2 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release
3 of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
4 each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
6 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
8 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
9 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
10 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
11 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
15 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
16 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
17 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
20 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
22 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
23 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
24 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
25 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
26 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
27 its circuits on demand.
28 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
29 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
30 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
31 connections more stable on average.
32 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
33 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
34 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
37 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
38 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
41 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
43 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
44 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
45 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
46 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
47 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
48 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
49 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
50 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
53 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
55 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
56 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
57 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
58 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
59 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
60 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
61 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
62 it can't resolve its hostname.
63 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
64 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
65 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
68 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
69 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
70 "extendcircuit" request.
71 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
72 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
73 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
74 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
76 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
77 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
78 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
80 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
81 methods: these are known to be buggy.
82 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
83 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
87 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
89 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
90 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
91 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
92 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
93 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
94 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
95 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
96 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
97 test reachability, so you won't publish.
100 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
101 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
102 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
103 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
104 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
106 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
107 own server descriptor yet.
110 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
112 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
113 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
114 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
115 make sure to test via one of these.
116 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
117 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
118 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
119 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
120 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
122 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
123 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
124 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
127 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
128 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
129 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
130 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
132 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
133 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
134 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
135 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
138 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
139 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
140 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
142 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
143 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
144 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
145 current guards when picking a new guard.
146 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
147 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
148 when we had more than one pending.
149 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
150 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
151 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
152 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
153 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
154 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
155 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
156 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
157 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
158 debug the reachability problems better.
160 o Log / documentation fixes:
161 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
162 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
163 about protocol violations by others.
164 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
165 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
166 about what happened to our old torrc.
169 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
170 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
171 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
172 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
173 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
174 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
176 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
177 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
178 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
179 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
180 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
181 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
182 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
183 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
184 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
185 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
186 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
187 on malicious huge inputs.
189 o Security fixes, major:
190 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
191 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
192 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
193 misreading their logs.
194 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
195 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
196 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
197 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
198 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
199 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
200 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
202 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
203 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
204 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
205 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
206 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
207 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
209 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
210 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
211 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
212 firewall options forbid.
213 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
214 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
215 can only proxy to certain destinations.
216 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
217 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
218 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
220 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
221 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
222 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
223 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
224 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
225 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
226 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
227 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
228 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
229 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
230 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
231 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
232 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
234 o Security fixes, minor:
235 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
236 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
238 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
239 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
240 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
241 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
242 if we've not heard of a server.
243 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
244 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
245 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
246 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
247 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
248 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
249 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
250 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
251 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
252 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
253 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
254 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
255 aids some statistical attacks.
256 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
257 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
258 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
259 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
260 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
261 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
262 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
263 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
266 o Packaging improvements:
267 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
268 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
269 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
270 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
271 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
272 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
274 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
275 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
276 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
277 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
278 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
279 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
281 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
282 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
283 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
285 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
286 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
287 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
288 They are useless now.
289 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
290 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
292 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
295 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
296 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
297 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
298 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
299 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
300 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
301 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
302 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
303 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
304 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
305 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
306 and isolating attacks better.
307 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
308 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
309 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
310 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
311 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
312 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
313 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
314 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
315 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
316 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
317 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
319 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
320 can answer v2 directory requests too.
321 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
322 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
323 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
324 mirrors still cache and serve it).
325 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
326 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
327 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
328 for clients and for servers.
329 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
330 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
331 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
332 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
333 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
334 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
335 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
336 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
337 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
338 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
339 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
341 o Other directory improvements:
342 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
343 fifth authoritative directory servers.
344 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
345 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
346 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
348 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
349 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
350 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
351 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
352 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
353 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
355 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
356 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
357 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
358 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
359 connections more reliable.
360 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
361 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
362 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
363 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
364 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
366 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
368 o Controller protocol improvements:
369 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
370 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
371 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
372 applications without caring how our protocol works.
373 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
374 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
375 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
376 many bytes we've used in this time period.
377 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
378 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
379 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
380 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
381 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
382 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
383 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
384 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
385 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
386 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
388 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
389 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
390 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
391 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
392 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
393 a router in its role as directory authority.
394 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
395 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
396 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
397 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
398 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
399 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
400 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
401 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
402 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
403 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
404 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
405 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
406 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
407 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
408 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
409 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
410 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
411 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
413 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
414 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
415 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
416 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
417 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
418 just tell them to go read their logs.
420 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
421 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
422 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
423 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
424 try to be a bit more fair.
425 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
426 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
427 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
428 and we're using a default DirPort.
429 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
430 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
431 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
432 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
433 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
434 services faster on the service end.
435 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
437 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
438 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
439 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
440 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
441 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
442 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
443 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
444 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
445 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
446 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
447 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
448 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
449 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
450 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
451 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
452 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
453 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
454 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
455 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
456 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
457 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
458 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
459 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
460 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
461 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
463 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
464 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
465 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
466 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
467 so we can be backward-compatible.
468 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
469 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
470 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
471 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
472 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
473 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
474 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
475 initial descriptor forever.
476 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
477 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
478 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
479 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
480 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
481 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
482 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
483 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
484 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
485 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
486 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
487 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
488 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
489 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
490 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
491 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
492 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
493 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
494 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
495 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
496 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
497 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
498 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
499 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
500 ports that have changed.
501 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
502 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
503 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
504 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
505 connections once a week.
506 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
507 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
508 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
509 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
510 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
511 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
512 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
513 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
514 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
515 able to discover them.
516 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
517 want to make it an NT service.
518 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
519 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
520 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
521 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
523 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
524 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
525 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
526 statistics are now uint64_t's.
527 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
528 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
529 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
530 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
531 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
532 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
533 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
534 default ulimit -n is 1024.
535 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
536 and its existence is confusing some users.
538 o Config option fixes:
539 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
540 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
541 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
542 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
543 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
544 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
545 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
546 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
547 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
549 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
550 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
551 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
552 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
553 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
554 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
555 it would silently ignore the 6668.
556 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
557 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
558 silently resetting it to its default.
559 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
560 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
561 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
562 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
563 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
564 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
565 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
566 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
567 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
568 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
569 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
570 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
571 Address config option.
572 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
573 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
575 o Config option features:
576 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
577 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
578 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
579 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
580 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
582 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
583 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
584 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
585 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
586 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
587 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
588 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
589 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
590 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
591 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
592 in at least some cases.)
593 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
594 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
595 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
596 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
597 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
598 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
599 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
600 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
601 even if we know they're jerks.
602 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
603 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
604 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
605 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
606 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
607 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
608 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
609 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
610 because older Tors do not understand it.
611 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
612 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
613 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
614 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
615 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
616 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
617 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
618 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
619 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
620 unattached before we fail it?
621 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
622 at least this many seconds ago.
623 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
624 at least this many seconds ago.
625 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
626 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
628 o Improved and clearer log messages:
629 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
630 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
631 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
633 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
634 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
635 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
636 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
637 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
638 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
639 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
640 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
641 temporarily unreachable.
642 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
643 Windows-style errno back.
644 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
645 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
647 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
648 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
649 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
650 exactly for this case.
651 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
652 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
653 don't warn twice about the same name.
654 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
656 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
657 it was self-testing that told us so.
658 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
659 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
660 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
661 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
662 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
663 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
664 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
665 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
666 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
667 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
668 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
669 established a circuit.
670 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
671 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
672 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
673 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
674 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
675 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
676 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
677 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
678 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
679 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
680 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
681 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
682 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
683 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
684 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
685 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
686 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
687 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
688 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
689 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
690 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
691 testing for reachability.
692 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
693 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
695 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
698 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
699 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
700 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
701 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
703 o Other important bugfixes:
704 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
705 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
706 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
707 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
709 o Backported features:
710 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
711 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
712 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
713 without getting overloaded.
714 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
715 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
716 503's whenever they feel busy.
717 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
718 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
719 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
720 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
721 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
724 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
725 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
726 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
727 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
728 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
729 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
730 too -- so detect and avoid this.
731 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
733 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
734 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
735 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
736 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
737 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
738 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
739 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
740 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
742 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
744 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
745 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
746 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
747 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
748 advertising it because of hibernation.
749 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
750 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
751 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
752 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
753 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
754 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
755 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
756 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
757 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
758 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
759 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
760 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
761 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
762 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
763 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
766 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
767 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
768 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
769 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
770 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
771 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
772 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
773 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
774 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
775 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
776 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
777 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
778 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
779 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
780 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
783 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
784 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
785 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
787 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
788 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
791 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
792 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
793 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
794 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
795 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
796 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
797 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
799 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
800 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
804 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
805 o New directory servers:
806 - tor26 has changed IP address.
808 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
809 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
810 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
812 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
813 claims its dirport is 0.
814 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
815 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
819 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
820 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
821 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
822 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
823 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
824 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
825 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
826 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
829 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
831 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
832 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
833 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
834 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
835 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
836 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
837 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
838 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
839 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
841 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
842 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
844 o Assert / crash bugs:
845 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
846 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
847 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
849 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
850 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
851 TLS errors better in other situations too.
852 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
853 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
856 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
857 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
858 duplicate ram over time.
859 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
860 reentry and threadsafeness.
861 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
862 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
863 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
865 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
866 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
867 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
868 point at your Tor server.
869 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
871 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
872 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
875 o Protocol correctness:
876 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
877 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
878 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
879 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
880 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
881 to abandon partially built circuits.
882 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
883 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
884 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
885 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
886 descriptors we just dropped.
887 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
888 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
889 and to take errno into account where possible.
890 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
891 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
892 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
893 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
895 o Robustness improvements:
896 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
897 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
898 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
900 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
901 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
902 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
903 that will want high uptime circuits.
904 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
905 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
906 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
907 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
908 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
909 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
910 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
911 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
912 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
913 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
914 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
915 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
916 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
917 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
918 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
919 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
920 for google.com" problem.
921 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
922 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
923 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
924 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
925 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
928 o Reachability testing.
929 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
930 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
931 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
932 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
933 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
934 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
935 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
936 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
937 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
938 already connected to them.
939 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
943 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
944 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
945 nickname+key are allowed.
946 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
947 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
948 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
949 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
950 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
951 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
952 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
953 have quite wrong clocks).
954 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
955 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
956 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
957 their descriptors are being rejected.
959 o Efficiency improvements:
960 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
961 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
962 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
963 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
964 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
965 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
966 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
967 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
968 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
969 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
971 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
972 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
973 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
974 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
975 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
976 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
977 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
978 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
979 of CPU time plus memory.
980 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
981 directory every time you regenerate it.
982 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
983 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
984 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
985 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
986 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
987 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
988 lowercase when you first see them.
991 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
992 hidden services better.
993 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
994 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
995 when we try to launch one.
996 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
997 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
998 attempts to build a circuit.
999 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
1000 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
1001 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
1002 normal web requests.
1005 - More Tor controller support. See
1006 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
1007 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
1008 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
1009 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
1010 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
1011 to make it easier to write controllers.
1012 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
1013 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
1014 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
1015 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
1016 new log event types.
1018 o New config options/defaults:
1019 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
1020 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
1021 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
1022 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
1023 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
1025 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
1027 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
1028 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
1029 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
1030 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
1031 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
1033 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
1034 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
1035 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
1036 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
1037 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
1038 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
1039 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
1040 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
1041 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
1042 required exit node for certain sites.
1043 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
1044 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
1045 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
1046 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
1047 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
1048 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
1049 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
1050 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
1051 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
1053 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
1054 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
1055 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
1056 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
1057 private-IP addresses.
1058 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
1059 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
1060 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
1061 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
1062 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
1063 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
1064 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
1065 is valid without actually launching Tor.
1067 o Logging improvements:
1068 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
1069 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
1070 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
1071 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
1073 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
1074 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
1075 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
1076 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
1077 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
1078 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
1079 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
1080 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
1081 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
1083 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
1085 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
1086 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
1087 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
1088 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
1089 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
1090 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
1092 o New contrib scripts:
1093 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
1094 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
1096 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
1097 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
1098 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
1099 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
1100 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
1101 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
1103 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
1104 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
1105 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
1106 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
1110 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
1111 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
1112 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
1113 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
1114 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
1115 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
1116 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
1118 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
1119 something more reasonable when first installing.
1120 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
1121 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
1122 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
1123 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
1125 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
1126 artificially capped at 500kB.
1127 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
1129 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
1130 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
1131 they could use instead.
1132 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
1133 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
1134 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
1135 the user asks you to.
1138 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
1139 rather than just rejecting it.
1140 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
1141 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
1142 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
1143 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
1144 rather than just "success" or "failure".
1145 - A more sane version numbering system. See
1146 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
1147 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
1148 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
1149 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
1150 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
1151 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
1153 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
1154 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
1155 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
1156 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
1158 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
1159 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
1161 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
1162 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
1163 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
1164 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
1166 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
1167 whether the server is hibernating.
1170 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
1171 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
1172 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
1173 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
1174 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
1178 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
1179 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
1180 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
1181 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
1182 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
1185 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
1186 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
1187 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
1188 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
1189 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
1190 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
1191 busy for more than 100 seconds.
1194 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
1195 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
1196 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
1197 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
1198 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
1199 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
1200 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
1201 creating actual system users.
1202 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
1203 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
1207 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
1208 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
1209 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
1210 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
1211 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
1212 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
1213 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
1214 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
1215 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
1216 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
1217 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
1218 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
1219 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
1220 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
1221 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
1223 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
1224 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
1225 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
1226 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
1227 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
1228 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
1229 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
1230 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
1231 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
1232 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
1233 existing torrc files.
1234 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
1237 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
1238 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
1239 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
1240 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
1241 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
1242 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
1243 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
1244 the win32 SYSTEM account.
1245 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
1246 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
1247 file descriptors available.
1248 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
1249 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
1250 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
1253 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
1254 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
1255 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
1256 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
1258 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
1259 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
1260 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
1261 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
1262 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
1264 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
1265 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
1266 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
1267 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
1268 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
1269 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
1270 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
1271 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
1272 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
1273 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
1274 800kB/s of capacity.
1275 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
1278 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
1279 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
1280 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
1281 need as much processor time.
1282 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
1283 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
1284 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
1285 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
1286 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
1287 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
1288 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
1289 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
1290 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
1291 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
1292 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
1293 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
1295 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
1296 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
1297 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
1298 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
1299 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
1300 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
1301 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
1304 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
1305 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
1306 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
1308 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
1309 style address, then we'd crash.
1310 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
1311 a dirserver is broken.
1312 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
1314 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
1315 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
1316 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
1318 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
1319 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
1320 name out of the warning/assert messages.
1321 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
1322 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
1323 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
1325 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
1326 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
1327 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
1329 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
1331 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
1332 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
1333 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
1334 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
1335 values at once couldn't work.
1336 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
1337 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
1338 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
1339 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
1340 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
1341 they can handle any number of routers.
1342 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
1343 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
1344 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
1345 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
1346 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
1347 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
1348 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
1349 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
1350 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
1353 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
1354 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
1355 - Make hibernation actually work.
1356 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
1357 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
1358 don't use the stream status code.
1361 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
1362 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
1363 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
1364 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
1365 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
1366 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
1367 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
1368 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
1369 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
1370 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
1371 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
1372 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
1375 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
1376 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
1377 win32 socket errors better.
1378 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
1379 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
1380 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
1381 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
1383 - Make unit tests work on win32.
1385 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
1386 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
1387 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
1388 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
1389 right after sending the begin cell.
1390 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
1391 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
1392 exit nodes too. Oops.
1393 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
1394 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
1395 the user would get no response.
1396 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
1397 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
1398 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
1400 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
1401 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
1402 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
1403 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
1404 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
1406 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
1407 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
1408 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
1409 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
1410 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
1411 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
1412 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
1413 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
1414 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
1415 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
1416 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
1418 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
1419 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
1420 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
1421 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
1422 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
1423 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
1424 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
1425 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
1426 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
1427 so we don't see those messages days later.
1428 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
1429 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
1431 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
1432 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
1433 they ran out of file descriptors.
1434 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
1435 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
1436 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
1437 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
1439 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
1440 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
1441 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
1442 the ones we find in directories.)
1443 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
1444 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
1445 if you don't want it open.
1446 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
1447 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
1448 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
1449 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
1450 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
1451 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
1453 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
1454 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
1456 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
1458 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
1459 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
1461 o Features (circuits and streams):
1462 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
1463 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
1464 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
1465 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
1466 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
1467 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
1468 the user knows which one it's talking about.
1469 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
1470 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
1471 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
1472 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
1473 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
1475 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
1477 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
1478 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
1479 to fill the last cell completely.
1480 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
1481 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
1483 o Features (bandwidth):
1484 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
1485 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
1486 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
1487 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
1488 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
1489 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
1490 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
1491 your billing cycle starts on.
1492 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
1493 hibernation properties by
1494 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
1495 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
1496 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
1497 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
1498 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
1500 o Features (directories):
1501 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
1502 nickname to its identity key.
1503 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
1504 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
1505 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
1506 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
1507 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
1509 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
1510 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
1512 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
1513 will be able to get a directory.
1514 - Http proxy support
1515 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
1516 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
1517 be routed through this host.
1518 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
1519 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
1520 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
1521 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
1522 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
1523 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
1525 o Features (packages and install):
1526 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
1527 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
1528 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
1529 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
1530 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
1531 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
1532 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
1533 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
1534 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
1535 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
1538 o Features (ui controller):
1539 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
1540 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
1541 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
1542 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
1543 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
1544 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
1545 with the control port.
1546 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
1547 use in authenticating to the control interface.
1548 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
1549 configuration to torrc.
1550 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
1551 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
1552 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
1554 o Features (config and command-line):
1555 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
1556 not on the command line.
1557 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
1559 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
1560 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
1561 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
1562 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
1563 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
1564 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
1565 - New log format in config:
1566 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
1567 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
1568 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
1569 from their dirserver.
1570 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
1572 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
1573 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
1574 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
1575 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
1576 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
1577 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
1578 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
1579 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
1580 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
1581 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
1582 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
1583 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
1584 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
1585 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
1586 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
1587 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
1588 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
1589 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
1590 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
1591 than once per minute.
1594 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
1595 get back to normal.)
1596 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
1597 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
1598 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
1599 log more informatively.
1600 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
1601 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
1602 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
1603 from each other, to hinder linkability.
1604 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
1605 them act more like real nodes.
1606 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
1607 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
1608 1024) file descriptors.
1609 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
1612 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
1614 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
1615 clients/servers with an open dirport.
1616 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
1617 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
1618 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
1619 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
1620 intermittent connections.
1621 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
1622 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
1624 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
1625 in reporting stats locally.
1626 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
1627 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
1628 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
1631 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
1633 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
1634 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
1635 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
1636 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
1637 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
1638 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
1639 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
1640 list to decide who's running.
1641 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
1642 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
1643 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
1644 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
1645 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
1646 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
1647 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
1648 for pointing out this bug.)
1649 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
1651 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
1652 don't put it into the client dns cache.
1653 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
1654 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
1655 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
1658 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
1659 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
1660 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
1661 hadn't heard of before.
1664 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
1665 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
1666 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
1667 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
1668 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
1669 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
1670 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
1671 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
1672 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
1673 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
1674 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
1675 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
1676 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
1677 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
1678 - Directory caching.
1679 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
1680 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
1681 directory they've pulled down.
1682 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
1683 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
1684 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
1685 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
1686 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
1687 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
1688 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
1690 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
1691 This isn't used yet.
1692 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
1693 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
1694 clients don't use this yet.)
1695 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
1696 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
1697 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
1698 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
1699 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
1700 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
1701 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
1702 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
1703 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
1704 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
1705 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
1706 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
1707 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
1708 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
1709 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
1710 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
1711 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
1712 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
1713 - File and name management:
1714 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
1715 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
1717 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
1718 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
1719 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
1720 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
1721 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
1722 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
1723 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
1725 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
1726 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
1727 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
1729 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
1730 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
1731 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
1732 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
1733 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
1734 - New docs in the tarball:
1736 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
1737 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
1738 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
1739 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
1740 know you might want to get it verified.
1741 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
1742 kazaa, gnutella ports.
1743 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
1744 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
1745 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
1746 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
1747 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
1748 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
1749 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
1751 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
1753 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
1754 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
1756 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
1757 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
1758 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
1761 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
1762 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
1763 ask them to resolve the host "".
1766 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
1767 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
1768 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
1771 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
1772 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
1773 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
1776 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
1777 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
1778 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
1779 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
1781 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
1782 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
1783 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
1785 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
1786 hidden service per 15-minute period.
1787 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
1788 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
1789 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
1790 o Fixes for security bugs:
1791 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
1792 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
1793 a trusted dirserver.
1795 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
1796 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
1797 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
1798 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
1799 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
1800 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
1801 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
1802 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
1803 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
1804 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
1806 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
1807 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
1808 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
1809 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
1810 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
1811 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
1813 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
1816 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
1817 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
1818 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
1819 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
1820 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
1821 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
1822 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
1823 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
1824 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
1825 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
1826 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
1827 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
1828 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
1829 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
1832 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
1833 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
1834 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
1835 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
1838 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
1839 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
1840 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
1841 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
1842 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
1843 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
1844 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
1848 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
1850 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
1851 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
1852 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
1853 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
1854 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
1855 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
1856 if you decrypted them correctly.
1857 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
1858 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
1859 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
1860 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
1861 in-memory directories too.
1862 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
1863 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
1864 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
1865 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
1866 just close the circ.
1867 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
1868 - Better debugging for tls errors
1869 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
1870 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
1872 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
1873 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
1874 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
1875 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
1876 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
1877 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
1878 it tells you about the first error.
1879 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
1880 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
1881 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
1882 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
1883 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
1884 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
1885 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
1886 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
1887 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
1888 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
1890 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
1891 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
1894 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
1895 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
1897 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
1898 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
1899 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
1900 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
1901 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
1902 expect it to have a nickname.
1903 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
1904 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
1905 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
1906 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
1907 the dns farm to do it.
1908 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
1909 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
1911 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
1912 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
1913 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
1914 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
1915 but that aren't warnings
1918 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
1919 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
1923 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
1924 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
1925 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
1926 - include missing header fcntl.h
1927 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
1928 - deal with hardware word alignment
1929 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
1930 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
1931 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
1932 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
1933 by kill -USR1 currently.
1934 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
1935 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
1936 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
1939 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
1940 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
1941 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
1944 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
1946 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
1947 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
1948 - And fix a few endian issues.
1951 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
1953 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
1954 try that circuit again: try a new one.
1955 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
1956 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
1957 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
1958 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
1959 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
1960 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
1962 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
1963 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
1964 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
1966 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
1968 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
1969 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
1970 side isn't reading right then.
1971 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
1973 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
1974 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
1975 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
1978 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
1980 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
1981 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
1984 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
1988 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
1990 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
1991 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
1992 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
1993 connection is finished.
1994 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
1995 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
1996 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
1997 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
1998 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
1999 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
2000 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
2001 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
2002 rather than warn and continue.
2003 - Make --version work
2004 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
2007 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
2009 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
2011 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
2012 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
2014 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
2015 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
2016 so you can collect coredumps there.
2018 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
2019 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
2020 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
2021 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
2022 dns cache actually gets populated.
2023 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
2024 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
2025 end cell down it first.
2026 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
2027 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
2030 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
2032 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
2033 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
2035 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
2036 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
2037 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
2038 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
2039 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
2040 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
2042 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
2044 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
2045 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
2046 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
2047 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
2048 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
2049 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
2051 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
2052 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
2055 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
2057 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
2058 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
2059 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
2060 tor. It even has a man page.
2061 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
2062 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
2063 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
2064 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
2066 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
2068 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
2071 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
2073 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
2075 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
2076 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
2077 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
2078 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
2079 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
2080 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
2081 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
2082 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
2083 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
2084 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
2085 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
2087 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
2088 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
2091 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
2093 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
2094 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
2097 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
2099 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
2100 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
2101 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
2102 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
2103 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
2104 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
2105 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
2106 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
2107 logfile so you know it's working.
2108 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
2109 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
2112 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
2114 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
2115 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
2116 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
2119 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
2121 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
2122 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
2123 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
2126 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
2127 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
2128 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
2130 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
2131 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
2133 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
2134 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
2135 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
2137 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
2138 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
2142 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
2144 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
2145 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
2146 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
2149 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
2150 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
2151 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
2152 - Add port ranges to exit policies
2153 - Add a conservative default exit policy
2154 - Warn if you're running tor as root
2155 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
2156 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
2157 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
2158 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
2160 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
2163 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
2164 o Robustness and bugfixes:
2165 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
2166 really screw things up.
2167 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
2169 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
2170 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
2172 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
2173 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
2174 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
2175 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
2176 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
2177 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
2180 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
2183 - Change default loglevel to warn.
2184 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
2185 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
2187 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
2190 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
2191 o Robustness and bugfixes:
2192 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
2193 - to get ownership/permissions right
2194 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
2195 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
2196 pull down a directory again
2197 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
2198 causing server crashes
2199 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
2200 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
2201 - exit if bind() fails
2202 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
2203 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
2204 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
2205 - fix minor bias in PRNG
2206 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
2209 - Wrote the design document (woo)
2211 o Circuit building and exit policies:
2212 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
2214 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
2215 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
2216 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
2217 exists, rather than failing
2218 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
2219 which AP connections are standing by
2220 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
2221 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
2222 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
2224 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
2225 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
2228 - APPort is now called SocksPort
2229 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
2231 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
2232 hardcoded (for dirservers)
2233 - Reloads config on HUP
2234 - Usage info on -h or --help
2235 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
2237 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
2238 o General stability:
2239 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
2240 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
2241 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
2242 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
2243 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
2244 to take down the network when I approve a new router
2245 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
2248 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
2249 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
2251 o Autoconf improvements:
2252 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
2253 - Make install now works
2254 - create var/lib/tor on make install
2255 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
2256 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
2258 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
2259 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
2260 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
2261 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup