1 Changes in version 0.2.1.6-alpha - 2008-09-xx
3 - Fix compile on OpenBSD 4.4-current. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
5 - When parsing ports in tor_addr_port_parse(), yield the port if
6 the port variable is provided, not just if it's nonzero. Fixes
7 bug 809. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
10 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
11 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
14 Changes in version 0.2.1.5-alpha - 2008-08-31
16 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
18 - Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol elements.
19 - Make resolver code handle nameservers located at ipv6 addresses.
20 - Begin implementation of proposal 121 ("Client authorization for
21 hidden services"): configure hidden services with client
22 authorization, publish descriptors for them, and configure
23 authorization data for hidden services at clients. The next
24 step is to actually access hidden services that perform client
26 - More progress toward proposal 141: Network status consensus
27 documents and votes now contain bandwidth information for each
28 router and a summary of that router's exit policy. Eventually this
29 will be used by clients so that they do not have to download every
30 known descriptor before building circuits.
32 o Major bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x and before):
33 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
34 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
35 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
36 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
37 identify a connection.
38 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
39 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
40 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
42 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
43 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
44 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
48 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
49 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
50 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
51 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open /dev/pf
52 before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from Christopher
53 Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
54 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
55 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
56 - Add a missing safe_str() call for a debug log message.
57 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
58 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
59 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
60 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
61 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
62 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
65 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
66 a lot. Resolves bug 748.
67 - Resist DNS poisoning a little better by making sure that names in
68 answer sections match.
69 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
70 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
73 Changes in version 0.2.1.4-alpha - 2008-08-04
75 - The address part of exit policies was not correctly written
76 to router descriptors. This generated router descriptors that failed
77 their self-checks. Noticed by phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix
79 - Tor triggered a false assert when extending a circuit to a relay
80 but we already have a connection open to that relay. Noticed by
81 phobos, fixed by Karsten. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
84 - Fix a hidden service logging bug: in some edge cases, the router
85 descriptor of a previously picked introduction point becomes
86 obsolete and we need to give up on it rather than continually
87 complaining that it has become obsolete. Observed by xiando. Bugfix
91 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
92 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
95 Changes in version 0.2.1.3-alpha - 2008-08-03
96 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.x-alpha):
97 - Send a bootstrap problem "warn" event on the first problem if the
98 reason is NO_ROUTE (that is, our network is down).
101 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
102 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
103 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
104 certain kinds of DOS attack by requiring that EXTEND commands must
105 be sent using an "early" cell.
108 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
109 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
110 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
111 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
112 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
113 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
114 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
117 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
118 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
119 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
120 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
121 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
122 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
123 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
124 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
125 - Allow address patterns (e.g., 255.128.0.0/16) to appear in
126 ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes lists.
127 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
128 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
129 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
130 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
131 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
132 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
135 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
136 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
137 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
138 - Stop using __attribute__((nonnull)) with GCC: it can give us useful
139 warnings (occasionally), but it can also cause the compiler to
140 eliminate error-checking code. Suggested by Peter Gutmann.
141 - When a hidden service is giving up on an introduction point candidate
142 that was not included in the last published rendezvous descriptor,
143 don't reschedule publication of the next descriptor. Fixes bug 763.
145 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
146 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
147 and nobody claims to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
148 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
149 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks. Spotted
152 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
153 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit
154 is getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly.
155 Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
158 - Remove all backward-compatibility code to support relays running
159 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
163 Changes in version 0.2.0.29-rc - 2008-07-08
165 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys,
166 you would only launch a request for the descriptor of the first one
167 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
168 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
169 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
170 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their keys, and the
171 connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel all
172 pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the same
173 digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
174 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
175 and Tor had built circuits preemptively for such purposes, we
176 were ignoring all the preemptive circuits and launching a new one
177 instead. Bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
178 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
179 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
180 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
181 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
182 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
183 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
184 - Make directory servers include the X-Your-Address-Is: http header in
185 their responses even for begin_dir conns. Now clients who only
186 ever use begin_dir connections still have a way to learn their IP
187 address. Fixes bug 737; bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc. Reported by goldy.
190 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
191 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
193 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
194 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
195 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
196 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
197 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
198 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
199 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
201 - Disallow session resumption attempts during the renegotiation
202 stage of the v2 handshake protocol. Clients should never be
203 trying session resumption at this point, but apparently some
204 did, in ways that caused the handshake to fail. Bugfix on
205 0.2.0.20-rc. Bug found by Geoff Goodell.
208 Changes in version 0.2.1.2-alpha - 2008-06-20
209 Tor 0.2.1.2-alpha includes a new "TestingTorNetwork" config option to
210 make it easier to set up your own private Tor network; fixes several
211 big bugs with using more than one bridge relay; fixes a big bug with
212 offering hidden services quickly after Tor starts; and uses a better
213 API for reporting potential bootstrapping problems to the controller.
216 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
217 previously constant values that, while reasonable, could slow
218 bootstrapping. Implements proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
221 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
222 you would only learn a request for the descriptor of the first one
223 on your list. (Tor considered launching requests for the others, but
224 found that it already had a connection on the way for $0000...0000
225 so it didn't open another.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
226 - If you have more than one bridge but don't know their digests,
227 and the connection to one of the bridges failed, you would cancel
228 all pending bridge connections. (After all, they all have the
229 same digest.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
230 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
231 originate from cannibalized circuits are completely ignored and not
232 included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might be another
233 reason for delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix
234 from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
237 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
238 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
239 This will cut down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements
241 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
242 fingerprints with or without space.
243 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
244 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
245 partway through and wants to catch up.
246 - Send an initial "Starting" bootstrap status event, so we have a
247 state to start out in.
250 - Asking for a conditional consensus at .../consensus/<fingerprints>
251 would crash a dirserver if it did not already have a
252 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
253 - Clean up some macro/CPP interactions: some GCC versions don't like
254 #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments. Fixes bug 707. Bugfix on
257 o Bootstrapping bugfixes (on 0.2.1.1-alpha):
258 - Directory authorities shouldn't complain about bootstrapping
259 problems just because they do a lot of reachability testing and
260 some of the connection attempts fail.
261 - Start sending "count" and "recommendation" key/value pairs in
262 bootstrap problem status events, so the controller can hear about
263 problems even before Tor decides they're worth reporting for sure.
264 - If you're using bridges, generate "bootstrap problem" warnings
265 as soon as you run out of working bridges, rather than waiting
266 for ten failures -- which will never happen if you have less than
268 - If we close our OR connection because there's been a circuit
269 pending on it for too long, we were telling our bootstrap status
270 events "REASON=NONE". Now tell them "REASON=TIMEOUT".
273 Changes in version 0.2.1.1-alpha - 2008-06-13
274 Tor 0.2.1.1-alpha fixes a lot of memory fragmentation problems that
275 were making the Tor process bloat especially on Linux; makes our TLS
276 handshake blend in better; sends "bootstrap phase" status events to
277 the controller, so it can keep the user informed of progress (and
278 problems) fetching directory information and establishing circuits;
279 and adds a variety of smaller features.
282 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
283 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
284 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
285 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
287 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
288 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
289 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
290 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
292 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
293 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
294 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
295 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
296 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
297 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
298 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
301 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
302 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
303 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
304 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
305 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
307 o Memory fixes and improvements:
308 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
309 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
310 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
311 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
312 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
313 on a typical directory cache.
314 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
315 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
316 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
317 and may reduce fragmentation.
318 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
319 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
320 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
322 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
323 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
324 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
326 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
327 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed,
331 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
332 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
333 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
334 done that for a long time.
335 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
336 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
337 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
338 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
341 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
342 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
343 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
344 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
345 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
346 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
348 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
349 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
350 output to messages of warning and error severity.
351 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
352 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
353 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
354 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
355 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
356 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
357 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
358 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
359 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
360 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
361 directory requests we should expect to see.
362 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
364 - Lots of new unit tests.
365 - Add a macro to implement the common pattern of iterating through
366 two parallel lists in lockstep.
369 Changes in version 0.2.0.28-rc - 2008-06-13
370 Tor 0.2.0.28-rc fixes an anonymity-related bug, fixes a hidden-service
371 performance bug, and fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
374 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
375 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
376 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
377 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
378 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
379 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
380 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
383 - While setting up a hidden service, some valid introduction circuits
384 were overlooked and abandoned. This might be the reason for
385 the long delay in making a hidden service available. Bugfix on
389 - Update to the "June 9 2008" ip-to-country file.
390 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
391 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
394 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
395 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
396 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
398 - Bridge relays no longer print "xx=0" in their extrainfo document
399 for every single country code in the geoip db. Bugfix on
401 - Only warn when we fail to load the geoip file if we were planning to
402 include geoip stats in our extrainfo document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.27-rc.
403 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
404 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
405 bug 688, reported by mfr. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
406 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
407 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors. Bugfix
409 - Make relay cells written on a connection count as non-padding when
410 tracking how long a connection has been in use. Bugfix on
411 0.2.0.1-alpha. Spotted by lodger.
412 - Fix unit tests in 0.2.0.27-rc.
413 - Fix compile on Windows.
416 Changes in version 0.2.0.27-rc - 2008-06-03
417 Tor 0.2.0.27-rc adds a few features we left out of the earlier
418 release candidates. In particular, we now include an IP-to-country
419 GeoIP database, so controllers can easily look up what country a
420 given relay is in, and so bridge relays can give us some sanitized
421 summaries about which countries are making use of bridges. (See proposal
422 126-geoip-fetching.txt for details.)
425 - Include an IP-to-country GeoIP file in the tarball, so bridge
426 relays can report sanitized summaries of the usage they're seeing.
429 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
430 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
431 - Make bridge authorities never serve extrainfo docs.
432 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
434 - Fix build on gcc 4.3 with --enable-gcc-warnings set.
435 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
436 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
439 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
440 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
441 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
442 - Make bridge authorities correctly expire old extrainfo documents
446 Changes in version 0.2.0.26-rc - 2008-05-13
447 Tor 0.2.0.26-rc fixes a major security vulnerability caused by a bug
448 in Debian's OpenSSL packages. All users running any 0.2.0.x version
449 should upgrade, whether they're running Debian or not.
451 o Major security fixes:
452 - Use new V3 directory authority keys on the tor26, gabelmoo, and
453 moria1 V3 directory authorities. The old keys were generated with
454 a vulnerable version of Debian's OpenSSL package, and must be
455 considered compromised. Other authorities' keys were not generated
456 with an affected version of OpenSSL.
459 - List authority signatures as "unrecognized" based on DirServer
460 lines, not on cert cache. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
463 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey option to make it easier for
464 authorities to change their identity keys if they have to.
467 Changes in version 0.2.0.25-rc - 2008-04-23
468 Tor 0.2.0.25-rc makes Tor work again on OS X and certain BSDs.
471 - Remember to initialize threading before initializing logging.
472 Otherwise, many BSD-family implementations will crash hard on
473 startup. Fixes bug 671. Bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc.
476 - Authorities correctly free policies on bad servers on
477 exit. Fixes bug 672. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
480 Changes in version 0.2.0.24-rc - 2008-04-22
481 Tor 0.2.0.24-rc adds dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth
482 v3 directory authority, makes relays with dynamic IP addresses and no
483 DirPort notice more quickly when their IP address changes, fixes a few
484 rare crashes and memory leaks, and fixes a few other miscellaneous bugs.
486 o New directory authorities:
487 - Take lefkada out of the list of v3 directory authorities, since
488 it has been down for months.
489 - Set up dizum (run by Alex de Joode) as the new sixth v3 directory
493 - Detect address changes more quickly on non-directory mirror
494 relays. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 652.
496 o Minor features (security):
497 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
498 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
499 - Non-exit relays no longer allow DNS requests. Fixes bug 619. Patch
502 o Minor bugfixes (crashes):
503 - Avoid a rare assert that can trigger when Tor doesn't have much
504 directory information yet and it tries to fetch a v2 hidden
505 service descriptor. Fixes bug 651, reported by nwf.
506 - Initialize log mutex before initializing dmalloc. Otherwise,
507 running with dmalloc would crash. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha.
508 - Use recursive pthread mutexes in order to avoid deadlock when
509 logging debug-level messages to a controller. Bug spotted by nwf,
510 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
512 o Minor bugfixes (resource management):
513 - Keep address policies from leaking memory: start their refcount
514 at 1, not 2. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
515 - Free authority certificates on exit, so they don't look like memory
516 leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha.
517 - Free static hashtables for policy maps and for TLS connections on
518 shutdown, so they don't look like memory leaks. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
519 - Avoid allocating extra space when computing consensuses on 64-bit
520 platforms. Bug spotted by aakova.
522 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
523 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
524 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
525 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
526 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
527 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
528 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
529 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
530 - Fix a dumb bug that was preventing us from knowing that we should
531 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
532 Fixes bug 660. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
533 - Warn less verbosely about clock skew from netinfo cells from
534 untrusted sources. Fixes bug 663.
535 - Make controller stream events for DNS requests more consistent,
536 by adding "new stream" events for DNS requests, and removing
537 spurious "stream closed" events" for cached reverse resolves.
538 Patch from mwenge. Fixes bug 646.
539 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
540 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
543 Changes in version 0.2.0.23-rc - 2008-03-24
544 Tor 0.2.0.23-rc is the fourth release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
545 makes bootstrapping faster if the first directory mirror you contact
546 is down. The bundles also include the new Vidalia 0.1.2 release.
549 - When a tunneled directory request is made to a directory server
550 that's down, notice after 30 seconds rather than 120 seconds. Also,
551 fail any begindir streams that are pending on it, so they can
552 retry elsewhere. This was causing multi-minute delays on bootstrap.
555 Changes in version 0.2.0.22-rc - 2008-03-18
556 Tor 0.2.0.22-rc is the third release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
557 enables encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays, fixes
558 some broken TLS behavior we added in 0.2.0.20-rc, and resolves many
559 other bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia 0.1.1 and Torbutton 1.1.17.
562 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
563 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
564 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
565 certain censored countries by default again.
568 - Make sure servers always request certificates from clients during
569 TLS renegotiation. Reported by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
570 - Do not enter a CPU-eating loop when a connection is closed in
571 the middle of client-side TLS renegotiation. Fixes bug 622. Bug
572 diagnosed by lodger; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
573 - Fix assertion failure that could occur when a blocked circuit
574 became unblocked, and it had pending client DNS requests. Bugfix
575 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 632.
577 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
578 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
579 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
580 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
581 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
582 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
583 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
584 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
585 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
586 a directory. Fix from lodger.
588 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
589 - Downgrade "sslv3 alert handshake failure" message to INFO.
590 - If we set RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst very high but
591 left BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst at the default, we would be
592 silently limited by those defaults. Now raise them to match the
593 RelayBandwidth* values.
594 - Fix the SVK version detection logic to work correctly on a branch.
595 - Make --enable-openbsd-malloc work correctly on Linux with alpha
597 - Logging functions now check that the passed severity is sane.
598 - Use proper log levels in the testsuite call of
599 get_interface_address6().
600 - When using a nonstandard malloc, do not use the platform values for
601 HAVE_MALLOC_GOOD_SIZE or HAVE_MALLOC_USABLE_SIZE.
602 - Make the openbsd malloc code use 8k pages on alpha CPUs and
604 - Detect mismatched page sizes when using --enable-openbsd-malloc.
605 - Avoid double-marked-for-close warning when certain kinds of invalid
606 .in-addr.arpa addresses are passed to the DNSPort. Part of a fix
607 for bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
608 - Make sure that the "NULL-means-reject *:*" convention is followed by
609 all the policy manipulation functions, avoiding some possible crash
610 bugs. Bug found by lodger. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
611 - Fix the implementation of ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses so that it
612 actually works, and doesn't warn about every single reverse lookup.
613 Fixes the other part of bug 617. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
616 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
617 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
618 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
621 Changes in version 0.2.0.21-rc - 2008-03-02
622 Tor 0.2.0.21-rc is the second release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
623 makes Tor work well with Vidalia again, fixes a rare assert bug,
624 and fixes a pair of more minor bugs. The bundles also include Vidalia
625 0.1.0 and Torbutton 1.1.16.
628 - The control port should declare that it requires password auth
629 when HashedControlSessionPassword is set too. Patch from Matt Edman;
630 bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Fixes bug 615.
631 - Downgrade assert in connection_buckets_decrement() to a log message.
632 This may help us solve bug 614, and in any case will make its
633 symptoms less severe. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Reported by fredzupy.
634 - We were sometimes miscounting the number of bytes read from the
635 network, causing our rate limiting to not be followed exactly.
636 Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by lodger.
639 - Fix compilation with OpenSSL 0.9.8 and 0.9.8a. All other supported
640 OpenSSL versions should have been working fine. Diagnosis and patch
641 from lodger, Karsten Loesing, and Sebastian Hahn. Fixes bug 616.
642 Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
645 Changes in version 0.2.0.20-rc - 2008-02-24
646 Tor 0.2.0.20-rc is the first release candidate for the 0.2.0 series. It
647 makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS handshake, makes
648 hidden services work better again, helps relays bootstrap if they don't
649 know their IP address, adds optional support for linking in openbsd's
650 allocator or tcmalloc, allows really fast relays to scale past 15000
651 sockets, and fixes a bunch of minor bugs reported by Veracode.
654 - Enable the revised TLS handshake based on the one designed by
655 Steven Murdoch in proposal 124, as revised in proposal 130. It
656 includes version negotiation for OR connections as described in
657 proposal 105. The new handshake is meant to be harder for censors
658 to fingerprint, and it adds the ability to detect certain kinds of
659 man-in-the-middle traffic analysis attacks. The version negotiation
660 feature will allow us to improve Tor's link protocol more safely
662 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
663 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
664 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
665 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
666 stop using it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 437.
669 - Resolved problems with (re-)fetching hidden service descriptors.
670 Patch from Karsten Loesing; fixes problems with 0.2.0.18-alpha
672 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
673 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
674 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
675 by nwf; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
676 - Servers that don't know their own IP address should go to the
677 authorities for their first directory fetch, even if their DirPort
678 is off or if they don't know they're reachable yet. This will help
679 them bootstrap better. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 609.
680 - When counting the number of open sockets, count not only the number
681 of sockets we have received from the socket() call, but also
682 the number we've gotten from accept() and socketpair(). This bug
683 made us fail to count all sockets that we were using for incoming
684 connections. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
685 - Fix code used to find strings within buffers, when those strings
686 are not in the first chunk of the buffer. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
687 - Fix potential segfault when parsing HTTP headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
688 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
689 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
690 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
691 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
692 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
693 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
694 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
696 o Minor features (performance):
697 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
699 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from phk as an optional malloc
700 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly
701 with Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass
702 --enable-openbsd-malloc to get the replacement malloc code.
703 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
704 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for
705 non-system include paths.
706 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
707 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
710 o Minor features (other):
711 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
713 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
714 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
715 - Add a --passphrase-fd argument to the tor-gencert command for
718 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks and code problems):
719 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
720 cached-descriptors file. Patch by freddy77; bugfix on 0.1.2.
721 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
723 - We were comparing the raw BridgePassword entry with a base64'ed
724 version of it, when handling a "/tor/networkstatus-bridges"
725 directory request. Now compare correctly. Noticed by Veracode.
726 - Recover from bad tracked-since value in MTBF-history file.
728 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
729 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
730 unhandled errors. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
731 - Make Unix controlsockets work correctly on OpenBSD. Patch from
732 tup. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
734 o Minor bugfixes (other):
735 - If we have an extra-info document for our server, always make
736 it available on the control port, even if we haven't gotten
737 a copy of it from an authority yet. Patch from mwenge.
738 - Log the correct memory chunk sizes for empty RAM chunks in mempool.c.
739 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
740 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
741 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
742 - Make the new hidden service code respect the SafeLogging setting.
743 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Patch from Karsten.
744 - When starting as an authority, do not overwrite all certificates
745 cached from other authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 606.
746 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
747 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
748 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
749 on the socket. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
750 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
751 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
752 - Even though the man page said that "TrackHostExits ." should
753 work, nobody had ever implemented it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
754 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
755 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
756 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
757 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
758 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
761 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
762 - Remove the tor_strpartition function: its logic was confused,
763 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
767 Changes in version 0.2.0.19-alpha - 2008-02-09
768 Tor 0.2.0.19-alpha makes more progress towards normalizing Tor's TLS
769 handshake, makes path selection for relays more secure and IP address
770 guessing more robust, and generally fixes a lot of bugs in preparation
771 for calling the 0.2.0 branch stable.
774 - Do not include recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
775 Tor's x509 certificates.
778 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
779 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
780 reported by taranis and lodger. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
781 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
782 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
783 IP address X. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
785 o Minor features (security):
786 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
787 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
789 o Minor features (directory authority):
790 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
791 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
792 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
793 bandwidthburst values.
795 o Minor features (controller):
796 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length. This keeps rogue
797 processes from running us out of memory.
799 o Minor features (misc):
800 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
801 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
802 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
803 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
805 o Deprecated features (controller):
806 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
807 GETINFO options are no longer useful in the v3 directory protocol:
808 treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
811 - When our consensus networkstatus has been expired for a while, stop
812 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401. Bugfix
814 - Directory caches now fetch certificates from all authorities
815 listed in a networkstatus consensus, even when they do not
816 recognize them. Fixes bug 571. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
817 - When connecting to a bridge without specifying its key, insert
818 the connection into the identity-to-connection map as soon as
819 a key is learned. Fixes bug 574. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
820 - Detect versions of OS X where malloc_good_size() is present in the
821 library but never actually declared. Resolves bug 587. Bugfix
823 - Stop incorrectly truncating zlib responses to directory authority
824 signature download requests. Fixes bug 593. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
825 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
826 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
827 - Don't trigger an assert if we start a directory authority with a
828 private IP address (like 127.0.0.1).
829 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
830 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set. Bugfix
832 - If an attempt to launch a DNS resolve request over the control
833 port fails because we have overrun the limit on the number of
834 connections, tell the controller that the request has failed.
835 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few
836 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
837 - Fix shell error when warning about missing packages in configure
838 script, on Fedora or Red Hat machines. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
839 - Do not become confused when receiving a spurious VERSIONS-like
840 cell from a confused v1 client. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
841 - Re-fetch v2 (as well as v0) rendezvous descriptors when all
842 introduction points for a hidden service have failed. Patch from
843 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
845 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
846 - Remove some needless generality from cpuworker code, for improved
848 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
849 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
850 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
851 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
852 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
853 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
856 Changes in version 0.2.0.18-alpha - 2008-01-25
857 Tor 0.2.0.18-alpha adds a sixth v3 directory authority run by CCC,
858 fixes a big memory leak in 0.2.0.17-alpha, and adds new config options
859 that can warn or reject connections to ports generally associated with
860 vulnerable-plaintext protocols.
862 o New directory authorities:
863 - Set up dannenberg (run by CCC) as the sixth v3 directory
867 - Fix a major memory leak when attempting to use the v2 TLS
868 handshake code. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; fixes bug 589.
869 - We accidentally enabled the under-development v2 TLS handshake
870 code, which was causing log entries like "TLS error while
871 renegotiating handshake". Disable it again. Resolves bug 590.
872 - We were computing the wrong Content-Length: header for directory
873 responses that need to be compressed on the fly, causing clients
874 asking for those items to always fail. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; partially
878 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
879 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
880 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
881 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
882 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
883 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
884 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
885 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
886 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
887 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any.
890 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
891 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
892 - When we get a consensus that's been signed by more people than
893 we expect, don't log about it; it's not a big deal. Reported
897 - Don't answer "/tor/networkstatus-bridges" directory requests if
898 the request isn't encrypted.
899 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
900 - Patches from Karsten Loesing to make v2 hidden services more
901 robust: work even when there aren't enough HSDir relays available;
902 retry when a v2 rend desc fetch fails; but don't retry if we
903 already have a usable v0 rend desc.
906 Changes in version 0.2.0.17-alpha - 2008-01-17
907 Tor 0.2.0.17-alpha makes the tarball build cleanly again (whoops).
910 - Make the tor-gencert man page get included correctly in the tarball.
913 Changes in version 0.2.0.16-alpha - 2008-01-17
914 Tor 0.2.0.16-alpha adds a fifth v3 directory authority run by Karsten
915 Loesing, and generally cleans up a lot of features and minor bugs.
917 o New directory authorities:
918 - Set up gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing) as the fifth v3 directory
921 o Major performance improvements:
922 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
923 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
924 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
925 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
926 memory fragmentation.
929 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
930 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
931 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
932 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
933 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out
934 there that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such
935 bodies when they receive them.
936 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
937 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
938 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
940 o Minor performance improvements:
941 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
942 of them were actually distinct.
943 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log is
944 interested in a given message.
947 - When an authority has not signed a consensus, do not try to
948 download a nonexistent "certificate with key 00000000". Bugfix
949 on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 569.
950 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
951 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
952 list as it's being freed. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. Fixes the very rare
953 bug 575, which is kind of the revenge of bug 222.
954 - Patch from Karsten Loesing to complain less at both the client
955 and the relay when a relay used to have the HSDir flag but doesn't
956 anymore, and we try to upload a hidden service descriptor.
957 - Stop leaking one cert per TLS context. Fixes bug 582. Bugfix on
959 - Do not try to download missing certificates until we have tried
960 to check our fallback consensus. Fixes bug 583.
961 - Make bridges round reported GeoIP stats info up to the nearest
962 estimate, not down. Now we can distinguish between "0 people from
963 this country" and "1 person from this country".
964 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.
965 - Avoid possible segfault if key generation fails in
966 crypto_pk_hybrid_encrypt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
967 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
968 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
970 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
971 router_get_by_hexdigest(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.
972 - Correct bad index on array access in parse_http_time(). Bugfix
974 - Fix possible bug in vote generation when server versions are present
975 but client versions are not.
976 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
977 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
979 - Avoid bogus crash-prone, leak-prone tor_realloc when we're
980 compressing large objects and find ourselves with more than 4k
981 left over. Bugfix on 0.2.0.
982 - Fix a small memory leak when setting up a hidden service.
983 - Fix a few memory leaks that could in theory happen under bizarre
985 - Fix an assert if we post a general-purpose descriptor via the
986 control port but that descriptor isn't mentioned in our current
987 network consensus. Bug reported by Jon McLachlan; bugfix on
990 o Minor features (controller):
991 - Get NS events working again. Patch from tup.
992 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
993 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
994 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
996 o Minor features (directory authorities):
997 - New configuration options to override default maximum number of
998 servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
999 running a test network on a single host.
1000 - Actually implement the -s option to tor-gencert.
1001 - Add a manual page for tor-gencert.
1003 o Minor features (bridges):
1004 - Bridge authorities no longer serve bridge descriptors over
1005 unencrypted connections.
1007 o Minor features (other):
1008 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
1009 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
1010 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
1011 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
1014 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
1015 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
1016 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
1017 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
1020 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
1021 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
1022 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
1023 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
1027 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
1028 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
1029 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
1030 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
1031 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
1032 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
1033 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
1034 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
1035 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
1036 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
1037 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
1038 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
1041 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
1042 rebuild our server descriptor.
1043 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
1044 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
1045 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
1046 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
1047 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
1048 nonstandard integer types.
1049 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
1050 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
1051 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
1052 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
1053 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
1055 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
1056 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
1057 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
1058 when they receive them.
1059 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
1060 This includes some 64-bit systems.
1061 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
1062 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
1063 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
1064 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
1065 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
1066 router_get_by_hexdigest().
1067 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
1068 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
1072 Changes in version 0.2.0.15-alpha - 2007-12-25
1073 Tor 0.2.0.14-alpha and 0.2.0.15-alpha fix a bunch of bugs with the
1074 features added in 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1077 - Fix several remotely triggerable asserts based on DirPort requests
1078 for a v2 or v3 networkstatus object before we were prepared. This
1079 was particularly bad for 0.2.0.13 and later bridge relays, who
1080 would never have a v2 networkstatus and would thus always crash
1081 when used. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.x.
1082 - Estimate the v3 networkstatus size more accurately, rather than
1083 estimating it at zero bytes and giving it artificially high priority
1084 compared to other directory requests. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1087 - Fix configure.in logic for cross-compilation.
1088 - When we load a bridge descriptor from the cache, and it was
1089 previously unreachable, mark it as retriable so we won't just
1090 ignore it. Also, try fetching a new copy immediately. Bugfixes
1092 - The bridge GeoIP stats were counting other relays, for example
1093 self-reachability and authority-reachability tests.
1096 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
1097 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
1100 Changes in version 0.2.0.14-alpha - 2007-12-23
1102 - Fix a crash on startup if you install Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha fresh
1103 without a datadirectory from a previous Tor install. Reported
1105 - Fix a crash when we fetch a descriptor that turns out to be
1106 unexpected (it used to be in our networkstatus when we started
1107 fetching it, but it isn't in our current networkstatus), and we
1108 aren't using bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1109 - Fix a crash when accessing hidden services: it would work the first
1110 time you use a given introduction point for your service, but
1111 on subsequent requests we'd be using garbage memory. Fixed by
1112 Karsten Loesing. Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
1113 - Fix a crash when we load a bridge descriptor from disk but we don't
1114 currently have a Bridge line for it in our torrc. Bugfix on
1118 - If bridge authorities set BridgePassword, they will serve a
1119 snapshot of known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to
1120 anybody who knows that password. Unset by default.
1123 - Make the unit tests build again.
1124 - Make "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" actually work.
1125 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
1126 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
1127 - Fix test for rlim_t on OSX 10.3: sys/resource.h doesn't want to
1128 be included unless sys/time.h is already included. Fixes
1129 bug 553. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1130 - If we receive a general-purpose descriptor and then receive an
1131 identical bridge-purpose descriptor soon after, don't discard
1132 the next one as a duplicate.
1135 - If BridgeRelay is set to 1, then the default for
1136 PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge" rather than "v2,v3".
1137 - If the user sets RelayBandwidthRate but doesn't set
1138 RelayBandwidthBurst, then make them equal rather than erroring out.
1141 Changes in version 0.2.0.13-alpha - 2007-12-21
1142 Tor 0.2.0.13-alpha adds a fourth v3 directory authority run by Geoff
1143 Goodell, fixes many more bugs, and adds a lot of infrastructure for
1146 o New directory authorities:
1147 - Set up lefkada (run by Geoff Goodell) as the fourth v3 directory
1151 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
1152 enough directory information. This was causing us to always pick
1153 two new guards on startup (bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha), and it was
1154 causing us to discard all our guards on startup if we hadn't been
1155 running for a few weeks (bugfix on 0.1.2.x). Fixes bug 448.
1156 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
1157 service descriptor databases even when DirPort is zero. Bugfix
1159 - We were ignoring our RelayBandwidthRate for the first 30 seconds
1160 after opening a circuit -- even a relayed circuit. Bugfix on
1162 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
1163 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
1164 crashing or mis-answering these types of requests.
1165 - Relays were publishing their server descriptor to v1 and v2
1166 directory authorities, but they didn't try publishing to v3-only
1167 authorities. Fix this; and also stop publishing to v1 authorities.
1169 - When we were reading router descriptors from cache, we were ignoring
1170 the annotations -- so for example we were reading in bridge-purpose
1171 descriptors as general-purpose descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
1172 - When we decided to send a 503 response to a request for servers, we
1173 were then also sending the server descriptors: this defeats the
1174 whole purpose. Fixes bug 539; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1177 - Bridge relays now behave like clients with respect to time
1178 intervals for downloading new consensus documents -- otherwise they
1179 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
1180 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
1181 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
1182 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
1183 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
1184 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
1185 - Tor can now be configured to read a GeoIP file from disk in one
1186 of two formats. This can be used by controllers to map IP addresses
1187 to countries. Eventually, it may support exit-by-country.
1188 - When possible, bridge relays remember which countries users
1189 are coming from, and report aggregate information in their
1190 extra-info documents, so that the bridge authorities can learn
1191 where Tor is blocked.
1192 - Bridge directory authorities now do reachability testing on the
1193 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
1194 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
1195 to a file periodically.
1196 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
1197 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
1198 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
1202 - The fix in 0.2.0.12-alpha cleared the "hsdir" flag in v3 network
1203 consensus documents when there are too many relays at a single
1204 IP address. Now clear it in v2 network status documents too, and
1205 also clear it in routerinfo_t when the relay is no longer listed
1206 in the relevant networkstatus document.
1207 - Don't crash if we get an unexpected value for the
1208 PublishServerDescriptor config option. Reported by Matt Edman;
1209 bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1210 - Our new v2 hidden service descriptor format allows descriptors
1211 that have no introduction points. But Tor crashed when we tried
1212 to build a descriptor with no intro points (and it would have
1213 crashed if we had tried to parse one). Bugfix on 0.2.0.x; patch
1215 - Fix building with dmalloc 5.5.2 with glibc.
1216 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
1217 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
1218 clog everything up. Reported by Aljosha Judmayer.
1219 - Check for presence of s6_addr16 and s6_addr32 fields in in6_addr
1220 via autoconf. Should fix compile on solaris. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1221 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
1222 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
1223 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
1224 "OBSOLETE" in both cases. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1225 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
1226 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
1227 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
1228 to mark all our entry points down. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1229 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
1230 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about unknown
1231 routers in a config option. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x. (Patch from mwenge.)
1232 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
1233 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
1234 nonstandard integer types. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1235 - Fix compilation with --disable-threads set. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1236 - Don't crash on name lookup when we have no current consensus. Fixes
1237 bug 538; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1238 - Only Tors that want to mirror the v2 directory info should
1239 create the "cached-status" directory in their datadir. (All Tors
1240 used to create it.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1241 - Directory authorities should only automatically download Extra Info
1242 documents if they're v1, v2, or v3 authorities. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1245 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
1246 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
1247 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
1248 less often, now that v3 is encouraged.
1249 - Add a new config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to
1250 be a bridge relay. Right now the only difference is that it makes
1251 you answer begin_dir requests, and it makes you cache dir info,
1252 even if your DirPort isn't on.
1253 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
1254 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
1255 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
1257 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
1258 multiple controller passwords.
1259 - Authorities now decide whether they're authoritative for a given
1260 router based on the router's purpose.
1261 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
1262 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
1263 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
1264 the approved-routers file.
1267 Changes in version 0.2.0.12-alpha - 2007-11-16
1268 This twelfth development snapshot fixes some more build problems as
1269 well as a few minor bugs.
1272 - Make it build on OpenBSD again. Patch from tup.
1273 - Substitute BINDIR and LOCALSTATEDIR in scripts. Fixes
1274 package-building for Red Hat, OS X, etc.
1276 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
1277 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
1278 rebuild our server descriptor.
1280 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
1281 - When we're lacking a consensus, don't try to perform rendezvous
1282 operations. Reported by Karsten Loesing.
1283 - Fix a small memory leak whenever we decide against using a
1284 newly picked entry guard. Reported by Mike Perry.
1285 - When authorities detected more than two relays running on the same
1286 IP address, they were clearing all the status flags but forgetting
1287 to clear the "hsdir" flag. So clients were being told that a
1288 given relay was the right choice for a v2 hsdir lookup, yet they
1289 never had its descriptor because it was marked as 'not running'
1291 - If we're trying to fetch a bridge descriptor and there's no way
1292 the bridge authority could help us (for example, we don't know
1293 a digest, or there is no bridge authority), don't be so eager to
1294 fall back to asking the bridge authority.
1295 - If we're using bridges or have strictentrynodes set, and our
1296 chosen exit is in the same family as all our bridges/entry guards,
1297 then be flexible about families.
1300 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
1301 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
1302 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial code for
1306 Changes in version 0.2.0.11-alpha - 2007-11-12
1307 This eleventh development snapshot fixes some build problems with
1308 the previous snapshot. It also includes a more secure-by-default exit
1309 policy for relays, fixes an enormous memory leak for exit relays, and
1310 fixes another bug where servers were falling out of the directory list.
1313 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
1314 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
1315 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
1316 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
1317 on network address. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1320 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
1321 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry; bugfix
1323 - On authorities, never downgrade to old router descriptors simply
1324 because they're listed in the consensus. This created a catch-22
1325 where we wouldn't list a new descriptor because there was an
1326 old one in the consensus, and we couldn't get the new one in the
1327 consensus because we wouldn't list it. Possible fix for bug 548.
1328 Also, this might cause bug 543 to appear on authorities; if so,
1329 we'll need a band-aid for that. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
1331 o Packaging fixes on 0.2.0.10-alpha:
1332 - We were including instructions about what to do with the
1333 src/config/fallback-consensus file, but we weren't actually
1334 including it in the tarball. Disable all of that for now.
1337 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
1338 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
1341 - Don't reevaluate all the information from our consensus document
1342 just because we've downloaded a v2 networkstatus that we intend
1343 to cache. Fixes bug 545; bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1346 Changes in version 0.2.0.10-alpha - 2007-11-10
1347 This tenth development snapshot adds a third v3 directory authority
1348 run by Mike Perry, adds most of Karsten Loesing's new hidden service
1349 descriptor format, fixes a bad crash bug and new bridge bugs introduced
1350 in 0.2.0.9-alpha, fixes many bugs with the v3 directory implementation,
1351 fixes some minor memory leaks in previous 0.2.0.x snapshots, and
1352 addresses many more minor issues.
1354 o New directory authorities:
1355 - Set up ides (run by Mike Perry) as the third v3 directory authority.
1358 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
1359 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
1360 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
1361 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
1363 - More progress on proposal 114: code from Karsten Loesing to
1364 implement new hidden service descriptor format.
1365 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
1366 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
1367 and are reaching it.
1368 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which nodes
1369 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
1370 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
1371 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
1372 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
1373 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
1376 - Stop servers from crashing if they set a Family option (or
1377 maybe in other situations too). Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported
1379 - Make bridge users work again -- the move to v3 directories in
1380 0.2.0.9-alpha had introduced a number of bugs that made bridges
1381 no longer work for clients.
1382 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
1383 buckets to become negative. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x; fixes bug 544.
1385 o Major bugfixes (v3 dir, bugfixes on 0.2.0.9-alpha):
1386 - When the consensus lists a router descriptor that we previously were
1387 mirroring, but that we considered non-canonical, reload the
1388 descriptor as canonical. This fixes bug 543 where Tor servers
1389 would start complaining after a few days that they don't have
1390 enough directory information to build a circuit.
1391 - Consider replacing the current consensus when certificates arrive
1392 that make the pending consensus valid. Previously, we were only
1393 considering replacement when the new certs _didn't_ help.
1394 - Fix an assert error on startup if we didn't already have the
1395 consensus and certs cached in our datadirectory: we were caching
1396 the consensus in consensus_waiting_for_certs but then free'ing it
1398 - Avoid sending a request for "keys/fp" (for which we'll get a 400 Bad
1399 Request) if we need more v3 certs but we've already got pending
1400 requests for all of them.
1401 - Correctly back off from failing certificate downloads. Fixes
1403 - Authorities don't vote on the Running flag if they have been running
1404 for less than 30 minutes themselves. Fixes bug 547, where a newly
1405 started authority would vote that everyone was down.
1408 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
1409 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
1413 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
1414 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
1415 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
1416 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
1417 - Use "If-Modified-Since" to avoid retrieving consensus
1418 networkstatuses that we already have.
1419 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
1420 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
1421 we start knowing some directory caches.
1422 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
1423 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
1424 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
1425 - When we have a certificate for an authority, believe that
1426 certificate's claims about the authority's IP address.
1427 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
1428 Good in combination with --hash-password.
1429 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
1430 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
1432 - Make the log message for "tls error. breaking." more useful.
1433 - Better log messages about certificate downloads, to attempt to
1434 track down the second incarnation of bug 546.
1436 o Minor features (bridges):
1437 - If bridge users set UpdateBridgesFromAuthority, but the digest
1438 they ask for is a 404 from the bridge authority, they now fall
1439 back to trying the bridge directly.
1440 - Bridges now use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
1441 the bridge authority, even when they haven't set TunnelDirConns.
1443 o Minor features (controller):
1444 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
1445 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
1446 report the value as a "minimum skew."
1449 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
1450 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
1454 - Refuse to start if both ORPort and UseBridges are set. Bugfix
1455 on 0.2.0.x, suggested by Matt Edman.
1456 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
1457 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x;
1458 reported by tup and ioerror.
1459 - Better log message on vote from unknown authority.
1460 - Don't log "Launching 0 request for 0 router" message.
1462 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
1463 - Stop leaking memory every time we parse a v3 certificate. Bugfix
1465 - Stop leaking memory every time we load a v3 certificate. Bugfix
1466 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Fixes bug 536.
1467 - Stop leaking a cached networkstatus on exit. Bugfix on
1469 - Stop leaking voter information every time we free a consensus.
1470 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1471 - Stop leaking signed data every time we check a voter signature.
1472 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1473 - Stop leaking a signature every time we fail to parse a consensus or
1474 a vote. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1475 - Stop leaking v2_download_status_map on shutdown. Bugfix on
1477 - Stop leaking conn->nickname every time we make a connection to a
1478 Tor relay without knowing its expected identity digest (e.g. when
1479 using bridges). Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1481 - Minor bugfixes (portability):
1482 - Run correctly on platforms where rlim_t is larger than unsigned
1483 long, and/or where the real limit for number of open files is
1484 OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES). In
1485 particular, these may be needed for OS X 10.5.
1488 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
1489 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
1490 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
1491 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
1492 lists for a few hours each day.
1494 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1495 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
1496 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
1497 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
1498 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
1499 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1500 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
1501 rend_process_relay_cell().
1503 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1504 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
1505 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
1506 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
1507 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
1508 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
1509 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
1510 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
1512 o Major bugfixes (other):
1513 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
1514 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
1515 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
1516 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
1517 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
1518 circuit cannibalization).
1519 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
1520 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
1521 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
1522 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
1523 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
1524 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
1527 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
1528 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
1530 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
1531 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
1532 absent. Resolves bug 467.
1533 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
1534 a way to trigger this remotely.)
1535 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
1536 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
1537 were reporting the dir port.)
1538 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
1539 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
1540 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
1541 the future. Fixes bug 434.
1542 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
1544 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
1545 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
1546 the onion key from getting rotated.
1547 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
1548 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
1549 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
1550 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
1551 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
1552 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
1553 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
1554 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
1555 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
1558 Changes in version 0.2.0.9-alpha - 2007-10-24
1559 This ninth development snapshot switches clients to the new v3 directory
1560 system; allows servers to be listed in the network status even when they
1561 have the same nickname as a registered server; and fixes many other
1562 bugs including a big one that was causing some servers to disappear
1563 from the network status lists for a few hours each day.
1565 o Major features (directory system):
1566 - Clients now download v3 consensus networkstatus documents instead
1567 of v2 networkstatus documents. Clients and caches now base their
1568 opinions about routers on these consensus documents. Clients only
1569 download router descriptors listed in the consensus.
1570 - Authorities now list servers who have the same nickname as
1571 a different named server, but list them with a new flag,
1572 "Unnamed". Now we can list servers that happen to pick the same
1573 nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
1574 disappeared. Partially implements proposal 122.
1575 - If the consensus lists a router as "Unnamed", the name is assigned
1576 to a different router: do not identify the router by that name.
1577 Partially implements proposal 122.
1578 - Authorities can now come to a consensus on which method to use to
1579 compute the consensus. This gives us forward compatibility.
1582 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we HUP or
1583 when we find our DirPort to be reachable but won't actually publish
1584 it. New descriptors without any real changes are dropped by the
1585 authorities, and can screw up our "publish every 18 hours" schedule.
1587 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
1588 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
1589 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
1590 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
1591 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
1592 consensus. Fixes bug 529; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1593 - Fix awful behavior in DownloadExtraInfo option where we'd fetch
1594 extrainfo documents and then discard them immediately for not
1595 matching the latest router. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1597 o Minor features (v3 directory protocol):
1598 - Allow tor-gencert to generate a new certificate without replacing
1600 - Allow certificates to include an address.
1601 - When we change our directory-cache settings, reschedule all voting
1602 and download operations.
1603 - Reattempt certificate downloads immediately on failure, as long as
1604 we haven't failed a threshold number of times yet.
1605 - Delay retrying consensus downloads while we're downloading
1606 certificates to verify the one we just got. Also, count getting a
1607 consensus that we already have (or one that isn't valid) as a failure,
1608 and count failing to get the certificates after 20 minutes as a
1610 - Build circuits and download descriptors even if our consensus is a
1611 little expired. (This feature will go away once authorities are
1614 o Minor features (router descriptor cache):
1615 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
1616 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
1617 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
1619 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
1620 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
1621 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
1623 o Minor features (performance):
1624 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
1625 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
1626 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
1627 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
1628 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
1629 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
1630 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
1633 o Minor features (compilation):
1634 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
1635 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
1637 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory authorities, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
1638 - Make the "next period" votes into "current period" votes immediately
1639 after publishing the consensus; avoid a heisenbug that made them
1640 stick around indefinitely.
1641 - When we discard a vote as a duplicate, do not report this as
1643 - Treat missing v3 keys or certificates as an error when running as a
1644 v3 directory authority.
1645 - When we're configured to be a v3 authority, but we're only listed
1646 as a non-v3 authority in our DirServer line for ourself, correct
1648 - If an authority doesn't have a qualified hostname, just put
1649 its address in the vote. This fixes the problem where we referred to
1650 "moria on moria:9031."
1651 - Distinguish between detached signatures for the wrong period, and
1652 detached signatures for a divergent vote.
1653 - Fix a small memory leak when computing a consensus.
1654 - When there's no concensus, we were forming a vote every 30
1655 minutes, but writing the "valid-after" line in our vote based
1656 on our configured V3AuthVotingInterval: so unless the intervals
1657 matched up, we immediately rejected our own vote because it didn't
1658 start at the voting interval that caused us to construct a vote.
1660 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory protocol, bugfixes on 0.2.0.x):
1661 - Delete unverified-consensus when the real consensus is set.
1662 - Consider retrying a consensus networkstatus fetch immediately
1663 after one fails: don't wait 60 seconds to notice.
1664 - When fetching a consensus as a cache, wait until a newer consensus
1665 should exist before trying to replace the current one.
1666 - Use a more forgiving schedule for retrying failed consensus
1667 downloads than for other types.
1669 o Minor bugfixes (other directory issues):
1670 - Correct the implementation of "download votes by digest." Bugfix on
1672 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
1673 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
1674 supposed to tolerate these servers now. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1676 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1677 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
1678 option. Patch from Robert Hogan; bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1679 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
1680 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
1681 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
1682 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
1683 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
1685 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
1686 - Correctly check for bad options to the "PublishServerDescriptor"
1687 config option. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; reported by Matt Edman.
1688 - Stop leaking memory on failing case of base32_decode, and make
1689 it accept upper-case letters. Bugfixes on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1690 - Don't try to download extrainfo documents when we're trying to
1691 fetch enough directory info to build a circuit: having enough
1692 info should get priority. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
1693 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
1694 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
1695 yet. Bug found by spending four hours without a v3 consensus. Bugfix
1697 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
1698 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533. Bugfix
1701 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1702 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
1703 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
1704 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
1705 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
1706 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
1707 - New convenience code to locate a file within the DataDirectory.
1708 - Move non-authority functionality out of dirvote.c.
1709 - Refactor the arguments for router_pick_{directory_|trusteddir}server
1710 so that they all take the same named flags.
1713 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
1714 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
1715 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
1718 Changes in version 0.2.0.8-alpha - 2007-10-12
1719 This eighth development snapshot fixes a crash bug that's been bothering
1720 us since February 2007, lets bridge authorities store a list of bridge
1721 descriptors they've seen, gets v3 directory voting closer to working,
1722 starts caching v3 directory consensus documents on directory mirrors,
1723 and fixes a variety of smaller issues including some minor memory leaks.
1725 o Major features (router descriptor cache):
1726 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
1727 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
1728 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
1729 annotations along with descriptors.
1730 - Use annotations to record the time we received each descriptor, its
1731 source, and its purpose.
1732 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
1734 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
1735 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
1736 - Bridge authorities now write bridge descriptors to disk, meaning
1737 we can export them to other programs and begin distributing them
1740 o Major features (directory authorities):
1741 - When a v3 authority is missing votes or signatures, it now tries
1743 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime as well as
1744 weighted mean-time-between failures. WFU is suitable for deciding
1745 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
1746 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
1747 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
1748 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
1750 o Major features (v3 directory system):
1751 - Caches now download v3 network status documents as needed,
1752 and download the descriptors listed in them.
1753 - All hosts now attempt to download and keep fresh v3 authority
1754 certificates, and re-attempt after failures.
1755 - More internal-consistency checks for vote parsing.
1757 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1758 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
1759 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
1760 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451. Bugfix on
1763 o Major bugfixes (performance):
1764 - Fix really bad O(n^2) performance when parsing a long list of
1765 routers: Instead of searching the entire list for an "extra-info "
1766 string which usually wasn't there, once for every routerinfo
1767 we read, just scan lines forward until we find one we like.
1769 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
1770 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
1771 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
1772 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
1773 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
1774 eat all of our bandwidth. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
1776 o Minor features (v3 authority system):
1777 - Add more ways for tools to download the votes that lead to the
1779 - Send a 503 when low on bandwidth and a vote, consensus, or
1780 certificate is requested.
1781 - If-modified-since is now implemented properly for all kinds of
1782 certificate requests.
1784 o Minor bugfixes (network statuses):
1785 - Tweak the implementation of proposal 109 slightly: allow at most
1786 two Tor servers on the same IP address, except if it's the location
1787 of a directory authority, in which case allow five. Bugfix on
1790 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1791 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
1792 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
1793 were reporting the dir port.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1795 o Minor bugfixes (v3 directory system):
1796 - Fix logic to look up a cert by its signing key digest. Bugfix on
1798 - Only change the reply to a vote to "OK" if it's not already
1799 set. This gets rid of annoying "400 OK" log messages, which may
1800 have been masking some deeper issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1801 - When we get a valid consensus, recompute the voting schedule.
1802 - Base the valid-after time of a vote on the consensus voting
1803 schedule, not on our preferred schedule.
1804 - Make the return values and messages from signature uploads and
1805 downloads more sensible.
1806 - Fix a memory leak when serving votes and consensus documents, and
1807 another when serving certificates.
1809 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
1810 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
1811 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
1812 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
1814 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we parse guards from our state
1815 file. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1816 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever we write out a file. Bugfix on
1818 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
1819 command. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1821 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1822 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
1823 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
1824 - Stop calling tor_strlower() on uninitialized memory in some cases.
1825 Bugfix in 0.2.0.7-alpha.
1827 o Minor bugfixes (usability):
1828 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
1829 WARN-severity events.
1830 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
1831 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff is
1832 fishy. Resolves bug 463.
1834 o Minor bugfixes (anonymity):
1835 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
1836 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
1838 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
1839 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
1840 circuit cannibalization).
1842 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1843 - Make a bunch of functions static. Remove some dead code.
1844 - Pull out about a third of the really big routerlist.c; put it in a
1845 new module, networkstatus.c.
1846 - Merge the extra fields in local_routerstatus_t back into
1847 routerstatus_t: we used to need one routerstatus_t for each
1848 authority's opinion, plus a local_routerstatus_t for the locally
1849 computed consensus opinion. To save space, we put the locally
1850 modified fields into local_routerstatus_t, and only the common
1851 stuff into routerstatus_t. But once v3 directories are in use,
1852 clients and caches will no longer need to hold authority opinions;
1853 thus, the rationale for keeping the types separate is now gone.
1854 - Make the code used to reschedule and reattempt downloads more
1856 - Turn all 'Are we a directory server/mirror?' logic into a call to
1858 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
1859 The code has been disabled since 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1862 Changes in version 0.2.0.7-alpha - 2007-09-21
1863 This seventh development snapshot makes bridges work again, makes bridge
1864 authorities work for the first time, fixes two huge performance flaws
1865 in hidden services, and fixes a variety of minor issues.
1867 o New directory authorities:
1868 - Set up moria1 and tor26 as the first v3 directory authorities. See
1869 doc/spec/dir-spec.txt for details on the new directory design.
1871 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
1872 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
1873 rend_process_relay_cell(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1875 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
1876 - Fix a bug that made servers send a "404 Not found" in response to
1877 attempts to fetch their server descriptor. This caused Tor servers
1878 to take many minutes to establish reachability for their DirPort,
1879 and it totally crippled bridges. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
1880 - Make "UpdateBridgesFromAuthority" torrc option work: when bridge
1881 users configure that and specify a bridge with an identity
1882 fingerprint, now they will lookup the bridge descriptor at the
1883 default bridge authority via a one-hop tunnel, but once circuits
1884 are established they will switch to a three-hop tunnel for later
1885 connections to the bridge authority. Bugfix in 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1887 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1888 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
1889 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
1890 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
1891 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
1892 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
1893 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. Both
1894 are bugfixes on 0.1.2.x, and they could speed up hidden service
1895 connections dramatically. Thanks to Karsten Loesing.
1897 o Minor features (security):
1898 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
1899 address maps to an internal address space.
1900 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
1901 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
1903 o Minor features (guard nodes):
1904 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
1905 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
1906 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
1907 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
1909 o Minor features (speed):
1910 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
1911 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
1912 network-order and host-order counters when they are the same (i.e.,
1913 on big-endian hosts.)
1915 o Minor features (controller):
1916 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
1917 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
1918 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
1919 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
1923 - Routers no longer include bandwidth-history lines in their
1924 descriptors; this information is already available in extra-info
1925 documents, and including it in router descriptors took up 60%
1926 (!) of compressed router descriptor downloads. Completes
1927 implementation of proposal 104.
1928 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
1929 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
1930 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
1931 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
1932 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
1933 patch from Karsten Loesing.
1934 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
1935 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
1938 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
1939 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is absent. Fixes
1940 bug 467. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
1941 - Fix a user-triggerable (but not remotely-triggerable) segfault
1942 in expand_filename(). Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1943 - Fix a memory leak when freeing incomplete requests from DNSPort.
1944 Found by Niels Provos with valgrind. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
1945 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
1946 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. (Resolves
1947 bug 499.) Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1948 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
1949 BandwidthRate, RelayBandwidthRate, or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth
1950 were below a threshold. Now they only look at BandwidthRate and
1951 RelayBandwidthRate. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1952 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
1953 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
1954 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
1955 code), this assumption no longer holds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
1956 - Resume listing "AUTHORITY" flag for authorities in network status.
1957 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; reported by Alex de Joode.
1959 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
1960 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
1961 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
1963 - Turn "descriptor store" into a full-fledged type.
1964 - Move all NT services code into a separate source file.
1965 - Unify all code that computes medians, percentile elements, etc.
1966 - Get rid of a needless malloc when parsing address policies.
1969 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
1970 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
1971 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
1972 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
1973 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
1976 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
1977 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
1980 o Major bugfixes (security):
1981 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
1982 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
1983 become more of a headache than it's worth.
1985 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
1986 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
1987 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
1989 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
1990 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
1991 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
1992 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
1993 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
1994 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
1996 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
1997 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
1998 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
1999 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
2000 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
2002 o Minor features (controller):
2003 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
2004 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
2005 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
2006 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
2008 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2009 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
2010 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
2011 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
2012 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
2013 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
2014 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
2015 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
2017 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2018 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
2019 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
2020 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
2021 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
2022 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
2023 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
2024 if we ran off the end of the list.
2025 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
2026 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
2027 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
2028 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
2029 every time we change any piece of our config.
2030 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
2031 encourage people using them to stop.
2032 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
2034 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
2035 servers to choose a circuit.
2036 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
2037 unparseable piece of it.
2040 Changes in version 0.2.0.6-alpha - 2007-08-26
2041 This sixth development snapshot features a new Vidalia version in the
2042 Windows and OS X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for
2043 the ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
2046 In addition, this snapshot fixes major load balancing problems
2047 with path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many
2048 people have upgraded. The directory authorities also use a new
2049 mean-time-between-failure approach to tracking which servers are stable,
2050 rather than just looking at the most recent uptime.
2052 o New directory authorities:
2053 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
2056 - Directory authorities now track servers by weighted
2057 mean-times-between-failures. When we have 4 or more days of data,
2058 use measured MTBF rather than declared uptime to decide whether
2059 to call a router Stable. Implements proposal 108.
2061 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
2062 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
2063 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
2065 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
2066 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
2067 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
2068 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
2069 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
2070 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
2072 o Major bugfixes (descriptor parsing):
2073 - Handle unexpected whitespace better in malformed descriptors. Bug
2074 found using Benedikt Boss's new Tor fuzzer! Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
2077 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
2078 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
2079 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
2080 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
2084 - Do not intermix bridge routers with controller-added
2085 routers. (Bugfix on 0.2.0.x)
2086 - Do not fail with an assert when accept() returns an unexpected
2087 address family. Addresses but does not wholly fix bug 483. (Bugfix
2089 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
2090 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
2092 - Stop putting the authentication cookie in a file called "0"
2093 in your working directory if you don't specify anything for the
2094 new CookieAuthFile option. Reported by Matt Edman.
2095 - Make it possible to read the PROTOCOLINFO response in a way that
2096 conforms to our control-spec. Reported by Matt Edman.
2097 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
2098 servers to choose a circuit. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2099 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
2100 unparseable piece of it. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
2101 - Unmap the extrainfo cache file on exit.
2104 Changes in version 0.2.0.5-alpha - 2007-08-19
2105 This fifth development snapshot fixes compilation on Windows again;
2106 fixes an obnoxious client-side bug that slowed things down and put
2107 extra load on the network; gets us closer to using the v3 directory
2108 voting scheme; makes it easier for Tor controllers to use cookie-based
2109 authentication; and fixes a variety of other bugs.
2112 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
2113 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
2114 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
2115 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
2118 o Major bugfixes (compilation, 0.2.0.x):
2119 - Try to fix Win32 compilation again: improve checking for IPv6 types.
2120 - Try to fix MSVC compilation: build correctly on platforms that do
2121 not define s6_addr16 or s6_addr32.
2122 - Fix compile on platforms without getaddrinfo: bug found by Li-Hui
2125 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
2126 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
2127 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
2128 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
2129 circuit every 15 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; fixes bug 454;
2132 o Minor features (directory servers):
2133 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
2134 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
2136 o Minor features (directory voting):
2137 - Store v3 consensus status consensuses on disk, and reload them
2140 o Minor features (security):
2141 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
2142 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
2143 encourage people using them to stop.
2145 o Minor features (controller):
2146 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
2147 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
2148 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
2149 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
2150 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
2151 cookie authentication file, and config option
2152 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
2154 o Minor features (unit testing):
2155 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
2156 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
2157 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
2158 logging for the unit tests.
2160 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.1.2.x):
2161 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
2162 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
2163 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
2164 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
2165 every time we change any piece of our config.
2166 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
2167 the future. Fixes bug 434.
2168 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
2170 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
2171 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
2172 the onion key from getting rotated.
2173 - Clean up torrc sample config file.
2174 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
2175 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
2178 o Minor bugfixes (on 0.2.0.x):
2179 - Fix a bug with AutomapHostsOnResolve that would always cause
2180 the second request to fail. Bug reported by Kate. Bugfix on
2182 - Fix a bug in ADDRMAP controller replies that would sometimes
2183 try to print a NULL. Patch from tup.
2184 - Read v3 directory authority keys from the right location.
2185 - Numerous bugfixes to directory voting code.
2188 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
2189 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
2190 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
2191 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
2192 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
2193 TorK, etc. Or worse.
2195 o Major security fixes:
2196 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
2197 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
2200 Changes in version 0.2.0.4-alpha - 2007-08-01
2201 This fourth development snapshot fixes a critical security vulnerability
2202 for most users, specifically those running Vidalia, TorK, etc. Everybody
2203 should upgrade to either 0.1.2.16 or 0.2.0.4-alpha.
2205 o Major security fixes:
2206 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
2207 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
2209 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
2210 - Fix win32 compilation: apparently IN_ADDR and IN6_ADDR are already
2213 o Minor features (performance):
2214 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
2215 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
2216 performance-intensive.
2217 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
2218 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and
2219 now its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice
2220 powers of two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values
2221 slightly over powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
2222 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it
2226 Changes in version 0.2.0.3-alpha - 2007-07-29
2227 This third development snapshot introduces new experimental
2228 blocking-resistance features and a preliminary version of the v3
2229 directory voting design, and includes many other smaller features
2233 - The first pieces of our "bridge" design for blocking-resistance
2234 are implemented. People can run bridge directory authorities;
2235 people can run bridges; and people can configure their Tor clients
2236 with a set of bridges to use as the first hop into the Tor network.
2237 See http://archives.seul.org/or/talk/Jul-2007/msg00249.html for
2239 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
2240 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
2241 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
2242 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
2244 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
2245 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
2246 on "vserver" accounts. (Patch from coderman.)
2247 - Be even more aggressive about separating local traffic from relayed
2248 traffic when RelayBandwidthRate is set. (Refines proposal 111.)
2250 o Major features (experimental):
2251 - First cut of code for "v3 dir voting": directory authorities will
2252 vote on a common network status document rather than each publishing
2253 their own opinion. This code needs more testing and more corner-case
2254 handling before it's ready for use.
2257 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
2258 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
2259 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
2260 complements proposal 107. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
2261 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 3 servers per IP as
2262 Valid and Running. (Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and
2264 - Minor change to organizationName and commonName generation
2265 procedures in TLS certificates during Tor handshakes, to invalidate
2266 some earlier censorware approaches. This is not a long-term
2267 solution, but applying it will give us a bit of time to look into
2268 the epidemiology of countermeasures as they spread.
2270 o Major bugfixes (directory):
2271 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
2272 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
2274 o Minor features (controller):
2275 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
2276 match requests to applications. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2277 - Report address and port correctly on connections to DNSPort. (Patch
2279 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. (Original patch
2281 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
2282 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. (Patch
2284 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
2285 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
2286 support them. (Patch from Peter Palfrader.)
2287 - STREAM NEW events are generated for DNSPort requests and for
2288 tunneled directory connections. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2289 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
2290 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
2293 o Minor features (misc):
2294 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
2296 - The tor-gencert tool for v3 directory authorities now creates all
2297 files as readable to the file creator only, and write-protects
2298 the authority identity key.
2299 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
2301 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
2302 - Directory authorities now fail quickly and (relatively) harmlessly
2303 if they generate a network status document that is somehow
2306 o Traffic load balancing improvements:
2307 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
2308 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
2309 (Based on patch from Mike Perry.)
2310 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
2311 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
2312 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
2313 if we ran off the end of the list. [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x]
2315 o Performance improvements:
2316 - Be more aggressive with freeing buffer RAM or putting it on the
2318 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
2319 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
2322 o Deprecated and removed features:
2323 - RedirectExits is now deprecated.
2324 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
2325 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
2326 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
2328 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2329 - Fix another crash bug related to extra-info caching. (Bug found by
2330 Peter Palfrader.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
2331 - Directories no longer return a "304 not modified" when they don't
2332 have the networkstatus the client asked for. Also fix a memory
2333 leak when returning 304 not modified. [Bugfixes on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
2334 - We had accidentally labelled 0.1.2.x directory servers as not
2335 suitable for begin_dir requests, and had labelled no directory
2336 servers as suitable for uploading extra-info documents. [Bugfix
2339 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
2340 - Fix a crash when DNSPort is set more than once. (Patch from Robert
2341 Hogan.) [Bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha]
2342 - Add DNSPort connections to the global connection list, so that we
2343 can time them out correctly. (Bug found by Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix
2345 - Fix a dangling reference that could lead to a crash when DNSPort is
2346 changed or closed (Patch from Robert Hogan.) [Bugfix on
2349 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2350 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
2351 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
2352 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
2353 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
2354 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. (Original patch
2355 from tup.) [Bugfix on 0.1.2.x-alpha]
2356 - Do not include spaces in SOURCE_ADDR fields in STREAM
2357 events. Resolves bug 472. [Bugfix on 0.2.0.x-alpha]
2360 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
2361 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
2362 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
2363 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
2365 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
2366 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
2368 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2369 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
2370 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
2371 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
2372 routerlist while inserting a new router.
2373 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
2374 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
2376 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
2377 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
2378 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
2380 o Major bugfixes (security):
2381 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
2383 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
2384 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
2385 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
2386 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
2387 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
2388 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
2389 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
2390 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
2391 guard list unless we need to.
2393 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
2394 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
2395 don't get overused as guards.
2397 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2398 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
2399 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
2400 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
2401 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
2403 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2404 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
2405 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
2408 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
2409 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
2410 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
2411 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
2412 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
2413 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
2414 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
2415 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
2418 Changes in version 0.2.0.2-alpha - 2007-06-02
2419 o Major bugfixes on 0.2.0.1-alpha:
2420 - Fix an assertion failure related to servers without extra-info digests.
2421 Resolves bugs 441 and 442.
2423 o Minor features (directory):
2424 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
2425 directories, running-routers documents, and network-status documents.
2426 (There's no need to support it for router descriptors, since those
2427 are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
2429 o Minor build issues:
2430 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
2431 - When building from a tarball on a machine that happens to have SVK
2432 installed, report the micro-revision as whatever version existed
2433 in the tarball, not as "x".
2436 Changes in version 0.2.0.1-alpha - 2007-06-01
2437 This early development snapshot provides new features for people running
2438 Tor as both a client and a server (check out the new RelayBandwidth
2439 config options); lets Tor run as a DNS proxy; and generally moves us
2440 forward on a lot of fronts.
2442 o Major features, server usability:
2443 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
2444 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
2445 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
2446 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them.
2448 o Major features, client usability:
2449 - A client-side DNS proxy feature to replace the need for
2450 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
2451 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
2452 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
2453 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
2454 - Make PreferTunneledDirConns and TunnelDirConns work even when
2455 we have no cached directory info. This means Tor clients can now
2456 do all of their connections protected by TLS.
2458 o Major features, performance and efficiency:
2459 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
2460 routers. These documents contain fields from router descriptors
2461 that aren't usually needed, and that use a lot of excess
2462 bandwidth. Once these fields are removed from router descriptors,
2463 the bandwidth savings should be about 60%. [Partially implements
2465 - Servers upload extra-info documents to any authority that accepts
2466 them. Authorities (and caches that have been configured to download
2467 extra-info documents) download them as needed. [Partially implements
2469 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
2470 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
2471 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
2472 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
2473 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
2475 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
2476 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
2477 - Stop reading on edge connections when their corresponding circuit
2478 buffers are full; start again as the circuits empty out.
2480 o Major features, other:
2481 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
2482 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
2483 logging information that would be very useful to an attacker.
2484 - Start work implementing multi-level keys for directory authorities:
2485 Add a standalone tool to generate key certificates. (Proposal 103.)
2488 - Directory authorities now call routers Stable if they have an
2489 uptime of at least 30 days, even if that's not the median uptime
2490 in the network. Implements proposal 107, suggested by Kevin Bauer
2493 o Minor fixes (resource management):
2494 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number
2495 of active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
2496 our allocated connection limit.
2497 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
2498 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
2499 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
2500 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
2501 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
2503 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
2504 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
2505 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
2507 o Minor features (build):
2508 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
2509 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
2510 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
2511 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
2513 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
2514 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
2515 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
2516 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
2517 Use this version consistently in log messages.
2519 o Minor features (logging):
2520 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
2521 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
2522 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
2523 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
2524 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
2527 o Minor features (directory system):
2528 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all directory
2529 authorities should set. This will let future authorities choose
2530 not to serve V2 directory information.
2531 - Directory authorities allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
2532 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. This will make
2533 implementing proposal 104 simpler.
2535 o Minor features (controller):
2536 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
2537 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
2539 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
2540 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
2541 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
2542 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
2543 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
2544 are good, and how many authorities agree. (Patch from shibz.)
2546 o Minor features (hidden services):
2547 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
2548 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
2549 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
2550 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
2552 o Minor features (other):
2554 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
2555 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
2556 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
2557 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
2558 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
2559 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
2560 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
2561 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
2562 longer a completely silly thing to do.
2563 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
2564 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
2565 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
2566 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
2569 - Removed support for the old binary "version 0" controller protocol.
2570 This has been deprecated since 0.1.1, and warnings have been issued
2571 since 0.1.2. When we encounter a v0 control message, we now send
2572 back an error and close the connection.
2573 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
2574 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers seem to be using the new
2577 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2578 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
2579 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
2580 makes the log messages nicer.
2581 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
2582 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
2583 partial results on small file reads.
2585 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
2586 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
2587 more often than they are allowed to appear.
2588 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
2589 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
2591 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2592 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
2593 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
2594 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
2596 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2597 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
2598 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
2599 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
2600 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
2601 connections to that address. (Resolves bug 405.)
2602 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
2603 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
2604 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
2605 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
2606 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
2608 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
2609 - Don't save non-general-purpose router descriptors to the disk cache,
2610 because we have no way of remembering what their purpose was when
2612 - Add even more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
2613 - Build without verbose warnings even on (not-yet-released) gcc 4.2.
2614 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by bandwidth.
2615 Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact unlikely.
2617 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2618 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
2619 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
2621 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
2622 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
2625 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
2626 - Stop passing around circuit_t and crypt_path_t pointers that are
2627 implicit in other procedure arguments.
2628 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
2629 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
2630 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
2631 - Make dns_resolve() handle attaching connections to circuits
2632 properly, so the caller doesn't have to.
2633 - Rename wants_to_read and wants_to_write to read/write_blocked_on_bw.
2634 - Keep the connection array as a dynamic smartlist_t, rather than as
2635 a fixed-sized array. This is important, as the number of connections
2636 is becoming increasingly decoupled from the number of sockets.
2639 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
2640 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
2641 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
2642 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
2644 o Directory authority changes:
2645 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
2646 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
2647 or use hidden services.
2649 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2650 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
2651 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
2652 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
2653 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
2654 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
2655 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
2656 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
2657 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
2660 o Major bugfixes (security):
2661 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
2662 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
2663 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
2665 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
2666 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
2667 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
2668 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
2669 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
2670 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
2671 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
2672 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
2673 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
2674 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
2677 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
2679 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
2680 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
2682 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
2683 having a hard time downloading.
2684 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
2685 partial results on small file reads.
2686 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
2687 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
2688 the gaps in the store get very large.
2691 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
2692 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
2694 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
2695 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
2698 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
2699 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
2700 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
2701 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
2702 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
2703 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
2705 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
2706 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
2707 free speech on the Internet.
2710 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
2711 get one we don't recognize.
2712 - Add more asserts to hunt down bug 417.
2713 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
2716 Changes in version 0.1.2.12-rc - 2007-03-16
2718 - Fix an infinite loop introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha when we serve
2719 directory information requested inside Tor connections (i.e. via
2720 begin_dir cells). It only triggered when the same connection was
2721 serving other data at the same time. Reported by seeess.
2724 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
2725 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
2728 Changes in version 0.1.2.11-rc - 2007-03-15
2729 o Minor bugfixes (controller), reported by daejees:
2730 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
2731 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'.
2732 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
2733 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
2737 Changes in version 0.1.2.10-rc - 2007-03-07
2738 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
2739 - Do not load the NT services library functions (which may not exist)
2740 just to detect if we're a service trying to shut down. Now we run
2741 on Win98 and friends again.
2743 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2744 - Clarify a couple of log messages.
2745 - Fix a misleading socks5 error number.
2748 Changes in version 0.1.2.9-rc - 2007-03-02
2749 o Major bugfixes (Windows):
2750 - On MinGW, use "%I64u" to printf/scanf 64-bit integers, instead
2751 of the usual GCC "%llu". This prevents a bug when saving 64-bit
2752 int configuration values: the high-order 32 bits would get
2753 truncated. In particular, we were being bitten by the default
2754 MaxAdvertisedBandwidth of 128 TB turning into 0. (Fixes bug 400
2755 and maybe also bug 397.)
2757 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2758 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
2759 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
2761 o Minor bugfixes (server):
2762 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
2765 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
2766 - Stop calling servers that have been hibernating for a long time
2767 "stable". Also, stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect
2768 uptime and bandwidth cutoffs.
2769 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
2771 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2772 - Upload hidden service descriptors slightly less often, to reduce
2773 load on authorities.
2775 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2776 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
2777 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
2778 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable bandwidth
2780 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
2782 - Try to fix eventdns warnings once and for all: do not treat a dns rcode
2783 of 2 as indicating that the server is completely bad; it sometimes
2784 means that the server is just bad for the request in question. (may fix
2785 the last of bug 326.)
2786 - Disable encrypted directory connections when we don't have a server
2787 descriptor for the destination. We'll get this working again in
2791 Changes in version 0.1.2.8-beta - 2007-02-26
2792 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
2793 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
2794 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
2795 - Fix a crash that happened on Win98 when we're given command-line
2796 arguments: don't try to load NT service functions from advapi32.dll
2797 except when we need them. (Bug introduced in 0.1.2.7-alpha;
2799 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when
2800 we run out of DNS worker processes. (Resolves bug 390.)
2802 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
2803 - Correctly detect whether hidden service descriptor downloads are
2804 in-progress. (Suggested by Karsten Loesing; fixes bug 399.)
2806 o Major bugfixes (accounting):
2807 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
2808 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
2810 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2811 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
2812 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
2813 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
2815 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
2816 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
2818 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
2819 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
2820 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
2823 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2824 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
2825 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
2826 - Improve our estimates for directory bandwidth to be less random:
2827 guess that an unrecognized directory will have the average bandwidth
2828 from all known directories, not that it will have the average
2829 bandwidth from those directories earlier than it on the list.
2830 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
2831 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
2832 - On platforms with no working mmap() equivalent, don't warn the
2833 user when cached-routers doesn't exist.
2834 - Warn the user when mmap() [or its equivalent] fails for some reason
2835 other than file-not-found.
2836 - Don't warn the user when cached-routers.new doesn't exist: that's
2837 perfectly fine when starting up for the first time.
2838 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
2839 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
2840 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
2841 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
2842 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
2843 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
2844 - Fix switched arguments on memset in the implementation of
2845 tor_munmap() for systems with no mmap() call.
2846 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
2847 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
2848 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
2849 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
2850 - Make earlier entry guards _really_ get retried when the network
2852 - On a malformed DNS reply, always give an error to the corresponding
2854 - Build with recent libevents on platforms that do not define the
2855 nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
2857 o Minor features (controller):
2858 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
2859 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
2860 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
2862 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
2863 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
2864 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
2865 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
2866 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
2867 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
2868 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
2869 connected or resolved cell.
2871 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
2872 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
2873 some profiles, but not others.)
2874 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
2875 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
2876 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
2879 - Remove some never-implemented options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as
2881 - Implement proposal 106: Stop requiring clients to have well-formed
2882 certificates; stop checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients
2883 have certificates so that they can look like Tor servers, but in
2884 the future we might want to allow them to look like regular TLS
2885 clients instead. Nicknames in certificates serve no purpose other
2886 than making our protocol easier to recognize on the wire.)
2887 - Revise messages on handshake failure again to be even more clear about
2888 which are incoming connections and which are outgoing.
2889 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
2890 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
2891 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
2892 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
2893 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
2894 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
2895 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
2897 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
2900 Changes in version 0.1.2.7-alpha - 2007-02-06
2901 o Major bugfixes (rate limiting):
2902 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
2903 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
2904 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
2905 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
2906 - Fix a memory leak when sending a 503 response for a networkstatus
2908 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
2909 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
2910 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
2911 uptime in the descriptor. Also, don't let the global rate limiting
2912 buckets go absurdly negative.
2913 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
2914 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
2917 o Major bugfixes (NT services):
2918 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
2919 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
2920 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
2921 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
2922 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
2923 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the 'hardwire the user's appdata
2924 directory' trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
2927 o Major bugfixes (other):
2928 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
2929 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
2930 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
2931 - Fix a crash bug in the presence of DNS hijacking (reported by Andrew
2933 - Detect and reject malformed DNS responses containing circular
2935 - If exits are rare enough that we're not marking exits as guards,
2936 ignore exit bandwidth when we're deciding the required bandwidth
2938 - When we're handling a directory connection tunneled over Tor,
2939 don't fill up internal memory buffers with all the data we want
2940 to tunnel; instead, only add it if the OR connection that will
2941 eventually receive it has some room for it. (This can lead to
2942 slowdowns in tunneled dir connections; a better solution will have
2945 o Minor bugfixes (dns):
2946 - Add some defensive programming to eventdns.c in an attempt to catch
2947 possible memory-stomping bugs.
2948 - Detect and reject DNS replies containing IPv4 or IPv6 records with
2949 an incorrect number of bytes. (Previously, we would ignore the
2951 - Fix as-yet-unused reverse IPv6 lookup code so it sends nybbles
2952 in the correct order, and doesn't crash.
2953 - Free memory held in recently-completed DNS lookup attempts on exit.
2954 This was not a memory leak, but may have been hiding memory leaks.
2955 - Handle TTL values correctly on reverse DNS lookups.
2956 - Treat failure to parse resolv.conf as an error.
2958 o Minor bugfixes (other):
2959 - Fix crash with "tor --list-fingerprint" (reported by seeess).
2960 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
2961 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
2963 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
2964 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
2965 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
2966 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
2967 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
2968 - Stop using C functions that OpenBSD's linker doesn't like.
2969 - Don't launch requests for descriptors unless we have networkstatuses
2970 from at least half of the authorities. This delays the first
2971 download slightly under pathological circumstances, but can prevent
2972 us from downloading a bunch of descriptors we don't need.
2973 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
2974 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
2975 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
2977 - Stop using the reserved ac_cv namespace in our configure script.
2978 - Call stat() slightly less often; use fstat() when possible.
2979 - Refactor the way we handle pending circuits when an OR connection
2980 completes or fails, in an attempt to fix a rare crash bug.
2981 - Only rewrite a conn's address based on X-Forwarded-For: headers
2982 if it's a parseable public IP address; and stop adding extra quotes
2983 to the resulting address.
2986 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
2987 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
2988 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
2989 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
2992 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
2993 new ChangeLog file now includes the summaries for all development
2995 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well
2996 as at the client, and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can
2997 override this by setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
2998 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
2999 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
3000 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
3001 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate. It
3002 was confusing Zax, so now we're hopefully more helpful.
3003 - Bring us one step closer to being able to establish an encrypted
3004 directory tunnel without knowing a descriptor first. Still not
3005 ready yet. As part of the change, now assume we can use a
3006 create_fast cell if we don't know anything about a router.
3007 - Allow exit nodes to use nameservers running on ports other than 53.
3008 - Servers now cache reverse DNS replies.
3009 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
3010 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
3011 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the command
3014 o Minor features (controller):
3015 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
3016 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
3017 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
3018 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
3019 - Clean up documentation for controller status events.
3020 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
3021 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
3025 Changes in version 0.1.2.6-alpha - 2007-01-09
3027 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if a single TLS
3028 connection handles more than 4 gigs in either direction, we crash.
3029 - Fix an assert error introduced in 0.1.2.5-alpha: if we're an
3030 advertised exit node, somebody might try to exit from us when
3031 we're bootstrapping and before we've built our descriptor yet.
3032 Refuse the connection rather than crashing.
3035 - Warn if we (as a server) find that we've resolved an address that we
3036 weren't planning to resolve.
3037 - Warn that using select() on any libevent version before 1.1 will be
3038 unnecessarily slow (even for select()).
3039 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
3040 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
3041 the controller from learning about current events.
3043 o Minor features (more controller status events):
3044 - Implement EXTERNAL_ADDRESS server status event so controllers can
3045 learn when our address changes.
3046 - Implement BAD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR server status event so controllers
3047 can learn when directories reject our descriptor.
3048 - Implement SOCKS_UNKNOWN_PROTOCOL client status event so controllers
3049 can learn when a client application is speaking a non-socks protocol
3051 - Implement DANGEROUS_SOCKS client status event so controllers
3052 can learn when a client application is leaking DNS addresses.
3053 - Implement BUG general status event so controllers can learn when
3054 Tor is unhappy about its internal invariants.
3055 - Implement CLOCK_SKEW general status event so controllers can learn
3056 when Tor thinks the system clock is set incorrectly.
3057 - Implement GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR and ACCEPTED_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR
3058 server status events so controllers can learn when their descriptors
3059 are accepted by a directory.
3060 - Implement CHECKING_REACHABILITY and REACHABILITY_{SUCCEEDED|FAILED}
3061 server status events so controllers can learn about Tor's progress in
3062 deciding whether it's reachable from the outside.
3063 - Implement BAD_LIBEVENT general status event so controllers can learn
3064 when we have a version/method combination in libevent that needs to
3066 - Implement NAMESERVER_STATUS, NAMESERVER_ALL_DOWN, DNS_HIJACKED,
3067 and DNS_USELESS server status events so controllers can learn
3068 about changes to DNS server status.
3070 o Minor features (directory):
3071 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
3072 too much load to the exit nodes.
3075 Changes in version 0.1.2.5-alpha - 2007-01-06
3077 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
3078 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
3079 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
3080 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
3081 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
3083 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
3084 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
3085 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
3087 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
3088 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
3089 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
3090 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to the directory
3091 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
3092 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
3093 config options if you like.
3095 o Minor features (config and docs):
3096 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
3097 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
3098 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
3099 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
3100 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
3102 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
3103 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
3104 - Make PIDFile work on Windows (untested).
3105 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
3106 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
3108 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
3109 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
3110 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
3111 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
3112 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
3113 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
3114 - Add a maintainer script to tell us which options are missing
3115 documentation: "make check-docs".
3116 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
3117 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
3119 o Minor features (DNS):
3120 - Ongoing work on eventdns infrastructure: now it has dns server
3121 and ipv6 support. One day Tor will make use of it.
3122 - Add client-side caching for reverse DNS lookups.
3123 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
3124 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
3125 our tests for DNS hijacking.
3127 o Minor features (directory):
3128 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
3129 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
3130 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
3131 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
3132 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
3133 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
3134 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
3135 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
3136 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
3137 - Directory servers are more willing to send a 503 "busy" if they
3138 are near their write limit, especially for v1 directory requests.
3139 Now they can use their limited bandwidth for actual Tor traffic.
3140 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
3141 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
3142 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
3143 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we don't
3144 count the failure against the total number of failures allowed
3145 for the thing we're trying to download.
3146 - Report X-Your-Address-Is correctly from tunneled directory
3147 connections; don't report X-Your-Address-Is when it's an internal
3148 address; and never believe reported remote addresses when they're
3150 - Protect against an unlikely DoS attack on directory servers.
3151 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
3152 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
3155 o Minor features (controller):
3156 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
3157 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
3159 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
3160 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
3161 entry guard status as it changes.
3163 o Minor features (clean up obsolete pieces):
3164 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
3165 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
3166 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
3168 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
3169 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
3170 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
3171 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
3174 o Major bugfixes (security):
3175 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
3176 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
3177 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
3178 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
3180 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
3181 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
3182 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
3183 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
3184 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
3186 o Major bugfixes (other):
3187 - Fix a longstanding bug in eventdns that prevented the count of
3188 timed-out resolves from ever being reset. This bug caused us to
3189 give up on a nameserver the third time it timed out, and try it
3190 10 seconds later... and to give up on it every time it timed out
3192 - Take out the '5 second' timeout from the connection retry
3193 schedule. Now the first connect attempt will wait a full 10
3194 seconds before switching to a new circuit. Perhaps this will help
3195 a lot. Based on observations from Mike Perry.
3196 - Fix a bug on the Windows implementation of tor_mmap_file() that
3197 would prevent the cached-routers file from ever loading. Reported
3201 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
3202 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
3203 unlisted router. Reported by seeess.
3204 - Avoid a double-free when parsing malformed DirServer lines.
3205 - Fix a bug when a BSD-style PF socket is first used. Patch from
3207 - Fix a bug in 0.1.2.2-alpha that prevented clients from asking
3208 to resolve an address at a given exit node even when they ask for
3210 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
3211 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
3212 family lists conveniently.
3213 - When running as a server, don't fall back to 127.0.0.1 when no
3214 nameservers are configured in /etc/resolv.conf; instead, make the
3215 user fix resolv.conf or specify nameservers explicitly. (Resolves
3217 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
3218 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
3220 - Stop warning when a single nameserver fails: only warn when _all_ of
3221 our nameservers have failed. Also, when we only have one nameserver,
3222 raise the threshold for deciding that the nameserver is dead.
3223 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
3224 if their identity keys are as expected.
3225 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
3226 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
3227 - Correctly detect ipv6 DNS capability on OpenBSD.
3229 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
3230 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
3231 reported by Mike Perry.
3232 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
3233 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
3234 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
3235 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
3238 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
3239 o Security bugfixes:
3240 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
3241 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
3242 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
3243 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
3247 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
3248 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
3249 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
3252 Changes in version 0.1.2.4-alpha - 2006-12-03
3254 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
3255 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
3256 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
3259 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
3260 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
3261 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
3262 watching for STREAM events.
3263 - Make cross.sh cross-compilation script work even when autogen.sh
3264 hasn't been run. (Patch from Michael Mohr.)
3265 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
3266 operations, for profiling.
3269 - Fix a major leak when directory authorities parse their
3270 approved-routers list, a minor memory leak when we fail to pick
3271 an exit node, and a few rare leaks on errors.
3272 - Handle TransPort connections even when the server sends data before
3273 the client sends data. Previously, the connection would just hang
3274 until the client sent data. (Patch from tup based on patch from
3276 - Avoid assert failure when our cached-routers file is empty on
3280 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
3281 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
3282 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
3283 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
3284 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
3286 - Start linking to the Tor specification and Tor reference manual
3287 correctly in the Windows installer.
3288 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
3289 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
3290 - Resume building on Irix64, and fix a lot of warnings from its
3292 - Don't corrupt last_guessed_ip in router_new_address_suggestion()
3293 when we're running as a client.
3296 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
3298 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
3299 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
3300 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
3301 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
3302 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
3303 its circuits on demand.
3304 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
3305 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
3306 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
3307 connections more stable on average.
3308 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
3309 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
3310 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
3312 o Security bugfixes:
3313 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
3314 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
3317 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
3319 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
3320 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
3321 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
3322 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
3323 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
3324 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
3325 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
3326 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
3329 Changes in version 0.1.2.3-alpha - 2006-10-29
3331 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
3332 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
3333 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
3334 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
3335 routers for even longer.
3336 - If most authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients
3337 don't think of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider
3338 authorities that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
3339 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
3340 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
3341 caching HTTP proxies.
3342 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits by fingerprint or by
3345 o Minor features, controller:
3346 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
3347 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
3348 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
3349 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
3351 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
3352 controller about why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
3353 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
3354 working much like those for circuit events.
3355 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
3356 about the current status of a router.
3357 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
3358 a router's status has changed.
3359 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
3360 can tell which events and features are supported.
3361 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
3362 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
3364 o Security bugfixes:
3365 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
3366 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
3369 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
3370 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
3371 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
3372 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
3373 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
3374 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
3375 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
3376 long nicknames where appropriate.
3377 - Change NT service functions to be loaded on demand. This lets us
3378 build with MinGW without breaking Tor for Windows 98 users.
3379 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
3380 chews through many circuits before giving up.
3381 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
3382 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
3383 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
3384 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
3385 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
3386 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
3388 - When reporting verbose nicknames in entry_guards_getinfo(), avoid
3389 printing a duplicate "$" in the keys we send (reported by mwenge).
3390 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
3392 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
3393 - Detect the size of the routers file correctly even if it is
3394 corrupted (on systems without mmap) or not page-aligned (on systems
3395 with mmap). This bug was harmless.
3396 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
3397 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
3398 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
3399 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
3400 - Resolve two memory leaks when rebuilding the on-disk router cache
3401 (reported by fookoowa).
3402 - Clean up minor code warnings suggested by the MIPSpro C compiler,
3403 and reported by some Centos users.
3404 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
3405 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
3406 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
3407 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
3408 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
3409 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
3410 before we check for libevent.
3413 Changes in version 0.1.2.2-alpha - 2006-10-07
3415 - Make our async eventdns library on-by-default for Tor servers,
3416 and plan to deprecate the separate dnsworker threads.
3417 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
3418 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
3419 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
3420 now announce in their descriptors whether they support eventdns.
3421 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
3422 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt).
3423 - Add a BEGIN_DIR relay cell type for an easier in-protocol way to
3424 connect to directory servers through Tor. Previously, clients needed
3425 to find Tor exits to make private connections to directory servers.
3426 - Avoid choosing Exit nodes for entry or middle hops when the
3427 total bandwidth available from non-Exit nodes is much higher than
3428 the total bandwidth available from Exit nodes.
3429 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
3430 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
3431 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
3432 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
3433 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
3434 lets you turn it off.
3435 - Send out a burst of long-range padding cells once we've established
3436 that we're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits, so hopefully
3437 a few will be fast. This exercises our bandwidth and bootstraps
3438 us into the directory more quickly.
3440 o New/improved config options:
3441 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
3442 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
3443 - Add an "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to control our "exclude
3444 servers on the same /16" behavior. It's still on by default; this
3445 is mostly for people who want to operate private test networks with
3446 all the machines on the same subnet.
3447 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
3448 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
3449 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
3450 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
3451 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
3452 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
3453 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
3454 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
3455 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
3456 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
3458 o Minor features, controller:
3459 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
3460 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
3461 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
3462 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
3463 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
3464 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
3465 for more information.
3466 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
3467 best guess to the user.
3468 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
3469 descriptor has changed.
3470 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
3472 o Minor features, other:
3473 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
3474 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
3475 useful to the network.
3476 - Divide eventdns log messages into warn and info messages.
3477 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
3478 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
3479 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
3480 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
3481 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
3482 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
3483 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
3484 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
3485 to test via a server that's on the same /24 as us.
3486 - If we fail to build a circuit to an intended enclave, and it's
3487 not mandatory that we use that enclave, stop wanting it.
3488 - When eventdns is enabled, allow multithreaded builds on NetBSD and
3489 OpenBSD. (We had previously disabled threads on these platforms
3490 because they didn't have working thread-safe resolver functions.)
3492 o Major bugfixes, anonymity/security:
3493 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
3494 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
3495 could return an unnamed server instead.
3496 - Fix NetBSD bug that could allow someone to force uninitialized RAM
3497 to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This only affects NetBSD
3498 and other platforms that do not bounds-check tolower().
3499 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
3500 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
3501 a more attractive target for compromise.)
3502 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
3503 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
3504 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
3506 o Major bugfixes, other:
3507 - Don't crash on race condition in dns.c: tor_assert(!resolve->expire)
3508 - When a client asks the server to resolve (not connect to)
3509 an address, and it has a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
3510 Previously, the server would give them no answer at all.
3511 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
3512 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
3513 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we anticipated
3514 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
3515 its circuits on demand.
3516 - Avoid crashing when we mmap a router cache file of size 0.
3517 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
3518 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
3519 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
3521 o Minor bugfixes, correctness:
3522 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
3523 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
3525 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
3527 - Avoid controller-triggered crash when misusing certain commands
3528 from a v0 controller on platforms that do not handle
3529 printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
3530 - Don't crash when a controller sends a third argument to an
3531 "extendcircuit" request.
3532 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
3533 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
3534 - Avoid crash when telling controller stream-status and a stream
3536 - Patch from Adam Langley to fix assert() in eventdns.c.
3537 - Fix a debug log message in eventdns to say "X resolved to Y"
3538 instead of "X resolved to X".
3539 - Make eventdns give strings for DNS errors, not just error numbers.
3540 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
3541 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
3542 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by
3543 us but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
3544 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
3545 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
3546 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
3547 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
3549 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
3550 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
3551 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
3552 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
3553 result more than once.
3554 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
3555 non-versioning dirservers.
3556 - Don't listen to the X-Your-Address-Is hint if you did the lookup
3557 via Tor; otherwise you'll think you're the exit node's IP address.
3559 o Minor bugfixes, performance:
3560 - Two small performance improvements on parsing descriptors.
3561 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
3562 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
3563 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
3564 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
3565 - Start remembering X-Your-Address-Is directory hints even if you're
3566 a client, so you can become a server more smoothly.
3567 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
3569 o Packaging, features:
3570 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
3571 now universal binaries.
3572 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
3573 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
3574 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.1b.
3576 o Packaging, bugfixes:
3577 - Patches so Tor builds with MinGW on Windows.
3578 - Patches so Tor might run on Cygwin again.
3579 - Resume building on non-gcc compilers and ancient gcc. Resume
3580 building with the -O0 compile flag. Resume building cleanly on
3582 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
3583 - Correct includes for net/if.h and net/pfvar.h on OpenBSD (from Tup).
3584 - Add autoconf checks so Tor can build on Solaris x86 again.
3587 - Documented (and renamed) ServerDNSSearchDomains and
3588 ServerDNSResolvConfFile options.
3589 - Be clearer that the *ListenAddress directives can be repeated
3593 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
3595 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
3596 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
3597 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
3598 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
3599 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
3600 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
3601 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
3602 it can't resolve its hostname.
3605 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
3606 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
3607 "extendcircuit" request.
3608 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
3609 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
3610 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
3611 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
3613 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
3614 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
3615 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
3617 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
3618 methods: these are known to be buggy.
3619 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
3620 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
3624 Changes in version 0.1.2.1-alpha - 2006-08-27
3626 - Add "eventdns" async dns library from Adam Langley, tweaked to
3627 build on OSX and Windows. Only enabled if you pass the
3628 --enable-eventdns argument to configure.
3629 - Allow servers with no hostname or IP address to learn their
3630 IP address by asking the directory authorities. This code only
3631 kicks in when you would normally have exited with a "no address"
3632 error. Nothing's authenticated, so use with care.
3633 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
3634 application connections, we wait only 5 seconds for the first,
3635 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
3636 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
3637 - Patch from Tup to add support for transparent AP connections:
3638 this basically bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor
3639 into the Tor mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter
3640 implementations can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor
3641 without diverting through SOCKS. Needs docs.
3642 - Busy directory servers save lots of memory by spooling server
3643 descriptors, v1 directories, and v2 networkstatus docs to buffers
3644 as needed rather than en masse. Also mmap the cached-routers
3645 files, so we don't need to keep the whole thing in memory too.
3646 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
3647 /16 network when constructing a circuit.
3648 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
3649 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
3652 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
3653 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
3654 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
3655 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
3656 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
3657 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
3658 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
3659 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
3660 recommendation system saner.)
3661 - Start being able to build universal binaries on OS X (thanks
3663 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
3664 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
3665 - Add a man page entry for ProtocolWarnings.
3666 - Add TestVia config option to the man page.
3667 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
3668 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
3669 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
3670 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. [This currently
3671 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
3672 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.]
3673 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
3674 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
3676 - Get rid of the router_retry_connections notion. Now routers
3677 no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
3678 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
3679 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
3680 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
3681 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
3682 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
3683 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
3684 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
3685 - Re-enable per-connection rate limiting. Get rid of the "OP
3686 bandwidth" concept. Lay groundwork for "bandwidth classes" --
3687 separate global buckets that apply depending on what sort of conn
3689 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
3690 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
3691 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
3692 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
3693 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
3694 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
3697 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
3698 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
3699 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
3700 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
3701 our DirPort now, etc.
3702 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
3703 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
3704 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
3705 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
3706 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
3707 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
3708 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
3710 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
3711 whether the config options are bad or good.
3712 - Resolve bug 321 when using dnsworkers: append a period to every
3713 address we resolve at the exit node, so that we do not accidentally
3714 pick up local addresses, and so that failing searches are retried
3715 in the resolver search domains. (This is already solved for
3716 eventdns.) (This breaks Blossom servers for now.)
3717 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
3718 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
3719 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
3722 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi).
3723 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
3724 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
3725 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
3726 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
3727 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
3728 - Patch suggested by Karsten Loesing: respond to SIGNAL command
3729 before we execute the signal, in case the signal shuts us down.
3730 - Clean up AllowInvalidNodes man page entry.
3731 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
3732 - Add more asserts to track down an assert error on a windows Tor
3733 server with connection_add being called with socket == -1.
3734 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
3735 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
3736 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
3737 of it), is not therefore "up".
3738 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
3739 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
3740 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
3741 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
3742 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
3743 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
3746 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
3748 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
3749 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
3750 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
3751 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
3752 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
3753 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
3754 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
3755 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
3756 test reachability, so you won't publish.
3759 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
3760 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
3761 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
3762 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
3763 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
3765 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
3766 own server descriptor yet.
3769 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
3771 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
3772 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
3773 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
3774 make sure to test via one of these.
3775 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
3776 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
3777 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
3778 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
3779 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
3781 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
3782 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
3783 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
3786 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
3787 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
3788 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
3789 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
3790 directory authority.
3791 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
3792 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
3793 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
3794 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
3797 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
3798 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
3799 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
3801 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
3802 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
3803 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
3804 current guards when picking a new guard.
3805 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
3806 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
3807 when we had more than one pending.
3808 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
3809 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
3810 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
3811 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
3812 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
3813 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
3814 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
3815 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
3816 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
3817 debug the reachability problems better.
3819 o Log / documentation fixes:
3820 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
3821 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
3822 about protocol violations by others.
3823 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
3824 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
3825 about what happened to our old torrc.
3828 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
3830 - Downgrade a log severity where servers complain that they're
3832 - Avoid a compile warning on FreeBSD.
3833 - Remove string size limit on NEWDESC messages; solve bug 291.
3834 - Correct the RunAsDaemon entry in the man page; ignore RunAsDaemon
3835 more thoroughly when we're running on windows.
3838 Changes in version 0.1.1.19-rc - 2006-05-03
3840 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
3841 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
3842 - If we setconf our ORPort to 0, we continued to listen on the
3843 old ORPort and receive connections.
3844 - Avoid a second warning about machine/limits.h on Debian
3846 - Be willing to add our own routerinfo into the routerlist.
3847 Now authorities will include themselves in their directories
3848 and network-statuses.
3849 - Stop trying to upload rendezvous descriptors to every
3850 directory authority: only try the v1 authorities.
3851 - Servers no longer complain when they think they're not
3852 registered with the directory authorities. There were too many
3854 - Backport dist-rpm changes so rpms can be built without errors.
3857 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
3858 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
3859 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
3862 Changes in version 0.1.1.18-rc - 2006-04-10
3864 - Work harder to download live network-statuses from all the
3865 directory authorities we know about. Improve the threshold
3866 decision logic so we're more robust to edge cases.
3867 - When fetching rendezvous descriptors, we were willing to ask
3868 v2 authorities too, which would always return 404.
3871 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This will
3872 reduce its bulk by about 1/3, and reduce load on directory
3874 - When deciding whether a router is Fast or Guard-worthy, consider
3875 his advertised BandwidthRate and not just the BandwidthCapacity.
3876 - No longer ship INSTALL and README files -- they are useless now.
3877 - Force rpmbuild to behave and honor target_cpu.
3878 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
3879 - Start to include translated versions of the tor-doc-*.html
3880 files, along with the screenshots. Still needs more work.
3881 - Start sending back 512 and 451 errors if mapaddress fails,
3882 rather than not sending anything back at all.
3883 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
3884 socket, we should close it before failing. otherwise we just
3885 leak it. (thanks to weasel for finding.)
3886 - Allow "getinfo dir/status/foo" to work, as long as your DirPort
3887 is enabled. (This is a hack, and will be fixed in 0.1.2.x.)
3888 - Make NoPublish (even though deprecated) work again.
3889 - Fix a minor security flaw where a versioning auth dirserver
3890 could list a recommended version many times in a row to make
3891 clients more convinced that it's recommended.
3892 - Fix crash bug if there are two unregistered servers running
3893 with the same nickname, one of them is down, and you ask for
3894 them by nickname in your EntryNodes or ExitNodes. Also, try
3895 to pick the one that's running rather than an arbitrary one.
3896 - Fix an infinite loop we could hit if we go offline for too long.
3897 - Complain when we hit WSAENOBUFS on recv() or write() too.
3898 Perhaps this will help us hunt the bug.
3899 - If you're not a versioning dirserver, don't put the string
3900 "client-versions \nserver-versions \n" in your network-status.
3901 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
3902 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
3903 default ulimit -n is 1024.
3906 - Add tor.dizum.com as the fifth authoritative directory server.
3907 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
3908 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
3909 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
3912 Changes in version 0.1.1.17-rc - 2006-03-28
3914 - Clients and servers since 0.1.1.10-alpha have been expiring
3915 connections whenever they are idle for 5 minutes and they *do*
3916 have circuits on them. Oops. With this new version, clients will
3917 discard their previous entry guard choices and avoid choosing
3918 entry guards running these flawed versions.
3919 - Fix memory leak when uncompressing concatenated zlib streams. This
3920 was causing substantial leaks over time on Tor servers.
3921 - The v1 directory was including servers as much as 48 hours old,
3922 because that's how the new routerlist->routers works. Now only
3923 include them if they're 20 hours old or less.
3926 - Resume building on irix64, netbsd 2.0, etc.
3927 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. solaris), use "-g -O" instead of
3929 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
3930 and it is confusing some users.
3931 - Mirrors stop caching the v1 directory so often.
3932 - Make the max number of old descriptors that a cache will hold
3933 rise with the number of directory authorities, so we can scale.
3934 - Change our win32 uname() hack to be more forgiving about what
3935 win32 versions it thinks it's found.
3938 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu as a fourth authoritative directory
3940 - When the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
3941 message in a string and hand it back to the controller.
3942 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
3943 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
3944 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
3945 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
3946 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
3947 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
3948 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/status/foo so it can ask
3949 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. Only works when
3950 dirport is set for now.
3952 o New config options rather than constants in the code:
3953 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
3954 unattached before we fail it?
3955 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
3956 at least this many seconds ago.
3957 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
3958 at least this many seconds ago.
3961 Changes in version 0.1.1.16-rc - 2006-03-18
3962 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.15-rc:
3963 - Fix assert when the controller asks to attachstream a connect-wait
3964 or resolve-wait stream.
3965 - Now do address rewriting when the controller asks us to attach
3966 to a particular circuit too. This will let Blossom specify
3967 "moria2.exit" without having to learn what moria2's IP address is.
3968 - Make the "tor --verify-config" command-line work again, so people
3969 can automatically check if their torrc will parse.
3970 - Authoritative dirservers no longer require an open connection from
3971 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
3972 when we add new auth dirservers, old servers won't know not to
3974 - Let Tor build on Sun CC again.
3975 - Fix an off-by-one buffer size in dirserv.c that magically never
3976 hit our three authorities but broke sjmurdoch's own tor network.
3977 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
3978 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
3979 - Stop warning about unknown servers in our family when they are
3980 given as hex digests.
3981 - Stop complaining as quickly to the server operator that he
3982 hasn't registered his nickname/key binding.
3983 - Various cleanups so we can add new V2 Auth Dirservers.
3984 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
3985 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
3986 - Resume allowing non-printable characters for exit streams (both
3987 for connecting and for resolving). Now we tolerate applications
3988 that don't follow the RFCs. But continue to block malformed names
3991 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
3992 - Fix assert bug in close_logs(): when we close and delete logs,
3993 remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
3994 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
3995 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
3996 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Also, deal better when
3997 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
3998 - When we try to be a server and Address is not explicitly set and
3999 our hostname resolves to a private IP address, try to use an
4000 interface address if it has a public address. Now Windows machines
4001 that think of themselves as localhost can work by default.
4004 - Let the controller ask for GETINFO dir/server/foo so it can ask
4005 directly rather than connecting to the dir port.
4006 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
4007 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
4008 SETROUTERPURPOSE and modify +POSTDESCRIPTOR to do this.
4009 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
4010 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
4013 Changes in version 0.1.1.15-rc - 2006-03-11
4014 o Bugfixes and cleanups:
4015 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
4016 non-printable characters. This protects us against shell escape
4017 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool humans into
4018 misreading their logs.
4019 - Fix a bug where Tor would fail to establish any connections if you
4020 left it off for 24 hours and then started it: we were happy with
4021 the obsolete network statuses, but they all referred to router
4022 descriptors that were too old to fetch, so we ended up with no
4023 valid router descriptors.
4024 - Fix a seg fault in the controller's "getinfo orconn-status"
4025 command while listing status on incoming handshaking connections.
4026 Introduce a status name "NEW" for these connections.
4027 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc
4028 (e.g. ExitPolicy) and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
4029 silently resetting it to its default.
4030 - Don't abandon entry guards until they've been down or gone for
4032 - Cleaner and quieter log messages.
4035 - New controller signal NEWNYM that makes new application requests
4037 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
4038 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the EXTENDCIRCUIT
4039 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're
4040 starting a new circuit. Add a new SETCIRCUITPURPOSE controller
4041 command to let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been
4043 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
4044 because older Tors do not understand it.
4045 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
4049 Changes in version 0.1.1.14-alpha - 2006-02-20
4050 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4051 - Don't die if we ask for a stdout or stderr log (even implicitly)
4052 and we're set to RunAsDaemon -- just warn.
4053 - We still had a few bugs in the OR connection rotation code that
4054 caused directory servers to slowly aggregate connections to other
4055 fast Tor servers. This time for sure!
4056 - Make log entries on Win32 include the name of the function again.
4057 - We were treating a pair of exit policies if they were equal even
4058 if one said accept and the other said reject -- causing us to
4059 not always publish a new descriptor since we thought nothing
4061 - Retry pending server downloads as well as pending networkstatus
4062 downloads when we unexpectedly get a socks request.
4063 - We were ignoring the IS_FAST flag in the directory status,
4064 meaning we were willing to pick trivial-bandwidth nodes for "fast"
4066 - If the controller's SAVECONF command fails (e.g. due to file
4067 permissions), let the controller know that it failed.
4070 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
4071 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
4072 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
4073 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
4074 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
4075 without getting overloaded.
4076 - Compress exit policies even more -- look for duplicate lines
4078 - Clients now honor the "guard" flag in the router status when
4079 picking entry guards, rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
4080 - Retain unrecognized lines in $DATADIR/state file, so that we can
4081 be forward-compatible.
4082 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
4083 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
4084 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
4085 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
4087 - Split ReachableAddresses into ReachableDirAddresses and
4088 ReachableORAddresses, so we can restrict Dir conns to port 80
4089 and OR conns to port 443.
4090 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
4091 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
4093 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
4094 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
4095 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
4096 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
4097 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
4098 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
4099 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
4102 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
4103 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4104 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
4105 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
4107 o Other important bugfixes:
4108 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
4109 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
4110 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
4111 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
4113 o Backported features:
4114 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
4115 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
4116 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
4117 without getting overloaded.
4118 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
4119 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
4120 503's whenever they feel busy.
4121 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
4122 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
4123 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
4124 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
4125 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
4128 Changes in version 0.1.1.13-alpha - 2006-02-09
4129 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
4130 - When you tried to setconf ORPort via the controller, Tor would
4131 crash. So people using TorCP to become a server were sad.
4132 - Solve (I hope) the stack-smashing bug that we were seeing on fast
4133 servers. The problem appears to be something do with OpenSSL's
4134 random number generation, or how we call it, or something. Let me
4135 know if the crashes continue.
4136 - Turn crypto hardware acceleration off by default, until we find
4137 somebody smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce
4138 seg faults in at least some cases.)
4139 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
4140 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
4141 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed"
4144 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robining in 16 KB
4145 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
4146 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
4147 try to be a bit more fair.
4148 - Dir authorities and mirrors were never expiring the newest
4149 descriptor for each server, causing memory and directory bloat.
4150 - Fix memory-bloating and connection-bloating bug on servers: We
4151 were never closing any connection that had ever had a circuit on
4152 it, because we were checking conn->n_circuits == 0, yet we had a
4153 bug that let it go negative.
4154 - Make Tor work using squid as your http proxy again -- squid
4155 returns an error if you ask for a URL that's too long, and it uses
4156 a really generic error message. Plus, many people are behind a
4157 transparent squid so they don't even realize it.
4158 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
4159 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
4160 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
4161 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
4162 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults to
4163 1. This means all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
4164 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
4167 - Clients no longer download descriptors for non-running
4169 - Before we add new directory authorities, we should make it
4170 clear that only v1 authorities should receive/publish hidden
4171 service descriptors.
4174 - As soon as we've fetched some more directory info, immediately
4175 try to download more server descriptors. This way we don't have
4176 a 10 second pause during initial bootstrapping.
4177 - Remove even more loud log messages that the server operator can't
4179 - When we're running an obsolete or un-recommended version, make
4180 the log message more clear about what the problem is and what
4181 versions *are* still recommended.
4182 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
4183 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
4184 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
4185 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
4186 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
4187 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
4188 - Adjust tor-spec to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now Ian
4189 Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
4191 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
4192 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
4193 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
4194 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
4195 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
4196 - Make dirservers generate a separate "guard" flag to mean,
4197 "would make a good entry guard". Make clients parse it and vote
4198 on it. Not used by clients yet.
4199 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Also, improve
4200 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
4201 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB
4202 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
4203 circuit. This will make startup on dirservers less noisy.
4204 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
4205 established a circuit.
4206 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
4207 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
4208 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
4209 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
4212 Changes in version 0.1.1.12-alpha - 2006-01-11
4213 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4214 - The fix to close duplicate server connections was closing all
4215 Tor client connections if they didn't establish a circuit
4216 quickly enough. Oops.
4217 - Fix minor memory issue (double-free) that happened on exit.
4219 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4220 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
4223 Changes in version 0.1.1.11-alpha - 2006-01-10
4224 o Crashes in 0.1.1.x:
4225 - Include all the assert/crash fixes from 0.1.0.16.
4226 - If you start Tor and then quit very quickly, there were some
4227 races that tried to free things that weren't allocated yet.
4228 - Fix a rare memory stomp if you're running hidden services.
4229 - Fix segfault when specifying DirServer in config without nickname.
4230 - Fix a seg fault when you finish connecting to a server but at
4231 that moment you dump his server descriptor.
4232 - Extendcircuit and Attachstream controller commands would
4233 assert/crash if you don't give them enough arguments.
4234 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
4235 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by weasel).
4236 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
4237 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you HUP,
4238 it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
4239 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc using -f.
4242 - Implement "entry guards": automatically choose a handful of entry
4243 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
4244 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
4245 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
4246 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
4247 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
4248 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
4249 - New directory logic: download by descriptor digest, not by
4250 fingerprint. Caches try to download all listed digests from
4251 authorities; clients try to download "best" digests from caches.
4252 This avoids partitioning and isolating attacks better.
4253 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
4254 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
4255 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
4256 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
4257 connections more reliable.
4260 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
4261 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
4262 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
4263 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
4264 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
4265 - Tor 0.1.1.9 and 0.1.1.10 had a serious bug that caused clients
4266 to download certain server descriptors, throw them away, and then
4267 fetch them again after 30 minutes. Now mirrors throw away these
4268 server descriptors so clients can't get them.
4269 - We were leaving duplicate connections to other ORs open for a week,
4270 rather than closing them once we detect a duplicate. This only
4271 really affected authdirservers, but it affected them a lot.
4272 - Spread the authdirservers' reachability testing over the entire
4273 testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once every
4277 - If the network is down, and we try to connect to a conn because
4278 we have a circuit in mind, and we timeout (30 seconds) because the
4279 network never answers, we were expiring the circuit, but we weren't
4280 obsoleting the connection or telling the entry_guards functions.
4281 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These statistics
4282 need to be uint64_t's.
4283 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
4284 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
4285 on malicious huge inputs. I don't see any, but I haven't looked
4287 - ReachableAddresses kept growing new "reject *:*" lines on every
4289 - When you "setconf log" via the controller, it should remove all
4290 logs. We were automatically adding back in a "log notice stdout".
4291 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
4292 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
4293 - We were marking servers down when they could not answer every piece
4294 of the directory request we sent them. This was far too harsh.
4295 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
4297 - Directory authorities now go to the proper authority when asking for
4298 a networkstatus, even when they want a compressed one.
4299 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
4300 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
4301 - Authorities were treating their own descriptor changes as cosmetic,
4302 meaning the descriptor available in the network-status and the
4303 descriptor that clients downloaded were different.
4304 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
4305 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
4306 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies where they refuse GET
4307 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0" (reported by Adrian).
4308 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
4309 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
4312 - Write the TorVersion into the state file so we have a prayer of
4313 keeping forward and backward compatibility.
4314 - Revive the FascistFirewall config option rather than eliminating it:
4315 now it's a synonym for ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443.
4316 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
4317 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
4318 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
4320 - Directory authorities ignore router descriptors that have only
4321 cosmetic differences: do this for 0.1.0.x servers now too.
4322 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
4323 can answer v2 directory requests too.
4324 - Authdirs now stop whining so loudly about bad descriptors that
4325 they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's a log complaint,
4326 it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
4327 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
4329 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
4330 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
4331 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
4332 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for auth dirservers as
4333 a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
4334 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
4335 - Auth dir servers can now mark a fingerprint as "!reject" or
4336 "!invalid" in the approved-routers file (as its nickname), to
4337 refuse descriptors outright or include them but marked as invalid.
4338 - Servers store bandwidth history across restarts/crashes.
4339 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
4340 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
4341 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
4342 docs. Now we can add new authdirservers and they'll be cached too.
4343 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
4345 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
4346 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
4349 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
4350 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4351 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
4352 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
4353 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
4354 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
4355 too -- so detect and avoid this.
4356 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
4358 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
4359 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
4360 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
4361 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
4362 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
4363 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
4364 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
4365 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
4366 rendezvous circuits.
4367 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
4369 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4370 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
4371 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
4372 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
4373 advertising it because of hibernation.
4374 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
4375 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
4376 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
4377 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
4378 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
4379 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
4380 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
4381 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
4382 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
4383 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
4384 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
4385 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
4386 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
4387 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
4390 Changes in version 0.1.1.10-alpha - 2005-12-11
4391 o Correctness bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4392 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
4393 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
4394 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
4395 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
4396 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
4397 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
4398 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
4399 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
4400 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
4401 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
4402 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
4403 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
4404 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
4405 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
4406 connections once a week.
4407 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
4408 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
4409 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
4410 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
4411 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
4412 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed to
4414 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
4415 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
4416 - We were failing to inform the controller about new .onion streams.
4418 o Security bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4419 - Refuse server descriptors if the fingerprint line doesn't match
4420 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
4421 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
4422 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
4423 don't recognize. Now we just drop it.
4424 - Start obeying our firewall options more rigorously:
4425 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
4426 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
4427 firewall options forbid.
4428 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
4429 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
4430 can only proxy to certain destinations.
4431 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
4432 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
4433 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
4434 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
4435 aids some statistical attacks.
4436 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
4437 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
4438 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
4439 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
4441 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4442 - Take out the mis-feature where we tried to detect IP address
4443 flapping for people with DynDNS, and chose not to upload a new
4444 server descriptor sometimes.
4445 - Try to be compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.6 again.
4446 - Log fix: when the controller is logging about .onion addresses,
4447 sometimes it didn't include the ".onion" part of the address.
4448 - Don't try to modify options->DirServers internally -- if the
4449 user didn't specify any, just add the default ones directly to
4450 the trusted dirserver list. This fixes a bug where people running
4451 controllers would use SETCONF on some totally unrelated config
4452 option, and Tor would start yelling at them about changing their
4454 - Let the controller's redirectstream command specify a port, in
4455 case the controller wants to change that too.
4456 - When we requested a pile of server descriptors, we sometimes
4457 accidentally launched a duplicate request for the first one.
4458 - Bugfix for trackhostexits: write down the fingerprint of the
4459 chosen exit, not its nickname, because the chosen exit might not
4461 - When parsing foo.exit, if foo is unknown, and we are leaving
4462 circuits unattached, set the chosen_exit field and leave the
4463 address empty. This matters because controllers got confused
4465 - Directory authorities no longer try to download server
4466 descriptors that they know they will reject.
4468 o Features and updates:
4469 - Replace balanced trees with hash tables: this should make stuff
4470 significantly faster.
4471 - Resume using the AES counter-mode implementation that we ship,
4472 rather than OpenSSL's. Ours is significantly faster.
4473 - Many other CPU and memory improvements.
4474 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
4475 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
4476 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
4477 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see if their
4478 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
4479 socks5-with-hostname. This way they don't have to keep mucking
4480 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
4481 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. I suspect a
4482 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
4483 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
4484 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
4485 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
4486 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
4487 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
4488 - Add a new controller event type that allows controllers to get
4489 all server descriptors that were uploaded to a router in its role
4490 as authoritative dirserver.
4491 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
4492 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
4493 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html in the tarball.
4496 Changes in version 0.1.1.9-alpha - 2005-11-15
4497 o Usability improvements:
4498 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
4499 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
4501 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
4502 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
4503 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
4505 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
4506 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
4507 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
4508 - Make directory servers return better http 404 error messages
4509 instead of a generic "Servers unavailable".
4510 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
4511 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
4512 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
4513 memory leaks better.
4514 - Make directory authorities be non-versioning, non-naming by
4515 default. Now we can add new directory servers without requiring
4516 their operators to pay close attention.
4517 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
4518 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
4520 o Performance improvements:
4521 - Directory servers now silently throw away new descriptors that
4522 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
4523 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
4524 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
4525 - Inline bottleneck smartlist functions; use fast versions by default.
4526 - Add a "Map from digest to void*" abstraction digestmap_t so we
4527 can do less hex encoding/decoding. Use it in router_get_by_digest()
4528 to resolve a performance bottleneck.
4529 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
4530 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
4531 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
4532 DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
4533 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
4534 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
4535 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
4536 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
4537 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
4539 o Security improvements:
4540 - Start making directory caches retain old routerinfos, so soon
4541 clients can start asking by digest of descriptor rather than by
4542 fingerprint of server.
4543 - Add half our entropy from RAND_poll in OpenSSL. This knows how
4544 to use egd (if present), openbsd weirdness (if present), vms/os2
4545 weirdness (if we ever port there), and more in the future.
4547 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4548 - Do round-robin writes of at most 16 kB per write. This might be
4549 more fair on loaded Tor servers, and it might resolve our Windows
4550 crash bug. It might also slow things down.
4551 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
4552 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
4553 each new connections. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
4554 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
4555 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
4556 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
4557 already present earlier in the circuit. Oops.
4558 - When a Tor server's IP changes (e.g. from a dyndns address),
4559 upload a new descriptor so clients will learn too.
4560 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
4561 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
4562 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
4563 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
4564 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
4565 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
4566 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
4567 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
4569 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.8-alpha:
4570 - Fix a big pile of memory leaks, some of them serious.
4571 - Do not try to download a routerdesc if we would immediately reject
4573 - Resume inserting a newline between all router descriptors when
4574 generating (old style) signed directories, since our spec says
4576 - When providing content-type application/octet-stream for
4577 server descriptors using .z, we were leaving out the
4578 content-encoding header. Oops. (Everything tolerated this just
4579 fine, but that doesn't mean we need to be part of the problem.)
4580 - Fix a potential seg fault in getconf and getinfo using version 1
4581 of the controller protocol.
4582 - Avoid crash: do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we
4583 are suppressing it because of hibernation.
4584 - Make --hash-password not crash on exit.
4587 Changes in version 0.1.1.8-alpha - 2005-10-07
4588 o New features (major):
4589 - Clients don't download or use the directory anymore. Now they
4590 download and use network-statuses from the trusted dirservers,
4591 and fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
4592 See dir-spec.txt for all the gory details.
4593 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
4594 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
4595 and either a) we could hibernate or b) our capacity is low and
4596 we're using a default DirPort.
4597 - Use OpenSSL's AES when OpenSSL has version 0.9.7 or later.
4599 o New features (minor):
4600 - Try to be smart about when to retry network-status and
4601 server-descriptor fetches. Still needs some tuning.
4602 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
4603 mirrors still cache and serve it).
4604 - Consider a threshold of versioning dirservers (dirservers who have
4605 an opinion about which Tor versions are still recommended) before
4606 deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
4607 - Dirservers can now reject/invalidate by key and IP, with the
4608 config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject". This is
4609 useful since currently we automatically list servers as running
4610 and usable even if we know they're jerks.
4611 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer; move it out
4612 of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
4613 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section.
4614 - Add nicknames to the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
4615 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
4616 - When we get an EOF or a timeout on a directory connection, note
4617 how many bytes of serverdesc we are dropping. This will help
4618 us determine whether it is smart to parse incomplete serverdesc
4620 - Add a new function to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to stop
4621 using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we don't
4622 link new actions to old actions. Currently it's only called on
4623 HUP (or SIGNAL RELOAD).
4624 - On sighup, if UseHelperNodes changed to 1, use new circuits.
4625 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
4626 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
4627 startup. And entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
4629 o Fixes on 0.1.1.7-alpha:
4630 - Nobody ever implemented EVENT_ADDRMAP for control protocol
4631 version 0, so don't let version 0 controllers ask for it.
4632 - If you requested something with too many newlines via the
4633 v1 controller protocol, you could crash tor.
4634 - Fix a number of memory leaks, including some pretty serious ones.
4635 - Re-enable DirPort testing again, so Tor servers will be willing
4636 to advertise their DirPort if it's reachable.
4637 - On TLS handshake, only check the other router's nickname against
4638 its expected nickname if is_named is set.
4640 o Fixes forward-ported from 0.1.0.15:
4641 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
4642 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
4643 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
4644 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
4647 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
4648 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
4650 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
4651 even when it's an IP in the "virtual" range we designed exactly
4653 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changes IPs.
4654 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
4655 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
4656 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
4657 warn when we'recalling a non-named server by its nickname;
4658 don't warn twice about the same name.
4659 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
4660 if we've not heard of the server.
4661 - Make windows platform detection (uname equivalent) smarter.
4662 - It turns out sparc64 doesn't like unaligned access either.
4665 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
4666 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4667 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
4668 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
4669 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
4670 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
4671 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
4672 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
4673 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
4674 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
4675 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
4676 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
4677 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
4678 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
4679 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
4682 Changes in version 0.1.1.7-alpha - 2005-09-14
4683 o Fixes on 0.1.1.6-alpha:
4684 - Exit servers were crashing when people asked them to make a
4685 connection to an address not in their exit policy.
4686 - Looking up a non-existent stream for a v1 control connection would
4688 - Fix a seg fault if we ask a dirserver for a descriptor by
4689 fingerprint but he doesn't know about him.
4690 - SETCONF was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
4691 - SETCONF SocksBindAddress killed Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
4692 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
4693 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
4697 - Add Peter Palfrader's check-tor script to tor/contrib/
4698 It lets you easily check whether a given server (referenced by
4699 nickname) is reachable by you.
4700 - Numerous changes to move towards client-side v2 directories. Not
4704 - If the user gave tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
4705 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
4706 [This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
4707 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.]
4708 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
4709 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
4710 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
4711 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
4712 we fail to connect).
4713 - When writing the RecommendedVersions line, sort them first.
4714 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
4715 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
4716 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
4718 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
4719 it was self-testing that told us so.
4722 Changes in version 0.1.1.6-alpha - 2005-09-09
4723 o Fixes on 0.1.1.5-alpha:
4724 - We broke fascistfirewall in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
4725 - Fix segfault in unit tests in 0.1.1.5-alpha. Oops.
4726 - Fix bug with tor_memmem finding a match at the end of the string.
4727 - Make unit tests run without segfaulting.
4728 - Resolve some solaris x86 compile warnings.
4729 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
4730 - Fix bug where as soon as a server refused any requests due to his
4731 exit policy (e.g. when we ask for localhost and he tells us that's
4732 127.0.0.1 and he won't do it), we decided he wasn't obeying his
4733 exit policy using him for any exits.
4734 - Only do openssl hardware accelerator stuff if openssl version is
4737 o New controller features/fixes:
4738 - Add a "RESETCONF" command so you can set config options like
4739 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
4740 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
4741 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
4742 - Add a "GETINFO config-file" to tell us where torrc is.
4743 - Avoid sending blank lines when GETINFO replies should be empty.
4744 - Add a QUIT command for the controller (for using it manually).
4745 - Fix a bug in SAVECONF that was adding default dirservers and
4746 other redundant entries to the torrc file.
4748 o Start on the new directory design:
4749 - Generate, publish, cache, serve new network-status format.
4750 - Publish individual descriptors (by fingerprint, by "all", and by
4752 - Publish client and server recommended versions separately.
4753 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress() to handle multiple concatenated
4754 compressed strings. Serve compressed groups of router
4755 descriptors. The compression logic here could be more
4757 - Distinguish v1 authorities (all currently trusted directories)
4758 from v2 authorities (all trusted directories).
4759 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
4760 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
4761 moria1, moria2, and tor26 should set.
4762 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
4763 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
4764 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
4767 - Dirservers now do their own external reachability testing of each
4768 Tor server, and only list them as running if they've been found to
4769 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
4770 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
4771 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
4772 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
4773 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
4774 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
4775 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
4776 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
4778 - Permit transitioning from ORPort=0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from the
4779 controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
4780 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
4781 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
4782 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
4783 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
4784 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
4785 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
4786 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
4788 o Config option changes:
4789 - Replace (Fascist)Firewall* config options with a new
4790 ReachableAddresses option that understands address policies.
4791 For example, "ReachableAddresses *:80,*:443"
4792 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
4793 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
4794 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
4797 - Reject ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy, since
4798 people have started using them for spam too.
4799 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
4800 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
4801 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
4802 servers and dirservers bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
4803 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
4804 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
4805 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
4806 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for unverified routers.
4807 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
4808 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
4809 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
4810 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
4811 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
4812 services faster on the service end.
4813 - Retry streams if the exit node sends back a 'misc' failure. This
4814 should result in fewer random failures. Also, after failing
4815 from resolve failed or misc, reset the num failures, so we give
4816 it a fair shake next time we try.
4817 - Clean up the rendezvous warn log msgs, and downgrade some to info.
4818 - Reduce severity on logs about dns worker spawning and culling.
4819 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
4820 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
4821 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
4822 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
4823 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
4824 able to discover them.
4825 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
4826 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
4827 are no longer allowed. This also fixes some potential security
4828 problems with people providing hostnames as their address and then
4829 preferentially resolving them to partition users.
4830 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
4831 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
4832 testing for reachability.
4833 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
4834 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
4836 - Let auth dir servers start without specifying an Address config
4838 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
4839 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
4842 Changes in version 0.1.1.5-alpha - 2005-08-08
4843 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.14.
4845 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4846 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
4847 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
4848 it would silently using ignore the 6668.
4851 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
4852 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4853 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
4855 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
4856 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
4859 Changes in version 0.1.1.4-alpha - 2005-08-04
4860 o Bugfixes included in 0.1.0.13.
4863 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
4864 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
4865 - Implement some more GETINFO goodness: expose helper nodes, config
4866 options, getinfo keys.
4869 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
4870 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4871 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
4872 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
4873 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
4874 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
4875 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
4877 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
4878 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
4882 Changes in version 0.1.1.3-alpha - 2005-07-23
4883 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
4884 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "post descriptor"
4886 - Fix several bugs in handling the controller's "extend circuit"
4888 - Fix a bug in handling the controller's "stream status" event.
4889 - Fix an assert failure if we have a controller listening for
4890 circuit events and we go offline.
4891 - Re-allow hidden service descriptors to publish 0 intro points.
4892 - Fix a crash when generating your hidden service descriptor if
4893 you don't have enough intro points already.
4895 o New features on 0.1.1.2-alpha:
4896 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
4897 many bytes we've used in this time period.
4898 - Experimental support for helper nodes: a lot of the risk from
4899 a small static adversary comes because users pick new random
4900 nodes every time they rebuild a circuit. Now users will try to
4901 stick to the same small set of entry nodes if they can. Not
4902 enabled by default yet.
4904 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.12:
4905 - If you're an auth dir server, always publish your dirport,
4906 even if you haven't yet found yourself to be reachable.
4907 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
4908 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
4911 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
4912 o New directory servers:
4913 - tor26 has changed IP address.
4915 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4916 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
4917 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
4919 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
4920 claims its dirport is 0.
4921 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
4922 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
4926 Changes in version 0.1.1.2-alpha - 2005-07-15
4927 o New directory servers:
4928 - tor26 has changed IP address.
4930 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, crashes/leaks:
4931 - Port the servers-not-obeying-their-exit-policies fix from
4933 - Fix an fd leak in start_daemon().
4934 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
4935 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
4936 ports that have changed.
4937 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
4939 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x, usability:
4940 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
4941 Windows-style errno back.
4942 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when
4944 want to make it an NT service.
4945 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages.
4946 - When the controller asks for a config option with an abbreviated
4947 name, give the full name in our response.
4948 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
4949 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
4950 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
4951 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
4954 o Bugfixes on 0.1.1.x:
4955 - Fix a seg fault with autodetecting which controller version is
4959 - New hidden service descriptor format: put a version in it, and
4960 let people specify introduction/rendezvous points that aren't
4961 in "the directory" (which is subjective anyway).
4962 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
4963 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
4966 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
4967 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
4968 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
4969 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
4970 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
4971 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
4972 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
4973 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
4976 Changes in version 0.1.1.1-alpha - 2005-06-29
4978 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
4979 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
4980 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
4981 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
4982 - When we complain that your exit policy implicitly allows local or
4983 private address spaces, name them explicitly so operators can
4985 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
4986 temporarily unreachable.
4987 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
4991 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
4992 than binary. Add supporting libraries in python and java so you
4993 can use the controller from your applications without caring how
4995 - Spiffy new support for crypto hardware accelerators. Can somebody
4999 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
5000 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
5001 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
5002 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
5003 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
5007 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
5008 o Allow a few EINVALs from libevent before dying. Warn on kqueue with
5009 libevent before 1.1a.
5012 Changes in version 0.1.0.9-rc - 2005-06-09
5014 - Reset buf->highwater every time buf_shrink() is called, not just on
5015 a successful shrink. This was causing significant memory bloat.
5016 - Fix buffer overflow when checking hashed passwords.
5017 - Security fix: if seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
5018 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
5020 - Disable threading on Solaris too. Something is wonky with it,
5021 cpuworkers, and reentrant libs.
5022 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
5023 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
5024 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
5025 of CPU time plus memory.
5026 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
5027 normal web requests.
5028 - Adapt patch from Adam Langley: fix possible memory leak in
5029 tor_lookup_hostname().
5030 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
5031 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
5032 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
5033 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
5034 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
5035 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
5037 - Correct/add man page entries for LongLivedPorts, ExitPolicy,
5038 KeepalivePeriod, ClientOnly, NoPublish, HttpProxy, HttpsProxy,
5039 HttpProxyAuthenticator
5040 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
5041 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
5042 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in
5044 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
5045 the user asks you to.
5046 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
5047 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
5048 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
5049 their descriptors are being rejected.
5050 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
5054 Changes in version 0.1.0.8-rc - 2005-05-23
5056 - It turns out that kqueue on OS X 10.3.9 was causing kernel
5057 panics. Disable kqueue on all OS X Tors.
5058 - Fix RPM: remove duplicate line accidentally added to the rpm
5060 - Disable threads on openbsd too, since its gethostaddr is not
5062 - Tolerate libevent 0.8 since it still works, even though it's
5064 - Enable building on Red Hat 9.0 again.
5065 - Allow the middle hop of the testing circuit to be running any
5066 version, now that most of them have the bugfix to let them connect
5067 to unknown servers. This will allow reachability testing to work
5068 even when 0.0.9.7-0.0.9.9 become obsolete.
5069 - Handle relay cells with rh.length too large. This prevents
5070 a potential attack that could read arbitrary memory (maybe even
5071 keys) from the exit server's process.
5072 - We screwed up the dirport reachability testing when we don't yet
5073 have a cached version of the directory. Hopefully now fixed.
5074 - Clean up router_load_single_router() (used by the controller),
5075 so it doesn't seg fault on error.
5076 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
5077 point at your Tor server.
5078 - If a socks connection ends because read fails, don't warn that
5079 you're not sending a socks reply back.
5082 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator config option too, that works like
5083 the HttpsProxyAuthenticator config option.
5084 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
5085 to make it easier to write controllers.
5088 Changes in version 0.1.0.7-rc - 2005-05-17
5090 - Fix a bug in the OS X package installer that prevented it from
5091 installing on Tiger.
5092 - Fix a script bug in the OS X package installer that made it
5093 complain during installation.
5094 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
5095 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
5096 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
5097 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
5098 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
5099 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
5101 - Fix a bug in the RPM packager: set home directory for _tor to
5102 something more reasonable when first installing.
5103 - Free a minor amount of memory that is still reachable on exit.
5106 Changes in version 0.1.0.6-rc - 2005-05-14
5108 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
5109 netbsd by default, because it appears to have no reentrant resolver
5111 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue. The new libevent
5112 release (1.1) detects and disables kqueue if it's broken.
5113 - Append default exit policy before checking for implicit internal
5114 addresses. Now we don't log a bunch of complaints on startup
5115 when using the default exit policy.
5116 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
5117 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
5118 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
5119 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
5120 - Fix fragmented-message bug in TorControl.py.
5121 - Resolve a minor bug which would prevent unreachable dirports
5122 from getting suppressed in the published descriptor.
5123 - When the controller gave us a new descriptor, we weren't resolving
5124 it immediately, so Tor would think its address was 0.0.0.0 until
5125 we fetched a new directory.
5126 - Fix an uppercase/lowercase case error in suppressing a bogus
5127 libevent warning on some Linuxes.
5130 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
5131 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
5132 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
5133 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
5134 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
5135 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
5136 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
5137 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
5139 - When dirservers refuse a router descriptor, we now log its
5140 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
5141 - Call tor_free_all instead of connections_free_all after forking, to
5142 save memory on systems that need to fork.
5143 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
5144 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
5145 is valid without actually launching Tor.
5146 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "localhost.serifos.exit"
5147 rather than just rejecting it.
5150 Changes in version 0.1.0.5-rc - 2005-04-27
5152 - Stop trying to print a null pointer if an OR conn fails because
5153 we didn't like its cert.
5155 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
5156 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
5157 - Add HttpsProxyAuthenticator support (basic auth only), based
5158 on patch from Adam Langley.
5159 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
5160 the fast servers that have been joining lately.
5161 - Give hidden service accesses extra time on the first attempt,
5162 since 60 seconds is often only barely enough. This might improve
5164 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
5165 directory every time you regenerate it.
5166 - Add more debugging info to help us find the weird dns freebsd
5167 pthreads bug; cleaner debug messages to help track future issues.
5170 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
5171 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5172 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
5173 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
5174 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
5177 Changes in version 0.1.0.4-rc - 2005-04-23
5179 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
5180 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
5181 TLS errors better in other situations too.
5182 - When the controller asks us to tell it about all the debug-level
5183 logs, it turns out we were generating debug-level logs while
5184 telling it about them, which turns into a bad loop. Now keep
5185 track of whether you're sending a debug log to the controller,
5186 and don't log when you are.
5187 - Fix the "postdescriptor" feature of the controller interface: on
5188 non-complete success, only say "done" once.
5190 - Clients are now willing to load balance over up to 2mB, not 1mB,
5191 of advertised bandwidth capacity.
5192 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
5193 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
5194 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
5197 Changes in version 0.1.0.3-rc - 2005-04-08
5198 o Improvements on 0.1.0.2-rc:
5199 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
5200 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
5201 - More automated handling for dirserver operators:
5202 - Automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc or later,
5203 now that the the reachability detection stuff is working.
5204 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
5205 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
5206 nickname+key are allowed.
5207 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
5208 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
5209 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
5210 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
5211 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
5212 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
5213 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
5214 have quite wrong clocks).
5215 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
5216 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
5217 - Efficiency improvements:
5218 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
5219 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
5220 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
5221 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
5222 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
5223 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
5224 lowercase and be done with it.
5225 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells,
5226 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
5227 to abandon partially built circuits.
5228 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist
5229 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
5231 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
5233 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
5234 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
5235 Matt Edman). Update TorControl to handle new log event types.
5236 - Provide better explanation messages when controller's POSTDESCRIPTOR
5238 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
5239 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
5241 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.2-rc:
5242 - We were printing the host mask wrong in exit policies in server
5243 descriptors. This isn't a critical bug though, since we were still
5244 obeying the exit policy internally.
5245 - Fix Tor when compiled with libevent but without pthreads: move
5246 connection_unregister() from _connection_free() to
5248 - Fix an assert trigger (already fixed in 0.0.9.x): when we have
5249 the rare mysterious case of accepting a conn on 0.0.0.0:0, then
5250 when we look through the connection array, we'll find any of the
5251 cpu/dnsworkers. This is no good.
5253 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.8:
5254 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
5255 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
5256 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
5257 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
5259 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
5260 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
5261 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
5262 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
5263 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
5264 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
5265 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
5266 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
5267 descriptors we just dropped.
5268 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
5269 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
5270 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
5271 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
5272 artificially capped at 500kB.
5275 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
5276 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5277 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
5278 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
5279 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
5280 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
5281 busy for more than 100 seconds.
5284 Changes in version 0.1.0.2-rc - 2005-04-01
5285 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.1-rc:
5286 - Fixes on reachability detection:
5287 - Don't check for reachability while hibernating.
5288 - If ORPort is reachable but DirPort isn't, still publish the
5289 descriptor, but zero out DirPort until it's found reachable.
5290 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
5291 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
5292 - Complain about unreachable ORPort separately from unreachable
5293 DirPort, so the user knows what's going on.
5294 - Make sure we only conclude ORPort reachability if we didn't
5295 initiate the conn. Otherwise we could falsely conclude that
5296 we're reachable just because we connected to the guy earlier
5297 and he used that same pipe to extend to us.
5298 - Authdirservers shouldn't do ORPort reachability detection,
5299 since they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a
5300 server not already connected to them.
5301 - When building testing circuits, always pick middle hops running
5302 Tor 0.0.9.7, so we avoid the "can't extend to unknown routers"
5303 bug. (This is a kludge; it will go away when 0.0.9.x becomes
5305 - When we decide we're reachable, actually publish our descriptor
5307 - Fix bug in redirectstream in the controller.
5308 - Fix the state descriptor strings so logs don't claim edge streams
5309 are in a different state than they actually are.
5310 - Use recent libevent features when possible (this only really affects
5311 win32 and osx right now, because the new libevent with these
5312 features hasn't been released yet). Add code to suppress spurious
5314 - Prevent possible segfault in connection_close_unattached_ap().
5315 - Fix newlines on torrc in win32.
5316 - Improve error msgs when tor-resolve fails.
5318 o Improvements on 0.0.9.x:
5319 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
5320 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
5321 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
5322 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
5323 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
5324 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
5326 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
5327 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
5328 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
5329 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
5332 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
5333 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5334 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
5335 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
5336 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
5337 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
5338 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
5339 creating actual system users.
5340 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
5341 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
5345 Changes in version 0.1.0.1-rc - 2005-03-28
5347 - Add reachability testing. Your Tor server will automatically try
5348 to see if its ORPort and DirPort are reachable from the outside,
5349 and it won't upload its descriptor until it decides they are.
5350 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
5351 hidden services better.
5352 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
5354 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
5355 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
5356 - More Tor controller support (still experimental). See
5357 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
5358 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
5359 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
5360 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
5361 - Make nt services work and start on startup on win32 (based on
5362 patch by Matt Edman).
5363 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
5364 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
5365 required exit node for certain sites.
5366 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
5367 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
5368 your exit keeps changing (based on patch by Mike Perry).
5369 - Redo the client-side dns cache so it's just an addressmap too.
5370 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
5371 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
5372 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
5373 rather than just "success" or "failure".
5374 - A more sane version numbering system. See
5375 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
5376 - New contributed script "exitlist": a simple python script to
5377 parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
5379 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
5380 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
5381 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
5382 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
5383 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
5384 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
5385 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
5387 o Robustness/stability fixes:
5388 - Make Tor use Niels Provos's libevent instead of its current
5389 poll-but-sometimes-select mess. This will let us use faster async
5390 cores (like epoll, kpoll, and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better
5392 - pthread support now too. This was forced because when we forked,
5393 we ended up wasting a lot of duplicate ram over time. Also switch
5394 to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow reentry and
5396 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
5397 - Annotate circuits w/ whether they aim to contain high uptime nodes
5398 and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
5400 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
5401 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
5402 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
5403 that will want high uptime circuits.
5404 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
5405 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
5406 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
5407 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
5408 - Reset published uptime when you wake up from hibernation.
5409 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
5410 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
5411 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
5412 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
5413 - New circuit pooling algorithm: make sure to have enough circs around
5414 to satisfy any predicted ports, and also make sure to have 2 internal
5415 circs around if we've required internal circs lately (and with high
5416 uptime if we've seen that lately too).
5417 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
5418 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
5419 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
5420 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
5421 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
5422 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
5423 when we try to launch one.
5424 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds,
5425 rather than for n (where n=3) attempts to build a circuit.
5426 - Change SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to a config option
5427 "ShutdownWaitLength".
5428 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
5429 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
5430 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
5431 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending "misc",
5432 and to take errno into account where possible.
5435 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert, when we have a
5436 pending create cell and an OR connection fails right then.
5437 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
5438 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
5439 - Make sequence of log messages when starting on win32 with no config
5440 file more reasonable.
5441 - When choosing an exit node for a new non-internal circ, don't take
5442 into account whether it'll be useful for any pending x.onion
5443 addresses -- it won't.
5444 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
5445 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
5446 for google.com" problem.
5447 - Make "platform" string in descriptor more accurate for Win32 servers,
5448 so it's not just "unknown platform".
5449 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options (thanks weasel).
5450 If they say "--" on the commandline, it's not an option.
5451 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
5452 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
5454 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
5455 they could use instead.
5456 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
5457 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on win32
5458 means to let you bind to the port _even when somebody else
5459 already has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
5460 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
5461 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
5462 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
5463 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
5464 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
5466 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
5470 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
5471 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
5473 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
5474 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
5475 private-IP addresses.
5476 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
5477 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
5479 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
5480 smart" value, that is low for servers and high for clients.
5481 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
5482 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
5483 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
5484 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
5485 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
5487 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
5488 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
5489 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
5490 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
5491 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
5492 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
5493 - Add --with-dmalloc ./configure option, to track memory leaks.
5494 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
5496 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
5498 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
5499 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
5500 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
5501 whether the server is hibernating.
5504 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
5505 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
5506 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
5507 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
5508 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
5509 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
5510 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
5511 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
5512 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
5513 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
5514 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
5515 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
5516 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
5517 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
5518 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
5520 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
5521 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
5522 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
5523 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
5524 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
5525 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
5526 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
5527 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
5528 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
5529 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
5530 existing torrc files.
5531 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
5534 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
5535 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
5536 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
5537 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
5538 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
5539 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
5540 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
5541 the win32 SYSTEM account.
5542 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
5543 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
5544 file descriptors available.
5545 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
5546 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
5547 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
5550 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
5551 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
5552 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
5553 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
5555 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
5556 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
5557 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
5558 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
5559 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
5561 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
5562 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
5563 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
5564 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
5565 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
5566 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
5567 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
5568 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
5569 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
5570 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
5571 800kB/s of capacity.
5572 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
5575 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
5576 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
5577 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
5578 need as much processor time.
5579 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
5580 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
5581 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
5582 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
5583 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
5584 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
5585 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
5586 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
5587 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
5588 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
5589 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
5590 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
5592 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
5593 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
5594 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
5595 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
5596 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
5597 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
5598 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
5601 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
5602 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
5603 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
5605 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
5606 style address, then we'd crash.
5607 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
5608 a dirserver is broken.
5609 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
5611 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
5612 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
5613 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
5615 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
5616 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
5617 name out of the warning/assert messages.
5618 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
5619 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
5620 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
5622 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
5623 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
5624 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
5626 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
5628 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
5629 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
5630 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
5631 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
5632 values at once couldn't work.
5633 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
5634 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
5635 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
5636 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
5637 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
5638 they can handle any number of routers.
5639 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
5640 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
5641 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
5642 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
5643 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
5644 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
5645 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
5646 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
5647 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
5650 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
5651 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
5652 - Make hibernation actually work.
5653 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
5654 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
5655 don't use the stream status code.
5658 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
5660 - Clean up manpage and torrc.sample file.
5661 - Clean up severities and text of log warnings.
5663 - Make servers trigger an assert when they enter hibernation.
5666 Changes in version 0.0.9rc7 - 2004-12-08
5667 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc:
5668 - Fix a stack-trashing crash when an exit node begins hibernating.
5669 - Avoid looking at unallocated memory while considering which
5670 ports we need to build circuits to cover.
5671 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
5672 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
5673 - Fix a bug with init_cookie_authentication() in the controller.
5674 - When recommending new-format log lines, if the upper bound is
5675 LOG_ERR, leave it implicit.
5677 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5678 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
5679 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
5680 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
5681 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
5682 - win32: tolerate extra "readable" events better.
5683 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
5684 - Make unit tests work on win32.
5687 Changes in version 0.0.9rc6 - 2004-12-06
5688 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
5689 - Clean up some more integer underflow opportunities (not exploitable
5691 - While hibernating, hup should not regrow our listeners.
5692 - Send an end to the streams we close when we hibernate, rather
5693 than just chopping them off.
5694 - React to eof immediately on non-open edge connections.
5696 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5697 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
5698 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
5699 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
5700 right after sending the begin cell.
5701 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
5702 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
5703 exit nodes too. Oops.
5706 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
5707 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
5708 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
5709 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
5710 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
5711 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
5712 the user knows which one it's talking about.
5713 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
5714 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
5715 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
5718 Changes in version 0.0.9rc5 - 2004-12-01
5719 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5720 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
5721 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
5723 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
5725 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre:
5726 - Fix integer underflow in tor_vsnprintf() that may be exploitable,
5727 but doesn't seem to be currently; thanks to Ilja van Sprundel for
5729 - If anybody set DirFetchPostPeriod, give them StatusFetchPeriod
5730 instead. Impose minima and maxima for all *Period options; impose
5731 even tighter maxima for fetching if we are a caching dirserver.
5732 Clip rather than rejecting.
5733 - Fetch cached running-routers from servers that serve it (that is,
5734 authdirservers and servers running 0.0.9rc5-cvs or later.)
5737 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
5738 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
5739 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
5740 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
5742 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
5745 Changes in version 0.0.9rc4 - 2004-11-28
5746 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5747 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
5748 win32 socket errors better.
5750 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
5751 - Actually catch the -USR2 signal.
5754 Changes in version 0.0.9rc3 - 2004-11-25
5755 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5756 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
5757 so we don't see those messages days later.
5759 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
5760 - Make tor-resolve work again.
5761 - Avoid infinite loop in tor-resolve if tor hangs up on it.
5762 - Fix an assert trigger for clients/servers handling resolves.
5765 Changes in version 0.0.9rc2 - 2004-11-24
5766 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9rc1:
5767 - I broke socks5 support while fixing the eof bug.
5768 - Allow unitless bandwidths and intervals; they default to bytes
5770 - New servers don't start out hibernating; they are active until
5771 they run out of bytes, so they have a better estimate of how
5772 long it takes, and so their operators can know they're working.
5775 Changes in version 0.0.9rc1 - 2004-11-23
5776 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5777 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
5778 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
5779 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
5780 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
5781 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
5782 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
5783 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
5785 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre6:
5786 - Fix hibernate bug that caused pre6 to be broken.
5787 - Don't keep rephist info for routers that haven't had activity for
5788 24 hours. (This matters now that clients have keys, since we track
5790 - Never call close_temp_logs while validating log options.
5791 - Fix backslash-escaping on tor.sh.in and torctl.in.
5794 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
5795 hibernation properties by
5796 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
5797 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
5798 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
5799 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
5800 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
5801 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
5802 get back to normal.)
5803 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
5805 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
5806 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
5807 to fill the last cell completely.
5808 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
5811 Changes in version 0.0.9pre6 - 2004-11-15
5812 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5813 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
5814 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
5815 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
5816 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
5817 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
5818 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
5819 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
5820 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
5821 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
5823 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre5:
5824 - Fix a bug in read_all that was corrupting config files on windows.
5825 - When we're raising the max number of open file descriptors to
5826 'unlimited', don't log that we just raised it to '-1'.
5827 - Include event code with events, as required by control-spec.txt.
5828 - Don't give a fingerprint when clients do --list-fingerprint:
5829 it's misleading, because it will never be the same again.
5830 - Stop using strlcpy in tor_strndup, since it was slowing us
5832 - Remove warn on startup about missing cached-directory file.
5833 - Make kill -USR1 work again.
5834 - Hibernate if we start tor during the "wait for wakeup-time" phase
5835 of an accounting interval. Log our hibernation plans better.
5836 - Authoritative dirservers now also cache their directory, so they
5837 have it on start-up.
5840 - Fetch running-routers; cache running-routers; compress
5841 running-routers; serve compressed running-routers.z
5842 - Add NSI installer script contributed by J Doe.
5843 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
5844 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
5845 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
5846 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
5847 configuration to torrc.
5848 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
5849 - Include control-spec.txt in the tarball.
5850 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
5851 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
5852 - Document authentication config in man page, and document signals
5854 - Clean up confusing parts of man page and torrc.sample.
5855 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
5856 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
5857 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
5858 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
5859 log more informatively.
5860 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
5861 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
5862 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
5863 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
5864 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
5865 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
5866 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
5867 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
5868 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
5869 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
5870 from each other, to hinder linkability.
5873 Changes in version 0.0.9pre5 - 2004-11-09
5874 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre4:
5875 - Fix a seg fault in unit tests (doesn't affect main program).
5876 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
5877 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
5878 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
5879 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
5881 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
5882 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
5883 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
5884 they ran out of file descriptors.
5885 - Send resolve cells to exit routers that are running a new
5886 enough version of the resolve code to work right.
5887 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
5888 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
5889 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
5890 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
5891 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
5893 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
5896 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMaxKB" lets you
5897 set how many KBytes per month you want to allow your server to
5898 consume. Rather than spreading those bytes out evenly over the
5899 month, we instead hibernate for some of the month and pop up
5900 at a deterministic time, work until the bytes are consumed, then
5901 hibernate again. Config option "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you
5902 specify which day of the month your billing cycle starts on.
5903 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
5904 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
5905 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
5906 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
5907 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
5908 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
5909 with the control port.
5910 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
5911 use in authenticating to the control interface.
5912 - New log format in config:
5913 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
5914 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
5917 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
5918 from their dirserver.
5919 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
5921 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
5922 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
5923 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
5924 them act more like real nodes.
5925 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
5926 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
5928 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
5929 nickname to its identity key.
5930 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
5931 not on the command line.
5932 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
5933 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
5934 1024) file descriptors.
5936 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
5937 - Replace sprintf with snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
5939 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
5940 - Avoid strcat; use snprintf or strlcat instead.
5941 - snprintf wrapper with consistent (though not C99) overflow behavior.
5944 Changes in version 0.0.9pre4 - 2004-10-17
5945 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre3:
5946 - If the server doesn't specify an exit policy, use the real default
5947 exit policy, not reject *:*.
5948 - Ignore fascistfirewall when uploading/downloading hidden service
5949 descriptors, since we go through Tor for those; and when using
5950 an HttpProxy, since we assume it can reach them all.
5951 - When looking for an authoritative dirserver, use only the ones
5952 configured at boot. Don't bother looking in the directory.
5953 - The rest of the fix for get_default_conf_file() on older win32.
5954 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
5957 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
5958 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
5959 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
5960 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
5961 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
5962 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
5963 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
5966 Changes in version 0.0.9pre3 - 2004-10-13
5967 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1:
5968 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
5969 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
5970 the ones we find in directories.)
5971 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
5973 - Fix the rest of the bug where a newly started OR would appear
5974 as unverified even after we've added his fingerprint and hupped
5976 - Fix a bug from 0.0.7: when read() failed on a stream, we would
5977 close it without sending back an end. So 'connection refused'
5978 would simply be ignored and the user would get no response.
5980 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9pre2:
5981 - Serving the cached-on-disk directory to people is bad. We now
5982 provide no directory until we've fetched a fresh one.
5983 - Workaround for bug on windows where cached-directories get crlf
5985 - Make get_default_conf_file() work on older windows too.
5986 - If we write a *:* exit policy line in the descriptor, don't write
5987 any more exit policy lines.
5990 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
5991 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
5992 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
5993 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
5994 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
5995 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
5996 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
5997 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
5998 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
5999 will be able to get a directory.
6000 - Http proxy support
6001 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
6002 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
6003 be routed through this host.
6004 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
6005 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
6006 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
6007 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
6010 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
6012 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
6013 clients/servers with an open dirport.
6014 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
6015 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
6016 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
6017 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
6018 intermittent connections.
6019 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
6020 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
6022 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
6023 in reporting stats locally.
6024 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
6025 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
6026 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
6029 Changes in version 0.0.9pre2 - 2004-10-03
6031 - Make fetching a cached directory work for 64-bit platforms too.
6032 - Make zlib.h a required header, not an optional header.
6035 Changes in version 0.0.9pre1 - 2004-10-01
6037 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
6038 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
6039 if you don't want it open.
6040 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
6041 - Improve man page to mention more of the 0.0.8 features.
6042 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
6043 intermittent connections.
6044 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
6046 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
6047 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
6048 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
6049 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
6050 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
6051 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
6052 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
6053 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
6054 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
6055 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
6056 - Fix a rare bug where sometimes a verified OR would connect to us
6057 before he'd uploaded his descriptor, which would cause us to
6058 assign conn->nickname as though he's unverified. Now we look through
6059 the fingerprint list to see if he's there.
6060 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
6061 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
6064 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
6065 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
6066 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
6067 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
6068 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
6070 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
6072 - Reply with a deflated directory when a client asks for "dir.z".
6073 We could use allow-encodings instead, but allow-encodings isn't
6074 specified in HTTP 1.0.
6075 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
6076 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
6077 than once per minute.
6078 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
6079 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
6082 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
6083 o Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
6086 Changes in version 0.0.8rc2 - 2004-08-20
6087 o Make it compile on cygwin again.
6088 o When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
6089 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
6092 Changes in version 0.0.8rc1 - 2004-08-18
6093 o Changes from 0.0.7.3:
6095 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
6096 don't put it into the client dns cache.
6097 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP address
6098 should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy reject *:*
6099 until we get our next directory.
6101 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
6102 - Avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
6103 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't replace
6104 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
6105 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
6106 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
6107 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
6108 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
6109 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
6110 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
6111 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
6113 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
6115 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
6116 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
6118 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
6119 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
6120 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
6122 o Patches to 0.0.8preX:
6124 - Patches to compile and run on win32 again (maybe)?
6125 - Fix crash when looking for ~/.torrc with no $HOME set.
6126 - Fix a race bug in the unit tests.
6127 - Handle verified/unverified name collisions better when new
6128 routerinfo's arrive in a directory.
6129 - Sometimes routers were getting entered into the stats before
6130 we'd assigned their identity_digest. Oops.
6131 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
6134 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
6135 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
6136 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
6137 - Add a man page for tor-resolve.
6140 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
6141 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
6142 ask them to resolve the host "".
6145 Changes in version 0.0.8pre3 - 2004-08-09
6146 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
6147 - Allow multiple ORs with same nickname in routerlist -- now when
6148 people give us one identity key for a nickname, then later
6149 another, we don't constantly complain until the first expires.
6150 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
6151 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
6152 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
6153 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
6154 clients don't use this yet.)
6155 - When people mistakenly use Tor as an http proxy, point them
6156 at the tor-doc.html rather than the INSTALL.
6157 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
6158 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
6159 for pointing out this bug.)
6160 - Rotate onion keys every 12 hours, not every 2 hours, so we have
6161 fewer problems with people using the wrong key.
6162 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
6163 kazaa, gnutella ports.
6164 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
6166 o Changes from 0.0.8preX:
6167 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
6168 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
6169 - Fix an assert error that was making SocksPolicy not work.
6170 - Be willing to expire routers that have an open dirport -- it's
6171 just the authoritative dirservers we want to not forget.
6172 - Reject tor-resolve requests for .onion addresses early, so we
6173 don't build a whole rendezvous circuit and then fail.
6174 - When you're warning a server that he's unverified, don't cry
6176 - Fix a race condition: don't try to extend onto a connection
6177 that's still handshaking.
6178 - For servers in clique mode, require the conn to be open before
6179 you'll choose it for your path.
6180 - Fix some cosmetic bugs about duplicate mark-for-close, lack of
6181 end relay cell, etc.
6182 - Measure bandwidth capacity over the last 24 hours, not just 12
6183 - Bugfix: authoritative dirservers were making and signing a new
6184 directory for each client, rather than reusing the cached one.
6187 Changes in version 0.0.8pre2 - 2004-08-04
6188 o Changes from 0.0.7.2:
6190 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
6191 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
6192 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
6193 list to decide who's running or verified.
6194 - Bugfixes and features:
6195 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
6196 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
6197 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
6198 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
6199 - Dirservers now include RFC1123-style dates in the HTTP headers,
6200 which one day we will use to better detect clock skew.
6202 o Changes from 0.0.8pre1:
6203 - Make it compile without warnings again on win32.
6204 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
6205 know you might want to get it verified.
6206 - Only pick a default nickname if you plan to be a server.
6209 Changes in version 0.0.8pre1 - 2004-07-23
6211 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
6212 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
6213 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
6214 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
6217 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
6218 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
6219 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
6220 hadn't heard of before.
6223 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
6224 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
6225 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
6226 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
6227 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
6228 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
6229 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
6230 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
6231 - To avoid Sybil attacks, paths still use only verified servers.
6232 But now we have a chance to play around with hybrid approaches.
6233 - Nodes track bandwidth usage to estimate capacity (not used yet).
6234 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
6235 - Directory caching.
6236 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
6237 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
6238 directory they've pulled down.
6239 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
6240 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
6241 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
6242 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
6243 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
6244 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
6245 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
6247 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
6248 This isn't used yet.
6249 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
6250 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
6251 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
6252 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
6253 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
6254 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
6255 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
6256 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
6257 - File and name management:
6258 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
6259 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
6261 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
6262 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
6263 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
6264 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
6265 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
6266 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
6267 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
6269 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
6270 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
6271 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
6272 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
6273 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
6275 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
6276 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
6277 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
6278 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
6279 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
6280 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
6281 - New docs in the tarball:
6283 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
6286 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
6287 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
6288 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
6291 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
6292 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
6293 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
6296 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
6297 o Updated the man page to reflect the new features.
6300 Changes in version 0.0.7rc2 - 2004-06-06
6301 o Changes from 0.0.7rc1:
6302 - Make it build on Win32 again.
6303 o Changes from 0.0.6.2:
6304 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
6308 Changes in version 0.0.7rc1 - 2004-06-02
6310 - On sighup, we were adding another log without removing the first
6311 one. So log messages would get duplicated n times for n sighups.
6312 - Several cases of using a connection after we'd freed it. The
6313 problem was that connections that are pending resolve are in both
6314 the pending_resolve tree, and also the circuit's resolving_streams
6315 list. When you want to remove one, you must remove it from both.
6316 - Fix a double-mark-for-close where an end cell arrived for a
6317 resolving stream, and then the resolve failed.
6318 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
6319 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
6322 - Crank up some of our constants to handle more users.
6325 Changes in version 0.0.7pre1 - 2004-06-02
6326 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
6327 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
6328 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
6330 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
6331 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
6332 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
6334 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
6335 hidden service per 15-minute period.
6336 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
6337 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
6338 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
6339 o Fixes for security bugs:
6340 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
6341 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
6342 a trusted dirserver.
6344 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
6345 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
6346 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
6347 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
6348 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
6349 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
6350 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
6351 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
6352 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
6353 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
6355 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
6356 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
6357 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
6358 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
6360 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
6361 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
6362 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
6363 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
6364 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
6365 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
6366 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
6367 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
6368 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
6369 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
6370 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
6371 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
6372 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
6375 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
6376 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
6377 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
6378 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
6381 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
6382 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
6383 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
6384 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
6385 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
6386 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
6387 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
6391 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
6395 Changes in version 0.0.6rc4 - 2004-05-01
6396 o Update the built-in dirservers list to use the new directory format
6397 o Fix a rare seg fault: if a node offering a hidden service attempts
6398 to build a circuit to Alice's rendezvous point and fails before it
6399 reaches the last hop, it retries with a different circuit, but
6401 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
6404 Changes in version 0.0.6rc3 - 2004-04-28
6405 o Don't expire non-general excess circuits (if we had enough
6406 circuits open, we were expiring rendezvous circuits -- even
6407 when they had a stream attached. oops.)
6408 o Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
6409 o Better debugging for tls errors
6410 o Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
6411 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
6412 o Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
6413 o Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
6414 o Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
6415 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
6416 o win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
6417 o win32's close can't close a socket.
6420 Changes in version 0.0.6rc2 - 2004-04-26
6421 o Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
6422 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
6423 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
6424 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
6425 it tells you about the first error. Fun fun.
6426 o Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
6427 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
6428 'Mostly harmless', but still worth fixing.
6429 o Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
6430 just close the circ.
6431 o check for <machine/limits.h> so we build on NetBSD again (I hope).
6432 o don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit
6433 (this was quite rare).
6436 Changes in version 0.0.6rc1 - 2004-04-25
6437 o We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
6438 o CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
6439 if you decrypted them correctly.
6440 o Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
6441 o Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
6442 o Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
6445 Changes in version 0.0.6pre5 - 2004-04-18
6446 o changes from 0.0.6pre4:
6447 - make tor build on broken freebsd 5.2 installs
6448 - fix a failed assert when you try an intro point, get a nack, and try
6449 a second one and it works.
6450 - when alice uses a port that the hidden service doesn't accept,
6451 it now sends back an end cell (denied by exit policy). otherwise
6452 alice would just have to wait to time out.
6453 - fix another rare bug: when we had tried all the intro
6454 points for a hidden service, we fetched the descriptor
6455 again, but we left our introcirc thinking it had already
6456 sent an intro, so it kept waiting for a response...
6457 - bugfix: when you sleep your hidden-service laptop, as soon
6458 as it wakes up it tries to upload a service descriptor, but
6459 socketpair fails for some reason (localhost not up yet?).
6460 now we simply give up on that upload, and we'll try again later.
6461 i'd still like to find the bug though.
6462 - if an intro circ waiting for an ack dies before getting one, then
6464 - we were reusing stale service descriptors and refetching usable
6468 Changes in version 0.0.6pre4 - 2004-04-14
6469 o changes from 0.0.6pre3:
6470 - when bob fails to connect to the rendezvous point, and his
6471 circ didn't fail because of the rendezvous point itself, then
6472 he retries a couple of times
6473 - we expire introduction and rendezvous circs more thoroughly
6474 (sometimes they were hanging around forever)
6475 - we expire unattached rendezvous streams that have been around
6476 too long (they were sticking around forever).
6477 - fix a measly fencepost error that was crashing everybody with
6481 Changes in version 0.0.6pre3 - 2004-04-14
6482 o changes from 0.0.6pre2:
6483 - make hup work again
6484 - fix some memory leaks for dirservers
6485 - allow more skew in rendezvous descriptor timestamps, to help
6486 handle people like blanu who don't know what time it is
6487 - normal circs are 3 hops, but some rend/intro circs are 4, if
6488 the initiator doesn't get to choose the last hop
6489 - send acks for introductions, so alice can know whether to try
6491 - bob publishes intro points more correctly
6492 o changes from 0.0.5:
6493 - fix an assert trigger that's been plaguing us since the days
6494 of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
6495 - retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
6496 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address
6497 (also should try another, because dns on random internet servers
6499 - when we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
6500 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
6501 in-memory directories too
6504 Changes in version 0.0.6pre2 - 2004-04-08
6505 o We fixed our base32 implementation. Now it works on all architectures.
6508 Changes in version 0.0.6pre1 - 2004-04-08
6510 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
6511 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
6512 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
6513 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
6516 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
6520 Changes in version 0.0.5rc3 - 2004-03-29
6521 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
6523 o Re-enable recommendedversion checking (we broke it in rc2, oops)
6524 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
6525 but that aren't warnings
6528 Changes in version 0.0.5rc2 - 2004-03-29
6529 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
6530 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
6531 the dns farm to do it.
6532 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
6533 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
6535 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
6536 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
6537 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
6540 Changes in version 0.0.5rc1 - 2004-03-28
6541 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
6542 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
6543 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
6544 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
6545 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
6546 expect it to have a nickname.
6547 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
6548 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
6551 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
6552 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
6556 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
6557 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
6558 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
6559 - include missing header fcntl.h
6560 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
6561 - deal with hardware word alignment
6562 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
6563 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
6564 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
6565 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
6566 by kill -USR1 currently.
6567 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
6568 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
6569 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
6572 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
6573 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
6574 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
6577 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
6579 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
6580 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
6581 - And fix a few endian issues.
6584 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
6586 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
6587 try that circuit again: try a new one.
6588 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
6589 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
6590 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
6591 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
6592 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
6593 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
6595 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
6596 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
6597 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
6599 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
6601 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
6602 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
6603 side isn't reading right then.
6604 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
6606 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
6607 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
6608 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
6611 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
6613 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
6614 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
6617 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
6621 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
6623 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
6624 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
6625 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
6626 connection is finished.
6627 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
6628 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
6629 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
6630 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
6631 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
6632 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
6633 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
6634 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
6635 rather than warn and continue.
6636 - Make --version work
6637 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
6640 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
6642 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
6644 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
6645 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
6647 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
6648 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
6649 so you can collect coredumps there.
6651 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
6652 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
6653 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
6654 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
6655 dns cache actually gets populated.
6656 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
6657 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
6658 end cell down it first.
6659 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
6660 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
6663 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
6665 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
6666 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
6668 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
6669 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
6670 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
6671 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
6672 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
6673 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
6675 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
6677 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
6678 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
6679 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
6680 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
6681 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
6682 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
6684 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
6685 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
6688 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
6690 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
6691 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
6692 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
6693 tor. It even has a man page.
6694 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
6695 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
6696 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
6697 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
6699 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
6701 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
6704 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
6706 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
6708 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
6709 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
6710 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
6711 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
6712 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
6713 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
6714 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
6715 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
6716 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
6717 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
6718 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
6720 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
6721 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
6724 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
6726 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
6727 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
6730 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
6732 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
6733 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
6734 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
6735 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
6736 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
6737 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
6738 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
6739 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
6740 logfile so you know it's working.
6741 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
6742 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
6745 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
6747 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
6748 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
6749 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
6752 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
6754 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
6755 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
6756 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
6759 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
6760 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
6761 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
6763 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
6764 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
6766 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
6767 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
6768 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
6770 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
6771 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
6775 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
6777 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
6778 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
6779 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
6782 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
6783 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
6784 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
6785 - Add port ranges to exit policies
6786 - Add a conservative default exit policy
6787 - Warn if you're running tor as root
6788 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
6789 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
6790 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
6791 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
6793 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
6796 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
6797 o Robustness and bugfixes:
6798 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
6799 really screw things up.
6800 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
6802 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
6803 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
6805 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
6806 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
6807 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
6808 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
6809 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
6810 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
6813 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
6816 - Change default loglevel to warn.
6817 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
6818 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
6820 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
6823 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
6824 o Robustness and bugfixes:
6825 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
6826 - to get ownership/permissions right
6827 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
6828 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
6829 pull down a directory again
6830 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
6831 causing server crashes
6832 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
6833 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
6834 - exit if bind() fails
6835 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
6836 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
6837 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
6838 - fix minor bias in PRNG
6839 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
6842 - Wrote the design document (woo)
6844 o Circuit building and exit policies:
6845 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
6847 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
6848 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
6849 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
6850 exists, rather than failing
6851 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
6852 which AP connections are standing by
6853 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
6854 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
6855 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
6857 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
6858 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
6861 - APPort is now called SocksPort
6862 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
6864 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
6865 hardcoded (for dirservers)
6866 - Reloads config on HUP
6867 - Usage info on -h or --help
6868 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
6871 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
6872 o General stability:
6873 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
6874 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
6875 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
6876 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
6877 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
6878 to take down the network when I approve a new router
6879 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
6882 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
6883 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
6885 o Autoconf improvements:
6886 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
6887 - Make install now works
6888 - create var/lib/tor on make install
6889 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
6890 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
6892 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
6893 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
6894 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
6895 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup