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19476 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
19477 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
19478 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
19479 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
19480 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
19482 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
19483 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
19487 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
19488 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
19489 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
19491 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
19493 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
19494 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
19495 circuit events and we go offline.
19496 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
19497 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
19498 you don't have enough intro points already.
19500 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
19501 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
19502 many bytes we've used in this time period.
19503 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
19504 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
19505 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
19506 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
19507 enabled by default yet.
19509 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
19510 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
19511 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
19512 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
19513 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
19516 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
19517 o New directory servers:
19518 - tor26 has changed IP address.
19520 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19521 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
19522 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
19523 pthreads libraries.
19524 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
19525 claims its dirport is 0.
19526 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
19527 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
19531 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
19532 o New directory servers:
19533 - tor26 has changed IP address.
19535 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
19536 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
19538 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
19539 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
19540 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
19541 ports that have changed.
19542 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
19544 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
19545 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
19546 Windows-style errno back.
19547 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
19549 want to make it an NT service.
19550 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
19551 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
19552 name, give the full name in our response.
19553 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
19554 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
19555 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
19556 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
19557 pthreads libraries.
19559 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
19560 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
19564 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
19565 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
19566 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
19567 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
19568 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
19571 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
19572 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
19573 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
19574 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
19575 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
19576 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
19577 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
19578 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
19581 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
19583 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
19584 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
19585 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
19586 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
19587 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
19588 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
19590 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
19591 temporarily unreachable.
19592 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
19596 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
19597 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
19598 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
19599 our protocol works.
19600 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
19604 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
19605 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
19606 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
19607 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
19608 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
19612 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
19613 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
19614 libevent before 1.1a.
19617 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
19619 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
19620 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
19621 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
19622 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
19623 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
19625 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
19626 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
19627 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
19628 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
19629 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
19630 of CPU time plus memory.
19631 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
19632 normal web requests.
19633 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
19634 tor_lookup_hostname().
19635 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
19636 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
19637 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
19638 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
19639 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
19640 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
19642 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
19643 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
19644 HttpProxyAuthenticator
19645 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
19646 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
19647 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
19649 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
19650 the user asks you to.
19651 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
19652 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
19653 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
19654 their descriptors are being rejected.
19655 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
19659 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
19661 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
19662 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
19663 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
19665 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
19667 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
19669 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
19670 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
19671 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
19672 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
19673 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
19674 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
19675 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
19676 keys) from the exit server's process.
19677 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
19678 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
19679 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
19680 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
19681 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
19682 point at your Tor server.
19683 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
19684 you're not sending a socks reply back.
19687 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
19688 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
19689 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
19690 to make it easier to write controllers.
19693 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
19695 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
19696 installing on Tiger.
19697 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
19698 complain during installation.
19699 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
19700 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
19701 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
19702 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
19703 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
19704 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
19706 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
19707 something more reasonable when first installing.
19708 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
19711 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
19713 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
19714 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
19716 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
19717 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
19718 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
19719 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
19720 when using the default exit policy.
19721 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
19722 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
19723 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
19724 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
19725 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
19726 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
19727 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
19728 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
19729 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
19730 we fetched a new directory.
19731 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
19732 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
19735 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
19736 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
19737 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
19738 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
19739 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
19740 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
19741 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
19742 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
19744 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
19745 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
19746 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
19747 save memory on systems that need to fork.
19748 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
19749 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
19750 is valid without actually launching Tor.
19751 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
19752 rather than just rejecting it.
19755 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
19757 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
19758 we didn't like its cert.
19760 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
19761 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
19762 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
19763 on patch from Adam Langley.
19764 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
19765 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
19766 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
19767 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
19769 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
19770 directory every time you regenerate it.
19771 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
19772 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
19775 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
19776 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
19777 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
19778 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
19779 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
19782 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
19784 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
19785 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
19786 TLS errors better in other situations too.
19787 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
19788 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
19789 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
19790 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
19791 and don't log when you are.
19792 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
19793 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
19795 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
19796 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
19797 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
19798 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
19799 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
19802 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
19803 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
19804 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
19805 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
19806 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
19807 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
19808 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
19809 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
19810 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
19811 nickname+key are allowed.
19812 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
19813 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
19814 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
19815 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
19816 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
19817 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
19818 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
19819 have quite wrong clocks).
19820 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
19821 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
19822 - Efficiency improvements:
19823 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
19824 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
19825 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
19826 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
19827 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
19828 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
19829 lowercase and be done with it.
19830 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
19831 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
19832 to abandon partially built circuits.
19833 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
19834 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
19836 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
19838 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
19839 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
19840 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
19841 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
19843 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
19844 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
19846 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
19847 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
19848 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
19849 obeying the exit policy internally.
19850 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
19851 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
19853 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
19854 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
19855 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
19856 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
19858 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
19859 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
19860 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
19861 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
19862 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
19864 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
19865 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
19866 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
19867 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
19868 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
19869 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
19870 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
19871 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
19872 descriptors we just dropped.
19873 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
19874 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
19875 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
19876 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
19877 artificially capped at 500kB.
19880 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
19881 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
19882 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
19883 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
19884 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
19885 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
19886 busy for more than 100 seconds.
19889 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
19890 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
19891 - Fixes on reachability detection:
19892 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
19893 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
19894 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
19895 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
19896 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
19897 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
19898 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
19899 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
19900 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
19901 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
19902 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
19903 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
19904 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
19905 server not already connected to them.
19906 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
19907 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
19908 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
19910 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
19912 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
19913 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
19914 are in a different state than they actually are.
19915 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
19916 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
19917 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
19919 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
19920 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
19921 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
19923 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
19924 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
19925 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
19926 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
19927 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
19928 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
19929 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
19931 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
19932 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
19933 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
19934 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
19937 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
19938 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
19939 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
19940 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
19941 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
19942 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
19943 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
19944 creating actual system users.
19945 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
19946 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
19950 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
19952 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
19953 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
19954 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
19955 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
19956 hidden services better.
19957 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
19959 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
19960 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
19961 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
19962 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
19963 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
19964 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
19965 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
19966 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
19967 patch by Matt Edman).
19968 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
19969 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
19970 required exit node for certain sites.
19971 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
19972 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
19973 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
19974 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
19975 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
19976 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
19977 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
19978 rather than just "success" or "failure".
19979 - A more sane version numbering system. See
19980 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
19981 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
19982 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
19984 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
19985 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
19986 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
19987 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
19988 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
19989 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
19990 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
19992 o Robustness/stability fixes:
19993 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
19994 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
19995 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
19997 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
19998 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
19999 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
20001 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
20002 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
20003 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
20005 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
20006 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
20007 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
20008 that will want high uptime circuits.
20009 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
20010 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
20011 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
20012 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
20013 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
20014 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
20015 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
20016 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
20017 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
20018 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
20019 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
20020 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
20021 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
20022 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
20023 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
20024 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
20025 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
20026 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
20027 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
20028 when we try to launch one.
20029 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
20030 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
20031 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
20032 "ShutdownWaitLength".
20033 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
20034 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
20035 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
20036 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
20037 and to take errno into account where possible.
20040 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
20041 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
20042 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
20043 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
20044 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
20045 file more reasonable.
20046 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
20047 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
20048 addresses -- it won't.
20049 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
20050 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
20051 for google.com" problem.
20052 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
20053 so it's not just "unknown platform".
20054 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
20055 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
20056 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
20057 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
20059 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
20060 they could use instead.
20061 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
20062 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
20063 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
20064 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
20065 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
20066 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
20067 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
20068 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
20069 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
20071 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
20075 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
20076 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
20078 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
20079 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
20080 private-IP addresses.
20081 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
20082 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
20084 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
20085 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
20086 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
20087 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
20088 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
20089 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
20090 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
20092 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
20093 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
20094 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
20095 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
20096 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
20097 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
20098 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
20099 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
20101 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
20103 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
20104 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
20105 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
20106 whether the server is hibernating.
20109 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
20110 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
20111 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
20112 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
20113 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
20114 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
20115 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
20116 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
20117 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
20118 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
20119 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
20120 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
20121 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
20122 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
20123 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
20125 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
20126 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
20127 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
20128 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
20129 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
20130 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
20131 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
20132 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
20133 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
20134 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
20135 existing torrc files.
20136 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
20139 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
20140 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
20141 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
20142 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
20143 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
20144 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
20145 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
20146 the win32 SYSTEM account.
20147 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
20148 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
20149 file descriptors available.
20150 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
20151 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
20152 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
20155 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
20156 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
20157 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
20158 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
20160 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
20161 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
20162 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
20163 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
20164 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
20166 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
20167 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
20168 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
20169 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
20170 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
20171 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
20172 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
20173 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
20174 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
20175 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
20176 800kB/s of capacity.
20177 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
20180 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
20181 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
20182 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
20183 need as much processor time.
20184 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
20185 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
20186 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
20187 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
20188 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
20189 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
20190 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
20191 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
20192 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
20193 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
20194 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
20195 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
20197 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
20198 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
20199 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
20200 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
20201 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
20202 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
20203 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
20206 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
20207 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
20208 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
20210 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
20211 style address, then we'd crash.
20212 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
20213 a dirserver is broken.
20214 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
20216 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
20217 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
20218 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
20220 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
20221 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
20222 name out of the warning/assert messages.
20223 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
20224 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
20225 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
20227 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
20228 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
20229 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
20231 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
20233 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
20234 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
20235 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
20236 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
20237 values at once couldn't work.
20238 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
20239 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
20240 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
20241 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
20242 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
20243 they can handle any number of routers.
20244 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
20245 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
20246 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
20247 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
20248 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
20249 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
20250 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
20251 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
20252 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
20255 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
20256 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
20257 - Make hibernation actually work.
20258 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
20259 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
20260 don't use the stream status code.
20263 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
20265 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
20266 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
20268 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
20271 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
20272 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
20273 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
20274 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
20275 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
20276 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
20277 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
20278 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
20279 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
20280 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
20282 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
20283 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
20284 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
20285 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
20286 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
20287 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
20288 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
20289 - Make unit tests work on win32.
20292 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
20293 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
20294 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
20296 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
20297 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
20298 than just chopping them off.
20299 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
20301 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
20302 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
20303 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
20304 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
20305 right after sending the begin cell.
20306 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
20307 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
20308 exit nodes too. Oops.
20311 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
20312 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
20313 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
20314 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
20315 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
20316 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
20317 the user knows which one it's talking about.
20318 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
20319 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
20320 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
20323 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
20324 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
20325 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
20326 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
20328 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
20330 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
20331 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
20332 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
20334 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
20335 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
20336 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
20337 Clip rather than rejecting.
20338 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
20339 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
20342 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
20343 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
20344 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
20345 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
20347 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
20350 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
20351 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
20352 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
20353 win32 socket errors better.
20355 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
20356 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
20359 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
20360 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
20361 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
20362 so we don't see those messages days later.
20364 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
20365 - Make tor-resolve work again.
20366 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
20367 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
20370 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
20371 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
20372 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
20373 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
20375 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
20376 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
20377 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
20380 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
20381 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
20382 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
20383 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
20384 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
20385 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
20386 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
20387 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
20388 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
20390 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
20391 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
20392 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
20393 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
20395 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
20396 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
20399 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
20400 hibernation properties by
20401 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
20402 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
20403 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
20404 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
20405 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
20406 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
20407 get back to normal.)
20408 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
20410 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
20411 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
20412 to fill the last cell completely.
20413 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
20416 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
20417 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
20418 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
20419 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
20420 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
20421 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
20422 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
20423 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
20424 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
20425 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
20426 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
20428 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
20429 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
20430 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
20431 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
20432 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
20433 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
20434 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
20435 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
20437 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
20438 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
20439 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
20440 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
20441 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
20442 have it on start-up.
20445 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
20446 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
20447 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
20448 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
20449 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
20450 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
20451 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
20452 configuration to torrc.
20453 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
20454 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
20455 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
20456 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
20457 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
20459 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
20460 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
20461 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
20462 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
20463 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
20464 log more informatively.
20465 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
20466 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
20467 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
20468 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
20469 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
20470 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
20471 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
20472 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
20473 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
20474 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
20475 from each other, to hinder linkability.
20478 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
20479 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
20480 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
20481 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
20482 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
20483 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
20484 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
20486 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
20487 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
20488 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
20489 they ran out of file descriptors.
20490 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
20491 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
20492 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
20493 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
20494 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
20495 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
20496 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
20498 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
20501 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
20502 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
20503 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
20504 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
20505 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
20506 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
20507 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
20508 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
20509 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
20510 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
20511 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
20512 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
20513 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
20514 with the control port.
20515 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
20516 use in authenticating to the control interface.
20517 - New log format in config:
20518 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
20519 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
20522 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
20523 from their dirserver.
20524 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
20526 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
20527 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
20528 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
20529 them act more like real nodes.
20530 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
20531 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
20533 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
20534 nickname to its identity key.
20535 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
20536 not on the command line.
20537 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
20538 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
20539 1024) file descriptors.
20541 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
20542 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
20544 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
20545 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
20546 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
20549 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
20550 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
20551 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
20552 exit policy, not reject *:*.
20553 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
20554 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
20555 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
20556 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
20557 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
20558 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
20559 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
20562 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
20563 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
20564 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
20565 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
20566 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
20567 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
20568 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
20571 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
20572 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
20573 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
20574 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
20575 the ones we find in directories.)
20576 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
20578 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
20579 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
20581 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
20582 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
20583 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
20585 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
20586 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
20587 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
20588 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
20590 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
20591 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
20592 any more exit policy lines.
20595 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
20596 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
20597 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
20598 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
20599 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
20600 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
20601 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
20602 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
20603 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
20604 will be able to get a directory.
20605 - Http proxy support
20606 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
20607 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
20608 be routed through this host.
20609 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
20610 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
20611 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
20612 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
20615 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
20617 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
20618 clients/servers with an open dirport.
20619 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
20620 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
20621 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
20622 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
20623 intermittent connections.
20624 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
20625 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
20627 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
20628 in reporting stats locally.
20629 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
20630 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
20631 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
20634 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
20636 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
20637 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
20640 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
20642 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
20643 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
20644 if you don't want it open.
20645 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
20646 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
20647 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
20648 intermittent connections.
20649 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
20651 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
20652 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
20653 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
20654 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
20655 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
20656 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
20657 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
20658 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
20659 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
20660 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
20661 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
20662 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
20663 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
20664 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
20665 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
20666 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
20669 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
20670 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
20671 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
20672 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
20673 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
20675 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
20677 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
20678 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
20679 specified in HTTP 1.0.
20680 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
20681 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
20682 than once per minute.
20683 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
20684 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
20687 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
20688 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
20691 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
20692 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
20693 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
20694 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
20697 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
20698 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
20700 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
20701 don't put it into the client dns cache.
20702 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
20703 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
20704 until we get our next directory.
20706 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
20707 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
20708 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
20709 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
20710 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
20711 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
20712 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
20713 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
20714 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
20715 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
20716 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
20718 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
20720 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
20721 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
20723 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
20724 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
20725 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
20727 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
20729 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
20730 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
20731 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
20732 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
20733 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
20734 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
20735 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
20736 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
20739 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
20740 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
20741 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
20742 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
20745 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
20746 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
20747 ask them to resolve the host "".
20750 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
20751 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
20752 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
20753 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
20754 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
20755 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
20756 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
20757 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
20758 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
20759 clients don't use this yet.)
20760 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
20761 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
20762 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
20763 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
20764 for pointing out this bug.)
20765 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
20766 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
20767 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
20768 kazaa, gnutella ports.
20769 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
20771 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
20772 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
20773 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
20774 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
20775 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
20776 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
20777 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
20778 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
20779 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
20780 wolf unpredictably.
20781 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
20782 that's still handshaking.
20783 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
20784 you'll choose it for your path.
20785 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
20786 end relay cell, etc.
20787 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
20788 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
20789 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
20792 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
20793 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
20795 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
20796 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
20797 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
20798 list to decide who's running or verified.
20799 - Bugfixes and features:
20800 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
20801 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
20802 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
20803 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
20804 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
20805 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
20807 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
20808 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
20809 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
20810 know you might want to get it verified.
20811 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
20814 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
20816 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
20817 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
20818 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
20819 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
20821 o Protocol changes:
20822 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
20823 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
20824 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
20825 hadn't heard of before.
20828 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
20829 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
20830 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
20831 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
20832 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
20833 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
20834 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
20835 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
20836 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
20837 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
20838 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
20839 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
20840 - Directory caching.
20841 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
20842 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
20843 directory they've pulled down.
20844 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
20845 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
20846 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
20847 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
20848 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
20849 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
20850 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
20852 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
20853 This isn't used yet.
20854 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
20855 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
20856 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
20857 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
20858 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
20859 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
20860 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
20861 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
20862 - File and name management:
20863 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
20864 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
20866 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
20867 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
20868 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
20869 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
20870 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
20871 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
20872 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
20874 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
20875 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
20876 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
20877 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
20878 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
20880 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
20881 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
20882 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
20883 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
20884 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
20885 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
20886 - New docs in the tarball:
20888 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
20891 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
20892 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
20893 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
20896 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
20897 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
20898 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
20901 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
20902 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
20905 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
20906 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
20907 - Make it build on Win32 again.
20908 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
20909 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
20913 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
20915 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
20916 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
20917 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
20918 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
20919 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
20920 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
20921 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
20922 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
20923 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
20924 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
20927 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
20930 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
20931 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
20932 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
20933 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
20935 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
20936 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
20937 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
20939 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
20940 hidden service per 15-minute period.
20941 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
20942 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
20943 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
20944 o Fixes for security bugs:
20945 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
20946 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
20947 a trusted dirserver.
20949 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
20950 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
20951 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
20952 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
20953 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
20954 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
20955 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
20956 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
20957 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
20958 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
20960 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
20961 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
20962 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
20963 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
20965 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
20966 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
20967 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
20968 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
20969 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
20970 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
20971 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
20972 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
20973 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
20974 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
20975 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
20976 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
20977 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
20980 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
20981 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
20982 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
20983 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
20986 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
20987 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
20988 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
20989 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
20990 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
20991 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
20992 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
20996 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
20997 [version bump only]
21000 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
21001 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
21002 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
21003 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
21004 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
21006 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
21009 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
21010 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
21011 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
21012 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
21013 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
21014 o Better debugging for tls errors
21015 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
21016 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
21017 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
21018 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
21019 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
21020 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
21021 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
21022 o win32's close can't close a socket.
21025 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
21026 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
21027 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
21028 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
21029 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
21030 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
21031 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
21032 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
21033 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
21034 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
21035 just close the circ.
21036 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
21037 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
21038 (this was quite rare).
21041 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
21042 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
21043 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
21044 if you decrypted them correctly.
21045 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
21046 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
21047 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
21050 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
21051 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
21052 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
21053 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
21054 a second one and it works.
21055 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
21056 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
21057 alice would just have to wait to time out.
21058 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
21059 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
21060 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
21061 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
21062 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
21063 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
21064 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
21065 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
21066 i'd still like to find the bug though.
21067 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
21069 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
21073 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
21074 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
21075 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
21076 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
21077 he retries a couple of times
21078 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
21079 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
21080 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
21081 too long (they were sticking around forever).
21082 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
21086 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
21087 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
21088 - make hup work again
21089 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
21090 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
21091 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
21092 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
21093 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
21094 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
21096 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
21097 o changes from 0.0.5:
21098 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
21099 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
21100 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
21101 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
21102 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
21104 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
21105 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
21106 in-memory directories too
21109 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
21110 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
21113 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
21115 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
21116 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
21117 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
21118 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
21121 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
21122 [version bump only]
21125 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
21126 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
21128 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
21129 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
21130 but that aren't warnings
21133 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
21134 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
21135 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
21136 the dns farm to do it.
21137 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
21138 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
21140 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
21141 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
21142 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
21145 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
21146 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
21147 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
21148 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
21149 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
21150 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
21151 expect it to have a nickname.
21152 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
21153 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
21156 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
21157 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
21161 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
21162 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
21163 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
21164 - include missing header fcntl.h
21165 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
21166 - deal with hardware word alignment
21167 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
21168 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
21169 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
21170 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
21171 by kill -USR1 currently.
21172 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
21173 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
21174 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
21177 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
21178 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
21179 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
21182 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
21184 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
21185 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
21186 - And fix a few endian issues.
21189 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
21191 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
21192 try that circuit again: try a new one.
21193 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
21194 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
21195 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
21196 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
21197 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
21198 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
21200 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
21201 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
21202 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
21204 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
21206 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
21207 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
21208 side isn't reading right then.
21209 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
21210 RecommendedVersions
21211 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
21212 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
21213 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
21216 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
21218 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
21219 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
21222 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
21226 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
21228 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
21229 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
21230 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
21231 connection is finished.
21232 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
21233 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
21234 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
21235 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
21236 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
21237 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
21238 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
21239 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
21240 rather than warn and continue.
21241 - Make --version work
21242 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
21245 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
21247 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
21248 knows it's working.
21249 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
21250 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
21252 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
21253 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
21254 so you can collect coredumps there.
21256 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
21257 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
21258 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
21259 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
21260 dns cache actually gets populated.
21261 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
21262 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
21263 end cell down it first.
21264 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
21265 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
21268 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
21270 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
21271 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
21273 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
21274 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
21275 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
21276 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
21277 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
21278 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
21280 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
21282 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
21283 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
21284 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
21285 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
21286 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
21287 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
21289 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
21290 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
21293 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
21295 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
21296 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
21297 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
21298 tor. It even has a man page.
21299 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
21300 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
21301 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
21302 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
21304 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
21306 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
21309 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
21311 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
21312 it, apt-getters. :)
21313 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
21314 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
21315 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
21316 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
21317 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
21318 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
21319 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
21320 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
21321 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
21322 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
21323 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
21325 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
21326 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
21329 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
21331 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
21332 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
21335 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
21337 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
21338 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
21339 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
21340 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
21341 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
21342 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
21343 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
21344 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
21345 logfile so you know it's working.
21346 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
21347 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
21350 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
21352 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
21353 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
21354 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
21357 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
21359 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
21360 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
21361 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
21364 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
21365 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
21366 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
21368 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
21369 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
21371 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
21372 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
21373 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
21375 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
21376 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
21380 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
21382 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
21383 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
21384 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
21387 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
21388 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
21389 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
21390 - Add port ranges to exit policies
21391 - Add a conservative default exit policy
21392 - Warn if you're running tor as root
21393 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
21394 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
21395 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
21396 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
21398 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
21401 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
21402 o Robustness and bugfixes:
21403 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
21404 really screw things up.
21405 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
21407 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
21408 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
21410 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
21411 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
21412 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
21413 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
21414 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
21415 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
21418 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
21421 - Change default loglevel to warn.
21422 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
21423 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
21425 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
21428 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
21429 o Robustness and bugfixes:
21430 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
21431 - to get ownership/permissions right
21432 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
21433 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
21434 pull down a directory again
21435 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
21436 causing server crashes
21437 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
21438 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
21439 - exit if bind() fails
21440 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
21441 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
21442 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
21443 - fix minor bias in PRNG
21444 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
21447 - Wrote the design document (woo)
21449 o Circuit building and exit policies:
21450 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
21452 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
21453 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
21454 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
21455 exists, rather than failing
21456 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
21457 which AP connections are standing by
21458 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
21459 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
21460 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
21462 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
21463 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
21466 - APPort is now called SocksPort
21467 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
21469 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
21470 hardcoded (for dirservers)
21471 - Reloads config on HUP
21472 - Usage info on -h or --help
21473 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
21476 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
21477 o General stability:
21478 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
21479 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
21480 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
21481 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
21482 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
21483 to take down the network when I approve a new router
21484 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
21487 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
21488 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
21490 o Autoconf improvements:
21491 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
21492 - Make install now works
21493 - create var/lib/tor on make install
21494 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
21495 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
21497 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
21498 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
21499 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
21500 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup