1 This document summarizes new features and bugfixes in each stable release
2 of Tor. If you want to see more detailed descriptions of the changes in
3 each development snapshot, see the ChangeLog file.
5 Changes in version 0.2.8.9 - 2016-10-17
6 Tor 0.2.8.9 backports a fix for a security hole in previous versions
7 of Tor that would allow a remote attacker to crash a Tor client,
8 hidden service, relay, or authority. All Tor users should upgrade to
9 this version, or to 0.2.9.4-alpha. Patches will be released for older
12 o Major features (security fixes, also in 0.2.9.4-alpha):
13 - Prevent a class of security bugs caused by treating the contents
14 of a buffer chunk as if they were a NUL-terminated string. At
15 least one such bug seems to be present in all currently used
16 versions of Tor, and would allow an attacker to remotely crash
17 most Tor instances, especially those compiled with extra compiler
18 hardening. With this defense in place, such bugs can't crash Tor,
19 though we should still fix them as they occur. Closes ticket
20 20384 (TROVE-2016-10-001).
22 o Minor features (geoip):
23 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 4 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
27 Changes in version 0.2.8.8 - 2016-09-23
28 Tor 0.2.8.8 fixes two crash bugs present in previous versions of the
29 0.2.8.x series. Relays running 0.2.8.x should upgrade, as should users
30 who select public relays as their bridges.
32 o Major bugfixes (crash):
33 - Fix a complicated crash bug that could affect Tor clients
34 configured to use bridges when replacing a networkstatus consensus
35 in which one of their bridges was mentioned. OpenBSD users saw
36 more crashes here, but all platforms were potentially affected.
37 Fixes bug 20103; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
39 o Major bugfixes (relay, OOM handler):
40 - Fix a timing-dependent assertion failure that could occur when we
41 tried to flush from a circuit after having freed its cells because
42 of an out-of-memory condition. Fixes bug 20203; bugfix on
43 0.2.8.1-alpha. Thanks to "cypherpunks" for help diagnosing
46 o Minor feature (fallback directories):
47 - Remove broken fallbacks from the hard-coded fallback directory
48 list. Closes ticket 20190; patch by teor.
50 o Minor features (geoip):
51 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the September 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
55 Changes in version 0.2.8.7 - 2016-08-24
56 Tor 0.2.8.7 fixes an important bug related to the ReachableAddresses
57 option in 0.2.8.6, and replaces a retiring bridge authority. Everyone
58 who sets the ReachableAddresses option, and all bridges, are strongly
59 encouraged to upgrade.
61 o Directory authority changes:
62 - The "Tonga" bridge authority has been retired; the new bridge
63 authority is "Bifroest". Closes tickets 19728 and 19690.
65 o Major bugfixes (client, security):
66 - Only use the ReachableAddresses option to restrict the first hop
67 in a path. In earlier versions of 0.2.8.x, it would apply to
68 every hop in the path, with a possible degradation in anonymity
69 for anyone using an uncommon ReachableAddress setting. Fixes bug
70 19973; bugfix on 0.2.8.2-alpha.
72 o Minor features (geoip):
73 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 2 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
76 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
77 - Remove an inappropriate "inline" in tortls.c that was causing
78 warnings on older versions of GCC. Fixes bug 19903; bugfix
81 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
82 - Avoid logging a NULL string pointer when loading fallback
83 directory information. Fixes bug 19947; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha
84 and 0.2.8.1-alpha. Report and patch by "rubiate".
87 Changes in version 0.2.8.6 - 2016-08-02
89 Tor 0.2.8.6 is the first stable version of the Tor 0.2.8 series.
91 The Tor 0.2.8 series improves client bootstrapping performance,
92 completes the authority-side implementation of improved identity
93 keys for relays, and includes numerous bugfixes and performance
94 improvements throughout the program. This release continues to
95 improve the coverage of Tor's test suite. For a full list of
96 changes since Tor 0.2.7, see the ReleaseNotes file.
98 Below is a list of the changes since Tor 0.2.7.
100 o New system requirements:
101 - Tor no longer attempts to support platforms where the "time_t"
102 type is unsigned. (To the best of our knowledge, only OpenVMS does
103 this, and Tor has never actually built on OpenVMS.) Closes
105 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL with a broken
106 implementation of counter mode. (This bug was present in OpenSSL
107 1.0.0, and was fixed in OpenSSL 1.0.0a.) Tor still detects, but no
108 longer runs with, these versions.
109 - Tor now uses Autoconf version 2.63 or later, and Automake 1.11 or
110 later (released in 2008 and 2009 respectively). If you are
111 building Tor from the git repository instead of from the source
112 distribution, and your tools are older than this, you will need to
113 upgrade. Closes ticket 17732.
115 o Directory authority changes:
116 - Update the V3 identity key for the dannenberg directory authority:
117 it was changed on 18 November 2015. Closes task 17906. Patch
119 - Urras is no longer a directory authority. Closes ticket 19271.
121 o Major features (directory system):
122 - Include a trial list of default fallback directories, based on an
123 opt-in survey of suitable relays. Doing this should make clients
124 bootstrap more quickly and reliably, and reduce the load on the
125 directory authorities. Closes ticket 15775. Patch by teor.
126 Candidates identified using an OnionOO script by weasel, teor,
127 gsathya, and karsten.
128 - Previously only relays that explicitly opened a directory port
129 (DirPort) accepted directory requests from clients. Now all
130 relays, with and without a DirPort, accept and serve tunneled
131 directory requests that they receive through their ORPort. You can
132 disable this behavior using the new DirCache option. Closes
134 - When bootstrapping multiple consensus downloads at a time, use the
135 first one that starts downloading, and close the rest. This
136 reduces failures when authorities or fallback directories are slow
137 or down. Together with the code for feature 15775, this feature
138 should reduces failures due to fallback churn. Implements ticket
139 4483. Patch by teor. Implements IPv4 portions of proposal 210 by
142 o Major features (security, Linux):
143 - When Tor starts as root on Linux and is told to switch user ID, it
144 can now retain the capability to bind to low ports. By default,
145 Tor will do this only when it's switching user ID and some low
146 ports have been configured. You can change this behavior with the
147 new option KeepBindCapabilities. Closes ticket 8195.
149 o Major bugfixes (client, bootstrapping):
150 - Check if bootstrap consensus downloads are still needed when the
151 linked connection attaches. This prevents tor making unnecessary
152 begindir-style connections, which are the only directory
153 connections tor clients make since the fix for 18483 was merged.
154 - Fix some edge cases where consensus download connections may not
155 have been closed, even though they were not needed. Related to fix
157 - Make relays retry consensus downloads the correct number of times,
158 rather than the more aggressive client retry count. Fixes part of
161 o Major bugfixes (dns proxy mode, crash):
162 - Avoid crashing when running as a DNS proxy. Fixes bug 16248;
163 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
165 o Major bugfixes (ed25519, voting):
166 - Actually enable support for authorities to match routers by their
167 Ed25519 identities. Previously, the code had been written, but
168 some debugging code that had accidentally been left in the
169 codebase made it stay turned off. Fixes bug 17702; bugfix
171 - When collating votes by Ed25519 identities, authorities now
172 include a "NoEdConsensus" flag if the ed25519 value (or lack
173 thereof) for a server does not reflect the majority consensus.
174 Related to bug 17668; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
175 - When generating a vote with keypinning disabled, never include two
176 entries for the same ed25519 identity. This bug was causing
177 authorities to generate votes that they could not parse when a
178 router violated key pinning by changing its RSA identity but
179 keeping its Ed25519 identity. Fixes bug 17668; fixes part of bug
180 18318. Bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
182 o Major bugfixes (key management):
183 - If OpenSSL fails to generate an RSA key, do not retain a dangling
184 pointer to the previous (uninitialized) key value. The impact here
185 should be limited to a difficult-to-trigger crash, if OpenSSL is
186 running an engine that makes key generation failures possible, or
187 if OpenSSL runs out of memory. Fixes bug 19152; bugfix on
188 0.2.1.10-alpha. Found by Yuan Jochen Kang, Suman Jana, and
191 o Major bugfixes (security, client, DNS proxy):
192 - Stop a crash that could occur when a client running with DNSPort
193 received a query with multiple address types, and the first
194 address type was not supported. Found and fixed by Scott Dial.
195 Fixes bug 18710; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
197 o Major bugfixes (security, compilation):
198 - Correctly detect compiler flags on systems where _FORTIFY_SOURCE
199 is predefined. Previously, our use of -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE would
200 cause a compiler warning, thereby making other checks fail, and
201 needlessly disabling compiler-hardening support. Fixes one case of
202 bug 18841; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta. Patch from "trudokal".
203 - Repair hardened builds under the clang compiler. Previously, our
204 use of _FORTIFY_SOURCE would conflict with clang's address
205 sanitizer. Fixes bug 14821; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
207 o Major bugfixes (security, pointers):
208 - Avoid a difficult-to-trigger heap corruption attack when extending
209 a smartlist to contain over 16GB of pointers. Fixes bug 18162;
210 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha, which fixed a related bug incompletely.
211 Reported by Guido Vranken.
213 o Major bugfixes (testing):
214 - Fix a bug that would block 'make test-network-all' on systems where
215 IPv6 packets were lost. Fixes bug 19008; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
217 o Major bugfixes (user interface):
218 - Correctly give a warning in the cases where a relay is specified
219 by nickname, and one such relay is found, but it is not officially
220 Named. Fixes bug 19203; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
222 o Minor features (accounting):
223 - Added two modes to the AccountingRule option: One for limiting
224 only the number of bytes sent ("AccountingRule out"), and one for
225 limiting only the number of bytes received ("AccountingRule in").
226 Closes ticket 15989; patch from "unixninja92".
228 o Minor features (bug-resistance):
229 - Make Tor survive errors involving connections without a
230 corresponding event object. Previously we'd fail with an
231 assertion; now we produce a log message. Related to bug 16248.
232 - Use tor_snprintf() and tor_vsnprintf() even in external and low-
233 level code, to harden against accidental failures to NUL-
234 terminate. Part of ticket 17852. Patch from jsturgix. Found
237 o Minor features (build):
238 - Detect systems with FreeBSD-derived kernels (such as GNU/kFreeBSD)
239 as having possible IPFW support. Closes ticket 18448. Patch from
241 - Since our build process now uses "make distcheck", we no longer
242 force "make dist" to depend on "make check". Closes ticket 17893;
243 patch from "cypherpunks".
244 - Tor now builds once again with the recent OpenSSL 1.1 development
245 branch (tested against 1.1.0-pre5 and 1.1.0-pre6-dev). We have been
246 tracking OpenSSL 1.1 development as it has progressed, and fixing
247 numerous compatibility issues as they arose. See tickets
248 17549, 17921, 17984, 19499, and 18286.
249 - When building manual pages, set the timezone to "UTC", so that the
250 output is reproducible. Fixes bug 19558; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
251 Patch from intrigeri.
253 o Minor features (clients):
254 - Make clients, onion services, and bridge relays always use an
255 encrypted begindir connection for directory requests. Resolves
256 ticket 18483. Patch by teor.
258 o Minor features (controller):
259 - Add 'GETINFO exit-policy/reject-private/[default,relay]', so
260 controllers can examine the the reject rules added by
261 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate. This makes it easier for stem to display
263 - Adds the FallbackDir entries to 'GETINFO config/defaults'. Closes
264 tickets 16774 and 17817. Patch by George Tankersley.
265 - New 'GETINFO hs/service/desc/id/' command to retrieve a hidden
266 service descriptor from a service's local hidden service
267 descriptor cache. Closes ticket 14846.
269 o Minor features (crypto):
270 - Add SHA3 and SHAKE support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17783.
271 - Add SHA512 support to crypto.c. Closes ticket 17663; patch from
273 - Improve performance when hashing non-multiple of 8 sized buffers,
274 based on Andrew Moon's public domain SipHash-2-4 implementation.
275 Fixes bug 17544; bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
276 - Validate the hard-coded Diffie-Hellman parameters and ensure that
277 p is a safe prime, and g is a suitable generator. Closes
279 - When allocating a digest state object, allocate no more space than
280 we actually need. Previously, we would allocate as much space as
281 the state for the largest algorithm would need. This change saves
282 up to 672 bytes per circuit. Closes ticket 17796.
284 o Minor features (directory downloads):
285 - Add UseDefaultFallbackDirs, which enables any hard-coded fallback
286 directory mirrors. The default is 1; set it to 0 to disable
287 fallbacks. Implements ticket 17576. Patch by teor.
288 - Wait for busy authorities and fallback directories to become non-
289 busy when bootstrapping. (A similar change was made in 6c443e987d
290 for directory caches chosen from the consensus.) Closes ticket
291 17864; patch by teor.
293 o Minor features (geoip):
294 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 6 2016 Maxmind GeoLite2
297 o Minor features (hidden service directory):
298 - Streamline relay-side hsdir handling: when relays consider whether
299 to accept an uploaded hidden service descriptor, they no longer
300 check whether they are one of the relays in the network that is
301 "supposed" to handle that descriptor. Implements ticket 18332.
303 o Minor features (IPv6):
304 - Add ClientPreferIPv6DirPort, which is set to 0 by default. If set
305 to 1, tor prefers IPv6 directory addresses.
306 - Add ClientUseIPv4, which is set to 1 by default. If set to 0, tor
307 avoids using IPv4 for client OR and directory connections.
308 - Add address policy assume_action support for IPv6 addresses.
309 - Add an argument 'ipv6=address:orport' to the DirAuthority and
310 FallbackDir torrc options, to specify an IPv6 address for an
311 authority or fallback directory. Add hard-coded ipv6 addresses for
312 directory authorities that have them. Closes ticket 17327; patch
313 from Nick Mathewson and teor.
314 - Allow users to configure directory authorities and fallback
315 directory servers with IPv6 addresses and ORPorts. Resolves
317 - Limit IPv6 mask bits to 128.
318 - Make tor_ersatz_socketpair work on IPv6-only systems. Fixes bug
319 17638; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Patch by teor.
320 - Try harder to obey the IP version restrictions "ClientUseIPv4 0",
321 "ClientUseIPv6 0", "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort", and
322 "ClientPreferIPv6DirPort". Closes ticket 17840; patch by teor.
323 - Warn when comparing against an AF_UNSPEC address in a policy, it's
324 almost always a bug. Closes ticket 17863; patch by teor.
325 - routerset_parse now accepts IPv6 literal addresses. Fixes bug
326 17060; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Patch by teor.
328 o Minor features (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
329 - Reject attempts to change our Address with "Sandbox 1" enabled.
330 Changing Address with Sandbox turned on would never actually work,
331 but previously it would fail in strange and confusing ways. Found
334 o Minor features (logging):
335 - When logging to syslog, allow a tag to be added to the syslog
336 identity (the string prepended to every log message). The tag can
337 be configured with SyslogIdentityTag and defaults to none. Setting
338 it to "foo" will cause logs to be tagged as "Tor-foo". Closes
341 o Minor features (portability):
342 - Use timingsafe_memcmp() where available. Closes ticket 17944;
343 patch from <logan@hackers.mu>.
345 o Minor features (relay, address discovery):
346 - Add a family argument to get_interface_addresses_raw() and
347 subfunctions to make network interface address interogation more
348 efficient. Now Tor can specifically ask for IPv4, IPv6 or both
349 types of interfaces from the operating system. Resolves
351 - When get_interface_address6_list(.,AF_UNSPEC,.) is called and
352 fails to enumerate interface addresses using the platform-specific
353 API, have it rely on the UDP socket fallback technique to try and
354 find out what IP addresses (both IPv4 and IPv6) our machine has.
355 Resolves ticket 17951.
357 o Minor features (replay cache):
358 - The replay cache now uses SHA256 instead of SHA1. Implements
359 feature 8961. Patch by teor, issue reported by rransom.
361 o Minor features (robustness):
362 - Exit immediately with an error message if the code attempts to use
363 Libevent without having initialized it. This should resolve some
364 frequently-made mistakes in our unit tests. Closes ticket 18241.
366 o Minor features (security, clock):
367 - Warn when the system clock appears to move back in time (when the
368 state file was last written in the future). Tor doesn't know that
369 consensuses have expired if the clock is in the past. Patch by
370 teor. Implements ticket 17188.
372 o Minor features (security, exit policies):
373 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now rejects more private addresses by
374 default. Specifically, it now rejects the relay's outbound bind
375 addresses (if configured), and the relay's configured port
376 addresses (such as ORPort and DirPort). Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on
377 0.2.0.11-alpha. Patch by teor.
379 o Minor features (security, memory erasure):
380 - Make memwipe() do nothing when passed a NULL pointer or buffer of
381 zero size. Check size argument to memwipe() for underflow. Fixes
382 bug 18089; bugfix on 0.2.3.25 and 0.2.4.6-alpha. Reported by "gk",
384 - Set the unused entries in a smartlist to NULL. This helped catch
385 a (harmless) bug, and shouldn't affect performance too much.
386 Implements ticket 17026.
387 - Use SecureMemoryWipe() function to securely clean memory on
388 Windows. Previously we'd use OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function.
389 Implements feature 17986.
390 - Use explicit_bzero or memset_s when present. Previously, we'd use
391 OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() function. Closes ticket 7419; patches
392 from <logan@hackers.mu> and <selven@hackers.mu>.
394 o Minor features (security, RNG):
395 - Adjust Tor's use of OpenSSL's RNG APIs so that they absolutely,
396 positively are not allowed to fail. Previously we depended on
397 internal details of OpenSSL's behavior. Closes ticket 17686.
398 - Never use the system entropy output directly for anything besides
399 seeding the PRNG. When we want to generate important keys, instead
400 of using system entropy directly, we now hash it with the PRNG
401 stream. This may help resist certain attacks based on broken OS
402 entropy implementations. Closes part of ticket 17694.
403 - Use modern system calls (like getentropy() or getrandom()) to
404 generate strong entropy on platforms that have them. Closes
407 o Minor features (security, win32):
408 - Set SO_EXCLUSIVEADDRUSE on Win32 to avoid a local port-stealing
409 attack. Fixes bug 18123; bugfix on all tor versions. Patch
412 o Minor features (unix domain sockets):
413 - Add a new per-socket option, RelaxDirModeCheck, to allow creating
414 Unix domain sockets without checking the permissions on the parent
415 directory. (Tor checks permissions by default because some
416 operating systems only check permissions on the parent directory.
417 However, some operating systems do look at permissions on the
418 socket, and tor's default check is unneeded.) Closes ticket 18458.
421 o Minor features (unix file permissions):
422 - Defer creation of Unix sockets until after setuid. This avoids
423 needing CAP_CHOWN and CAP_FOWNER when using systemd's
424 CapabilityBoundingSet, or chown and fowner when using SELinux.
425 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
426 - If any directory created by Tor is marked as group readable, the
427 filesystem group is allowed to be either the default GID or the
428 root user. Allowing root to read the DataDirectory prevents the
429 need for CAP_READ_SEARCH when using systemd's
430 CapabilityBoundingSet, or dac_read_search when using SELinux.
431 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
432 - Introduce a new DataDirectoryGroupReadable option. If it is set to
433 1, the DataDirectory will be made readable by the default GID.
434 Implements part of ticket 17562. Patch from Jamie Nguyen.
436 o Minor bugfixes (accounting):
437 - The max bandwidth when using 'AccountRule sum' is now correctly
438 logged. Fixes bug 18024; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch
441 o Minor bugfixes (assert, portability):
442 - Fix an assertion failure in memarea.c on systems where "long" is
443 shorter than the size of a pointer. Fixes bug 18716; bugfix
446 o Minor bugfixes (bootstrap):
447 - Consistently use the consensus download schedule for authority
448 certificates. Fixes bug 18816; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
450 o Minor bugfixes (build):
451 - Avoid spurious failures from configure files related to calling
452 exit(0) in TOR_SEARCH_LIBRARY. Fixes bug 18625; bugfix on
453 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
454 - Do not link the unit tests against both the testing and non-
455 testing versions of the static libraries. Fixes bug 18490; bugfix
457 - Resolve warnings when building on systems that are concerned with
458 signed char. Fixes bug 18728; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha
460 - Silence spurious clang-scan warnings in the ed25519_donna code by
461 explicitly initializing some objects. Fixes bug 18384; bugfix on
462 0.2.7.2-alpha. Patch by teor.
463 - When libscrypt.h is found, but no libscrypt library can be linked,
464 treat libscrypt as absent. Fixes bug 19161; bugfix
466 - Cause the unit tests to compile correctly on mingw64 versions that
467 lack sscanf. Fixes bug 19213; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
468 - Don't try to use the pthread_condattr_setclock() function unless
469 it actually exists. Fixes compilation on NetBSD-6.x. Fixes bug
470 17819; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
471 - Fix backtrace compilation on FreeBSD. Fixes bug 17827; bugfix
473 - Fix search for libevent libraries on OpenBSD (and other systems
474 that install libevent 1 and libevent 2 in parallel). Fixes bug
475 16651; bugfix on 0.1.0.7-rc. Patch from "rubiate".
476 - Isolate environment variables meant for tests from the rest of the
477 build system. Fixes bug 17818; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
478 - Mark all object files that include micro-revision.i as depending
479 on it, so as to make parallel builds more reliable. Fixes bug
480 17826; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
481 - Remove config.log only from make distclean, not from make clean.
482 Fixes bug 17924; bugfix on 0.2.4.1-alpha.
483 - Replace usage of 'INLINE' with 'inline'. Fixes bug 17804; bugfix
485 - Remove an #endif from configure.ac so that we correctly detect the
486 presence of in6_addr.s6_addr32. Fixes bug 17923; bugfix
489 o Minor bugfixes (client, bootstrap):
490 - Count receipt of new microdescriptors as progress towards
491 bootstrapping. Previously, with EntryNodes set, Tor might not
492 successfully repopulate the guard set on bootstrapping. Fixes bug
493 16825; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
495 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
496 - Fix a bad memory handling bug that would occur if we had queued a
497 cell on a channel's incoming queue. Fortunately, we can't actually
498 queue a cell like that as our code is constructed today, but it's
499 best to avoid this kind of error, even if there isn't any code
500 that triggers it today. Fixes bug 18570; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
501 - Assert that allocated memory held by the reputation code is freed
502 according to its internal counters. Fixes bug 17753; bugfix
504 - Assert when the TLS contexts fail to initialize. Fixes bug 17683;
506 - Update to the latest version of Trunnel, which tries harder to
507 avoid generating code that can invoke memcpy(p,NULL,0). Bug found
508 by clang address sanitizer. Fixes bug 18373; bugfix
510 - When closing an entry connection, generate a warning if we should
511 have sent an end cell for it but we haven't. Fixes bug 17876;
512 bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
514 o Minor bugfixes (configuration):
515 - Fix a tiny memory leak when parsing a port configuration ending in
516 ":auto". Fixes bug 18374; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
518 o Minor bugfixes (containers):
519 - If we somehow attempt to construct a heap with more than
520 1073741822 elements, avoid an integer overflow when maintaining
521 the heap property. Fixes bug 18296; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
523 o Minor bugfixes (controller, microdescriptors):
524 - Make GETINFO dir/status-vote/current/consensus conform to the
525 control specification by returning "551 Could not open cached
526 consensus..." when not caching consensuses. Fixes bug 18920;
527 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
529 o Minor bugfixes (crypto):
530 - Check the return value of HMAC() and assert on failure. Fixes bug
531 17658; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha. Patch by teor.
533 o Minor bugfixes (directories):
534 - When fetching extrainfo documents, compare their SHA256 digests
535 and Ed25519 signing key certificates with the routerinfo that led
536 us to fetch them, rather than with the most recent routerinfo.
537 Otherwise we generate many spurious warnings about mismatches.
538 Fixes bug 17150; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
539 - When generating a URL for a directory server on an IPv6 address,
540 wrap the IPv6 address in square brackets. Fixes bug 18051; bugfix
541 on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Patch from Malek.
543 o Minor bugfixes (downloading):
544 - Predict more correctly whether we'll be downloading over HTTP when
545 we determine the maximum length of a URL. This should avoid a
546 "BUG" warning about the Squid HTTP proxy and its URL limits. Fixes
549 o Minor bugfixes (exit policies, security):
550 - Refresh an exit relay's exit policy when interface addresses
551 change. Previously, tor only refreshed the exit policy when the
552 configured external address changed. Fixes bug 18208; bugfix on
553 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
555 o Minor bugfixes (fallback directories):
556 - Mark fallbacks as "too busy" when they return a 503 response,
557 rather than just marking authorities. Fixes bug 17572; bugfix on
558 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by teor.
559 - When requesting extrainfo descriptors from a trusted directory
560 server, check whether it is an authority or a fallback directory
561 which supports extrainfo descriptors. Fixes bug 18489; bugfix on
562 0.2.4.7-alpha. Reported by atagar, patch by teor.
564 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, client):
565 - Handle the case where the user makes several fast consecutive
566 requests to the same .onion address. Previously, the first six
567 requests would each trigger a descriptor fetch, each picking a
568 directory (there are 6 overall) and the seventh one would fail
569 because no directories were left, thereby triggering a close on
570 all current directory connections asking for the hidden service.
571 The solution here is to not close the connections if we have
572 pending directory fetches. Fixes bug 15937; bugfix
575 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, control port):
576 - Add the onion address to the HS_DESC event for the UPLOADED action
577 both on success or failure. It was previously hardcoded with
578 UNKNOWN. Fixes bug 16023; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
580 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, directory):
581 - Bridges now refuse "rendezvous2" (hidden service descriptor)
582 publish attempts. Suggested by ticket 18332.
584 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
585 - Update the limits in max_dl_per_request for IPv6 address length.
586 Fixes bug 17573; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
588 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
589 - Allow more syscalls when running with "Sandbox 1" enabled:
590 sysinfo, getsockopt(SO_SNDBUF), and setsockopt(SO_SNDBUFFORCE). On
591 some systems, these are required for Tor to start. Fixes bug
592 18397; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from Daniel Pinto.
593 - Allow IPPROTO_UDP datagram sockets when running with "Sandbox 1",
594 so that get_interface_address6_via_udp_socket_hack() can work.
595 Fixes bug 19660; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
596 - Allow the setrlimit syscall, and the prlimit and prlimit64
597 syscalls, which some libc implementations use under the hood.
598 Fixes bug 15221; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
599 - Avoid a 10-second delay when starting as a client with "Sandbox 1"
600 enabled and no DNS resolvers configured. This should help TAILS
601 start up faster. Fixes bug 18548; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
602 - Fix a crash when using offline master ed25519 keys with the Linux
603 seccomp2 sandbox enabled. Fixes bug 17675; bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc.
604 - Allow statistics to be written to disk when "Sandbox 1" is
605 enabled. Fixes bugs 19556 and 19957; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha and
606 0.2.6.1-alpha respectively.
608 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
609 - In log messages that include a function name, use __FUNCTION__
610 instead of __PRETTY_FUNCTION__. In GCC, these are synonymous, but
611 with clang __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ has extra information we don't
612 need. Fixes bug 16563; bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Fix by Tom van
614 - Remove needless quotes from a log message about unparseable
615 addresses. Fixes bug 17843; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
616 - Scrub service name in "unrecognized service ID" log messages.
617 Fixes bug 18600; bugfix on 0.2.4.11-alpha.
618 - When logging information about an unparsable networkstatus vote or
619 consensus, do not say "vote" when we mean consensus. Fixes bug
620 18368; bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
621 - When we can't generate a signing key because OfflineMasterKey is
622 set, do not imply that we should have been able to load it. Fixes
623 bug 18133; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
624 - When logging a malformed hostname received through socks4, scrub
625 it if SafeLogging says we should. Fixes bug 17419; bugfix
628 o Minor bugfixes (memory safety):
629 - Avoid freeing an uninitialized pointer when opening a socket fails
630 in get_interface_addresses_ioctl(). Fixes bug 18454; bugfix on
631 0.2.3.11-alpha. Reported by toralf and "cypherpunks", patch
633 - Fix a memory leak in "tor --list-fingerprint". Fixes part of bug
634 18672; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
635 - Fix a memory leak in tor-gencert. Fixes part of bug 18672; bugfix
638 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
639 - Avoid reporting a spurious error when we decide that we don't need
640 to terminate a pluggable transport because it has already exited.
641 Fixes bug 18686; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
643 o Minor bugfixes (pointer arithmetic):
644 - Fix a bug in memarea_alloc() that could have resulted in remote
645 heap write access, if Tor had ever passed an unchecked size to
646 memarea_alloc(). Fortunately, all the sizes we pass to
647 memarea_alloc() are pre-checked to be less than 128 kilobytes.
648 Fixes bug 19150; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha. Bug found by
651 o Minor bugfixes (private directory):
652 - Prevent a race condition when creating private directories. Fixes
653 part of bug 17852; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13. Part of ticket 17852.
654 Patch from jsturgix. Found with Flawfinder.
656 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
657 - Check that both the ORPort and DirPort (if present) are reachable
658 before publishing a relay descriptor. Otherwise, relays publish a
659 descriptor with DirPort 0 when the DirPort reachability test takes
660 longer than the ORPort reachability test. Fixes bug 18050; bugfix
661 on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "starlight", patch by teor.
662 - Resolve some edge cases where we might launch an ORPort
663 reachability check even when DisableNetwork is set. Noticed while
664 fixing bug 18616; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
666 o Minor bugfixes (relays, hidden services):
667 - Refuse connection requests to private OR addresses unless
668 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set. Previously, tor would connect,
669 then refuse to send any cells to a private address. Fixes bugs
670 17674 and 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by teor.
672 o Minor bugfixes (security, hidden services):
673 - Prevent hidden services connecting to client-supplied rendezvous
674 addresses that are reserved as internal or multicast. Fixes bug
675 8976; bugfix on 0.2.3.21-rc. Patch by dgoulet and teor.
677 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
678 - Consistently check for overflow in round_*_to_next_multiple_of
679 functions, and add unit tests with additional and maximal values.
680 Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
681 - Handle edge cases in the laplace functions: avoid division by
682 zero, avoid taking the log of zero, and silence clang type
683 conversion warnings using round and trunc. Add unit tests for edge
684 cases with maximal values. Fixes part of bug 13192; bugfix
686 - We now include consensus downloads via IPv6 in our directory-
687 request statistics. Fixes bug 18460; bugfix on 0.2.3.14-alpha.
689 o Minor bugfixes (test networks, IPv6):
690 - Allow internal IPv6 addresses in descriptors in test networks.
691 Fixes bug 17153; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Patch by teor, reported
694 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
695 - Check the full results of SHA256 and SHA512 digests in the unit
696 tests. Bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha. Patch by teor.
697 - Fix a memory leak in the ntor test. Fixes bug 17778; bugfix
699 - Fix a small memory leak that would occur when the
700 TestingEnableCellStatsEvent option was turned on. Fixes bug 18673;
701 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
702 - Make unit tests pass on IPv6-only systems, and systems without
703 localhost addresses (like some FreeBSD jails). Fixes bug 17632;
704 bugfix on 0.2.7.3-rc. Patch by teor.
705 - The test for log_heartbeat was incorrectly failing in timezones
706 with non-integer offsets. Instead of comparing the end of the time
707 string against a constant, compare it to the output of
708 format_local_iso_time when given the correct input. Fixes bug
709 18039; bugfix on 0.2.5.4-alpha.
710 - We no longer disable assertions in the unit tests when coverage is
711 enabled. Instead, we require you to say --disable-asserts-in-tests
712 to the configure script if you need assertions disabled in the
713 unit tests (for example, if you want to perform branch coverage).
714 Fixes bug 18242; bugfix on 0.2.7.1-alpha.
716 o Minor bugfixes (time handling):
717 - When correcting a corrupt 'struct tm' value, fill in the tm_wday
718 field. Otherwise, our unit tests crash on Windows. Fixes bug
719 18977; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
720 - Avoid overflow in tor_timegm when parsing dates in and after 2038
721 on platforms with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 18479; bugfix on
722 0.0.2pre14. Patch by teor.
724 o Minor bugfixes (tor-gencert):
725 - Correctly handle the case where an authority operator enters a
726 passphrase but sends an EOF before sending a newline. Fixes bug
727 17443; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by junglefowl.
729 o Code simplification and refactoring:
730 - Clean up a little duplicated code in
731 crypto_expand_key_material_TAP(). Closes ticket 17587; patch
733 - Decouple the list of streams waiting to be attached to circuits
734 from the overall connection list. This change makes it possible to
735 attach streams quickly while simplifying Tor's callgraph and
736 avoiding O(N) scans of the entire connection list. Closes
738 - Extract the more complicated parts of circuit_mark_for_close()
739 into a new function that we run periodically before circuits are
740 freed. This change removes more than half of the functions
741 currently in the "blob". Closes ticket 17218.
742 - Move logging of redundant policy entries in
743 policies_parse_exit_policy_internal into its own function. Closes
744 ticket 17608; patch from "juce".
745 - Quote all the string interpolations in configure.ac -- even those
746 which we are pretty sure can't contain spaces. Closes ticket
747 17744. Patch from zerosion.
748 - Remove code for configuring OpenSSL dynamic locks; OpenSSL doesn't
749 use them. Closes ticket 17926.
750 - Remove specialized code for non-inplace AES_CTR. 99% of our AES is
751 inplace, so there's no need to have a separate implementation for
752 the non-inplace code. Closes ticket 18258. Patch from Malek.
753 - Simplify return types for some crypto functions that can't
754 actually fail. Patch from Hassan Alsibyani. Closes ticket 18259.
755 - When a direct directory request fails immediately on launch,
756 instead of relaunching that request from inside the code that
757 launches it, instead mark the connection for teardown. This change
758 simplifies Tor's callback and prevents the directory-request
759 launching code from invoking itself recursively. Closes
763 - Add a description of the correct use of the '--keygen' command-
764 line option. Closes ticket 17583; based on text by 's7r'.
765 - Change build messages to refer to "Fedora" instead of "Fedora
766 Core", and "dnf" instead of "yum". Closes tickets 18459 and 18426.
767 Patches from "icanhasaccount" and "cypherpunks".
768 - Document the contents of the 'datadir/keys' subdirectory in the
769 manual page. Closes ticket 17621.
770 - Document the minimum HeartbeatPeriod value. Closes ticket 15638.
771 - Explain actual minima for BandwidthRate. Closes ticket 16382.
772 - Fix a minor formatting typo in the manpage. Closes ticket 17791.
773 - Mention torspec URL in the manpage and point the reader to it
774 whenever we mention a document that belongs in torspce. Fixes
776 - Stop recommending use of nicknames to identify relays in our
777 MapAddress documentation. Closes ticket 18312.
780 - Remove client-side support for connecting to Tor relays running
781 versions of Tor before 0.2.3.6-alpha. These relays didn't support
782 the v3 TLS handshake protocol, and are no longer allowed on the
783 Tor network. Implements the client side of ticket 11150. Based on
784 patches by Tom van der Woerdt.
785 - We no longer maintain an internal freelist in memarea.c.
786 Allocators should be good enough to make this code unnecessary,
787 and it's doubtful that it ever had any performance benefit.
790 - Add unit tests to check for common RNG failure modes, such as
791 returning all zeroes, identical values, or incrementing values
792 (OpenSSL's rand_predictable feature). Patch by teor.
793 - Always test both ed25519 backends, so that we can be sure that our
794 batch-open replacement code works. Part of ticket 16794.
795 - Cover dns_resolve_impl() in dns.c with unit tests. Implements a
796 portion of ticket 16831.
797 - Fix several warnings from clang's address sanitizer produced in
799 - Log more information when the backtrace tests fail. Closes ticket
800 17892. Patch from "cypherpunks."
801 - More unit tests for compat_libevent.c, procmon.c, tortls.c,
802 util_format.c, directory.c, and options_validate.c. Closes tickets
803 17075, 17082, 17084, 17003, and 17076 respectively. Patches from
805 - Treat backtrace test failures as expected on FreeBSD until we
806 solve bug 17808. Closes ticket 18204.
807 - Unit tests for directory_handle_command_get. Closes ticket 17004.
808 Patch from Reinaldo de Souza Jr.
811 Changes in version 0.2.7.6 - 2015-12-10
812 Tor version 0.2.7.6 fixes a major bug in entry guard selection, as
813 well as a minor bug in hidden service reliability.
815 o Major bugfixes (guard selection):
816 - Actually look at the Guard flag when selecting a new directory
817 guard. When we implemented the directory guard design, we
818 accidentally started treating all relays as if they have the Guard
819 flag during guard selection, leading to weaker anonymity and worse
820 performance. Fixes bug 17772; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Discovered
823 o Minor features (geoip):
824 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the December 1 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
827 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
828 - When checking for net/pfvar.h, include netinet/in.h if possible.
829 This fixes transparent proxy detection on OpenBSD. Fixes bug
830 17551; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Patch from "rubiate".
831 - Fix a compilation warning with Clang 3.6: Do not check the
832 presence of an address which can never be NULL. Fixes bug 17781.
834 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
835 - When displaying an IPv6 exit policy, include the mask bits
836 correctly even when the number is greater than 31. Fixes bug
837 16056; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch from "gturner".
838 - The wrong list was used when looking up expired intro points in a
839 rend service object, causing what we think could be reachability
840 issues for hidden services, and triggering a BUG log. Fixes bug
841 16702; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
842 - Fix undefined behavior in the tor_cert_checksig function. Fixes
843 bug 17722; bugfix on 0.2.7.2-alpha.
846 Changes in version 0.2.7.5 - 2015-11-20
847 The Tor 0.2.7 release series is dedicated to the memory of Tor user
848 and privacy advocate Caspar Bowden (1961-2015). Caspar worked
849 tirelessly to advocate human rights regardless of national borders,
850 and oppose the encroachments of mass surveillance. He opposed national
851 exceptionalism, he brought clarity to legal and policy debates, he
852 understood and predicted the impact of mass surveillance on the world,
853 and he laid the groundwork for resisting it. While serving on the Tor
854 Project's board of directors, he brought us his uncompromising focus
855 on technical excellence in the service of humankind. Caspar was an
856 inimitable force for good and a wonderful friend. He was kind,
857 humorous, generous, gallant, and believed we should protect one
858 another without exception. We honor him here for his ideals, his
859 efforts, and his accomplishments. Please honor his memory with works
860 that would make him proud.
862 Tor 0.2.7.5 is the first stable release in the Tor 0.2.7 series.
864 The 0.2.7 series adds a more secure identity key type for relays,
865 improves cryptography performance, resolves several longstanding
866 hidden-service performance issues, improves controller support for
867 hidden services, and includes small bugfixes and performance
868 improvements throughout the program. This release series also includes
869 more tests than before, and significant simplifications to which parts
870 of Tor invoke which others. For a full list of changes, see below.
872 o New system requirements:
873 - Tor no longer includes workarounds to support Libevent versions
874 before 1.3e. Libevent 2.0 or later is recommended. Closes
876 - Tor no longer supports copies of OpenSSL that are missing support
877 for Elliptic Curve Cryptography. (We began using ECC when
878 available in 0.2.4.8-alpha, for more safe and efficient key
879 negotiation.) In particular, support for at least one of P256 or
880 P224 is now required, with manual configuration needed if only
881 P224 is available. Resolves ticket 16140.
882 - Tor no longer supports versions of OpenSSL before 1.0. (If you are
883 on an operating system that has not upgraded to OpenSSL 1.0 or
884 later, and you compile Tor from source, you will need to install a
885 more recent OpenSSL to link Tor against.) These versions of
886 OpenSSL are still supported by the OpenSSL, but the numerous
887 cryptographic improvements in later OpenSSL releases makes them a
888 clear choice. Resolves ticket 16034.
890 o Major features (controller):
891 - Add the ADD_ONION and DEL_ONION commands that allow the creation
892 and management of hidden services via the controller. Closes
894 - New "GETINFO onions/current" and "GETINFO onions/detached"
895 commands to get information about hidden services created via the
896 controller. Part of ticket 6411.
897 - New HSFETCH command to launch a request for a hidden service
898 descriptor. Closes ticket 14847.
899 - New HSPOST command to upload a hidden service descriptor. Closes
900 ticket 3523. Patch by "DonnchaC".
902 o Major features (Ed25519 identity keys, Proposal 220):
903 - Add support for offline encrypted Ed25519 master keys. To use this
904 feature on your tor relay, run "tor --keygen" to make a new master
905 key (or to make a new signing key if you already have a master
906 key). Closes ticket 13642.
907 - All relays now maintain a stronger identity key, using the Ed25519
908 elliptic curve signature format. This master key is designed so
909 that it can be kept offline. Relays also generate an online
910 signing key, and a set of other Ed25519 keys and certificates.
911 These are all automatically regenerated and rotated as needed.
912 Implements part of ticket 12498.
913 - Directory authorities now vote on Ed25519 identity keys along with
914 RSA1024 keys. Implements part of ticket 12498.
915 - Directory authorities track which Ed25519 identity keys have been
916 used with which RSA1024 identity keys, and do not allow them to
917 vary freely. Implements part of ticket 12498.
918 - Microdescriptors now include Ed25519 identity keys. Implements
919 part of ticket 12498.
920 - Add a --newpass option to allow changing or removing the
921 passphrase of an encrypted key with tor --keygen. Implements part
923 - Add a new OfflineMasterKey option to tell Tor never to try loading
924 or generating a secret Ed25519 identity key. You can use this in
925 combination with tor --keygen to manage offline and/or encrypted
926 Ed25519 keys. Implements ticket 16944.
927 - On receiving a HUP signal, check to see whether the Ed25519
928 signing key has changed, and reload it if so. Closes ticket 16790.
929 - Significant usability improvements for Ed25519 key management. Log
930 messages are better, and the code can recover from far more
931 failure conditions. Thanks to "s7r" for reporting and diagnosing
934 o Major features (ECC performance):
935 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 signature verification by
936 using Ed25519-donna's batch verification support. Implements
938 - Improve the speed of Ed25519 operations and Curve25519 keypair
939 generation when built targeting 32 bit x86 platforms with SSE2
940 available. Implements ticket 16535.
941 - Improve the runtime speed of Ed25519 operations by using the
942 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry").
943 Implements ticket 16467.
944 - Improve the runtime speed of the ntor handshake by using an
945 optimized curve25519 basepoint scalarmult implementation from the
946 public-domain Ed25519-donna by Andrew M. ("floodyberry"), based on
947 ideas by Adam Langley. Implements ticket 9663.
949 o Major features (Hidden services):
950 - Hidden services, if using the EntryNodes option, are required to
951 use more than one EntryNode, in order to avoid a guard discovery
952 attack. (This would only affect people who had configured hidden
953 services and manually specified the EntryNodes option with a
954 single entry-node. The impact was that it would be easy to
955 remotely identify the guard node used by such a hidden service.
956 See ticket for more information.) Fixes ticket 14917.
957 - Add the torrc option HiddenServiceNumIntroductionPoints, to
958 specify a fixed number of introduction points. Its maximum value
959 is 10 and default is 3. Using this option can increase a hidden
960 service's reliability under load, at the cost of making it more
961 visible that the hidden service is facing extra load. Closes
963 - Remove the adaptive algorithm for choosing the number of
964 introduction points, which used to change the number of
965 introduction points (poorly) depending on the number of
966 connections the HS sees. Closes ticket 4862.
968 o Major features (onion key cross-certification):
969 - Relay descriptors now include signatures of their own identity
970 keys, made using the TAP and ntor onion keys. These signatures
971 allow relays to prove ownership of their own onion keys. Because
972 of this change, microdescriptors will no longer need to include
973 RSA identity keys. Implements proposal 228; closes ticket 12499.
975 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy, also in 0.2.6.9):
976 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
977 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group
978 was being overwritten by a default value when the listener
979 connection was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on
980 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch by "jojelino".
982 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
983 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
984 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
985 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
986 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
987 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
988 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
989 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
992 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
993 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
994 flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
995 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
997 - When cannibalizing a circuit for an introduction point, always
998 extend to the chosen exit node (creating a 4 hop circuit).
999 Previously Tor would use the current circuit exit node, which
1000 changed the original choice of introduction point, and could cause
1001 the hidden service to skip excluded introduction points or
1002 reconnect to a skipped introduction point. Fixes bug 16260; bugfix
1005 o Major bugfixes (memory leaks):
1006 - Fix a memory leak in ed25519 batch signature checking. Fixes bug
1007 17398; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha.
1009 o Major bugfixes (open file limit):
1010 - The open file limit wasn't checked before calling
1011 tor_accept_socket_nonblocking(), which would make Tor exceed the
1012 limit. Now, before opening a new socket, Tor validates the open
1013 file limit just before, and if the max has been reached, return an
1014 error. Fixes bug 16288; bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
1016 o Major bugfixes (security, correctness):
1017 - Fix an error that could cause us to read 4 bytes before the
1018 beginning of an openssl string. This bug could be used to cause
1019 Tor to crash on systems with unusual malloc implementations, or
1020 systems with unusual hardening installed. Fixes bug 17404; bugfix
1023 o Major bugfixes (stability, also in 0.2.6.10):
1024 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
1025 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
1026 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
1027 by "cypherpunks_backup".
1028 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
1029 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
1030 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
1033 o Minor features (client, SOCKS):
1034 - Add GroupWritable and WorldWritable options to unix-socket based
1035 SocksPort and ControlPort options. These options apply to a single
1036 socket, and override {Control,Socks}SocketsGroupWritable. Closes
1038 - Relax the validation done to hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, and
1039 allow a single trailing '.' to cope with clients that pass FQDNs
1040 using that syntax to explicitly indicate that the domain name is
1041 fully-qualified. Fixes bug 16674; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha.
1042 - Relax the validation of hostnames in SOCKS5 requests, allowing the
1043 character '_' to appear, in order to cope with domains observed in
1044 the wild that are serving non-RFC compliant records. Resolves
1047 o Minor features (client-side privacy):
1048 - New KeepAliveIsolateSOCKSAuth option to indefinitely extend circuit
1049 lifespan when IsolateSOCKSAuth and streams with SOCKS
1050 authentication are attached to the circuit. This allows
1051 applications like TorBrowser to manage circuit lifetime on their
1052 own. Implements feature 15482.
1053 - When logging malformed hostnames from SOCKS5 requests, respect
1054 SafeLogging configuration. Fixes bug 16891; bugfix on 0.1.1.16-rc.
1056 o Minor features (clock-jump tolerance):
1057 - Recover better when our clock jumps back many hours, like might
1058 happen for Tails or Whonix users who start with a very wrong
1059 hardware clock, use Tor to discover a more accurate time, and then
1060 fix their clock. Resolves part of ticket 8766.
1062 o Minor features (command-line interface):
1063 - Make --hash-password imply --hush to prevent unnecessary noise.
1064 Closes ticket 15542. Patch from "cypherpunks".
1065 - Print a warning whenever we find a relative file path being used
1066 as torrc option. Resolves issue 14018.
1068 o Minor features (compilation):
1069 - Give a warning as early as possible when trying to build with an
1070 unsupported OpenSSL version. Closes ticket 16901.
1071 - Use C99 variadic macros when the compiler is not GCC. This avoids
1072 failing compilations on MSVC, and fixes a log-file-based race
1073 condition in our old workarounds. Original patch from Gisle Vanem.
1075 o Minor features (control protocol):
1076 - Support network-liveness GETINFO key and NETWORK_LIVENESS event in
1077 the control protocol. Resolves ticket 15358.
1079 o Minor features (controller):
1080 - Add DirAuthority lines for default directory authorities to the
1081 output of the "GETINFO config/defaults" command if not already
1082 present. Implements ticket 14840.
1083 - Controllers can now use "GETINFO hs/client/desc/id/..." to
1084 retrieve items from the client's hidden service descriptor cache.
1085 Closes ticket 14845.
1086 - Implement a new controller command "GETINFO status/fresh-relay-
1087 descs" to fetch a descriptor/extrainfo pair that was generated on
1088 demand just for the controller's use. Implements ticket 14784.
1090 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1091 - Directory authorities no longer vote against the "Fast", "Stable",
1092 and "HSDir" flags just because they were going to vote against
1093 "Running": if the consensus turns out to be that the router was
1094 running, then the authority's vote should count. Patch from Peter
1095 Retzlaff; closes issue 8712.
1097 o Minor features (directory authorities, security, also in 0.2.6.9):
1098 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
1099 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
1100 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
1101 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable to
1102 require at the very least 7 days, while maintaining the 96 hours
1103 uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
1105 o Minor features (DoS-resistance):
1106 - Make it harder for attackers to overload hidden services with
1107 introductions, by blocking multiple introduction requests on the
1108 same circuit. Resolves ticket 15515.
1110 o Minor features (geoip):
1111 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the October 9 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1114 o Minor features (hidden services):
1115 - Add the new options "HiddenServiceMaxStreams" and
1116 "HiddenServiceMaxStreamsCloseCircuit" to allow hidden services to
1117 limit the maximum number of simultaneous streams per circuit, and
1118 optionally tear down the circuit when the limit is exceeded. Part
1120 - Client now uses an introduction point failure cache to know when
1121 to fetch or keep a descriptor in their cache. Previously, failures
1122 were recorded implicitly, but not explicitly remembered. Closes
1124 - Relays need to have the Fast flag to get the HSDir flag. As this
1125 is being written, we'll go from 2745 HSDirs down to 2342, a ~14%
1126 drop. This change should make some attacks against the hidden
1127 service directory system harder. Fixes ticket 15963.
1128 - Turn on hidden service statistics collection by setting the torrc
1129 option HiddenServiceStatistics to "1" by default. (This keeps
1130 track only of the fraction of traffic used by hidden services, and
1131 the total number of hidden services in existence.) Closes
1133 - To avoid leaking HS popularity, don't cycle the introduction point
1134 when we've handled a fixed number of INTRODUCE2 cells but instead
1135 cycle it when a random number of introductions is reached, thus
1136 making it more difficult for an attacker to find out the amount of
1137 clients that have used the introduction point for a specific HS.
1138 Closes ticket 15745.
1140 o Minor features (logging):
1141 - Include the Tor version in all LD_BUG log messages, since people
1142 tend to cut and paste those into the bugtracker. Implements
1145 o Minor features (pluggable transports):
1146 - When launching managed pluggable transports on Linux systems,
1147 attempt to have the kernel deliver a SIGTERM on tor exit if the
1148 pluggable transport process is still running. Resolves
1150 - When launching managed pluggable transports, setup a valid open
1151 stdin in the child process that can be used to detect if tor has
1152 terminated. The "TOR_PT_EXIT_ON_STDIN_CLOSE" environment variable
1153 can be used by implementations to detect this new behavior.
1154 Resolves ticket 15435.
1156 o Minor bugfixes (torrc exit policies):
1157 - In each instance above, usage advice is provided to avoid the
1158 message. Resolves ticket 16069. Patch by "teor". Fixes part of bug
1159 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1160 - In torrc, "accept6 *" and "reject6 *" ExitPolicy lines now only
1161 produce IPv6 wildcard addresses. Previously they would produce
1162 both IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Patch by "teor". Fixes part
1163 of bug 16069; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
1164 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now issue an info-level
1165 message when expanding an "accept/reject *" line to include both
1166 IPv4 and IPv6 wildcard addresses. Related to ticket 16069.
1167 - When parsing torrc ExitPolicies, we now warn for a number of cases
1168 where the user's intent is likely to differ from Tor's actual
1169 behavior. These include: using an IPv4 address with an accept6 or
1170 reject6 line; using "private" on an accept6 or reject6 line; and
1171 including any ExitPolicy lines after accept *:* or reject *:*.
1172 Related to ticket 16069.
1174 o Minor bugfixes (command-line interface):
1175 - When "--quiet" is provided along with "--validate-config", do not
1176 write anything to stdout on success. Fixes bug 14994; bugfix
1178 - When complaining about bad arguments to "--dump-config", use
1180 - Print usage information for --dump-config when it is used without
1181 an argument. Also, fix the error message to use different wording
1182 and add newline at the end. Fixes bug 15541; bugfix
1185 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1186 - Fix compilation of sandbox.c with musl-libc. Fixes bug 17347;
1187 bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from 'jamestk'.
1188 - Repair compilation with the most recent (unreleased, alpha)
1189 vesions of OpenSSL 1.1. Fixes part of ticket 17237.
1191 o Minor bugfixes (compilation, also in 0.2.6.9):
1192 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
1193 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
1194 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
1196 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, unit tests):
1197 - Only add the default fallback directories when the DirAuthorities,
1198 AlternateDirAuthority, and FallbackDir directory config options
1199 are set to their defaults. The default fallback directory list is
1200 currently empty, this fix will only change tor's behavior when it
1201 has default fallback directories. Includes unit tests for
1202 consider_adding_dir_servers(). Fixes bug 15642; bugfix on
1203 90f6071d8dc0 in 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
1205 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
1206 - Add the descriptor ID in each HS_DESC control event. It was
1207 missing, but specified in control-spec.txt. Fixes bug 15881;
1208 bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
1210 o Minor bugfixes (correctness):
1211 - For correctness, avoid modifying a constant string in
1212 handle_control_postdescriptor. Fixes bug 15546; bugfix
1214 - Remove side-effects from tor_assert() calls. This was harmless,
1215 because we never disable assertions, but it is bad style and
1216 unnecessary. Fixes bug 15211; bugfix on 0.2.5.5, 0.2.2.36,
1218 - When calling channel_free_list(), avoid calling smartlist_remove()
1219 while inside a FOREACH loop. This partially reverts commit
1220 17356fe7fd96af where the correct SMARTLIST_DEL_CURRENT was
1221 incorrectly removed. Fixes bug 16924; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
1223 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling, also in 0.2.6.10):
1224 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
1225 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
1226 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
1227 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
1228 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
1230 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
1231 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
1232 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
1234 - Remove an extraneous newline character from the end of hidden
1235 service descriptors. Fixes bug 15296; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1237 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1238 - Use the sandbox in tor_open_cloexec whether or not O_CLOEXEC is
1239 defined. Patch by "teor". Fixes bug 16515; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
1240 - Allow bridge authorities to run correctly under the seccomp2
1241 sandbox. Fixes bug 16964; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1242 - Add the "hidserv-stats" filename to our sandbox filter for the
1243 HiddenServiceStatistics option to work properly. Fixes bug 17354;
1244 bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from David Goulet.
1246 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.10):
1247 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
1248 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
1249 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
1251 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox, also in 0.2.6.9):
1252 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
1253 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
1255 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relay, by allowing the
1256 renaming of secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex
1257 syscalls. Fixes bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by
1260 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
1261 - When building Tor under Clang, do not include an extra set of
1262 parentheses in log messages that include function names. Fixes bug
1263 15269; bugfix on every released version of Tor when compiled with
1264 recent enough Clang.
1266 o Minor bugfixes (network):
1267 - When attempting to use fallback technique for network interface
1268 lookup, disregard loopback and multicast addresses since they are
1269 unsuitable for public communications.
1271 o Minor bugfixes (open file limit):
1272 - Fix set_max_file_descriptors() to set by default the max open file
1273 limit to the current limit when setrlimit() fails. Fixes bug
1274 16274; bugfix on tor- 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch by dgoulet.
1276 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
1277 - Check correctly for Windows socket errors in the workqueue
1278 backend. Fixes bug 16741; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha.
1279 - Try harder to normalize the exit status of the Tor process to the
1280 standard-provided range. Fixes bug 16975; bugfix on every version
1282 - Use libexecinfo on FreeBSD to enable backtrace support. Fixes part
1283 of bug 17151; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha. Patch from Marcin Cieślak.
1285 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
1286 - Ensure that worker threads actually exit when a fatal error or
1287 shutdown is indicated. This fix doesn't currently affect the
1288 behavior of Tor, because Tor workers never indicates fatal error
1289 or shutdown except in the unit tests. Fixes bug 16868; bugfix
1291 - Fix a rarely-encountered memory leak when failing to initialize
1292 the thread pool. Fixes bug 16631; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
1294 - Unblock threads before releasing the work queue mutex to ensure
1295 predictable scheduling behavior. Fixes bug 16644; bugfix
1298 o Minor bugfixes (security, exit policies):
1299 - ExitPolicyRejectPrivate now also rejects the relay's published
1300 IPv6 address (if any), and any publicly routable IPv4 or IPv6
1301 addresses on any local interfaces. ticket 17027. Patch by "teor".
1302 Fixes bug 17027; bugfix on 0.2.0.11-alpha.
1304 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
1305 - Disregard the ConnDirectionStatistics torrc options when Tor is
1306 not a relay since in that mode of operation no sensible data is
1307 being collected and because Tor might run into measurement hiccups
1308 when running as a client for some time, then becoming a relay.
1309 Fixes bug 15604; bugfix on 0.2.2.35.
1311 o Minor bugfixes (systemd):
1312 - Tor's systemd unit file no longer contains extraneous spaces.
1313 These spaces would sometimes confuse tools like deb-systemd-
1314 helper. Fixes bug 16162; bugfix on 0.2.5.5-alpha.
1316 o Minor bugfixes (test networks):
1317 - When self-testing reachability, use ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses to
1318 determine if local/private addresses imply reachability. The
1319 previous fix used TestingTorNetwork, which implies
1320 ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses, but this excluded rare configurations
1321 where ExtendAllowPrivateAddresses is set but TestingTorNetwork is
1322 not. Fixes bug 15771; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by "teor",
1323 issue discovered by CJ Ess.
1325 o Minor bugfixes (tests, also in 0.2.6.9):
1326 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
1327 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
1329 o Code simplification and refactoring:
1330 - Change the function that's called when we need to retry all
1331 downloads so that it only reschedules the downloads to happen
1332 immediately, rather than launching them all at once itself. This
1333 further simplifies Tor's callgraph.
1334 - Define WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT centrally, in orconfig.h, in order
1335 to ensure they remain consistent and visible everywhere.
1336 - Move some format-parsing functions out of crypto.c and
1337 crypto_curve25519.c into crypto_format.c and/or util_format.c.
1338 - Move the client-only parts of init_keys() into a separate
1339 function. Closes ticket 16763.
1340 - Move the hacky fallback code out of get_interface_address6() into
1341 separate function and get it covered with unit-tests. Resolves
1343 - Refactor hidden service client-side cache lookup to intelligently
1344 report its various failure cases, and disentangle failure cases
1345 involving a lack of introduction points. Closes ticket 14391.
1346 - Remove some vestigial workarounds for the MSVC6 compiler. We
1347 haven't supported that in ages.
1348 - Remove the unused "nulterminate" argument from buf_pullup().
1349 - Simplify the microdesc_free() implementation so that it no longer
1350 appears (to code analysis tools) to potentially invoke a huge
1351 suite of other microdesc functions.
1352 - Simply the control graph further by deferring the inner body of
1353 directory_all_unreachable() into a callback. Closes ticket 16762.
1354 - The link authentication code has been refactored for better
1355 testability and reliability. It now uses code generated with the
1356 "trunnel" binary encoding generator, to reduce the risk of bugs
1357 due to programmer error. Done as part of ticket 12498.
1358 - Treat the loss of an owning controller as equivalent to a SIGTERM
1359 signal. This removes a tiny amount of duplicated code, and
1360 simplifies our callgraph. Closes ticket 16788.
1361 - Use our own Base64 encoder instead of OpenSSL's, to allow more
1362 control over the output. Part of ticket 15652.
1363 - When generating an event to send to the controller, we no longer
1364 put the event over the network immediately. Instead, we queue
1365 these events, and use a Libevent callback to deliver them. This
1366 change simplifies Tor's callgraph by reducing the number of
1367 functions from which all other Tor functions are reachable. Closes
1369 - Wrap Windows-only C files inside '#ifdef _WIN32' so that tools
1370 that try to scan or compile every file on Unix won't decide that
1374 - Fix capitalization of SOCKS in sample torrc. Closes ticket 15609.
1375 - Improve the descriptions of statistics-related torrc options in
1376 the manpage to describe rationale and possible uses cases. Fixes
1378 - Improve the layout and formatting of ./configure --help messages.
1379 Closes ticket 15024. Patch from "cypherpunks".
1380 - Include a specific and (hopefully) accurate documentation of the
1381 torrc file's meta-format in doc/torrc_format.txt. This is mainly
1382 of interest to people writing programs to parse or generate torrc
1383 files. This document is not a commitment to long-term
1384 compatibility; some aspects of the current format are a bit
1385 ridiculous. Closes ticket 2325.
1386 - Include the TUNING document in our source tarball. It is referred
1387 to in the ChangeLog and an error message. Fixes bug 16929; bugfix
1389 - Note that HiddenServicePorts can take a unix domain socket. Closes
1391 - Recommend a 40 GB example AccountingMax in torrc.sample rather
1392 than a 4 GB max. Closes ticket 16742.
1393 - Standardize on the term "server descriptor" in the manual page.
1394 Previously, we had used "router descriptor", "server descriptor",
1395 and "relay descriptor" interchangeably. Part of ticket 14987.
1396 - Advise users on how to configure separate IPv4 and IPv6 exit
1397 policies in the manpage and sample torrcs. Related to ticket 16069.
1398 - Fix an error in the manual page and comments for
1399 TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir[IsStrict], which suggested that a HSDir
1400 required "ORPort connectivity". While this is true, it is in no
1401 way unique to the HSDir flag. Of all the flags, only HSDirs need a
1402 DirPort configured in order for the authorities to assign that
1403 particular flag. Patch by "teor". Fixed as part of 14882; bugfix
1405 - Fix the usage message of tor-resolve(1) so that it no longer lists
1406 the removed -F option. Fixes bug 16913; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
1409 - Remove `USE_OPENSSL_BASE64` and the corresponding fallback code
1410 and always use the internal Base64 decoder. The internal decoder
1411 has been part of tor since 0.2.0.10-alpha, and no one should
1412 be using the OpenSSL one. Part of ticket 15652.
1413 - Remove the 'tor_strclear()' function; use memwipe() instead.
1414 Closes ticket 14922.
1415 - Remove the code that would try to aggressively flush controller
1416 connections while writing to them. This code was introduced in
1417 0.1.2.7-alpha, in order to keep output buffers from exceeding
1418 their limits. But there is no longer a maximum output buffer size,
1419 and flushing data in this way caused some undesirable recursions
1420 in our call graph. Closes ticket 16480.
1421 - The internal pure-C tor-fw-helper tool is now removed from the Tor
1422 distribution, in favor of the pure-Go clone available from
1423 https://gitweb.torproject.org/tor-fw-helper.git/ . The libraries
1424 used by the C tor-fw-helper are not, in our opinion, very
1425 confidence- inspiring in their secure-programming techniques.
1426 Closes ticket 13338.
1429 - Remove the (seldom-used) DynamicDHGroups feature. For anti-
1430 fingerprinting we now recommend pluggable transports; for forward-
1431 secrecy in TLS, we now use the P-256 group. Closes ticket 13736.
1432 - Remove the HidServDirectoryV2 option. Now all relays offer to
1433 store hidden service descriptors. Related to 16543.
1434 - Remove the VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 option, since all
1435 authorities have long set it to 1. Closes ticket 16543.
1436 - Remove the undocumented "--digests" command-line option. It
1437 complicated our build process, caused subtle build issues on
1438 multiple platforms, and is now redundant since we started
1439 including git version identifiers. Closes ticket 14742.
1440 - Tor no longer contains checks for ancient directory cache versions
1441 that didn't know about microdescriptors.
1442 - Tor no longer contains workarounds for stat files generated by
1443 super-old versions of Tor that didn't choose guards sensibly.
1446 - The test-network.sh script now supports performance testing.
1447 Requires corresponding chutney performance testing changes. Patch
1448 by "teor". Closes ticket 14175.
1449 - Add a new set of callgraph analysis scripts that use clang to
1450 produce a list of which Tor functions are reachable from which
1451 other Tor functions. We're planning to use these to help simplify
1452 our code structure by identifying illogical dependencies.
1453 - Add new 'test-full' and 'test-full-online' targets to run all
1454 tests, including integration tests with stem and chutney.
1455 - Autodetect CHUTNEY_PATH if the chutney and Tor sources are side-
1456 by-side in the same parent directory. Closes ticket 16903. Patch
1458 - Document use of coverity, clang static analyzer, and clang dynamic
1459 undefined behavior and address sanitizers in doc/HACKING. Include
1460 detailed usage instructions in the blacklist. Patch by "teor".
1461 Closes ticket 15817.
1462 - Make "bridges+hs" the default test network. This tests almost all
1463 tor functionality during make test-network, while allowing tests
1464 to succeed on non-IPv6 systems. Requires chutney commit 396da92 in
1465 test-network-bridges-hs. Closes tickets 16945 (tor) and 16946
1466 (chutney). Patches by "teor".
1467 - Make the test-workqueue test work on Windows by initializing the
1468 network before we begin.
1469 - New make target (make test-network-all) to run multiple applicable
1470 chutney test cases. Patch from Teor; closes 16953.
1471 - Now that OpenSSL has its own scrypt implementation, add an unit
1472 test that checks for interoperability between libscrypt_scrypt()
1473 and OpenSSL's EVP_PBE_scrypt() so that we could not use libscrypt
1474 and rely on EVP_PBE_scrypt() whenever possible. Resolves
1476 - The link authentication protocol code now has extensive tests.
1477 - The relay descriptor signature testing code now has
1479 - The test_workqueue program now runs faster, and is enabled by
1480 default as a part of "make check".
1481 - Unit test dns_resolve(), dns_clip_ttl() and dns_get_expiry_ttl()
1482 functions in dns.c. Implements a portion of ticket 16831.
1483 - Use environment variables rather than autoconf substitutions to
1484 send variables from the build system to the test scripts. This
1485 change should be easier to maintain, and cause 'make distcheck' to
1486 work better than before. Fixes bug 17148.
1487 - When building Tor with testing coverage enabled, run Chutney tests
1488 (if any) using the 'tor-cov' coverage binary.
1489 - When running test-network or test-stem, check for the absence of
1490 stem/chutney before doing any build operations.
1491 - Add a test to verify that the compiler does not eliminate our
1492 memwipe() implementation. Closes ticket 15377.
1493 - Add make rule `check-changes` to verify the format of changes
1494 files. Closes ticket 15180.
1495 - Add unit tests for control_event_is_interesting(). Add a compile-
1496 time check that the number of events doesn't exceed the capacity
1497 of control_event_t.event_mask. Closes ticket 15431, checks for
1498 bugs similar to 13085. Patch by "teor".
1499 - Command-line argument tests moved to Stem. Resolves ticket 14806.
1500 - Integrate the ntor, backtrace, and zero-length keys tests into the
1501 automake test suite. Closes ticket 15344.
1502 - Remove assertions during builds to determine Tor's test coverage.
1503 We don't want to trigger these even in assertions, so including
1504 them artificially makes our branch coverage look worse than it is.
1505 This patch provides the new test-stem-full and coverage-html-full
1506 configure options. Implements ticket 15400.
1507 - New TestingDirAuthVote{Exit,Guard,HSDir}IsStrict flags to
1508 explicitly manage consensus flags in testing networks. Patch by
1509 "robgjansen", modified by "teor". Implements part of ticket 14882.
1510 - Check for matching value in server response in ntor_ref.py. Fixes
1511 bug 15591; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported and fixed
1513 - Set the severity correctly when testing
1514 get_interface_addresses_ifaddrs() and
1515 get_interface_addresses_win32(), so that the tests fail gracefully
1516 instead of triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 15759; bugfix on
1517 0.2.6.3-alpha. Reported by Nicolas Derive.
1519 Changes in version 0.2.6.10 - 2015-07-12
1520 Tor version 0.2.6.10 fixes some significant stability and hidden
1521 service client bugs, bulletproofs the cryptography init process, and
1522 fixes a bug when using the sandbox code with some older versions of
1523 Linux. Everyone running an older version, especially an older version
1524 of 0.2.6, should upgrade.
1526 o Major bugfixes (hidden service clients, stability):
1527 - Stop refusing to store updated hidden service descriptors on a
1528 client. This reverts commit 9407040c59218 (which indeed fixed bug
1529 14219, but introduced a major hidden service reachability
1530 regression detailed in bug 16381). This is a temporary fix since
1531 we can live with the minor issue in bug 14219 (it just results in
1532 some load on the network) but the regression of 16381 is too much
1533 of a setback. First-round fix for bug 16381; bugfix
1536 o Major bugfixes (stability):
1537 - Stop crashing with an assertion failure when parsing certain kinds
1538 of malformed or truncated microdescriptors. Fixes bug 16400;
1539 bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Found by "torkeln"; fix based on a patch
1540 by "cypherpunks_backup".
1541 - Stop random client-side assertion failures that could occur when
1542 connecting to a busy hidden service, or connecting to a hidden
1543 service while a NEWNYM is in progress. Fixes bug 16013; bugfix
1546 o Minor features (geoip):
1547 - Update geoip to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1548 - Update geoip6 to the June 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1550 o Minor bugfixes (crypto error-handling):
1551 - Check for failures from crypto_early_init, and refuse to continue.
1552 A previous typo meant that we could keep going with an
1553 uninitialized crypto library, and would have OpenSSL initialize
1554 its own PRNG. Fixes bug 16360; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha, introduced
1555 when implementing ticket 4900. Patch by "teor".
1557 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1558 - Allow pipe() and pipe2() syscalls in the seccomp2 sandbox: we need
1559 these when eventfd2() support is missing. Fixes bug 16363; bugfix
1560 on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from "teor".
1563 Changes in version 0.2.6.9 - 2015-06-11
1564 Tor 0.2.6.9 fixes a regression in the circuit isolation code, increases the
1565 requirements for receiving an HSDir flag, and addresses some other small
1566 bugs in the systemd and sandbox code. Clients using circuit isolation
1567 should upgrade; all directory authorities should upgrade.
1569 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
1570 - Properly separate out each SOCKSPort when applying stream
1571 isolation. The error occurred because each port's session group was
1572 being overwritten by a default value when the listener connection
1573 was initialized. Fixes bug 16247; bugfix on 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch
1576 o Minor feature (directory authorities, security):
1577 - The HSDir flag given by authorities now requires the Stable flag.
1578 For the current network, this results in going from 2887 to 2806
1579 HSDirs. Also, it makes it harder for an attacker to launch a sybil
1580 attack by raising the effort for a relay to become Stable which
1581 takes at the very least 7 days to do so and by keeping the 96
1582 hours uptime requirement for HSDir. Implements ticket 8243.
1584 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
1585 - Build with --enable-systemd correctly when libsystemd is
1586 installed, but systemd is not. Fixes bug 16164; bugfix on
1587 0.2.6.3-alpha. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
1589 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1590 - Fix sandboxing to work when running as a relaymby renaming of
1591 secret_id_key, and allowing the eventfd2 and futex syscalls. Fixes
1592 bug 16244; bugfix on 0.2.6.1-alpha. Patch by Peter Palfrader.
1593 - Allow systemd connections to work with the Linux seccomp2 sandbox
1594 code. Fixes bug 16212; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch by
1597 o Minor bugfixes (tests):
1598 - Fix a crash in the unit tests when built with MSVC2013. Fixes bug
1599 16030; bugfix on 0.2.6.2-alpha. Patch from "NewEraCracker".
1602 Changes in version 0.2.6.8 - 2015-05-21
1603 Tor 0.2.6.8 fixes a bit of dodgy code in parsing INTRODUCE2 cells, and
1604 fixes an authority-side bug in assigning the HSDir flag. All directory
1605 authorities should upgrade.
1607 o Major bugfixes (hidden services, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
1608 - Revert commit that made directory authorities assign the HSDir
1609 flag to relay without a DirPort; this was bad because such relays
1610 can't handle BEGIN_DIR cells. Fixes bug 15850; bugfix
1613 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service, backport from 0.2.7.1-alpha):
1614 - Fix an out-of-bounds read when parsing invalid INTRODUCE2 cells on
1615 a client authorized hidden service. Fixes bug 15823; bugfix
1618 o Minor features (geoip):
1619 - Update geoip to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1620 - Update geoip6 to the April 8 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1624 Changes in version 0.2.6.7 - 2015-04-06
1625 Tor 0.2.6.7 fixes two security issues that could be used by an
1626 attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients visiting hidden
1627 services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as possible; clients
1628 should upgrade whenever packages become available.
1630 This release also contains two simple improvements to make hidden
1631 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
1633 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
1634 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
1635 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
1636 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
1637 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
1638 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
1639 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
1641 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
1642 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
1643 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
1644 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
1645 Resolves ticket 15515.
1646 - Decrease the amount of reattempts that a hidden service performs
1647 when its rendezvous circuits fail. This reduces the computational
1648 cost for running a hidden service under heavy load. Resolves
1652 Changes in version 0.2.5.12 - 2015-04-06
1653 Tor 0.2.5.12 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
1654 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
1655 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
1656 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
1658 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
1659 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
1661 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
1662 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
1663 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
1664 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
1665 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
1666 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
1667 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
1669 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
1670 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
1671 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
1672 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
1673 Resolves ticket 15515.
1676 Changes in version 0.2.4.27 - 2015-04-06
1677 Tor 0.2.4.27 backports two fixes from 0.2.6.7 for security issues that
1678 could be used by an attacker to crash hidden services, or crash clients
1679 visiting hidden services. Hidden services should upgrade as soon as
1680 possible; clients should upgrade whenever packages become available.
1682 This release also backports a simple improvement to make hidden
1683 services a bit less vulnerable to denial-of-service attacks.
1685 o Major bugfixes (security, hidden service):
1686 - Fix an issue that would allow a malicious client to trigger an
1687 assertion failure and halt a hidden service. Fixes bug 15600;
1688 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported by "disgleirio".
1689 - Fix a bug that could cause a client to crash with an assertion
1690 failure when parsing a malformed hidden service descriptor. Fixes
1691 bug 15601; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by "DonnchaC".
1693 o Minor features (DoS-resistance, hidden service):
1694 - Introduction points no longer allow multiple INTRODUCE1 cells to
1695 arrive on the same circuit. This should make it more expensive for
1696 attackers to overwhelm hidden services with introductions.
1697 Resolves ticket 15515.
1700 Changes in version 0.2.6.6 - 2015-03-24
1701 Tor 0.2.6.6 is the first stable release in the 0.2.6 series.
1703 It adds numerous safety, security, correctness, and performance
1704 improvements. Client programs can be configured to use more kinds of
1705 sockets, AutomapHosts works better, the multithreading backend is
1706 improved, cell transmission is refactored, test coverage is much
1707 higher, more denial-of-service attacks are handled, guard selection is
1708 improved to handle long-term guards better, pluggable transports
1709 should work a bit better, and some annoying hidden service performance
1710 bugs should be addressed.
1712 o New compiler and system requirements:
1713 - Tor 0.2.6.x requires that your compiler support more of the C99
1714 language standard than before. The 'configure' script now detects
1715 whether your compiler supports C99 mid-block declarations and
1716 designated initializers. If it does not, Tor will not compile.
1718 We may revisit this requirement if it turns out that a significant
1719 number of people need to build Tor with compilers that don't
1720 bother implementing a 15-year-old standard. Closes ticket 13233.
1721 - Tor no longer supports systems without threading support. When we
1722 began working on Tor, there were several systems that didn't have
1723 threads, or where the thread support wasn't able to run the
1724 threads of a single process on multiple CPUs. That no longer
1725 holds: every system where Tor needs to run well now has threading
1726 support. Resolves ticket 12439.
1728 o Deprecated versions and removed support:
1729 - Tor relays older than 0.2.4.18-rc are no longer allowed to
1730 advertise themselves on the network. Closes ticket 13555.
1731 - Tor clients no longer support connecting to hidden services
1732 running on Tor 0.2.2.x and earlier; the Support022HiddenServices
1733 option has been removed. (There shouldn't be any hidden services
1734 running these versions on the network.) Closes ticket 7803.
1736 o Directory authority changes:
1737 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
1738 closes ticket 14487.
1739 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
1740 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
1741 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
1743 o Major features (bridges):
1744 - Expose the outgoing upstream HTTP/SOCKS proxy to pluggable
1745 transports if they are configured via the "TOR_PT_PROXY"
1746 environment variable. Implements proposal 232. Resolves
1749 o Major features (changed defaults):
1750 - Prevent relay operators from unintentionally running exits: When a
1751 relay is configured as an exit node, we now warn the user unless
1752 the "ExitRelay" option is set to 1. We warn even more loudly if
1753 the relay is configured with the default exit policy, since this
1754 can indicate accidental misconfiguration. Setting "ExitRelay 0"
1755 stops Tor from running as an exit relay. Closes ticket 10067.
1757 o Major features (client performance, hidden services):
1758 - Allow clients to use optimistic data when connecting to a hidden
1759 service, which should remove a round-trip from hidden service
1760 initialization. See proposal 181 for details. Implements
1763 o Major features (directory system):
1764 - Upon receiving an unparseable directory object, if its digest
1765 matches what we expected, then don't try to download it again.
1766 Previously, when we got a descriptor we didn't like, we would keep
1767 trying to download it over and over. Closes ticket 11243.
1768 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors from a directory
1769 server, we no longer launch multiple simultaneous requests to the
1770 same server. This reduces load on the directory servers,
1771 especially when directory guards are in use. Closes ticket 9969.
1772 - When downloading server- or microdescriptors over a tunneled
1773 connection, do not limit the length of our requests to what the
1774 Squid proxy is willing to handle. Part of ticket 9969.
1775 - Authorities can now vote on the correct digests and latest
1776 versions for different software packages. This allows packages
1777 that include Tor to use the Tor authority system as a way to get
1778 notified of updates and their correct digests. Implements proposal
1779 227. Closes ticket 10395.
1781 o Major features (guards):
1782 - Introduce the Guardfraction feature to improves load balancing on
1783 guard nodes. Specifically, it aims to reduce the traffic gap that
1784 guard nodes experience when they first get the Guard flag. This is
1785 a required step if we want to increase the guard lifetime to 9
1786 months or greater. Closes ticket 9321.
1788 o Major features (hidden services):
1789 - Make HS port scanning more difficult by immediately closing the
1790 circuit when a user attempts to connect to a nonexistent port.
1791 Closes ticket 13667.
1792 - Add a HiddenServiceStatistics option that allows Tor relays to
1793 gather and publish statistics about the overall size and volume of
1794 hidden service usage. Specifically, when this option is turned on,
1795 an HSDir will publish an approximate number of hidden services
1796 that have published descriptors to it the past 24 hours. Also, if
1797 a relay has acted as a hidden service rendezvous point, it will
1798 publish the approximate amount of rendezvous cells it has relayed
1799 the past 24 hours. The statistics themselves are obfuscated so
1800 that the exact values cannot be derived. For more details see
1801 proposal 238, "Better hidden service stats from Tor relays". This
1802 feature is currently disabled by default. Implements feature 13192.
1804 o Major features (performance):
1805 - Make the CPU worker implementation more efficient by avoiding the
1806 kernel and lengthening pipelines. The original implementation used
1807 sockets to transfer data from the main thread to the workers, and
1808 didn't allow any thread to be assigned more than a single piece of
1809 work at once. The new implementation avoids communications
1810 overhead by making requests in shared memory, avoiding kernel IO
1811 where possible, and keeping more requests in flight at once.
1812 Implements ticket 9682.
1814 o Major features (relay):
1815 - Raise the minimum acceptable configured bandwidth rate for bridges
1816 to 50 KiB/sec and for relays to 75 KiB/sec. (The old values were
1817 20 KiB/sec.) Closes ticket 13822.
1818 - Complete revision of the code that relays use to decide which cell
1819 to send next. Formerly, we selected the best circuit to write on
1820 each channel, but we didn't select among channels in any
1821 sophisticated way. Now, we choose the best circuits globally from
1822 among those whose channels are ready to deliver traffic.
1824 This patch implements a new inter-cmux comparison API, a global
1825 high/low watermark mechanism and a global scheduler loop for
1826 transmission prioritization across all channels as well as among
1827 circuits on one channel. This schedule is currently tuned to
1828 (tolerantly) avoid making changes in network performance, but it
1829 should form the basis for major circuit performance increases in
1830 the future. Code by Andrea; tuning by Rob Jansen; implements
1833 o Major features (sample torrc):
1834 - Add a new, infrequently-changed "torrc.minimal". This file is
1835 similar to torrc.sample, but it will change as infrequently as
1836 possible, for the benefit of users whose systems prompt them for
1837 intervention whenever a default configuration file is changed.
1838 Making this change allows us to update torrc.sample to be a more
1839 generally useful "sample torrc".
1841 o Major features (security, unix domain sockets):
1842 - Allow SocksPort to be an AF_UNIX Unix Domain Socket. Now high risk
1843 applications can reach Tor without having to create AF_INET or
1844 AF_INET6 sockets, meaning they can completely disable their
1845 ability to make non-Tor network connections. To create a socket of
1846 this type, use "SocksPort unix:/path/to/socket". Implements
1848 - Support mapping hidden service virtual ports to AF_UNIX sockets.
1849 The syntax is "HiddenServicePort 80 unix:/path/to/socket".
1850 Implements ticket 11485.
1852 o Major bugfixes (client, automap):
1853 - Repair automapping with IPv6 addresses. This automapping should
1854 have worked previously, but one piece of debugging code that we
1855 inserted to detect a regression actually caused the regression to
1856 manifest itself again. Fixes bug 13811 and bug 12831; bugfix on
1857 0.2.4.7-alpha. Diagnosed and fixed by Francisco Blas
1860 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
1861 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
1862 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
1865 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
1866 - Do not assign the HSDir flag to relays if they are not Valid, or
1867 currently hibernating. Fixes 12573; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1869 o Major bugfixes (directory bandwidth performance):
1870 - Don't flush the zlib buffer aggressively when compressing
1871 directory information for clients. This should save about 7% of
1872 the bandwidth currently used for compressed descriptors and
1873 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 11787; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
1875 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
1876 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
1877 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
1878 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
1880 o Major bugfixes (FreeBSD IPFW transparent proxy):
1881 - Fix address detection with FreeBSD transparent proxies, when
1882 "TransProxyType ipfw" is in use. Fixes bug 15064; bugfix
1885 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
1886 - When closing an introduction circuit that was opened in parallel
1887 with others, don't mark the introduction point as unreachable.
1888 Previously, the first successful connection to an introduction
1889 point would make the other introduction points get marked as
1890 having timed out. Fixes bug 13698; bugfix on 0.0.6rc2.
1892 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
1893 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
1894 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
1895 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
1897 o Major bugfixes (mixed relay-client operation):
1898 - When running as a relay and client at the same time (not
1899 recommended), if we decide not to use a new guard because we want
1900 to retry older guards, only close the locally-originating circuits
1901 passing through that guard. Previously we would close all the
1902 circuits through that guard. Fixes bug 9819; bugfix on
1903 0.2.1.1-alpha. Reported by "skruffy".
1905 o Major bugfixes (pluggable transports):
1906 - Initialize the extended OR Port authentication cookie before
1907 launching pluggable transports. This prevents a race condition
1908 that occured when server-side pluggable transports would cache the
1909 authentication cookie before it has been (re)generated. Fixes bug
1910 15240; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
1912 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
1913 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
1914 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout is passed to
1915 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
1916 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks".
1917 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
1918 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
1919 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
1921 o Minor features (build):
1922 - New --disable-system-torrc compile-time option to prevent Tor from
1923 looking for the system-wide torrc or torrc-defaults files.
1924 Resolves ticket 13037.
1926 o Minor features (client):
1927 - Clients are now willing to send optimistic data (before they
1928 receive a 'connected' cell) to relays of any version. (Relays
1929 without support for optimistic data are no longer supported on the
1930 Tor network.) Resolves ticket 13153.
1932 o Minor features (client):
1933 - Validate hostnames in SOCKS5 requests more strictly. If SafeSocks
1934 is enabled, reject requests with IP addresses as hostnames.
1935 Resolves ticket 13315.
1937 o Minor features (controller):
1938 - Add a "SIGNAL HEARTBEAT" controller command that tells Tor to
1939 write an unscheduled heartbeat message to the log. Implements
1941 - Include SOCKS_USERNAME and SOCKS_PASSWORD values in controller
1942 events so controllers can observe circuit isolation inputs. Closes
1944 - ControlPort now supports the unix:/path/to/socket syntax as an
1945 alternative to the ControlSocket option, for consistency with
1946 SocksPort and HiddenServicePort. Closes ticket 14451.
1947 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
1948 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
1949 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
1950 - Messages about problems in the bootstrap process now include
1951 information about the server we were trying to connect to when we
1952 noticed the problem. Closes ticket 15006.
1954 o Minor features (Denial of service resistance):
1955 - Count the total number of bytes used storing hidden service
1956 descriptors against the value of MaxMemInQueues. If we're low on
1957 memory, and more than 20% of our memory is used holding hidden
1958 service descriptors, free them until no more than 10% of our
1959 memory holds hidden service descriptors. Free the least recently
1960 fetched descriptors first. Resolves ticket 13806.
1961 - When we have recently been under memory pressure (over 3/4 of
1962 MaxMemInQueues is allocated), then allocate smaller zlib objects
1963 for small requests. Closes ticket 11791.
1965 o Minor features (directory authorities):
1966 - Don't list relays with a bandwidth estimate of 0 in the consensus.
1967 Implements a feature proposed during discussion of bug 13000.
1968 - In tor-gencert, report an error if the user provides the same
1969 argument more than once.
1970 - If a directory authority can't find a best consensus method in the
1971 votes that it holds, it now falls back to its favorite consensus
1972 method. Previously, it fell back to method 1. Neither of these is
1973 likely to get enough signatures, but "fall back to favorite"
1974 doesn't require us to maintain support an obsolete consensus
1975 method. Implements part of proposal 215.
1977 o Minor features (geoip):
1978 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
1979 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
1982 o Minor features (guard nodes):
1983 - Reduce the time delay before saving guard status to disk from 10
1984 minutes to 30 seconds (or from one hour to 10 minutes if
1985 AvoidDiskWrites is set). Closes ticket 12485.
1987 o Minor features (heartbeat):
1988 - On relays, report how many connections we negotiated using each
1989 version of the Tor link protocols. This information will let us
1990 know if removing support for very old versions of the Tor
1991 protocols is harming the network. Closes ticket 15212.
1993 o Minor features (hidden service):
1994 - Make Sybil attacks against hidden services harder by changing the
1995 minimum time required to get the HSDir flag from 25 hours up to 96
1996 hours. Addresses ticket 14149.
1997 - New option "HiddenServiceAllowUnknownPorts" to allow hidden
1998 services to disable the anti-scanning feature introduced in
1999 0.2.6.2-alpha. With this option not set, a connection to an
2000 unlisted port closes the circuit. With this option set, only a
2001 RELAY_DONE cell is sent. Closes ticket 14084.
2002 - When re-enabling the network, don't try to build introduction
2003 circuits until we have successfully built a circuit. This makes
2004 hidden services come up faster when the network is re-enabled.
2005 Patch from "akwizgran". Closes ticket 13447.
2006 - When we fail to retrieve a hidden service descriptor, send the
2007 controller an "HS_DESC FAILED" controller event. Implements
2009 - New HiddenServiceDirGroupReadable option to cause hidden service
2010 directories and hostname files to be created group-readable. Patch
2011 from "anon", David Stainton, and "meejah". Closes ticket 11291.
2013 o Minor features (interface):
2014 - Implement "-f -" command-line option to read torrc configuration
2015 from standard input, if you don't want to store the torrc file in
2016 the file system. Implements feature 13865.
2018 o Minor features (logging):
2019 - Add a count of unique clients to the bridge heartbeat message.
2020 Resolves ticket 6852.
2021 - Suppress "router info incompatible with extra info" message when
2022 reading extrainfo documents from cache. (This message got loud
2023 around when we closed bug 9812 in 0.2.6.2-alpha.) Closes
2025 - Elevate hidden service authorized-client message from DEBUG to
2026 INFO. Closes ticket 14015.
2027 - On Unix-like systems, you can now use named pipes as the target of
2028 the Log option, and other options that try to append to files.
2029 Closes ticket 12061. Patch from "carlo von lynX".
2030 - When opening a log file at startup, send it every log message that
2031 we generated between startup and opening it. Previously, log
2032 messages that were generated before opening the log file were only
2033 logged to stdout. Closes ticket 6938.
2034 - Add a TruncateLogFile option to overwrite logs instead of
2035 appending to them. Closes ticket 5583.
2036 - Quiet some log messages in the heartbeat and at startup. Closes
2039 o Minor features (portability, Solaris):
2040 - Threads are no longer disabled by default on Solaris; we believe
2041 that the versions of Solaris with broken threading support are all
2042 obsolete by now. Resolves ticket 9495.
2044 o Minor features (relay):
2045 - Re-check our address after we detect a changed IP address from
2046 getsockname(). This ensures that the controller command "GETINFO
2047 address" will report the correct value. Resolves ticket 11582.
2049 - A new AccountingRule option lets Relays set whether they'd like
2050 AccountingMax to be applied separately to inbound and outbound
2051 traffic, or applied to the sum of inbound and outbound traffic.
2052 Resolves ticket 961. Patch by "chobe".
2053 - When identity keypair is generated for first time, log a
2054 congratulatory message that links to the new relay lifecycle
2055 document. Implements feature 10427.
2057 o Minor features (security, memory wiping):
2058 - Ensure we securely wipe keys from memory after
2059 crypto_digest_get_digest and init_curve25519_keypair_from_file
2060 have finished using them. Resolves ticket 13477.
2062 o Minor features (security, out-of-memory handling):
2063 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, allocate less memory for
2064 temporary data structures. Fixes issue 10115.
2065 - When handling an out-of-memory condition, consider more types of
2066 buffers, including those on directory connections, and zlib
2067 buffers. Resolves ticket 11792.
2069 o Minor features (stability):
2070 - Add assertions in our hash-table iteration code to check for
2071 corrupted values that could cause infinite loops. Closes
2074 o Minor features (systemd):
2075 - Various improvements and modernizations in systemd hardening
2076 support. Closes ticket 13805. Patch from Craig Andrews.
2077 - Where supported, when running with systemd, report successful
2078 startup to systemd. Part of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
2079 - When running with systemd, support systemd watchdog messages. Part
2080 of ticket 11016. Patch by Michael Scherer.
2082 o Minor features (testing networks):
2083 - Add the TestingDirAuthVoteExit option, which lists nodes to assign
2084 the "Exit" flag regardless of their uptime, bandwidth, or exit
2085 policy. TestingTorNetwork must be set for this option to have any
2086 effect. Previously, authorities would take up to 35 minutes to
2087 give nodes the Exit flag in a test network. Partially implements
2089 - Drop the minimum RendPostPeriod on a testing network to 5 seconds,
2090 and the default on a testing network to 2 minutes. Drop the
2091 MIN_REND_INITIAL_POST_DELAY on a testing network to 5 seconds, but
2092 keep the default on a testing network at 30 seconds. This reduces
2093 HS bootstrap time to around 25 seconds. Also, change the default
2094 time in test-network.sh to match. Closes ticket 13401. Patch
2096 - Create TestingDirAuthVoteHSDir to correspond to
2097 TestingDirAuthVoteExit/Guard. Ensures that authorities vote the
2098 HSDir flag for the listed relays regardless of uptime or ORPort
2099 connectivity. Respects the value of VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2.
2100 Partial implementation for ticket 14067. Patch by "teor".
2102 o Minor features (tor2web mode):
2103 - Introduce the config option Tor2webRendezvousPoints, which allows
2104 clients in Tor2webMode to select a specific Rendezvous Point to be
2105 used in HS circuits. This might allow better performance for
2106 Tor2Web nodes. Implements ticket 12844.
2108 o Minor features (transparent proxy):
2109 - Update the transparent proxy option checks to allow for both ipfw
2110 and pf on OS X. Closes ticket 14002.
2111 - Use the correct option when using IPv6 with transparent proxy
2112 support on Linux. Resolves 13808. Patch by Francisco Blas
2115 o Minor features (validation):
2116 - Check all date/time values passed to tor_timegm and
2117 parse_rfc1123_time for validity, taking leap years into account.
2118 Improves HTTP header validation. Implemented with bug 13476.
2119 - In correct_tm(), limit the range of values returned by system
2120 localtime(_r) and gmtime(_r) to be between the years 1 and 8099.
2121 This means we don't have to deal with negative or too large dates,
2122 even if a clock is wrong. Otherwise we might fail to read a file
2123 written by us which includes such a date. Fixes bug 13476.
2124 - Stop allowing invalid address patterns like "*/24" that contain
2125 both a wildcard address and a bit prefix length. This affects all
2126 our address-range parsing code. Fixes bug 7484; bugfix
2129 o Minor bugfixes (bridge clients):
2130 - When configured to use a bridge without an identity digest (not
2131 recommended), avoid launching an extra channel to it when
2132 bootstrapping. Fixes bug 7733; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2134 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
2135 - When DisableNetwork is set, do not launch pluggable transport
2136 plugins, and if any are running, terminate them. Fixes bug 13213;
2137 bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
2139 o Minor bugfixes (C correctness):
2140 - Fix several instances of possible integer overflow/underflow/NaN.
2141 Fixes bug 13104; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha and later. Patches
2143 - In circuit_build_times_calculate_timeout() in circuitstats.c,
2144 avoid dividing by zero in the pareto calculations. This traps
2145 under clang's "undefined-trap" sanitizer. Fixes bug 13290; bugfix
2147 - Fix an integer overflow in format_time_interval(). Fixes bug
2148 13393; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2149 - Set the correct day of year value when the system's localtime(_r)
2150 or gmtime(_r) functions fail to set struct tm. Not externally
2151 visible. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
2152 - Avoid unlikely signed integer overflow in tor_timegm on systems
2153 with 32-bit time_t. Fixes bug 13476; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
2155 o Minor bugfixes (certificate handling):
2156 - If an authority operator accidentally makes a signing certificate
2157 with a future publication time, do not discard its real signing
2158 certificates. Fixes bug 11457; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
2159 - Remove any old authority certificates that have been superseded
2160 for at least two days. Previously, we would keep superseded
2161 certificates until they expired, if they were published close in
2162 time to the certificate that superseded them. Fixes bug 11454;
2163 bugfix on 0.2.1.8-alpha.
2165 o Minor bugfixes (client):
2166 - Fix smartlist_choose_node_by_bandwidth() so that relays with the
2167 BadExit flag are not considered worthy candidates. Fixes bug
2168 13066; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
2169 - Use the consensus schedule for downloading consensuses, and not
2170 the generic schedule. Fixes bug 11679; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
2171 - Handle unsupported or malformed SOCKS5 requests properly by
2172 responding with the appropriate error message before closing the
2173 connection. Fixes bugs 12971 and 13314; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13.
2175 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
2176 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
2177 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
2178 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2179 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
2180 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2181 - Prevent changes to other options from removing the wildcard value
2182 "." from "AutomapHostsSuffixes". Fixes bug 12509; bugfix
2184 - Allow MapAddress and AutomapHostsOnResolve to work together when
2185 an address is mapped into another address type (like .onion) that
2186 must be automapped at resolve time. Fixes bug 7555; bugfix
2189 o Minor bugfixes (client, bridges):
2190 - When we are using bridges and we had a network connectivity
2191 problem, only retry connecting to our currently configured
2192 bridges, not all bridges we know about and remember using. Fixes
2193 bug 14216; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
2195 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNS):
2196 - Report the correct cached DNS expiration times on SOCKS port or in
2197 DNS replies. Previously, we would report everything as "never
2198 expires." Fixes bug 14193; bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
2199 - Avoid a small memory leak when we find a cached answer for a
2200 reverse DNS lookup in a client-side DNS cache. (Remember, client-
2201 side DNS caching is off by default, and is not recommended.) Fixes
2202 bug 14259; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2204 o Minor bugfixes (client, IPv6):
2205 - Reject socks requests to literal IPv6 addresses when IPv6Traffic
2206 flag is not set; and not because the NoIPv4Traffic flag was set.
2207 Previously we'd looked at the NoIPv4Traffic flag for both types of
2208 literal addresses. Fixes bug 14280; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
2210 o Minor bugfixes (client, microdescriptors):
2211 - Use a full 256 bits of the SHA256 digest of a microdescriptor when
2212 computing which microdescriptors to download. This keeps us from
2213 erroneous download behavior if two microdescriptor digests ever
2214 have the same first 160 bits. Fixes part of bug 13399; bugfix
2216 - Reset a router's status if its microdescriptor digest changes,
2217 even if the first 160 bits remain the same. Fixes part of bug
2218 13399; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2220 o Minor bugfixes (client, torrc):
2221 - Stop modifying the value of our DirReqStatistics torrc option just
2222 because we're not a bridge or relay. This bug was causing Tor
2223 Browser users to write "DirReqStatistics 0" in their torrc files
2224 as if they had chosen to change the config. Fixes bug 4244; bugfix
2226 - When GeoIPExcludeUnknown is enabled, do not incorrectly decide
2227 that our options have changed every time we SIGHUP. Fixes bug
2228 9801; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch from "qwerty1".
2230 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2231 - Fix a compilation warning on s390. Fixes bug 14988; bugfix
2233 - Silence clang warnings under --enable-expensive-hardening,
2234 including implicit truncation of 64 bit values to 32 bit, const
2235 char assignment to self, tautological compare, and additional
2236 parentheses around equality tests. Fixes bug 13577; bugfix
2238 - Fix a clang warning about checking whether an address in the
2239 middle of a structure is NULL. Fixes bug 14001; bugfix
2241 - The address of an array in the middle of a structure will always
2242 be non-NULL. clang recognises this and complains. Disable the
2243 tautologous and redundant check to silence this warning. Fixes bug
2244 14001; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
2245 - Compile correctly with (unreleased) OpenSSL 1.1.0 headers.
2246 Addresses ticket 14188.
2247 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
2248 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
2249 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
2250 - Do not compile any code related to Tor2Web mode when Tor2Web mode
2251 is not enabled at compile time. Previously, this code was included
2252 in a disabled state. See discussion on ticket 12844.
2253 - Allow our configure script to build correctly with autoconf 2.62
2254 again. Fixes bug 12693; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2255 - Improve the error message from ./configure to make it clear that
2256 when asciidoc has not been found, the user will have to either add
2257 --disable-asciidoc argument or install asciidoc. Resolves
2260 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2261 - Report "down" in response to the "GETINFO entry-guards" command
2262 when relays are down with an unreachable_since value. Previously,
2263 we would report "up". Fixes bug 14184; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
2264 - Avoid crashing on a malformed EXTENDCIRCUIT command. Fixes bug
2265 14116; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
2267 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
2268 - Return an error when the second or later arguments of the
2269 "setevents" controller command are invalid events. Previously we
2270 would return success while silently skipping invalid events. Fixes
2271 bug 13205; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Reported by "fpxnns".
2273 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2274 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
2275 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
2276 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
2277 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2278 - Do not attempt to download extrainfo documents which we will be
2279 unable to validate with a matching server descriptor. Fixes bug
2280 13762; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2281 - Fix a bug that was truncating AUTHDIR_NEWDESC events sent to the
2282 control port. Fixes bug 14953; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2283 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
2284 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
2285 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2286 - When running as a v3 directory authority, advertise that you serve
2287 extra-info documents so that clients who want them can find them
2288 from you too. Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2290 o Minor bugfixes (directory system):
2291 - Always believe that v3 directory authorities serve extra-info
2292 documents, whether they advertise "caches-extra-info" or not.
2293 Fixes part of bug 11683; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2294 - Check the BRIDGE_DIRINFO flag bitwise rather than using equality.
2295 Previously, directories offering BRIDGE_DIRINFO and some other
2296 flag (i.e. microdescriptors or extrainfo) would be ignored when
2297 looking for bridges. Partially fixes bug 13163; bugfix
2300 o Minor bugfixes (file handling):
2301 - Stop failing when key files are zero-length. Instead, generate new
2302 keys, and overwrite the empty key files. Fixes bug 13111; bugfix
2303 on all versions of Tor. Patch by "teor".
2304 - Stop generating a fresh .old RSA onion key file when the .old file
2305 is missing. Fixes part of 13111; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
2306 - Avoid overwriting .old key files with empty key files.
2307 - Skip loading zero-length extrainfo store, router store, stats,
2308 state, and key files.
2309 - Avoid crashing when trying to reload a torrc specified as a
2310 relative path with RunAsDaemon turned on. Fixes bug 13397; bugfix
2313 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
2314 - Close the introduction circuit when we have no more usable intro
2315 points, instead of waiting for it to time out. This also ensures
2316 that no follow-up HS descriptor fetch is triggered when the
2317 circuit eventually times out. Fixes bug 14224; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2318 - When fetching a hidden service descriptor for a down service that
2319 was recently up, do not keep refetching until we try the same
2320 replica twice in a row. Fixes bug 14219; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2321 - Correctly send a controller event when we find that a rendezvous
2322 circuit has finished. Fixes bug 13936; bugfix on 0.1.1.5-alpha.
2323 - Pre-check directory permissions for new hidden-services to avoid
2324 at least one case of "Bug: Acting on config options left us in a
2325 broken state. Dying." Fixes bug 13942; bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
2326 - When fetching hidden service descriptors, we now check not only
2327 for whether we got the hidden service we had in mind, but also
2328 whether we got the particular descriptors we wanted. This prevents
2329 a class of inefficient but annoying DoS attacks by hidden service
2330 directories. Fixes bug 13214; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha. Reported
2333 o Minor bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2334 - Make transparent proxy support work along with the seccomp2
2335 sandbox. Fixes part of bug 13808; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch
2336 by Francisco Blas Izquierdo Riera.
2337 - Fix a memory leak in tor-resolve when running with the sandbox
2338 enabled. Fixes bug 14050; bugfix on 0.2.5.9-rc.
2339 - Allow glibc fatal errors to be sent to stderr before Tor exits.
2340 Previously, glibc would try to write them to /dev/tty, and the
2341 sandbox would trap the call and make Tor exit prematurely. Fixes
2342 bug 14759; bugfix on 0.2.5.1-alpha.
2344 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
2345 - Avoid crashing when there are more log domains than entries in
2346 domain_list. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
2347 - Downgrade warnings about RSA signature failures to info log level.
2348 Emit a warning when an extra info document is found incompatible
2349 with a corresponding router descriptor. Fixes bug 9812; bugfix
2351 - Make connection_ap_handshake_attach_circuit() log the circuit ID
2352 correctly. Fixes bug 13701; bugfix on 0.0.6.
2354 o Minor bugfixes (networking):
2355 - Check for orconns and use connection_or_close_for_error() rather
2356 than connection_mark_for_close() directly in the getsockopt()
2357 failure case of connection_handle_write_impl(). Fixes bug 11302;
2358 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2360 o Minor bugfixes (parsing):
2361 - Stop accepting milliseconds (or other junk) at the end of
2362 descriptor publication times. Fixes bug 9286; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25.
2363 - Support two-number and three-number version numbers correctly, in
2364 case we change the Tor versioning system in the future. Fixes bug
2365 13661; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
2367 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
2368 - Fix the ioctl()-based network interface lookup code so that it
2369 will work on systems that have variable-length struct ifreq, for
2371 - Use the correct datatype in the SipHash-2-4 function to prevent
2372 compilers from assuming any sort of alignment. Fixes bug 15436;
2373 bugfix on 0.2.5.3-alpha.
2375 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
2376 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
2377 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
2378 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
2379 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
2381 - Clear all memory targetted by tor_addr_{to,from}_sockaddr(), not
2382 just the part that's used. This makes it harder for data leak bugs
2383 to occur in the event of other programming failures. Resolves
2386 o Minor bugfixes (relay):
2387 - When generating our family list, remove spaces from around the
2388 entries. Fixes bug 12728; bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
2389 - If our previous bandwidth estimate was 0 bytes, allow publishing a
2390 new relay descriptor immediately. Fixes bug 13000; bugfix
2393 o Minor bugfixes (shutdown):
2394 - When shutting down, always call event_del() on lingering read or
2395 write events before freeing them. Otherwise, we risk double-frees
2396 or read-after-frees in event_base_free(). Fixes bug 12985; bugfix
2399 o Minor bugfixes (small memory leaks):
2400 - Avoid leaking memory when using IPv6 virtual address mappings.
2401 Fixes bug 14123; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by Tom van
2404 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
2405 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
2406 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
2408 o Minor bugfixes (systemd support):
2409 - Run correctly under systemd with the RunAsDaemon option set. Fixes
2410 part of bug 14141; bugfix on 0.2.5.7-rc. Patch from Tomasz Torcz.
2411 - Inform the systemd supervisor about more changes in the Tor
2412 process status. Implements part of ticket 14141. Patch from
2415 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks):
2416 - Fix TestingDirAuthVoteGuard to properly give out Guard flags in a
2417 testing network. Fixes bug 13064; bugfix on 0.2.5.2-alpha.
2418 - Stop using the default authorities in networks which provide both
2419 AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority. Partially
2420 fixes bug 13163; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
2422 o Minor bugfixes (testing networks, fast startup):
2423 - Allow Tor to build circuits using a consensus with no exits. If
2424 the consensus has no exits (typical of a bootstrapping test
2425 network), allow Tor to build circuits once enough descriptors have
2426 been downloaded. This assists in bootstrapping a testing Tor
2427 network. Fixes bug 13718; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch
2429 - When V3AuthVotingInterval is low, give a lower If-Modified-Since
2430 header to directory servers. This allows us to obtain consensuses
2431 promptly when the consensus interval is very short. This assists
2432 in bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718
2433 and 13963; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2434 - Stop assuming that private addresses are local when checking
2435 reachability in a TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when testing, assume
2436 all OR connections are remote. (This is necessary due to many test
2437 scenarios running all relays on localhost.) This assists in
2438 bootstrapping a testing Tor network. Fixes bug 13924; bugfix on
2439 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by "teor".
2440 - Avoid building exit circuits from a consensus with no exits. Now
2441 thanks to our fix for 13718, we accept a no-exit network as not
2442 wholly lost, but we need to remember not to try to build exit
2443 circuits on it. Closes ticket 13814; patch by "teor".
2444 - Stop requiring exits to have non-zero bandwithcapacity in a
2445 TestingTorNetwork. Instead, when TestingMinExitFlagThreshold is 0,
2446 ignore exit bandwidthcapacity. This assists in bootstrapping a
2447 testing Tor network. Fixes parts of bugs 13718 and 13839; bugfix
2448 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2449 - Add "internal" to some bootstrap statuses when no exits are
2450 available. If the consensus does not contain Exits, Tor will only
2451 build internal circuits. In this case, relevant statuses will
2452 contain the word "internal" as indicated in the Tor control-
2453 spec.txt. When bootstrap completes, Tor will be ready to build
2454 internal circuits. If a future consensus contains Exits, exit
2455 circuits may become available. Fixes part of bug 13718; bugfix on
2456 0.2.4.10-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2457 - Decrease minimum consensus interval to 10 seconds when
2458 TestingTorNetwork is set, or 5 seconds for the first consensus.
2459 Fix assumptions throughout the code that assume larger intervals.
2460 Fixes bugs 13718 and 13823; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Patch
2462 - Avoid excluding guards from path building in minimal test
2463 networks, when we're in a test network and excluding guards would
2464 exclude all relays. This typically occurs in incredibly small tor
2465 networks, and those using "TestingAuthVoteGuard *". Fixes part of
2466 bug 13718; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2468 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
2469 - Avoid a side-effect in a tor_assert() in the unit tests. Fixes bug
2470 15188; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha. Patch from Tom van der Woerdt.
2471 - Stop spawn test failures due to a race condition between the
2472 SIGCHLD handler updating the process status, and the test reading
2473 it. Fixes bug 13291; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
2474 - Avoid passing an extra backslash when creating a temporary
2475 directory for running the unit tests on Windows. Fixes bug 12392;
2476 bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2478 o Minor bugfixes (TLS):
2479 - Check more thoroughly throughout the TLS code for possible
2480 unlogged TLS errors. Possible diagnostic or fix for bug 13319.
2482 o Minor bugfixes (transparent proxy):
2483 - Use getsockname, not getsockopt, to retrieve the address for a
2484 TPROXY-redirected connection. Fixes bug 13796; bugfix
2487 o Minor bugfixes (windows):
2488 - Remove code to special-case handling of NTE_BAD_KEYSET when
2489 acquiring windows CryptoAPI context. This error can't actually
2490 occur for the parameters we're providing. Fixes bug 10816; bugfix
2493 o Minor bugfixes (zlib):
2494 - Avoid truncating a zlib stream when trying to finalize it with an
2495 empty output buffer. Fixes bug 11824; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
2497 o Code simplification and refactoring:
2498 - Change the entry_is_live() function to take named bitfield
2499 elements instead of an unnamed list of booleans. Closes
2501 - Refactor and unit-test entry_is_time_to_retry() in entrynodes.c.
2502 Resolves ticket 12205.
2503 - Use calloc and reallocarray functions instead of multiply-
2504 then-malloc. This makes it less likely for us to fall victim to an
2505 integer overflow attack when allocating. Resolves ticket 12855.
2506 - Use the standard macro name SIZE_MAX, instead of our
2508 - Document usage of the NO_DIRINFO and ALL_DIRINFO flags clearly in
2509 functions which take them as arguments. Replace 0 with NO_DIRINFO
2510 in a function call for clarity. Seeks to prevent future issues
2512 - Avoid 4 null pointer errors under clang static analysis by using
2513 tor_assert() to prove that the pointers aren't null. Fixes
2515 - Rework the API of policies_parse_exit_policy() to use a bitmask to
2516 represent parsing options, instead of a confusing mess of
2517 booleans. Resolves ticket 8197.
2518 - Introduce a helper function to parse ExitPolicy in
2519 or_options_t structure.
2520 - Move fields related to isolating and configuring client ports into
2521 a shared structure. Previously, they were duplicated across
2522 port_cfg_t, listener_connection_t, and edge_connection_t. Failure
2523 to copy them correctly had been the cause of at least one bug in
2524 the past. Closes ticket 8546.
2525 - Refactor the get_interface_addresses_raw() doom-function into
2526 multiple smaller and simpler subfunctions. Cover the resulting
2527 subfunctions with unit-tests. Fixes a significant portion of
2529 - Remove workaround in dirserv_thinks_router_is_hs_dir() that was
2530 only for version <= 0.2.2.24 which is now deprecated. Closes
2532 - Remove a test for a long-defunct broken version-one
2534 - Refactor main loop to extract the 'loop' part. This makes it
2535 easier to run Tor under Shadow. Closes ticket 15176.
2536 - Stop using can_complete_circuits as a global variable; access it
2537 with a function instead.
2538 - Avoid using operators directly as macro arguments: this lets us
2539 apply coccinelle transformations to our codebase more directly.
2540 Closes ticket 13172.
2541 - Combine the functions used to parse ClientTransportPlugin and
2542 ServerTransportPlugin into a single function. Closes ticket 6456.
2543 - Add inline functions and convenience macros for inspecting channel
2544 state. Refactor the code to use convenience macros instead of
2545 checking channel state directly. Fixes issue 7356.
2546 - Document all members of was_router_added_t and rename
2547 ROUTER_WAS_NOT_NEW to ROUTER_IS_ALREADY_KNOWN to make it less
2548 confusable with ROUTER_WAS_TOO_OLD. Fixes issue 13644.
2549 - In connection_exit_begin_conn(), use END_CIRC_REASON_TORPROTOCOL
2550 constant instead of hardcoded value. Fixes issue 13840.
2551 - Refactor our generic strmap and digestmap types into a single
2552 implementation, so that we can add a new digest256map
2556 - Add a doc/TUNING document with tips for handling large numbers of
2557 TCP connections when running busy Tor relay. Update the warning
2558 message to point to this file when running out of sockets
2559 operating system is allowing to use simultaneously. Resolves
2561 - Adding section on OpenBSD to our TUNING document. Thanks to mmcc
2562 for writing the OpenBSD-specific tips. Resolves ticket 13702.
2563 - Make the tor-resolve documentation match its help string and its
2564 options. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
2565 - Log a more useful error message from tor-resolve when failing to
2566 look up a hidden service address. Resolves part of ticket 14325.
2567 - Document the bridge-authority-only 'networkstatus-bridges' file.
2568 Closes ticket 13713; patch from "tom".
2569 - Fix typo in PredictedPortsRelevanceTime option description in
2570 manpage. Resolves issue 13707.
2571 - Stop suggesting that users specify relays by nickname: it isn't a
2572 good idea. Also, properly cross-reference how to specify relays in
2573 all parts of manual documenting options that take a list of
2574 relays. Closes ticket 13381.
2575 - Clarify the HiddenServiceDir option description in manpage to make
2576 it clear that relative paths are taken with respect to the current
2577 working directory. Also clarify that this behavior is not
2578 guaranteed to remain indefinitely. Fixes issue 13913.
2580 o Distribution (systemd):
2581 - systemd unit file: only allow tor to write to /var/lib/tor and
2582 /var/log/tor. The rest of the filesystem is accessible for reading
2583 only. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 12751.
2584 - systemd unit file: ensure that the process and all its children
2585 can never gain new privileges. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
2587 - systemd unit file: set up /var/run/tor as writable for the Tor
2588 service. Patch by intrigeri; resolves ticket 13196.
2590 o Downgraded warnings:
2591 - Don't warn when we've attempted to contact a relay using the wrong
2592 ntor onion key. Closes ticket 9635.
2595 - Remove some lingering dead code that once supported mempools.
2596 Mempools were disabled by default in 0.2.5, and removed entirely
2597 in 0.2.6.3-alpha. Closes more of ticket 14848; patch
2600 o Removed features (directory authorities):
2601 - Remove code that prevented authorities from listing Tor relays
2602 affected by CVE-2011-2769 as guards. These relays are already
2603 rejected altogether due to the minimum version requirement of
2604 0.2.3.16-alpha. Closes ticket 13152.
2605 - The "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" option no longer has any effect, as
2606 the fingerprints file (approved-routers) has been deprecated.
2607 - Directory authorities do not support being Naming dirauths anymore.
2608 The "NamingAuthoritativeDir" config option is now obsolete.
2609 - Directory authorities do not support giving out the BadDirectory
2611 - Directory authorities no longer advertise or support consensus
2612 methods 1 through 12 inclusive. These consensus methods were
2613 obsolete and/or insecure: maintaining the ability to support them
2614 served no good purpose. Implements part of proposal 215; closes
2618 - To avoid confusion with the "ExitRelay" option, "ExitNode" is no
2619 longer silently accepted as an alias for "ExitNodes".
2620 - The --enable-mempool and --enable-buf-freelists options, which
2621 were originally created to work around bad malloc implementations,
2622 no longer exist. They were off-by-default in 0.2.5. Closes
2624 - We no longer remind the user about configuration options that have
2625 been obsolete since 0.2.3.x or earlier. Patch by Adrien Bak.
2626 - Remove our old, non-weighted bandwidth-based node selection code.
2627 Previously, we used it as a fallback when we couldn't perform
2628 weighted bandwidth-based node selection. But that would only
2629 happen in the cases where we had no consensus, or when we had a
2630 consensus generated by buggy or ancient directory authorities. In
2631 either case, it's better to use the more modern, better maintained
2632 algorithm, with reasonable defaults for the weights. Closes
2634 - Remove the --disable-curve25519 configure option. Relays and
2635 clients now are required to support curve25519 and the
2637 - The old "StrictEntryNodes" and "StrictExitNodes" options, which
2638 used to be deprecated synonyms for "StrictNodes", are now marked
2639 obsolete. Resolves ticket 12226.
2640 - Clients don't understand the BadDirectory flag in the consensus
2641 anymore, and ignore it.
2643 o Removed platform support:
2644 - We no longer include special code to build on Windows CE; as far
2645 as we know, nobody has used Tor on Windows CE in a very long time.
2646 Closes ticket 11446.
2648 o Testing (test-network.sh):
2649 - Stop using "echo -n", as some shells' built-in echo doesn't
2650 support "-n". Instead, use "/bin/echo -n". Partially fixes
2652 - Stop an apparent test-network hang when used with make -j2. Fixes
2654 - Add a --delay option to test-network.sh, which configures the
2655 delay before the chutney network tests for data transmission.
2656 Partially implements ticket 13161.
2659 - Test that tor does not fail when key files are zero-length. Check
2660 that tor generates new keys, and overwrites the empty key files.
2661 - Test that tor generates new keys when keys are missing
2662 (existing behavior).
2663 - Test that tor does not overwrite key files that already contain
2664 data (existing behavior). Tests bug 13111. Patch by "teor".
2665 - New "make test-stem" target to run stem integration tests.
2666 Requires that the "STEM_SOURCE_DIR" environment variable be set.
2667 Closes ticket 14107.
2668 - Make the test_cmdline_args.py script work correctly on Windows.
2669 Patch from Gisle Vanem.
2670 - Move the slower unit tests into a new "./src/test/test-slow"
2671 binary that can be run independently of the other tests. Closes
2673 - New tests for many parts of channel, relay, and circuitmux
2674 functionality. Code by Andrea; part of 9262.
2675 - New tests for parse_transport_line(). Part of ticket 6456.
2676 - In the unit tests, use chgrp() to change the group of the unit
2677 test temporary directory to the current user, so that the sticky
2678 bit doesn't interfere with tests that check directory groups.
2680 - Add unit tests for resolve_my_addr(). Part of ticket 12376; patch
2682 - Refactor the function that chooses guard nodes so that it can more
2683 easily be tested; write some tests for it.
2684 - Fix and re-enable the fgets_eagain unit test. Fixes bug 12503;
2685 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch from "cypherpunks."
2686 - Create unit tests for format_time_interval(). With bug 13393.
2687 - Add unit tests for tor_timegm signed overflow, tor_timegm and
2688 parse_rfc1123_time validity checks, correct_tm year clamping. Unit
2689 tests (visible) fixes in bug 13476.
2690 - Add a "coverage-html" make target to generate HTML-visualized
2691 coverage results when building with --enable-coverage. (Requires
2692 lcov.) Patch from Kevin Murray.
2693 - Enable the backtrace handler (where supported) when running the
2695 - Revise all unit tests that used the legacy test_* macros to
2696 instead use the recommended tt_* macros. This patch was generated
2697 with coccinelle, to avoid manual errors. Closes ticket 13119.
2699 Changes in version 0.2.5.11 - 2015-03-17
2700 Tor 0.2.5.11 is the second stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
2702 It backports several bugfixes from the 0.2.6 branch, including a
2703 couple of medium-level security fixes for relays and exit nodes.
2704 It also updates the list of directory authorities.
2706 o Directory authority changes:
2707 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
2708 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
2709 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
2710 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
2711 closes ticket 14487.
2713 o Major bugfixes (crash, OSX, security):
2714 - Fix a remote denial-of-service opportunity caused by a bug in
2715 OSX's _strlcat_chk() function. Fixes bug 15205; bug first appeared
2718 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security):
2719 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
2720 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
2721 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
2722 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
2723 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
2724 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
2725 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2727 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability):
2728 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
2729 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
2730 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
2732 o Major bugfixes (Linux seccomp2 sandbox):
2733 - Upon receiving sighup with the seccomp2 sandbox enabled, do not
2734 crash during attempts to call wait4. Fixes bug 15088; bugfix on
2735 0.2.5.1-alpha. Patch from "sanic".
2737 o Minor features (controller):
2738 - New "GETINFO bw-event-cache" to get information about recent
2739 bandwidth events. Closes ticket 14128. Useful for controllers to
2740 get recent bandwidth history after the fix for ticket 13988.
2742 o Minor features (geoip):
2743 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
2744 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
2747 o Minor bugfixes (client, automapping):
2748 - Avoid crashing on torrc lines for VirtualAddrNetworkIPv[4|6] when
2749 no value follows the option. Fixes bug 14142; bugfix on
2750 0.2.4.7-alpha. Patch by "teor".
2751 - Fix a memory leak when using AutomapHostsOnResolve. Fixes bug
2752 14195; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
2754 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
2755 - Build without warnings with the stock OpenSSL srtp.h header, which
2756 has a duplicate declaration of SSL_get_selected_srtp_profile().
2757 Fixes bug 14220; this is OpenSSL's bug, not ours.
2759 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority):
2760 - Allow directory authorities to fetch more data from one another if
2761 they find themselves missing lots of votes. Previously, they had
2762 been bumping against the 10 MB queued data limit. Fixes bug 14261;
2763 bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
2764 - Enlarge the buffer to read bwauth generated files to avoid an
2765 issue when parsing the file in dirserv_read_measured_bandwidths().
2766 Fixes bug 14125; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
2768 o Minor bugfixes (statistics):
2769 - Increase period over which bandwidth observations are aggregated
2770 from 15 minutes to 4 hours. Fixes bug 13988; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
2772 o Minor bugfixes (preventative security, C safety):
2773 - When reading a hexadecimal, base-32, or base-64 encoded value from
2774 a string, always overwrite the whole output buffer. This prevents
2775 some bugs where we would look at (but fortunately, not reveal)
2776 uninitialized memory on the stack. Fixes bug 14013; bugfix on all
2780 Changes in version 0.2.4.26 - 2015-03-17
2781 Tor 0.2.4.26 includes an updated list of directory authorities. It
2782 also backports a couple of stability and security bugfixes from 0.2.5
2785 o Directory authority changes:
2786 - Remove turtles as a directory authority.
2787 - Add longclaw as a new (v3) directory authority. This implements
2788 ticket 13296. This keeps the directory authority count at 9.
2789 - The directory authority Faravahar has a new IP address. This
2790 closes ticket 14487.
2792 o Major bugfixes (exit node stability, also in 0.2.6.3-alpha):
2793 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur under high DNS load.
2794 Fixes bug 14129; bugfix on Tor 0.0.7rc1. Found by "jowr";
2795 diagnosed and fixed by "cypherpunks".
2797 o Major bugfixes (relay, stability, possible security, also in 0.2.6.4-rc):
2798 - Fix a bug that could lead to a relay crashing with an assertion
2799 failure if a buffer of exactly the wrong layout was passed to
2800 buf_pullup() at exactly the wrong time. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on
2801 0.2.0.10-alpha. Patch from 'cypherpunks'.
2802 - Do not assert if the 'data' pointer on a buffer is advanced to the
2803 very end of the buffer; log a BUG message instead. Only assert if
2804 it is past that point. Fixes bug 15083; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
2806 o Minor features (geoip):
2807 - Update geoip to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2 Country database.
2808 - Update geoip6 to the March 3 2015 Maxmind GeoLite2
2811 Changes in version 0.2.5.10 - 2014-10-24
2812 Tor 0.2.5.10 is the first stable release in the 0.2.5 series.
2814 It adds several new security features, including improved
2815 denial-of-service resistance for relays, new compiler hardening
2816 options, and a system-call sandbox for hardened installations on Linux
2817 (requires seccomp2). The controller protocol has several new features,
2818 resolving IPv6 addresses should work better than before, and relays
2819 should be a little more CPU-efficient. We've added support for more
2820 OpenBSD and FreeBSD transparent proxy types. We've improved the build
2821 system and testing infrastructure to allow unit testing of more parts
2822 of the Tor codebase. Finally, we've addressed several nagging pluggable
2823 transport usability issues, and included numerous other small bugfixes
2824 and features mentioned below.
2826 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.2.3.x; those Tor versions
2827 have accumulated many known flaws; everyone should upgrade.
2829 o Major features (security):
2830 - The ntor handshake is now on-by-default, no matter what the
2831 directory authorities recommend. Implements ticket 8561.
2832 - Make the "tor-gencert" tool used by directory authority operators
2833 create 2048-bit signing keys by default (rather than 1024-bit, since
2834 1024-bit is uncomfortably small these days). Addresses ticket 10324.
2835 - Warn about attempts to run hidden services and relays in the same
2836 process: that's probably not a good idea. Closes ticket 12908.
2837 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
2838 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
2839 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
2841 o Major features (relay security, DoS-resistance):
2842 - When deciding whether we have run out of memory and we need to
2843 close circuits, also consider memory allocated in buffers for
2844 streams attached to each circuit.
2846 This change, which extends an anti-DoS feature introduced in
2847 0.2.4.13-alpha and improved in 0.2.4.14-alpha, lets Tor exit relays
2848 better resist more memory-based DoS attacks than before. Since the
2849 MaxMemInCellQueues option now applies to all queues, it is renamed
2850 to MaxMemInQueues. This feature fixes bug 10169.
2851 - Avoid hash-flooding denial-of-service attacks by using the secure
2852 SipHash-2-4 hash function for our hashtables. Without this
2853 feature, an attacker could degrade performance of a targeted
2854 client or server by flooding their data structures with a large
2855 number of entries to be stored at the same hash table position,
2856 thereby slowing down the Tor instance. With this feature, hash
2857 table positions are derived from a randomized cryptographic key,
2858 and an attacker cannot predict which entries will collide. Closes
2860 - If you don't specify MaxMemInQueues yourself, Tor now tries to
2861 pick a good value based on your total system memory. Previously,
2862 the default was always 8 GB. You can still override the default by
2863 setting MaxMemInQueues yourself. Resolves ticket 11396.
2865 o Major features (bridges and pluggable transports):
2866 - Add support for passing arguments to managed pluggable transport
2867 proxies. Implements ticket 3594.
2868 - Bridges now track GeoIP information and the number of their users
2869 even when pluggable transports are in use, and report usage
2870 statistics in their extra-info descriptors. Resolves tickets 4773
2872 - Don't launch pluggable transport proxies if we don't have any
2873 bridges configured that would use them. Now we can list many
2874 pluggable transports, and Tor will dynamically start one when it
2875 hears a bridge address that needs it. Resolves ticket 5018.
2876 - The bridge directory authority now assigns status flags (Stable,
2877 Guard, etc) to bridges based on thresholds calculated over all
2878 Running bridges. Now bridgedb can finally make use of its features
2879 to e.g. include at least one Stable bridge in its answers. Fixes
2882 o Major features (controller):
2883 - Extend ORCONN controller event to include an "ID" parameter,
2884 and add four new controller event types CONN_BW, CIRC_BW,
2885 CELL_STATS, and TB_EMPTY that show connection and circuit usage.
2886 The new events are emitted in private Tor networks only, with the
2887 goal of being able to better track performance and load during
2888 full-network simulations. Implements proposal 218 and ticket 7359.
2890 o Major features (relay performance):
2891 - Speed up server-side lookups of rendezvous and introduction point
2892 circuits by using hashtables instead of linear searches. These
2893 functions previously accounted between 3 and 7% of CPU usage on
2894 some busy relays. Resolves ticket 9841.
2895 - Avoid wasting CPU when extending a circuit over a channel that is
2896 nearly out of circuit IDs. Previously, we would do a linear scan
2897 over possible circuit IDs before finding one or deciding that we
2898 had exhausted our possibilities. Now, we try at most 64 random
2899 circuit IDs before deciding that we probably won't succeed. Fixes
2900 a possible root cause of ticket 11553.
2902 o Major features (seccomp2 sandbox, Linux only):
2903 - Use the seccomp2 syscall filtering facility on Linux to limit
2904 which system calls Tor can invoke. This is an experimental,
2905 Linux-only feature to provide defense-in-depth against unknown
2906 attacks. To try turning it on, set "Sandbox 1" in your torrc
2907 file. Please be ready to report bugs. We hope to add support
2908 for better sandboxing in the future, including more fine-grained
2909 filters, better division of responsibility, and support for more
2910 platforms. This work has been done by Cristian-Matei Toader for
2911 Google Summer of Code. Resolves tickets 11351 and 11465.
2913 o Major features (testing networks):
2914 - Make testing Tor networks bootstrap better: lower directory fetch
2915 retry schedules and maximum interval without directory requests,
2916 and raise maximum download tries. Implements ticket 6752.
2917 - Add make target 'test-network' to run tests on a Chutney network.
2918 Implements ticket 8530.
2920 o Major features (other):
2921 - On some platforms (currently: recent OSX versions, glibc-based
2922 platforms that support the ELF format, and a few other
2923 Unix-like operating systems), Tor can now dump stack traces
2924 when a crash occurs or an assertion fails. By default, traces
2925 are dumped to stderr (if possible) and to any logs that are
2926 reporting errors. Implements ticket 9299.
2928 o Deprecated versions:
2929 - Tor 0.2.3.x has reached end-of-life; it has received no patches or
2930 attention for some while.
2932 o Major bugfixes (security, directory authorities):
2933 - Directory authorities now include a digest of each relay's
2934 identity key as a part of its microdescriptor.
2936 This is a workaround for bug 11743 (reported by "cypherpunks"),
2937 where Tor clients do not support receiving multiple
2938 microdescriptors with the same SHA256 digest in the same
2939 consensus. When clients receive a consensus like this, they only
2940 use one of the relays. Without this fix, a hostile relay could
2941 selectively disable some client use of target relays by
2942 constructing a router descriptor with a different identity and the
2943 same microdescriptor parameters and getting the authorities to
2944 list it in a microdescriptor consensus. This fix prevents an
2945 attacker from causing a microdescriptor collision, because the
2946 router's identity is not forgeable.
2948 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround):
2949 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
2950 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes
2951 bug 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
2953 o Major bugfixes (client):
2954 - Perform circuit cleanup operations even when circuit
2955 construction operations are disabled (because the network is
2956 disabled, or because there isn't enough directory information).
2957 Previously, when we were not building predictive circuits, we
2958 were not closing expired circuits either. Fixes bug 8387; bugfix on
2959 0.1.1.11-alpha. This bug became visible in 0.2.4.10-alpha when we
2960 became more strict about when we have "enough directory information
2963 o Major bugfixes (client, pluggable transports):
2964 - When managing pluggable transports, use OS notification facilities
2965 to learn if they have crashed, and don't attempt to kill any
2966 process that has already exited. Fixes bug 8746; bugfix
2969 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
2970 - Instead of writing destroy cells directly to outgoing connection
2971 buffers, queue them and intersperse them with other outgoing cells.
2972 This can prevent a set of resource starvation conditions where too
2973 many pending destroy cells prevent data cells from actually getting
2974 delivered. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed". Fixes bug 7912;
2975 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
2977 o Major bugfixes (relay):
2978 - Avoid queuing or sending destroy cells for circuit ID zero when we
2979 fail to send a CREATE cell. Fixes bug 12848; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
2980 Found and fixed by "cypherpunks".
2981 - Fix ORPort reachability detection on relays running behind a
2982 proxy, by correctly updating the "local" mark on the controlling
2983 channel when changing the address of an or_connection_t after the
2984 handshake. Fixes bug 12160; bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
2985 - Use a direct dirport connection when uploading non-anonymous
2986 descriptors to the directory authorities. Previously, relays would
2987 incorrectly use tunnel connections under a fairly wide variety of
2988 circumstances. Fixes bug 11469; bugfix on 0.2.4.3-alpha.
2989 - When a circuit accidentally has the same circuit ID for its
2990 forward and reverse direction, correctly detect the direction of
2991 cells using that circuit. Previously, this bug made roughly one
2992 circuit in a million non-functional. Fixes bug 12195; this is a
2993 bugfix on every version of Tor.
2995 o Minor features (security):
2996 - New --enable-expensive-hardening option to enable security
2997 hardening options that consume nontrivial amounts of CPU and
2998 memory. Right now, this includes AddressSanitizer and UbSan, which
2999 are supported in newer versions of GCC and Clang. Closes ticket
3001 - Authorities now assign the Guard flag to the fastest 25% of the
3002 network (it used to be the fastest 50%). Also raise the consensus
3003 weight that guarantees the Guard flag from 250 to 2000. For the
3004 current network, this results in about 1100 guards, down from 2500.
3005 This step paves the way for moving the number of entry guards
3006 down to 1 (proposal 236) while still providing reasonable expected
3007 performance for most users. Implements ticket 12690.
3009 o Minor features (security, memory management):
3010 - Memory allocation tricks (mempools and buffer freelists) are now
3011 disabled by default. You can turn them back on with
3012 --enable-mempools and --enable-buf-freelists respectively. We're
3013 disabling these features because malloc performance is good enough
3014 on most platforms, and a similar feature in OpenSSL exacerbated
3015 exploitation of the Heartbleed attack. Resolves ticket 11476.
3017 o Minor features (bridge client):
3018 - Report a more useful failure message when we can't connect to a
3019 bridge because we don't have the right pluggable transport
3020 configured. Resolves ticket 9665. Patch from Fábio J. Bertinatto.
3022 o Minor features (bridge):
3023 - Add an ExtORPortCookieAuthFileGroupReadable option to make the
3024 cookie file for the ExtORPort g+r by default.
3026 o Minor features (bridges, pluggable transports):
3027 - Bridges now write the SHA1 digest of their identity key
3028 fingerprint (that is, a hash of a hash of their public key) to
3029 notice-level logs, and to a new hashed-fingerprint file. This
3030 information will help bridge operators look up their bridge in
3031 Globe and similar tools. Resolves ticket 10884.
3032 - Improve the message that Tor displays when running as a bridge
3033 using pluggable transports without an Extended ORPort listener.
3034 Also, log the message in the log file too. Resolves ticket 11043.
3035 - Add threshold cutoffs to the networkstatus document created by
3036 the Bridge Authority. Fixes bug 1117.
3037 - On Windows, spawn background processes using the CREATE_NO_WINDOW
3038 flag. Now Tor Browser Bundle 3.5 with pluggable transports enabled
3039 doesn't pop up a blank console window. (In Tor Browser Bundle 2.x,
3040 Vidalia set this option for us.) Implements ticket 10297.
3042 o Minor features (build):
3043 - The configure script has a --disable-seccomp option to turn off
3044 support for libseccomp on systems that have it, in case it (or
3045 Tor's use of it) is broken. Resolves ticket 11628.
3046 - Assume that a user using ./configure --host wants to cross-compile,
3047 and give an error if we cannot find a properly named
3048 tool-chain. Add a --disable-tool-name-check option to proceed
3049 nevertheless. Addresses ticket 9869. Patch by Benedikt Gollatz.
3050 - If we run ./configure and the compiler recognizes -fstack-protector
3051 but the linker rejects it, warn the user about a potentially missing
3052 libssp package. Addresses ticket 9948. Patch from Benedikt Gollatz.
3053 - Add support for `--library-versions` flag. Implements ticket 6384.
3054 - Return the "unexpected sendme" warnings to a warn severity, but make
3055 them rate limited, to help diagnose ticket 8093.
3056 - Detect a missing asciidoc, and warn the user about it, during
3057 configure rather than at build time. Fixes issue 6506. Patch from
3060 o Minor features (client):
3061 - Add a new option, PredictedPortsRelevanceTime, to control how long
3062 after having received a request to connect to a given port Tor
3063 will try to keep circuits ready in anticipation of future requests
3064 for that port. Patch from "unixninja92"; implements ticket 9176.
3066 o Minor features (config options and command line):
3067 - Add an --allow-missing-torrc commandline option that tells Tor to
3068 run even if the configuration file specified by -f is not available.
3069 Implements ticket 10060.
3070 - Add support for the TPROXY transparent proxying facility on Linux.
3071 See documentation for the new TransProxyType option for more
3072 details. Implementation by "thomo". Closes ticket 10582.
3074 o Minor features (config options):
3075 - Config (torrc) lines now handle fingerprints which are missing
3076 their initial '$'. Resolves ticket 4341; improvement over 0.0.9pre5.
3077 - Support a --dump-config option to print some or all of the
3078 configured options. Mainly useful for debugging the command-line
3079 option parsing code. Helps resolve ticket 4647.
3080 - Raise awareness of safer logging: notify user of potentially
3081 unsafe config options, like logging more verbosely than severity
3082 "notice" or setting SafeLogging to 0. Resolves ticket 5584.
3083 - Add a new configuration option TestingV3AuthVotingStartOffset
3084 that bootstraps a network faster by changing the timing for
3085 consensus votes. Addresses ticket 8532.
3086 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportOptions" that allows
3087 bridge operators to pass configuration parameters to their
3088 pluggable transports. Resolves ticket 8929.
3089 - The config (torrc) file now accepts bandwidth and space limits in
3090 bits as well as bytes. (Anywhere that you can say "2 Kilobytes",
3091 you can now say "16 kilobits", and so on.) Resolves ticket 9214.
3094 o Minor features (controller):
3095 - Make the entire exit policy available from the control port via
3096 GETINFO exit-policy/*. Implements enhancement 7952. Patch from
3098 - Because of the fix for ticket 11396, the real limit for memory
3099 usage may no longer match the configured MaxMemInQueues value. The
3100 real limit is now exposed via GETINFO limits/max-mem-in-queues.
3101 - Add a new "HS_DESC" controller event that reports activities
3102 related to hidden service descriptors. Resolves ticket 8510.
3103 - New "DROPGUARDS" controller command to forget all current entry
3104 guards. Not recommended for ordinary use, since replacing guards
3105 too frequently makes several attacks easier. Resolves ticket 9934;
3107 - Implement the TRANSPORT_LAUNCHED control port event that
3108 notifies controllers about new launched pluggable
3109 transports. Resolves ticket 5609.
3111 o Minor features (diagnostic):
3112 - When logging a warning because of bug 7164, additionally check the
3113 hash table for consistency (as proposed on ticket 11737). This may
3114 help diagnose bug 7164.
3115 - When we log a heartbeat, log how many one-hop circuits we have
3116 that are at least 30 minutes old, and log status information about
3117 a few of them. This is an attempt to track down bug 8387.
3118 - When encountering an unexpected CR while writing text to a file on
3119 Windows, log the name of the file. Should help diagnosing
3121 - Give more specific warnings when a client notices that an onion
3122 handshake has failed. Fixes ticket 9635.
3123 - Add significant new logging code to attempt to diagnose bug 12184,
3124 where relays seem to run out of available circuit IDs.
3125 - Improve the diagnostic log message for bug 8387 even further to
3126 try to improve our odds of figuring out why one-hop directory
3127 circuits sometimes do not get closed.
3128 - Add more log messages to diagnose bug 7164, which causes
3129 intermittent "microdesc_free() called but md was still referenced"
3130 warnings. We now include more information, to figure out why we
3131 might be cleaning a microdescriptor for being too old if it's
3132 still referenced by a live node_t object.
3133 - Log current accounting state (bytes sent and received + remaining
3134 time for the current accounting period) in the relay's heartbeat
3135 message. Implements ticket 5526; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
3137 o Minor features (geoip):
3138 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
3141 o Minor features (interface):
3142 - Generate a warning if any ports are listed in the SocksPolicy,
3143 DirPolicy, AuthDirReject, AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, or
3144 AuthDirBadExit options. (These options only support address
3145 ranges.) Fixes part of ticket 11108.
3147 o Minor features (kernel API usage):
3148 - Use the SOCK_NONBLOCK socket type, if supported, to open nonblocking
3149 sockets in a single system call. Implements ticket 5129.
3151 o Minor features (log messages):
3152 - When ServerTransportPlugin is set on a bridge, Tor can write more
3153 useful statistics about bridge use in its extrainfo descriptors,
3154 but only if the Extended ORPort ("ExtORPort") is set too. Add a
3155 log message to inform the user in this case. Resolves ticket 9651.
3156 - When receiving a new controller connection, log the origin address.
3157 Resolves ticket 9698; patch from "sigpipe".
3158 - When logging OpenSSL engine status at startup, log the status of
3159 more engines. Fixes ticket 10043; patch from Joshua Datko.
3161 o Minor features (log verbosity):
3162 - Demote the message that we give when a flushing connection times
3163 out for too long from NOTICE to INFO. It was usually meaningless.
3164 Resolves ticket 5286.
3165 - Don't log so many notice-level bootstrapping messages at startup
3166 about downloading descriptors. Previously, we'd log a notice
3167 whenever we learned about more routers. Now, we only log a notice
3168 at every 5% of progress. Fixes bug 9963.
3169 - Warn less verbosely when receiving a malformed
3170 ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS cell. Fixes ticket 11279.
3172 o Minor features (performance):
3173 - If we're using the pure-C 32-bit curve25519_donna implementation
3174 of curve25519, build it with the -fomit-frame-pointer option to
3175 make it go faster on register-starved hosts. This improves our
3176 handshake performance by about 6% on i386 hosts without nacl.
3179 o Minor features (relay):
3180 - If a circuit timed out for at least 3 minutes, check if we have a
3181 new external IP address, and publish a new descriptor with the new
3182 IP address if it changed. Resolves ticket 2454.
3184 o Minor features (testing):
3185 - If Python is installed, "make check" now runs extra tests beyond
3186 the unit test scripts.
3187 - When bootstrapping a test network, sometimes very few relays get
3188 the Guard flag. Now a new option "TestingDirAuthVoteGuard" can
3189 specify a set of relays which should be voted Guard regardless of
3190 their uptime or bandwidth. Addresses ticket 9206.
3192 o Minor features (transparent proxy, *BSD):
3193 - Support FreeBSD's ipfw firewall interface for TransPort ports on
3194 FreeBSD. To enable it, set "TransProxyType ipfw". Resolves ticket
3195 10267; patch from "yurivict".
3196 - Support OpenBSD's divert-to rules with the pf firewall for
3197 transparent proxy ports. To enable it, set "TransProxyType
3198 pf-divert". This allows Tor to run a TransPort transparent proxy
3199 port on OpenBSD 4.4 or later without root privileges. See the
3200 pf.conf(5) manual page for information on configuring pf to use
3201 divert-to rules. Closes ticket 10896; patch from Dana Koch.
3203 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client):
3204 - Stop accepting bridge lines containing hostnames. Doing so would
3205 cause clients to perform DNS requests on the hostnames, which was
3206 not sensible behavior. Fixes bug 10801; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3208 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
3209 - Avoid potential crashes or bad behavior when launching a
3210 server-side managed proxy with ORPort or ExtORPort temporarily
3211 disabled. Fixes bug 9650; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
3212 - Fix a bug where the first connection works to a bridge that uses a
3213 pluggable transport with client-side parameters, but we don't send
3214 the client-side parameters on subsequent connections. (We don't
3215 use any pluggable transports with client-side parameters yet,
3216 but ScrambleSuit will soon become the first one.) Fixes bug 9162;
3217 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Based on a patch from "rl1987".
3219 o Minor bugfixes (build, auxiliary programs):
3220 - Stop preprocessing the "torify" script with autoconf, since
3221 it no longer refers to LOCALSTATEDIR. Fixes bug 5505; patch
3223 - The tor-fw-helper program now follows the standard convention and
3224 exits with status code "0" on success. Fixes bug 9030; bugfix on
3225 0.2.3.1-alpha. Patch by Arlo Breault.
3226 - Corrected ./configure advice for what openssl dev package you should
3227 install on Debian. Fixes bug 9207; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
3229 o Minor bugfixes (client):
3230 - Avoid "Tried to open a socket with DisableNetwork set" warnings
3231 when starting a client with bridges configured and DisableNetwork
3232 set. (Tor launcher starts Tor with DisableNetwork set the first
3233 time it runs.) Fixes bug 10405; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
3234 - Improve the log message when we can't connect to a hidden service
3235 because all of the hidden service directory nodes hosting its
3236 descriptor are excluded. Improves on our fix for bug 10722, which
3237 was a bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3238 - Raise a control port warning when we fail to connect to all of
3239 our bridges. Previously, we didn't inform the controller, and
3240 the bootstrap process would stall. Fixes bug 11069; bugfix on
3242 - Exit immediately when a process-owning controller exits.
3243 Previously, tor relays would wait for a little while after their
3244 controller exited, as if they had gotten an INT signal -- but this
3245 was problematic, since there was no feedback for the user. To do a
3246 clean shutdown, controllers should send an INT signal and give Tor
3247 a chance to clean up. Fixes bug 10449; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
3248 - Stop attempting to connect to bridges before our pluggable
3249 transports are configured (harmless but resulted in some erroneous
3250 log messages). Fixes bug 11156; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
3251 - Fix connections to IPv6 addresses over SOCKS5. Previously, we were
3252 generating incorrect SOCKS5 responses, and confusing client
3253 applications. Fixes bug 10987; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3255 o Minor bugfixes (client, DNSPort):
3256 - When using DNSPort, try to respond to AAAA requests with AAAA
3257 answers. Previously, we hadn't looked at the request type when
3258 deciding which answer type to prefer. Fixes bug 10468; bugfix on
3260 - When receiving a DNS query for an unsupported record type, reply
3261 with no answer rather than with a NOTIMPL error. This behavior
3262 isn't correct either, but it will break fewer client programs, we
3263 hope. Fixes bug 10268; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Original patch
3266 o Minor bugfixes (client, logging during bootstrap):
3267 - Only report the first fatal bootstrap error on a given OR
3268 connection. This stops us from telling the controller bogus error
3269 messages like "DONE". Fixes bug 10431; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3270 - Avoid generating spurious warnings when starting with
3271 DisableNetwork enabled. Fixes bug 11200 and bug 10405; bugfix on
3274 o Minor bugfixes (closing OR connections):
3275 - If write_to_buf() in connection_write_to_buf_impl_() ever fails,
3276 check if it's an or_connection_t and correctly call
3277 connection_or_close_for_error() rather than
3278 connection_mark_for_close() directly. Fixes bug 11304; bugfix on
3280 - When closing all connections on setting DisableNetwork to 1, use
3281 connection_or_close_normally() rather than closing OR connections
3282 out from under the channel layer. Fixes bug 11306; bugfix on
3285 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
3286 - Previously we used two temporary files when writing descriptors to
3287 disk; now we only use one. Fixes bug 1376.
3288 - Remove an erroneous (but impossible and thus harmless) pointer
3289 comparison that would have allowed compilers to skip a bounds
3290 check in channeltls.c. Fixes bugs 10313 and 9980; bugfix on
3291 0.2.0.10-alpha. Noticed by Jared L Wong and David Fifield.
3292 - Fix an always-true assertion in pluggable transports code so it
3293 actually checks what it was trying to check. Fixes bug 10046;
3294 bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha. Found by "dcb".
3296 o Minor bugfixes (command line):
3297 - Use a single command-line parser for parsing torrc options on the
3298 command line and for finding special command-line options to avoid
3299 inconsistent behavior for torrc option arguments that have the same
3300 names as command-line options. Fixes bugs 4647 and 9578; bugfix on
3302 - No longer allow 'tor --hash-password' with no arguments. Fixes bug
3303 9573; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
3305 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3306 - Compile correctly with builds and forks of OpenSSL (such as
3307 LibreSSL) that disable compression. Fixes bug 12602; bugfix on
3308 0.2.1.1-alpha. Patch from "dhill".
3309 - Restore the ability to compile Tor with V2_HANDSHAKE_SERVER
3310 turned off (that is, without support for v2 link handshakes). Fixes
3311 bug 4677; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha. Patch from "piet".
3312 - In routerlist_assert_ok(), don't take the address of a
3313 routerinfo's cache_info member unless that routerinfo is non-NULL.
3314 Fixes bug 13096; bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha. Patch by "teor".
3315 - Fix a large number of false positive warnings from the clang
3316 analyzer static analysis tool. This should make real warnings
3317 easier for clang analyzer to find. Patch from "teor". Closes
3319 - Resolve GCC complaints on OpenBSD about discarding constness in
3320 TO_{ORIGIN,OR}_CIRCUIT functions. Fixes part of bug 11633; bugfix
3321 on 0.1.1.23. Patch from Dana Koch.
3322 - Resolve clang complaints on OpenBSD with -Wshorten-64-to-32 due to
3323 treatment of long and time_t as comparable types. Fixes part of
3324 bug 11633. Patch from Dana Koch.
3325 - When deciding whether to build the 64-bit curve25519
3326 implementation, detect platforms where we can compile 128-bit
3327 arithmetic but cannot link it. Fixes bug 11729; bugfix on
3328 0.2.4.8-alpha. Patch from "conradev".
3329 - Fix compilation when DNS_CACHE_DEBUG is enabled. Fixes bug 11761;
3330 bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha. Found by "cypherpunks".
3331 - Fix compilation with dmalloc. Fixes bug 11605; bugfix
3333 - Build and run correctly on systems like OpenBSD-current that have
3334 patched OpenSSL to remove get_cipher_by_char and/or its
3335 implementations. Fixes issue 13325.
3337 o Minor bugfixes (controller and command-line):
3338 - If changing a config option via "setconf" fails in a recoverable
3339 way, we used to nonetheless write our new control ports to the
3340 file described by the "ControlPortWriteToFile" option. Now we only
3341 write out that file if we successfully switch to the new config
3342 option. Fixes bug 5605; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch from "Ryman".
3344 o Minor bugfixes (directory server):
3345 - No longer accept malformed http headers when parsing urls from
3346 headers. Now we reply with Bad Request ("400"). Fixes bug 2767;
3347 bugfix on 0.0.6pre1.
3348 - When sending a compressed set of descriptors or microdescriptors,
3349 make sure to finalize the zlib stream. Previously, we would write
3350 all the compressed data, but if the last descriptor we wanted to
3351 send was missing or too old, we would not mark the stream as
3352 finished. This caused problems for decompression tools. Fixes bug
3353 11648; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
3355 o Minor bugfixes (hidden service):
3356 - Only retry attempts to connect to a chosen rendezvous point 8
3357 times, not 30. Fixes bug 4241; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3359 o Minor bugfixes (interface):
3360 - Reject relative control socket paths and emit a warning. Previously,
3361 single-component control socket paths would be rejected, but Tor
3362 would not log why it could not validate the config. Fixes bug 9258;
3363 bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha.
3365 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
3366 - Fix a bug where clients using bridges would report themselves
3367 as 50% bootstrapped even without a live consensus document.
3368 Fixes bug 9922; bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3369 - Suppress a warning where, if there's only one directory authority
3370 in the network, we would complain that votes and signatures cannot
3371 be uploaded to other directory authorities. Fixes bug 10842;
3372 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
3373 - Report bootstrapping progress correctly when we're downloading
3374 microdescriptors. We had updated our "do we have enough microdescs
3375 to begin building circuits?" logic most recently in 0.2.4.10-alpha
3376 (see bug 5956), but we left the bootstrap status event logic at
3377 "how far through getting 1/4 of them are we?" Fixes bug 9958;
3378 bugfix on 0.2.2.36, which is where they diverged (see bug 5343).
3380 o Minor bugfixes (logging):
3381 - Downgrade "Unexpected onionskin length after decryption" warning
3382 to a protocol-warn, since there's nothing relay operators can do
3383 about a client that sends them a malformed create cell. Resolves
3384 bug 12996; bugfix on 0.0.6rc1.
3385 - Log more specific warnings when we get an ESTABLISH_RENDEZVOUS
3386 cell on a cannibalized or non-OR circuit. Resolves ticket 12997.
3387 - When logging information about an EXTEND2 or EXTENDED2 cell, log
3388 their names correctly. Fixes part of bug 12700; bugfix
3390 - When logging information about a relay cell whose command we don't
3391 recognize, log its command as an integer. Fixes part of bug 12700;
3392 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
3393 - Escape all strings from the directory connection before logging
3394 them. Fixes bug 13071; bugfix on 0.1.1.15. Patch from "teor".
3395 - Squelch a spurious LD_BUG message "No origin circuit for
3396 successful SOCKS stream" in certain hidden service failure cases;
3398 - Downgrade the severity of the 'unexpected sendme cell from client'
3399 from 'warn' to 'protocol warning'. Closes ticket 8093.
3401 o Minor bugfixes (misc code correctness):
3402 - In munge_extrainfo_into_routerinfo(), check the return value of
3403 memchr(). This would have been a serious issue if we ever passed
3404 it a non-extrainfo. Fixes bug 8791; bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Patch
3406 - On the chance that somebody manages to build Tor on a
3407 platform where time_t is unsigned, correct the way that
3408 microdesc_add_to_cache() handles negative time arguments.
3409 Fixes bug 8042; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3410 - Fix various instances of undefined behavior in channeltls.c,
3411 tor_memmem(), and eventdns.c that would cause us to construct
3412 pointers to memory outside an allocated object. (These invalid
3413 pointers were not accessed, but C does not even allow them to
3414 exist.) Fixes bug 10363; bugfixes on 0.1.1.1-alpha, 0.1.2.1-alpha,
3415 0.2.0.10-alpha, and 0.2.3.6-alpha. Reported by "bobnomnom".
3416 - Use the AddressSanitizer and Ubsan sanitizers (in clang-3.4) to
3417 fix some miscellaneous errors in our tests and codebase. Fixes bug
3418 11232. Bugfixes on versions back as far as 0.2.1.11-alpha.
3419 - Always check return values for unlink, munmap, UnmapViewOfFile;
3420 check strftime return values more often. In some cases all we can
3421 do is report a warning, but this may help prevent deeper bugs from
3422 going unnoticed. Closes ticket 8787; bugfixes on many, many tor
3424 - Fix numerous warnings from the clang "scan-build" static analyzer.
3425 Some of these are programming style issues; some of them are false
3426 positives that indicated awkward code; some are undefined behavior
3427 cases related to constructing (but not using) invalid pointers;
3428 some are assumptions about API behavior; some are (harmlessly)
3429 logging sizeof(ptr) bytes from a token when sizeof(*ptr) would be
3430 correct; and one or two are genuine bugs that weren't reachable
3431 from the rest of the program. Fixes bug 8793; bugfixes on many,
3434 o Minor bugfixes (node selection):
3435 - If ExcludeNodes is set, consider non-excluded hidden service
3436 directory servers before excluded ones. Do not consider excluded
3437 hidden service directory servers at all if StrictNodes is
3438 set. (Previously, we would sometimes decide to connect to those
3439 servers, and then realize before we initiated a connection that
3440 we had excluded them.) Fixes bug 10722; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
3442 - If we set the ExitNodes option but it doesn't include any nodes
3443 that have the Exit flag, we would choose not to bootstrap. Now we
3444 bootstrap so long as ExitNodes includes nodes which can exit to
3445 some port. Fixes bug 10543; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3447 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
3448 - Avoid a bug where every successful connection made us recompute
3449 the flag telling us whether we have sufficient information to
3450 build circuits. Previously, we would forget our cached value
3451 whenever we successfully opened a channel (or marked a router as
3452 running or not running for any other reason), regardless of
3453 whether we had previously believed the router to be running. This
3454 forced us to run an expensive update operation far too often.
3455 Fixes bug 12170; bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
3456 - Avoid using tor_memeq() for checking relay cell integrity. This
3457 removes a possible performance bottleneck. Fixes part of bug
3458 12169; bugfix on 0.2.1.31.
3460 o Minor bugfixes (platform-specific):
3461 - When dumping a malformed directory object to disk, save it in
3462 binary mode on Windows, not text mode. Fixes bug 11342; bugfix on
3464 - Don't report failures from make_socket_reuseable() on incoming
3465 sockets on OSX: this can happen when incoming connections close
3466 early. Fixes bug 10081.
3468 o Minor bugfixes (pluggable transports):
3469 - Avoid another 60-second delay when starting Tor in a pluggable-
3470 transport-using configuration when we already have cached
3471 descriptors for our bridges. Fixes bug 11965; bugfix
3474 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
3475 - When receiving a VERSIONS cell with an odd number of bytes, close
3476 the connection immediately since the cell is malformed. Fixes bug
3477 10365; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom"; fix by
3480 o Minor bugfixes (relay, other):
3481 - We now drop CREATE cells for already-existent circuit IDs and for
3482 zero-valued circuit IDs, regardless of other factors that might
3483 otherwise have called for DESTROY cells. Fixes bug 12191; bugfix
3485 - When rejecting DATA cells for stream_id zero, still count them
3486 against the circuit's deliver window so that we don't fail to send
3487 a SENDME. Fixes bug 11246; bugfix on 0.2.4.10-alpha.
3489 o Minor bugfixes (relay, threading):
3490 - Check return code on spawn_func() in cpuworker code, so that we
3491 don't think we've spawned a nonworking cpuworker and write junk to
3492 it forever. Fix related to bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor
3493 versions. Found by "skruffy".
3494 - Use a pthread_attr to make sure that spawn_func() cannot return an
3495 error while at the same time launching a thread. Fix related to
3496 bug 4345; bugfix on all released Tor versions. Reported
3499 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges):
3500 - Avoid crashing on a malformed resolv.conf file when running a
3501 relay using Libevent 1. Fixes bug 8788; bugfix on 0.1.1.23.
3502 - Non-exit relays no longer launch mock DNS requests to check for
3503 DNS hijacking. This has been unnecessary since 0.2.1.7-alpha, when
3504 non-exit relays stopped servicing DNS requests. Fixes bug 965;
3505 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha. Patch from Matt Pagan.
3506 - Bridges now report complete directory request statistics. Related
3507 to bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
3508 - Bridges now never collect statistics that were designed for
3509 relays. Fixes bug 5824; bugfix on 0.2.3.8-alpha.
3511 o Minor bugfixes (testing):
3512 - Fix all valgrind warnings produced by the unit tests. There were
3513 over a thousand memory leak warnings previously, mostly produced
3514 by forgetting to free things in the unit test code. Fixes bug
3515 11618, bugfixes on many versions of Tor.
3517 o Minor bugfixes (tor-fw-helper):
3518 - Give a correct log message when tor-fw-helper fails to launch.
3519 (Previously, we would say something like "tor-fw-helper sent us a
3520 string we could not parse".) Fixes bug 9781; bugfix
3523 o Minor bugfixes (trivial memory leaks):
3524 - Fix a small memory leak when signing a directory object. Fixes bug
3525 11275; bugfix on 0.2.4.13-alpha.
3526 - Resolve some memory leaks found by coverity in the unit tests, on
3527 exit in tor-gencert, and on a failure to compute digests for our
3528 own keys when generating a v3 networkstatus vote. These leaks
3529 should never have affected anyone in practice.
3531 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3532 - Remove some old fallback code designed to keep Tor clients working
3533 in a network with only two working relays. Elsewhere in the code we
3534 have long since stopped supporting such networks, so there wasn't
3535 much point in keeping it around. Addresses ticket 9926.
3536 - Reject 0-length EXTEND2 cells more explicitly. Fixes bug 10536;
3537 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Reported by "cypherpunks".
3538 - Extract the common duplicated code for creating a subdirectory
3539 of the data directory and writing to a file in it. Fixes ticket
3540 4282; patch from Peter Retzlaff.
3541 - Since OpenSSL 0.9.7, the i2d_*() functions support allocating output
3542 buffer. Avoid calling twice: i2d_RSAPublicKey(), i2d_DHparams(),
3543 i2d_X509(), and i2d_PublicKey(). Resolves ticket 5170.
3544 - Add a set of accessor functions for the circuit timeout data
3545 structure. Fixes ticket 6153; patch from "piet".
3546 - Clean up exit paths from connection_listener_new(). Closes ticket
3547 8789. Patch from Arlo Breault.
3548 - Since we rely on OpenSSL 0.9.8 now, we can use EVP_PKEY_cmp()
3549 and drop our own custom pkey_eq() implementation. Fixes bug 9043.
3550 - Use a doubly-linked list to implement the global circuit list.
3551 Resolves ticket 9108. Patch from Marek Majkowski.
3552 - Remove contrib/id_to_fp.c since it wasn't used anywhere.
3553 - Remove constants and tests for PKCS1 padding; it's insecure and
3554 shouldn't be used for anything new. Fixes bug 8792; patch
3556 - Remove instances of strcpy() from the unit tests. They weren't
3557 hurting anything, since they were only in the unit tests, but it's
3558 embarassing to have strcpy() in the code at all, and some analysis
3559 tools don't like it. Fixes bug 8790; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha and
3560 0.2.3.8-alpha. Patch from Arlo Breault.
3561 - Remove is_internal_IP() function. Resolves ticket 4645.
3562 - Remove unused function circuit_dump_by_chan from circuitlist.c.
3563 Closes issue 9107; patch from "marek".
3564 - Change our use of the ENUM_BF macro to avoid declarations that
3566 - Get rid of router->address, since in all cases it was just the
3567 string representation of router->addr. Resolves ticket 5528.
3570 - Adjust the URLs in the README to refer to the new locations of
3571 several documents on the website. Fixes bug 12830. Patch from
3573 - Document 'reject6' and 'accept6' ExitPolicy entries. Resolves
3575 - Update manpage to describe some of the files you can expect to
3576 find in Tor's DataDirectory. Addresses ticket 9839.
3577 - Clean up several option names in the manpage to match their real
3578 names, add the missing documentation for a couple of testing and
3579 directory authority options, remove the documentation for a
3580 V2-directory fetching option that no longer exists. Resolves
3582 - Correct the documenation so that it lists the correct directory
3583 for the stats files. (They are in a subdirectory called "stats",
3585 - In the manpage, move more authority-only options into the
3586 directory authority section so that operators of regular directory
3587 caches don't get confused.
3588 - Fix the layout of the SOCKSPort flags in the manpage. Fixes bug
3589 11061; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3590 - Resolve warnings from Doxygen.
3591 - Document in the manpage that "KBytes" may also be written as
3592 "kilobytes" or "KB", that "Kbits" may also be written as
3593 "kilobits", and so forth. Closes ticket 9222.
3594 - Document that the ClientOnly config option overrides ORPort.
3595 Our old explanation made ClientOnly sound as though it did
3596 nothing at all. Resolves bug 9059.
3597 - Explain that SocksPolicy, DirPolicy, and similar options don't
3598 take port arguments. Fixes the other part of ticket 11108.
3599 - Fix a comment about the rend_server_descriptor_t.protocols field
3600 to more accurately describe its range. Also, make that field
3601 unsigned, to more accurately reflect its usage. Fixes bug 9099;
3602 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3603 - Fix the manpage's description of HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient:
3604 the maximum client name length is 16, not 19. Fixes bug 11118;
3605 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
3608 - The contrib directory has been sorted and tidied. Before, it was
3609 an unsorted dumping ground for useful and not-so-useful things.
3610 Now, it is divided based on functionality, and the items which
3611 seemed to be nonfunctional or useless have been removed. Resolves
3612 ticket 8966; based on patches from "rl1987".
3614 o Removed code and features:
3615 - Clients now reject any directory authority certificates lacking
3616 a dir-key-crosscert element. These have been included since
3617 0.2.1.9-alpha, so there's no real reason for them to be optional
3618 any longer. Completes proposal 157. Resolves ticket 10162.
3619 - Remove all code that existed to support the v2 directory system,
3620 since there are no longer any v2 directory authorities. Resolves
3622 - Remove the HSAuthoritativeDir and AlternateHSAuthority torrc
3623 options, which were used for designating authorities as "Hidden
3624 service authorities". There has been no use of hidden service
3625 authorities since 0.2.2.1-alpha, when we stopped uploading or
3626 downloading v0 hidden service descriptors. Fixes bug 10881; also
3627 part of a fix for bug 10841.
3628 - Remove /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL that was meant to help debug WFU
3629 and MTBF calculations, but that nobody was using. Fixes bug 11742.
3630 - The TunnelDirConns and PreferTunnelledDirConns options no longer
3631 exist; tunneled directory connections have been available since
3632 0.1.2.5-alpha, and turning them off is not a good idea. This is a
3633 brute-force fix for 10849, where "TunnelDirConns 0" would break
3635 - Remove all code for the long unused v1 directory protocol.
3636 Resolves ticket 11070.
3637 - Remove all remaining code related to version-0 hidden service
3638 descriptors: they have not been in use since 0.2.2.1-alpha. Fixes
3639 the rest of bug 10841.
3640 - Remove migration code from when we renamed the "cached-routers"
3641 file to "cached-descriptors" back in 0.2.0.8-alpha. This
3642 incidentally resolves ticket 6502 by cleaning up the related code
3643 a bit. Patch from Akshay Hebbar.
3645 o Test infrastructure:
3646 - Tor now builds each source file in two modes: a mode that avoids
3647 exposing identifiers needlessly, and another mode that exposes
3648 more identifiers for testing. This lets the compiler do better at
3649 optimizing the production code, while enabling us to take more
3650 radical measures to let the unit tests test things.
3651 - The production builds no longer include functions used only in
3652 the unit tests; all functions exposed from a module only for
3653 unit-testing are now static in production builds.
3654 - Add an --enable-coverage configuration option to make the unit
3655 tests (and a new src/or/tor-cov target) to build with gcov test
3657 - Update to the latest version of tinytest.
3658 - Improve the tinytest implementation of string operation tests so
3659 that comparisons with NULL strings no longer crash the tests; they
3660 now just fail, normally. Fixes bug 9004; bugfix on 0.2.2.4-alpha.
3661 - New macros in test.h to simplify writing mock-functions for unit
3662 tests. Part of ticket 11507. Patch from Dana Koch.
3663 - We now have rudimentary function mocking support that our unit
3664 tests can use to test functions in isolation. Function mocking
3665 lets the tests temporarily replace a function's dependencies with
3666 stub functions, so that the tests can check the function without
3667 invoking the other functions it calls.
3670 - Complete tests for the status.c module. Resolves ticket 11507.
3671 Patch from Dana Koch.
3672 - Add more unit tests for the <circid,channel>->circuit map, and
3673 the destroy-cell-tracking code to fix bug 7912.
3674 - Unit tests for failing cases of the TAP onion handshake.
3675 - More unit tests for address-manipulation functions.
3677 o Distribution (systemd):
3678 - Include a tor.service file in contrib/dist for use with systemd.
3679 Some distributions will be able to use this file unmodified;
3680 others will need to tweak it, or write their own. Patch from Jamie
3681 Nguyen; resolves ticket 8368.
3682 - Verify configuration file via ExecStartPre in the systemd unit
3683 file. Patch from intrigeri; resolves ticket 12730.
3684 - Explicitly disable RunAsDaemon in the systemd unit file. Our
3685 current systemd unit uses "Type = simple", so systemd does not
3686 expect tor to fork. If the user has "RunAsDaemon 1" in their
3687 torrc, then things won't work as expected. This is e.g. the case
3688 on Debian (and derivatives), since there we pass "--defaults-torrc
3689 /usr/share/tor/tor-service-defaults-torrc" (that contains
3690 "RunAsDaemon 1") by default. Patch by intrigeri; resolves
3694 Changes in version 0.2.4.25 - 2014-10-20
3695 Tor 0.2.4.25 disables SSL3 in response to the recent "POODLE" attack
3696 (even though POODLE does not affect Tor). It also works around a crash
3697 bug caused by some operating systems' response to the "POODLE" attack
3698 (which does affect Tor).
3700 o Major security fixes (also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
3701 - Disable support for SSLv3. All versions of OpenSSL in use with Tor
3702 today support TLS 1.0 or later, so we can safely turn off support
3703 for this old (and insecure) protocol. Fixes bug 13426.
3705 o Major bugfixes (openssl bug workaround, also in 0.2.5.9-rc):
3706 - Avoid crashing when using OpenSSL version 0.9.8zc, 1.0.0o, or
3707 1.0.1j, built with the 'no-ssl3' configuration option. Fixes bug
3708 13471. This is a workaround for an OpenSSL bug.
3711 Changes in version 0.2.4.24 - 2014-09-22
3712 Tor 0.2.4.24 fixes a bug that affects consistency and speed when
3713 connecting to hidden services, and it updates the location of one of
3714 the directory authorities.
3717 - Clients now send the correct address for their chosen rendezvous
3718 point when trying to access a hidden service. They used to send
3719 the wrong address, which would still work some of the time because
3720 they also sent the identity digest of the rendezvous point, and if
3721 the hidden service happened to try connecting to the rendezvous
3722 point from a relay that already had a connection open to it,
3723 the relay would reuse that connection. Now connections to hidden
3724 services should be more robust and faster. Also, this bug meant
3725 that clients were leaking to the hidden service whether they were
3726 on a little-endian (common) or big-endian (rare) system, which for
3727 some users might have reduced their anonymity. Fixes bug 13151;
3728 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
3730 o Directory authority changes:
3731 - Change IP address for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
3733 o Minor features (geoip):
3734 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the August 7 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
3738 Changes in version 0.2.4.23 - 2014-07-28
3739 Tor 0.2.4.23 brings us a big step closer to slowing down the risk from
3740 guard rotation, and also backports several important fixes from the
3741 Tor 0.2.5 alpha release series.
3744 - Clients now look at the "usecreatefast" consensus parameter to
3745 decide whether to use CREATE_FAST or CREATE cells for the first hop
3746 of their circuit. This approach can improve security on connections
3747 where Tor's circuit handshake is stronger than the available TLS
3748 connection security levels, but the tradeoff is more computational
3749 load on guard relays. Implements proposal 221. Resolves ticket 9386.
3750 - Make the number of entry guards configurable via a new
3751 NumEntryGuards consensus parameter, and the number of directory
3752 guards configurable via a new NumDirectoryGuards consensus
3753 parameter. Implements ticket 12688.
3756 - Fix a bug in the bounds-checking in the 32-bit curve25519-donna
3757 implementation that caused incorrect results on 32-bit
3758 implementations when certain malformed inputs were used along with
3759 a small class of private ntor keys. This bug does not currently
3760 appear to allow an attacker to learn private keys or impersonate a
3761 Tor server, but it could provide a means to distinguish 32-bit Tor
3762 implementations from 64-bit Tor implementations. Fixes bug 12694;
3763 bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha. Bug found by Robert Ransom; fix from
3767 - Warn and drop the circuit if we receive an inbound 'relay early'
3768 cell. Those used to be normal to receive on hidden service circuits
3769 due to bug 1038, but the buggy Tor versions are long gone from
3770 the network so we can afford to resume watching for them. Resolves
3771 the rest of bug 1038; bugfix on 0.2.1.19.
3772 - Correct a confusing error message when trying to extend a circuit
3773 via the control protocol but we don't know a descriptor or
3774 microdescriptor for one of the specified relays. Fixes bug 12718;
3775 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
3776 - Avoid an illegal read from stack when initializing the TLS
3777 module using a version of OpenSSL without all of the ciphers
3778 used by the v2 link handshake. Fixes bug 12227; bugfix on
3779 0.2.4.8-alpha. Found by "starlight".
3782 - Update geoip and geoip6 to the July 10 2014 Maxmind GeoLite2
3786 Changes in version 0.2.4.22 - 2014-05-16
3787 Tor 0.2.4.22 backports numerous high-priority fixes from the Tor 0.2.5
3788 alpha release series. These include blocking all authority signing
3789 keys that may have been affected by the OpenSSL "heartbleed" bug,
3790 choosing a far more secure set of TLS ciphersuites by default, closing
3791 a couple of memory leaks that could be used to run a target relay out
3792 of RAM, and several others.
3794 o Major features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3795 - Block authority signing keys that were used on authorities
3796 vulnerable to the "heartbleed" bug in OpenSSL (CVE-2014-0160). (We
3797 don't have any evidence that these keys _were_ compromised; we're
3798 doing this to be prudent.) Resolves ticket 11464.
3800 o Major bugfixes (security, OOM):
3801 - Fix a memory leak that could occur if a microdescriptor parse
3802 fails during the tokenizing step. This bug could enable a memory
3803 exhaustion attack by directory servers. Fixes bug 11649; bugfix
3806 o Major bugfixes (TLS cipher selection, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3807 - The relay ciphersuite list is now generated automatically based on
3808 uniform criteria, and includes all OpenSSL ciphersuites with
3809 acceptable strength and forward secrecy. Previously, we had left
3810 some perfectly fine ciphersuites unsupported due to omission or
3811 typo. Resolves bugs 11513, 11492, 11498, 11499. Bugs reported by
3812 'cypherpunks'. Bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3813 - Relays now trust themselves to have a better view than clients of
3814 which TLS ciphersuites are better than others. (Thanks to bug
3815 11513, the relay list is now well-considered, whereas the client
3816 list has been chosen mainly for anti-fingerprinting purposes.)
3817 Relays prefer: AES over 3DES; then ECDHE over DHE; then GCM over
3818 CBC; then SHA384 over SHA256 over SHA1; and last, AES256 over
3819 AES128. Resolves ticket 11528.
3820 - Clients now try to advertise the same list of ciphersuites as
3821 Firefox 28. This change enables selection of (fast) GCM
3822 ciphersuites, disables some strange old ciphers, and stops
3823 advertising the ECDH (not to be confused with ECDHE) ciphersuites.
3824 Resolves ticket 11438.
3826 o Minor bugfixes (configuration, security):
3827 - When running a hidden service, do not allow TunneledDirConns 0:
3828 trying to set that option together with a hidden service would
3829 otherwise prevent the hidden service from running, and also make
3830 it publish its descriptors directly over HTTP. Fixes bug 10849;
3831 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
3833 o Minor bugfixes (controller, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3834 - Avoid sending a garbage value to the controller when a circuit is
3835 cannibalized. Fixes bug 11519; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
3837 o Minor bugfixes (exit relay, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3838 - Stop leaking memory when we successfully resolve a PTR record.
3839 Fixes bug 11437; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3841 o Minor bugfixes (bridge client, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3842 - Avoid 60-second delays in the bootstrapping process when Tor is
3843 launching for a second time while using bridges. Fixes bug 9229;
3844 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
3846 o Minor bugfixes (relays and bridges, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3847 - Give the correct URL in the warning message when trying to run a
3848 relay on an ancient version of Windows. Fixes bug 9393.
3850 o Minor bugfixes (compilation):
3851 - Fix a compilation error when compiling with --disable-curve25519.
3852 Fixes bug 9700; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3855 - Downgrade the warning severity for the the "md was still
3856 referenced 1 node(s)" warning. Tor 0.2.5.4-alpha has better code
3857 for trying to diagnose this bug, and the current warning in
3858 earlier versions of tor achieves nothing useful. Addresses warning
3861 o Minor features (log verbosity, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3862 - When we run out of usable circuit IDs on a channel, log only one
3863 warning for the whole channel, and describe how many circuits
3864 there were on the channel. Fixes part of ticket 11553.
3866 o Minor features (security, backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3867 - Decrease the lower limit of MaxMemInCellQueues to 256 MBytes (but
3868 leave the default at 8GBytes), to better support Raspberry Pi
3869 users. Fixes bug 9686; bugfix on 0.2.4.14-alpha.
3871 o Documentation (backport from 0.2.5.4-alpha):
3872 - Correctly document that we search for a system torrc file before
3873 looking in ~/.torrc. Fixes documentation side of 9213; bugfix on
3877 Changes in version 0.2.4.21 - 2014-02-28
3878 Tor 0.2.4.21 further improves security against potential adversaries who
3879 find breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and backports several stability
3880 and robustness patches from the 0.2.5 branch.
3882 o Major features (client security):
3883 - When we choose a path for a 3-hop circuit, make sure it contains
3884 at least one relay that supports the NTor circuit extension
3885 handshake. Otherwise, there is a chance that we're building
3886 a circuit that's worth attacking by an adversary who finds
3887 breaking 1024-bit crypto doable, and that chance changes the game
3888 theory. Implements ticket 9777.
3891 - Do not treat streams that fail with reason
3892 END_STREAM_REASON_INTERNAL as indicating a definite circuit failure,
3893 since it could also indicate an ENETUNREACH connection error. Fixes
3894 part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3896 o Code simplification and refactoring:
3897 - Remove data structures which were introduced to implement the
3898 CellStatistics option: they are now redundant with the new timestamp
3899 field in the regular packed_cell_t data structure, which we did
3900 in 0.2.4.18-rc in order to resolve bug 9093. Resolves ticket 10870.
3903 - Always clear OpenSSL bignums before freeing them -- even bignums
3904 that don't contain secrets. Resolves ticket 10793. Patch by
3906 - Build without warnings under clang 3.4. (We have some macros that
3907 define static functions only some of which will get used later in
3908 the module. Starting with clang 3.4, these give a warning unless the
3909 unused attribute is set on them.) Resolves ticket 10904.
3910 - Update geoip and geoip6 files to the February 7 2014 Maxmind
3911 GeoLite2 Country database.
3914 - Set the listen() backlog limit to the largest actually supported
3915 on the system, not to the value in a header file. Fixes bug 9716;
3916 bugfix on every released Tor.
3917 - Treat ENETUNREACH, EACCES, and EPERM connection failures at an
3918 exit node as a NOROUTE error, not an INTERNAL error, since they
3919 can apparently happen when trying to connect to the wrong sort
3920 of netblocks. Fixes part of bug 10777; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
3921 - Fix build warnings about missing "a2x" comment when building the
3922 manpages from scratch on OpenBSD; OpenBSD calls it "a2x.py".
3923 Fixes bug 10929; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Patch from Dana Koch.
3924 - Avoid a segfault on SIGUSR1, where we had freed a connection but did
3925 not entirely remove it from the connection lists. Fixes bug 9602;
3926 bugfix on 0.2.4.4-alpha.
3927 - Fix a segmentation fault in our benchmark code when running with
3928 Fedora's OpenSSL package, or any other OpenSSL that provides
3929 ECDH but not P224. Fixes bug 10835; bugfix on 0.2.4.8-alpha.
3930 - Turn "circuit handshake stats since last time" log messages into a
3931 heartbeat message. Fixes bug 10485; bugfix on 0.2.4.17-rc.
3933 o Documentation fixes:
3934 - Document that all but one DirPort entry must have the NoAdvertise
3935 flag set. Fixes bug 10470; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha / 0.2.3.16-alpha.
3938 Changes in version 0.2.4.20 - 2013-12-22
3939 Tor 0.2.4.20 fixes potentially poor random number generation for users
3940 who 1) use OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, 2) set "HardwareAccel 1" in their
3941 torrc file, 3) have "Sandy Bridge" or "Ivy Bridge" Intel processors,
3942 and 4) have no state file in their DataDirectory (as would happen on
3943 first start). Users who generated relay or hidden service identity
3944 keys in such a situation should discard them and generate new ones.
3946 This release also fixes a logic error that caused Tor clients to build
3947 many more preemptive circuits than they actually need.
3950 - Do not allow OpenSSL engines to replace the PRNG, even when
3951 HardwareAccel is set. The only default builtin PRNG engine uses
3952 the Intel RDRAND instruction to replace the entire PRNG, and
3953 ignores all attempts to seed it with more entropy. That's
3954 cryptographically stupid: the right response to a new alleged
3955 entropy source is never to discard all previously used entropy
3956 sources. Fixes bug 10402; works around behavior introduced in
3957 OpenSSL 1.0.0. Diagnosis and investigation thanks to "coderman"
3959 - Fix assertion failure when AutomapHostsOnResolve yields an IPv6
3960 address. Fixes bug 10465; bugfix on 0.2.4.7-alpha.
3961 - Avoid launching spurious extra circuits when a stream is pending.
3962 This fixes a bug where any circuit that _wasn't_ unusable for new
3963 streams would be treated as if it were, causing extra circuits to
3964 be launched. Fixes bug 10456; bugfix on 0.2.4.12-alpha.
3967 - Avoid a crash bug when starting with a corrupted microdescriptor
3968 cache file. Fixes bug 10406; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
3969 - If we fail to dump a previously cached microdescriptor to disk, avoid
3970 freeing duplicate data later on. Fixes bug 10423; bugfix on
3971 0.2.4.13-alpha. Spotted by "bobnomnom".
3974 Changes in version 0.2.4.19 - 2013-12-11
3975 The Tor 0.2.4 release series is dedicated to the memory of Aaron Swartz
3976 (1986-2013). Aaron worked on diverse projects including helping to guide
3977 Creative Commons, playing a key role in stopping SOPA/PIPA, bringing
3978 transparency to the U.S government's PACER documents, and contributing
3979 design and development for Tor and Tor2Web. Aaron was one of the latest
3980 martyrs in our collective fight for civil liberties and human rights,
3981 and his death is all the more painful because he was one of us.
3983 Tor 0.2.4.19, the first stable release in the 0.2.4 branch, features
3984 a new circuit handshake and link encryption that use ECC to provide
3985 better security and efficiency; makes relays better manage circuit
3986 creation requests; uses "directory guards" to reduce client enumeration
3987 risks; makes bridges collect and report statistics about the pluggable
3988 transports they support; cleans up and improves our geoip database;
3989 gets much closer to IPv6 support for clients, bridges, and relays; makes
3990 directory authorities use measured bandwidths rather than advertised
3991 ones when computing flags and thresholds; disables client-side DNS
3992 caching to reduce tracking risks; and fixes a big bug in bridge
3993 reachability testing. This release introduces two new design
3994 abstractions in the code: a new "channel" abstraction between circuits
3995 and or_connections to allow for implementing alternate relay-to-relay
3996 transports, and a new "circuitmux" abstraction storing the queue of
3997 circuits for a channel. The release also includes many stability,
3998 security, and privacy fixes.
4000 o Major features (new circuit handshake):
4001 - Tor now supports a new circuit extension handshake designed by Ian
4002 Goldberg, Douglas Stebila, and Berkant Ustaoglu. Our original
4003 circuit extension handshake, later called "TAP", was a bit slow
4004 (especially on the relay side), had a fragile security proof, and
4005 used weaker keys than we'd now prefer. The new circuit handshake
4006 uses Dan Bernstein's "curve25519" elliptic-curve Diffie-Hellman
4007 function, making it significantly more secure than the older
4008 handshake, and significantly faster. Tor can use one of two built-in
4009 pure-C curve25519-donna implementations by Adam Langley, or it
4010 can link against the "nacl" library for a tuned version if present.
4012 The built-in version is very fast for 64-bit systems when building
4013 with GCC. The built-in 32-bit version is still faster than the
4014 old TAP protocol, but using libnacl is better on most such hosts.
4016 Implements proposal 216; closes ticket 7202.
4018 o Major features (better link encryption):
4019 - Relays can now enable the ECDHE TLS ciphersuites when available
4020 and appropriate. These ciphersuites let us negotiate forward-secure
4021 TLS secret keys more safely and more efficiently than with our
4022 previous use of Diffie-Hellman modulo a 1024-bit prime. By default,
4023 public relays prefer the (faster) P224 group, and bridges prefer
4024 the (more common) P256 group; you can override this with the
4027 This feature requires clients running 0.2.3.17-beta or later,
4028 and requires both sides to be running OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later
4029 with ECC support. OpenSSL 1.0.1, with the compile-time option
4030 "enable-ec_nistp_64_gcc_128", is highly recommended.
4032 Implements the relay side of proposal 198; closes ticket 7200.
4034 - Re-enable TLS 1.1 and 1.2 when built with OpenSSL 1.0.1e or later.
4035 Resolves ticket 6055. (OpenSSL before 1.0.1 didn't have TLS 1.1 or
4036 1.2, and OpenSSL from 1.0.1 through 1.0.1d had bugs that prevented
4037 renegotiation from working with TLS 1.1 or 1.2, so we had disabled
4038 them to solve bug 6033.)
4040 o Major features (relay performance):
4041 - Instead of limiting the number of queued onionskins (aka circuit
4042 create requests) to a fixed, hard-to-configure number, we limit
4043 the size of the queue based on how many we expect to be able to
4044 process in a given amount of time. We estimate the time it will
4045 take to process an onionskin based on average processing time
4046 of previous onionskins. Closes ticket 7291. You'll never have to
4047 configure MaxOnionsPending again.
4048 - Relays process the new "NTor" circuit-level handshake requests
4049 with higher priority than the old "TAP" circuit-level handshake
4050 requests. We still process some TAP requests to not totally starve
4051 0.2.3 clients when NTor becomes popular. A new consensus parameter
4052 "NumNTorsPerTAP" lets us tune the balance later if we need to.
4053 Implements ticket 9574.
4055 o Major features (client bootstrapping resilience):
4056 - Add a new "FallbackDir" torrc option to use when we can't use
4057 a directory mirror from the consensus (either because we lack a
4058 consensus, or because they're all down). Currently, all authorities
4059 are fallbacks by default, and there are no other default fallbacks,
4060 but that will change. This option will allow us to give clients a
4061 longer list of servers to try to get a consensus from when first
4062 connecting to the Tor network, and thereby reduce load on the
4063 directory authorities. Implements proposal 206, "Preconfigured
4064 directory sources for bootstrapping". We also removed the old
4065 "FallbackNetworkstatus" option, since we never got it working well
4066 enough to use it. Closes bug 572.
4067 - If we have no circuits open, use a relaxed timeout (the
4068 95th-percentile cutoff) until a circuit succeeds. This heuristic
4069 should allow Tor to succeed at building circuits even when the
4070 network connection drastically changes. Should help with bug 3443.
4072 o Major features (use of guards):
4073 - Support directory guards (proposal 207): when possible, clients now
4074 use their entry guards for non-anonymous directory requests. This
4075 can help prevent client enumeration. Note that this behavior only
4076 works when we have a usable consensus directory, and when options
4077 about what to download are more or less standard. In the future we
4078 should re-bootstrap from our guards, rather than re-bootstrapping
4079 from the preconfigured list of directory sources that ships with
4080 Tor. Resolves ticket 6526.
4081 - Raise the default time that a client keeps an entry guard from
4082 "1-2 months" to "2-3 months", as suggested by Tariq Elahi's WPES
4083 2012 paper. (We would make it even longer, but we need better client
4084 load balancing first.) Also, make the guard lifetime controllable
4085 via a new GuardLifetime torrc option and a GuardLifetime consensus
4086 parameter. Start of a fix for bug 8240; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4088 o Major features (bridges with pluggable transports):
4089 - Bridges now report the pluggable transports they support to the
4090 bridge authority, so it can pass the supported transports on to
4091 bridgedb and/or eventually do reachability testing. Implements
4093 - Automatically forward the TCP ports of pluggable transport
4094 proxies using tor-fw-helper if PortForwarding is enabled. Implements
4097 o Major features (geoip database):
4098 - Maxmind began labelling Tor relays as being in country "A1",
4099 which breaks by-country node selection inside Tor. Now we use a
4100 script to replace "A1" ("Anonymous Proxy") entries in our geoip
4101 file with real country codes. This script fixes about 90% of "A1"
4102 entries automatically and uses manual country code assignments to
4103 fix the remaining 10%. See src/config/README.geoip for details.
4105 - Add GeoIP database for IPv6 addresses. The new config option
4107 - Update to the October 2 2013 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
4109 o Major features (IPv6):
4110 - Clients who set "ClientUseIPv6 1" may connect to entry nodes over
4111 IPv6. Set "ClientPreferIPv6ORPort 1" to make this even more likely
4112 to happen. Implements ticket 5535.
4113 - All kind of relays, not just bridges, can now advertise an IPv6
4114 OR port. Implements ticket 6362.
4115 - Relays can now exit to IPv6 addresses: make sure that you have IPv6
4116 connectivity, then set the IPv6Exit flag to 1. Also make sure your
4117 exit policy reads as you would like: the address * applies to all
4118 address families, whereas *4 is IPv4 address only, and *6 is IPv6
4119 addresses only. On the client side, you'll need to wait for enough
4120 exits to support IPv6, apply the "IPv6Traffic" flag to a SocksPort,
4121 and use Socks5. Closes ticket 5547, implements proposal 117 as
4122 revised in proposal 208.
4123 - Bridge authorities now accept IPv6 bridge addresses and include
4124 them in network status documents. Implements ticket 5534.
4125 - Directory authorities vote on IPv6 OR ports. Implements ticket 6363.
4127 o Major features (directory authorities):
4128 - Directory authorities now prefer using measured bandwidths to
4129 advertised ones when computing flags and thresholds. Resolves
4131 - Directory authorities that vote measured bandwidths about more
4132 than a threshold number of relays now treat relays with
4133 unmeasured bandwidths as having bandwidth 0 when computing their
4134 flags. Resolves ticket 8435.
4135 - Directory authorities now support a new consensus method (17)
4136 where they cap the published bandwidth of relays for which
4137 insufficient bandwidth measurements exist. Fixes part of bug 2286.
4138 - Directory authorities that set "DisableV2DirectoryInfo_ 1" no longer
4139 serve any v2 directory information. Now we can test disabling the
4140 old deprecated v2 directory format, and see whether doing so has
4141 any effect on network load. Begins to fix bug 6783.
4143 o Major features (build and portability):
4144 - Switch to a nonrecursive Makefile structure. Now instead of each
4145 Makefile.am invoking other Makefile.am's, there is a master
4146 Makefile.am that includes the others. This change makes our build
4147 process slightly more maintainable, and improves parallelism for
4148 building with make -j. Original patch by Stewart Smith; various
4149 fixes by Jim Meyering.
4150 - Where available, we now use automake's "silent" make rules by
4151 default, so that warnings are easier to spot. You can get the old
4152 behavior with "make V=1". Patch by Stewart Smith for ticket 6522.
4153 - Resume building correctly with MSVC and Makefile.nmake. This patch
4154 resolves numerous bugs and fixes reported by ultramage, including
4155 7305, 7308, 7309, 7310, 7312, 7313, 7315, 7316, and 7669.
4157 o Security features:
4158 - Switch to a completely time-invariant approach for picking nodes
4159 weighted by bandwidth. Our old approach would run through the
4160 part of the loop after it had made its choice slightly slower
4161 than it ran through the part of the loop before it had made its
4162 choice. Addresses ticket 6538.
4163 - Disable the use of Guard nodes when in Tor2WebMode. Guard usage
4164 by tor2web clients allows hidden services to identify tor2web
4165 clients through their repeated selection of the same rendezvous
4166 and introduction point circuit endpoints (their guards). Resolves
4169 o Major bugfixes (relay denial of service):
4170 - When we have too much memory queued in circuits (according to a new
4171 MaxMemInCellQueues option), close the circuits that have the oldest
4172 queued cells, on the theory that those are most responsible for
4173 us running low on memory. This prevents us from running out of
4174 memory as a relay if circuits fill up faster than they can be
4175 drained. Fixes bugs 9063 and 9093; bugfix on the 54th commit of
4176 Tor. This bug is a further fix beyond bug 6252, whose fix was
4177 merged into 0.2.3.21-rc.
4178 - Reject bogus create and relay cells with 0 circuit ID or 0 stream
4179 ID: these could be used to create unexpected streams and circuits
4180 which would count as "present" to some parts of Tor but "absent"
4181 to others, leading to zombie circuits and streams or to a bandwidth
4182 denial-of-service. Fixes bug 7889; bugfix on every released version
4183 of Tor. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
4184 - Avoid a bug where our response to TLS renegotiation under certain
4185 network conditions could lead to a busy-loop, with 100% CPU
4186 consumption. Fixes bug 5650; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
4188 o Major bugfixes (asserts, crashes, leaks):
4189 - Prevent the get_freelists() function from running off the end of
4190 the list of freelists if it somehow gets an unrecognized
4191 allocation. Fixes bug 8844; bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by
4193 - Avoid a memory leak where we would leak a consensus body when we
4194 find that a consensus which we couldn't previously verify due to
4195 missing certificates is now verifiable. Fixes bug 8719; bugfix
4197 - If we are unable to save a microdescriptor to the journal, do not
4198 drop it from memory and then reattempt downloading it. Fixes bug
4199 9645; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4200 - Fix an assertion failure that would occur when disabling the
4201 ORPort setting on a running Tor process while accounting was
4202 enabled. Fixes bug 6979; bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
4203 - Avoid an assertion failure on OpenBSD (and perhaps other BSDs)
4204 when an exit connection with optimistic data succeeds immediately
4205 rather than returning EINPROGRESS. Fixes bug 9017; bugfix on
4207 - Fix a memory leak that would occur whenever a configuration
4208 option changed. Fixes bug 8718; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4210 o Major bugfixes (relay rate limiting):
4211 - When a TLS write is partially successful but incomplete, remember
4212 that the flushed part has been flushed, and notice that bytes were
4213 actually written. Reported and fixed pseudonymously. Fixes bug 7708;
4214 bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.5-rc.
4215 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst values from 5MB/10MB
4216 to 1GB/1GB. The previous defaults were intended to be "basically
4217 infinite", but it turns out they're now limiting our 100mbit+
4218 relays and bridges. Fixes bug 6605; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha (the
4219 last time we raised it).
4220 - No longer stop reading or writing on cpuworker connections when
4221 our rate limiting buckets go empty. Now we should handle circuit
4222 handshake requests more promptly. Resolves bug 9731.
4224 o Major bugfixes (client-side privacy):
4225 - When we mark a circuit as unusable for new circuits, have it
4226 continue to be unusable for new circuits even if MaxCircuitDirtiness
4227 is increased too much at the wrong time, or the system clock jumps
4228 backwards. Fixes bug 6174; bugfix on 0.0.2pre26.
4229 - If ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses ("do not believe DNS queries
4230 which have resolved to internal addresses") is set, apply that
4231 rule to IPv6 as well. Fixes bug 8475; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
4232 - When an exit relay rejects a stream with reason "exit policy", but
4233 we only know an exit policy summary (e.g. from the microdesc
4234 consensus) for it, do not mark the relay as useless for all exiting.
4235 Instead, mark just the circuit as unsuitable for that particular
4236 address. Fixes part of bug 7582; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4238 o Major bugfixes (stream isolation):
4239 - Allow applications to get proper stream isolation with
4240 IsolateSOCKSAuth. Many SOCKS5 clients that want to offer
4241 username/password authentication also offer "no authentication". Tor
4242 had previously preferred "no authentication", so the applications
4243 never actually sent Tor their auth details. Now Tor selects
4244 username/password authentication if it's offered. You can disable
4245 this behavior on a per-SOCKSPort basis via PreferSOCKSNoAuth. Fixes
4246 bug 8117; bugfix on 0.2.3.3-alpha.
4247 - Follow the socks5 protocol when offering username/password
4248 authentication. The fix for bug 8117 exposed this bug, and it
4249 turns out real-world applications like Pidgin do care. Bugfix on
4250 0.2.3.2-alpha; fixes bug 8879.
4252 o Major bugfixes (client circuit building):
4253 - Alter circuit build timeout measurement to start at the point
4254 where we begin the CREATE/CREATE_FAST step (as opposed to circuit
4255 initialization). This should make our timeout measurements more
4256 uniform. Previously, we were sometimes including ORconn setup time
4257 in our circuit build time measurements. Should resolve bug 3443.
4258 - If the circuit build timeout logic is disabled (via the consensus,
4259 or because we are an authority), then don't build testing circuits.
4260 Fixes bug 9657; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4262 o Major bugfixes (client-side DNS):
4263 - Turn off the client-side DNS cache by default. Updating and using
4264 the DNS cache is now configurable on a per-client-port
4265 level. SOCKSPort, DNSPort, etc lines may now contain
4266 {No,}Cache{IPv4,IPv6,}DNS lines to indicate that we shouldn't
4267 cache these types of DNS answers when we receive them from an
4268 exit node in response to an application request on this port, and
4269 {No,}UseCached{IPv4,IPv6,DNS} lines to indicate that if we have
4270 cached DNS answers of these types, we shouldn't use them. It's
4271 potentially risky to use cached DNS answers at the client, since
4272 doing so can indicate to one exit what answers we've gotten
4273 for DNS lookups in the past. With IPv6, this becomes especially
4274 problematic. Using cached DNS answers for requests on the same
4275 circuit would present less linkability risk, since all traffic
4276 on a circuit is already linkable, but it would also provide
4277 little performance benefit: the exit node caches DNS replies
4278 too. Implements a simplified version of Proposal 205. Implements
4281 o Major bugfixes (hidden service privacy):
4282 - Limit hidden service descriptors to at most ten introduction
4283 points, to slow one kind of guard enumeration. Fixes bug 9002;
4284 bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4286 o Major bugfixes (directory fetching):
4287 - If the time to download the next old-style networkstatus is in
4288 the future, do not decline to consider whether to download the
4289 next microdescriptor networkstatus. Fixes bug 9564; bugfix on
4291 - We used to always request authority certificates by identity digest,
4292 meaning we'd get the newest one even when we wanted one with a
4293 different signing key. Then we would complain about being given
4294 a certificate we already had, and never get the one we really
4295 wanted. Now we use the "fp-sk/" resource as well as the "fp/"
4296 resource to request the one we want. Fixes bug 5595; bugfix on
4299 o Major bugfixes (bridge reachability):
4300 - Bridges now send AUTH_CHALLENGE cells during their v3 handshakes;
4301 previously they did not, which prevented them from receiving
4302 successful connections from relays for self-test or bandwidth
4303 testing. Also, when a relay is extending a circuit to a bridge,
4304 it needs to send a NETINFO cell, even when the bridge hasn't sent
4305 an AUTH_CHALLENGE cell. Fixes bug 9546; bugfix on 0.2.3.6-alpha.
4307 o Major bugfixes (control interface):
4308 - When receiving a new configuration file via the control port's
4309 LOADCONF command, do not treat the defaults file as absent.
4310 Fixes bug 9122; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4312 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
4313 - Stop marking every relay as having been down for one hour every
4314 time we restart a directory authority. These artificial downtimes
4315 were messing with our Stable and Guard flag calculations. Fixes
4316 bug 8218 (introduced by the fix for 1035). Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
4317 - When computing directory thresholds, ignore any rejected-as-sybil
4318 nodes during the computation so that they can't influence Fast,
4319 Guard, etc. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
4321 - When marking a node as a likely sybil, reset its uptime metrics
4322 to zero, so that it cannot time towards getting marked as Guard,
4323 Stable, or HSDir. (We should have done this for proposal 109.) Fixes
4325 - Fix a bug in the voting algorithm that could yield incorrect results
4326 when a non-naming authority declared too many flags. Fixes bug 9200;
4327 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4329 o Internal abstraction features:
4330 - Introduce new channel_t abstraction between circuits and
4331 or_connection_t to allow for implementing alternate OR-to-OR
4332 transports. A channel_t is an abstract object which can either be a
4333 cell-bearing channel, which is responsible for authenticating and
4334 handshaking with the remote OR and transmitting cells to and from
4335 it, or a listening channel, which spawns new cell-bearing channels
4336 at the request of remote ORs. Implements part of ticket 6465.
4337 - Make a channel_tls_t subclass of channel_t, adapting it to the
4338 existing or_connection_t code. The V2/V3 protocol handshaking
4339 code which formerly resided in command.c has been moved below the
4340 channel_t abstraction layer and may be found in channeltls.c now.
4341 Implements the rest of ticket 6465.
4342 - Introduce new circuitmux_t storing the queue of circuits for
4343 a channel; this encapsulates and abstracts the queue logic and
4344 circuit selection policy, and allows the latter to be overridden
4345 easily by switching out a policy object. The existing EWMA behavior
4346 is now implemented as a circuitmux_policy_t. Resolves ticket 6816.
4348 o New build requirements:
4349 - Tor now requires OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later. OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later is
4350 strongly recommended.
4351 - Tor maintainers now require Automake version 1.9 or later to build
4352 Tor from the Git repository. (Automake is not required when building
4353 from a source distribution.)
4355 o Minor features (protocol):
4356 - No longer include the "opt" prefix when generating routerinfos
4357 or v2 directories: it has been needless since Tor 0.1.2. Closes
4359 - Reject EXTEND cells sent to nonexistent streams. According to the
4360 spec, an EXTEND cell sent to _any_ nonzero stream ID is invalid, but
4361 we were only checking for stream IDs that were currently in use.
4362 Found while hunting for more instances of bug 6271. Bugfix on
4363 0.0.2pre8, which introduced incremental circuit construction.
4364 - Tor relays and clients now support a better CREATE/EXTEND cell
4365 format, allowing the sender to specify multiple address, identity,
4366 and handshake types. Implements Robert Ransom's proposal 200;
4368 - Reject as invalid most directory objects containing a NUL.
4369 Belt-and-suspender fix for bug 8037.
4371 o Minor features (security):
4372 - Clear keys and key-derived material left on the stack in
4373 rendservice.c and rendclient.c. Check return value of
4374 crypto_pk_write_private_key_to_string() in rend_service_load_keys().
4375 These fixes should make us more forward-secure against cold-boot
4376 attacks and the like. Fixes bug 2385.
4377 - Use our own weak RNG when we need a weak RNG. Windows's rand() and
4378 Irix's random() only return 15 bits; Solaris's random() returns more
4379 bits but its RAND_MAX says it only returns 15, and so on. Motivated
4380 by the fix for bug 7801; bugfix on 0.2.2.20-alpha.
4382 o Minor features (control protocol):
4383 - Add a "GETINFO signal/names" control port command. Implements
4385 - Provide default values for all options via "GETINFO config/defaults".
4386 Implements ticket 4971.
4387 - Allow an optional $ before the node identity digest in the
4388 controller command GETINFO ns/id/<identity>, for consistency with
4389 md/id/<identity> and desc/id/<identity>. Resolves ticket 7059.
4390 - Add CACHED keyword to ADDRMAP events in the control protocol
4391 to indicate whether a DNS result will be cached or not. Resolves
4393 - Generate bootstrapping status update events correctly when fetching
4394 microdescriptors. Fixes bug 9927.
4396 o Minor features (path selection):
4397 - When deciding whether we have enough descriptors to build circuits,
4398 instead of looking at raw relay counts, look at which fraction
4399 of (bandwidth-weighted) paths we're able to build. This approach
4400 keeps clients from building circuits if their paths are likely to
4401 stand out statistically. The default fraction of paths needed is
4402 taken from the consensus directory; you can override it with the
4403 new PathsNeededToBuildCircuits option. Fixes ticket 5956.
4404 - When any country code is listed in ExcludeNodes or ExcludeExitNodes,
4405 and we have GeoIP information, also exclude all nodes with unknown
4406 countries "??" and "A1". This behavior is controlled by the
4407 new GeoIPExcludeUnknown option: you can make such nodes always
4408 excluded with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 1", and disable the feature
4409 with "GeoIPExcludeUnknown 0". Setting "GeoIPExcludeUnknown auto"
4410 gets you the default behavior. Implements feature 7706.
4412 o Minor features (hidden services):
4413 - Improve circuit build timeout handling for hidden services.
4414 In particular: adjust build timeouts more accurately depending
4415 upon the number of hop-RTTs that a particular circuit type
4416 undergoes. Additionally, launch intro circuits in parallel
4417 if they timeout, and take the first one to reply as valid.
4418 - The Tor client now ignores sub-domain components of a .onion
4419 address. This change makes HTTP "virtual" hosting
4420 possible: http://foo.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ and
4421 http://bar.aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.onion/ can be two different websites
4422 hosted on the same hidden service. Implements proposal 204.
4423 - Enable Tor to read configuration, state, and key information from
4424 a FIFO. Previously Tor would only read from files with a positive
4425 stat.st_size. Code from meejah; fixes bug 6044.
4427 o Minor features (clients):
4428 - Teach bridge-using clients to avoid 0.2.2.x bridges when making
4429 microdescriptor-related dir requests, and only fall back to normal
4430 descriptors if none of their bridges can handle microdescriptors
4431 (as opposed to the fix in ticket 4013, which caused them to fall
4432 back to normal descriptors if *any* of their bridges preferred
4433 them). Resolves ticket 4994.
4434 - Tweak tor-fw-helper to accept an arbitrary amount of arbitrary
4435 TCP ports to forward. In the past it only accepted two ports:
4436 the ORPort and the DirPort.
4438 o Minor features (protecting client timestamps):
4439 - Clients no longer send timestamps in their NETINFO cells. These were
4440 not used for anything, and they provided one small way for clients
4441 to be distinguished from each other as they moved from network to
4442 network or behind NAT. Implements part of proposal 222.
4443 - Clients now round timestamps in INTRODUCE cells down to the nearest
4444 10 minutes. If a new Support022HiddenServices option is set to 0, or
4445 if it's set to "auto" and the feature is disabled in the consensus,
4446 the timestamp is sent as 0 instead. Implements part of proposal 222.
4447 - Stop sending timestamps in AUTHENTICATE cells. This is not such
4448 a big deal from a security point of view, but it achieves no actual
4449 good purpose, and isn't needed. Implements part of proposal 222.
4450 - Reduce down accuracy of timestamps in hidden service descriptors.
4451 Implements part of proposal 222.
4453 o Minor features (bridges):
4454 - Make bridge relays check once a minute for whether their IP
4455 address has changed, rather than only every 15 minutes. Resolves
4457 - Bridge statistics now count bridge clients connecting over IPv6:
4458 bridge statistics files now list "bridge-ip-versions" and
4459 extra-info documents list "geoip6-db-digest". The control protocol
4460 "CLIENTS_SEEN" and "ip-to-country" queries now support IPv6. Initial
4461 implementation by "shkoo", addressing ticket 5055.
4462 - Add a new torrc option "ServerTransportListenAddr" to let bridge
4463 operators select the address where their pluggable transports will
4464 listen for connections. Resolves ticket 7013.
4465 - Randomize the lifetime of our SSL link certificate, so censors can't
4466 use the static value for filtering Tor flows. Resolves ticket 8443;
4467 related to ticket 4014 which was included in 0.2.2.33.
4469 o Minor features (relays):
4470 - Option OutboundBindAddress can be specified multiple times and
4471 accepts IPv6 addresses. Resolves ticket 6876.
4473 o Minor features (IPv6, client side):
4474 - AutomapHostsOnResolve now supports IPv6 addresses. By default, we
4475 prefer to hand out virtual IPv6 addresses, since there are more of
4476 them and we can't run out. To override this behavior and make IPv4
4477 addresses preferred, set NoPreferIPv6Automap on whatever SOCKSPort
4478 or DNSPort you're using for resolving. Implements ticket 7571.
4479 - AutomapHostsOnResolve responses are now randomized, to avoid
4480 annoying situations where Tor is restarted and applications
4481 connect to the wrong addresses.
4482 - Never try more than 1000 times to pick a new virtual address when
4483 AutomapHostsOnResolve is set. That's good enough so long as we
4484 aren't close to handing out our entire virtual address space;
4485 if you're getting there, it's best to switch to IPv6 virtual
4488 o Minor features (IPv6, relay/authority side):
4489 - New config option "AuthDirHasIPv6Connectivity 1" that directory
4490 authorities should set if they have IPv6 connectivity and want to
4491 do reachability tests for IPv6 relays. Implements feature 5974.
4492 - A relay with an IPv6 OR port now sends that address in NETINFO
4493 cells (in addition to its other address). Implements ticket 6364.
4495 o Minor features (directory authorities):
4496 - Directory authorities no long accept descriptors for any version of
4497 Tor before 0.2.2.35, or for any 0.2.3 release before 0.2.3.10-alpha.
4498 These versions are insecure, unsupported, or both. Implements
4500 - When directory authorities are computing thresholds for flags,
4501 never let the threshold for the Fast flag fall below 4096
4502 bytes. Also, do not consider nodes with extremely low bandwidths
4503 when deciding thresholds for various directory flags. This change
4504 should raise our threshold for Fast relays, possibly in turn
4505 improving overall network performance; see ticket 1854. Resolves
4507 - Directory authorities now include inside each vote a statement of
4508 the performance thresholds they used when assigning flags.
4509 Implements ticket 8151.
4510 - Add an "ignoring-advertised-bws" boolean to the flag-threshold lines
4511 in directory authority votes to describe whether they have enough
4512 measured bandwidths to ignore advertised (relay descriptor)
4513 bandwidth claims. Resolves ticket 8711.
4515 o Minor features (path bias detection):
4516 - Path Use Bias: Perform separate accounting for successful circuit
4517 use. Keep separate statistics on stream attempt rates versus stream
4518 success rates for each guard. Provide configurable thresholds to
4519 determine when to emit log messages or disable use of guards that
4520 fail too many stream attempts. Resolves ticket 7802.
4521 - Create three levels of Path Bias log messages, as opposed to just
4522 two. These are configurable via consensus as well as via the torrc
4523 options PathBiasNoticeRate, PathBiasWarnRate, PathBiasExtremeRate.
4524 The default values are 0.70, 0.50, and 0.30 respectively.
4525 - Separate the log message levels from the decision to drop guards,
4526 which also is available via torrc option PathBiasDropGuards.
4527 PathBiasDropGuards still defaults to 0 (off).
4528 - Deprecate PathBiasDisableRate in favor of PathBiasDropGuards
4529 in combination with PathBiasExtremeRate.
4530 - Increase the default values for PathBiasScaleThreshold and
4531 PathBiasCircThreshold from (200, 20) to (300, 150).
4532 - Add in circuit usage accounting to path bias. If we try to use a
4533 built circuit but fail for any reason, it counts as path bias.
4534 Certain classes of circuits where the adversary gets to pick your
4535 destination node are exempt from this accounting. Usage accounting
4536 can be specifically disabled via consensus parameter or torrc.
4537 - Convert all internal path bias state to double-precision floating
4538 point, to avoid roundoff error and other issues.
4539 - Only record path bias information for circuits that have completed
4540 *two* hops. Assuming end-to-end tagging is the attack vector, this
4541 makes us more resilient to ambient circuit failure without any
4542 detection capability loss.
4544 o Minor features (build):
4545 - Tor now builds correctly on Bitrig, an OpenBSD fork. Patch from
4546 dhill. Resolves ticket 6982.
4547 - Compile on win64 using mingw64. Fixes bug 7260; patches from
4549 - Work correctly on Unix systems where EAGAIN and EWOULDBLOCK are
4550 separate error codes; or at least, don't break for that reason.
4551 Fixes bug 7935. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
4553 o Build improvements (autotools):
4554 - Warn if building on a platform with an unsigned time_t: there
4555 are too many places where Tor currently assumes that time_t can
4556 hold negative values. We'd like to fix them all, but probably
4558 - Do not report status verbosely from autogen.sh unless the -v flag
4559 is specified. Fixes issue 4664. Patch from Onizuka.
4560 - Detect and reject attempts to build Tor with threading support
4561 when OpenSSL has been compiled without threading support.
4563 - Try to detect if we are ever building on a platform where
4564 memset(...,0,...) does not set the value of a double to 0.0. Such
4565 platforms are permitted by the C standard, though in practice
4566 they're pretty rare (since IEEE 754 is nigh-ubiquitous). We don't
4567 currently support them, but it's better to detect them and fail
4568 than to perform erroneously.
4569 - We no longer warn so much when generating manpages from their
4571 - Use Ville Laurikari's implementation of AX_CHECK_SIGN() to determine
4572 the signs of types during autoconf. This is better than our old
4573 approach, which didn't work when cross-compiling.
4575 o Minor features (log messages, warnings):
4576 - Detect when we're running with a version of OpenSSL other than the
4577 one we compiled with. This conflict has occasionally given people
4578 hard-to-track-down errors.
4579 - Warn users who run hidden services on a Tor client with
4580 UseEntryGuards disabled that their hidden services will be
4581 vulnerable to http://freehaven.net/anonbib/#hs-attack06 (the
4582 attack which motivated Tor to support entry guards in the first
4583 place). Resolves ticket 6889.
4584 - Warn when we are binding low ports when hibernation is enabled;
4585 previously we had warned when we were _advertising_ low ports with
4586 hibernation enabled. Fixes bug 7285; bugfix on 0.2.3.9-alpha.
4587 - Issue a warning when running with the bufferevents backend enabled.
4588 It's still not stable, and people should know that they're likely
4589 to hit unexpected problems. Closes ticket 9147.
4591 o Minor features (log messages, notices):
4592 - Refactor resolve_my_address() so it returns the method by which we
4593 decided our public IP address (explicitly configured, resolved from
4594 explicit hostname, guessed from interfaces, learned by gethostname).
4595 Now we can provide more helpful log messages when a relay guesses
4596 its IP address incorrectly (e.g. due to unexpected lines in
4597 /etc/hosts). Resolves ticket 2267.
4598 - Track how many "TAP" and "NTor" circuit handshake requests we get,
4599 and how many we complete, and log it every hour to help relay
4600 operators follow trends in network load. Addresses ticket 9658.
4602 o Minor features (log messages, diagnostics):
4603 - If we fail to free a microdescriptor because of bug 7164, log
4604 the filename and line number from which we tried to free it.
4605 - We compute the overhead from passing onionskins back and forth to
4606 cpuworkers, and report it when dumping statistics in response to
4607 SIGUSR1. Supports ticket 7291.
4608 - Add another diagnostic to the heartbeat message: track and log
4609 overhead that TLS is adding to the data we write. If this is
4610 high, we are sending too little data to SSL_write at a time.
4611 Diagnostic for bug 7707.
4612 - Log packaged cell fullness as part of the heartbeat message.
4613 Diagnosis to try to determine the extent of bug 7743.
4614 - Add more detail to a log message about relaxed timeouts, to help
4616 - When learning a fingerprint for a bridge, log its corresponding
4617 transport type. Implements ticket 7896.
4618 - Warn more aggressively when flushing microdescriptors to a
4619 microdescriptor cache fails, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031,
4620 or at least make it more diagnosable.
4621 - Improve the log message when "Bug/attack: unexpected sendme cell
4622 from client" occurs, to help us track bug 8093.
4623 - Improve debugging output to help track down bug 8185 ("Bug:
4624 outgoing relay cell has n_chan==NULL. Dropping.")
4626 o Minor features (log messages, quieter bootstrapping):
4627 - Log fewer lines at level "notice" about our OpenSSL and Libevent
4628 versions and capabilities when everything is going right. Resolves
4629 part of ticket 6736.
4630 - Omit the first heartbeat log message, because it never has anything
4631 useful to say, and it clutters up the bootstrapping messages.
4632 Resolves ticket 6758.
4633 - Don't log about reloading the microdescriptor cache at startup. Our
4634 bootstrap warnings are supposed to tell the user when there's a
4635 problem, and our bootstrap notices say when there isn't. Resolves
4636 ticket 6759; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4637 - Don't log "I learned some more directory information" when we're
4638 reading cached directory information. Reserve it for when new
4639 directory information arrives in response to a fetch. Resolves
4641 - Don't complain about bootstrapping problems while hibernating.
4642 These complaints reflect a general code problem, but not one
4643 with any problematic effects (no connections are actually
4644 opened). Fixes part of bug 7302; bugfix on 0.2.3.2-alpha.
4646 o Minor features (testing):
4647 - In our testsuite, create temporary directories with a bit more
4648 entropy in their name to make name collisions less likely. Fixes
4650 - Add benchmarks for DH (1024-bit multiplicative group) and ECDH
4651 (P-256) Diffie-Hellman handshakes to src/or/bench.
4652 - Add benchmark functions to test onion handshake performance.
4655 - The DirServer option is now DirAuthority, for consistency with
4656 current naming patterns. You can still use the old DirServer form.
4658 o Minor bugfixes (protocol):
4659 - Fix the handling of a TRUNCATE cell when it arrives while the
4660 circuit extension is in progress. Fixes bug 7947; bugfix on 0.0.7.1.
4661 - When a Tor client gets a "truncated" relay cell, the first byte of
4662 its payload specifies why the circuit was truncated. We were
4663 ignoring this 'reason' byte when tearing down the circuit, resulting
4664 in the controller not being told why the circuit closed. Now we
4665 pass the reason from the truncated cell to the controller. Bugfix
4666 on 0.1.2.3-alpha; fixes bug 7039.
4667 - Fix a misframing issue when reading the version numbers in a
4668 VERSIONS cell. Previously we would recognize [00 01 00 02] as
4669 'version 1, version 2, and version 0x100', when it should have
4670 only included versions 1 and 2. Fixes bug 8059; bugfix on
4671 0.2.0.10-alpha. Reported pseudonymously.
4672 - Make the format and order of STREAM events for DNS lookups
4673 consistent among the various ways to launch DNS lookups. Fixes
4674 bug 8203; bugfix on 0.2.0.24-rc. Patch by "Desoxy".
4676 o Minor bugfixes (syscalls and disk interaction):
4677 - Always check the return values of functions fcntl() and
4678 setsockopt(). We don't believe these are ever actually failing in
4679 practice, but better safe than sorry. Also, checking these return
4680 values should please analysis tools like Coverity. Patch from
4681 'flupzor'. Fixes bug 8206; bugfix on all versions of Tor.
4682 - Avoid double-closing the listener socket in our socketpair()
4683 replacement (used on Windows) in the case where the addresses on
4684 our opened sockets don't match what we expected. Fixes bug 9400;
4685 bugfix on 0.0.2pre7. Found by Coverity.
4686 - Correctly store microdescriptors and extrainfo descriptors that
4687 include an internal NUL byte. Fixes bug 8037; bugfix on
4688 0.2.0.1-alpha. Bug reported by "cypherpunks".
4689 - If for some reason we fail to write a microdescriptor while
4690 rebuilding the cache, do not let the annotations from that
4691 microdescriptor linger in the cache file, and do not let the
4692 microdescriptor stay recorded as present in its old location.
4693 Fixes bug 9047; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
4694 - Use direct writes rather than stdio when building microdescriptor
4695 caches, in an attempt to mitigate bug 8031, or at least make it
4698 o Minor fixes (config options):
4699 - Warn and fail if a server is configured not to advertise any
4700 ORPorts at all. (We need *something* to put in our descriptor,
4701 or we just won't work.)
4702 - Behave correctly when the user disables LearnCircuitBuildTimeout
4703 but doesn't tell us what they would like the timeout to be. Fixes
4704 bug 6304; bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
4705 - Rename the (internal-use-only) UsingTestingNetworkDefaults option
4706 to start with a triple-underscore so the controller won't touch it.
4707 Patch by Meejah. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha.
4708 - Rename the (testing-use-only) _UseFilteringSSLBufferevents option
4709 so it doesn't start with _. Fixes bug 3155. Bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4710 - When autodetecting the number of CPUs, use the number of available
4711 CPUs in preference to the number of configured CPUs. Inform the
4712 user if this reduces the number of available CPUs. Fixes bug 8002;
4713 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4714 - Command-line option "--version" implies "--quiet". Fixes bug 6997.
4715 - Make it an error when you set EntryNodes but disable UseGuardNodes,
4716 since it will (surprisingly to some users) ignore EntryNodes. Fixes
4717 bug 8180; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha.
4718 - Avoid overflows when the user sets MaxCircuitDirtiness to a
4719 ridiculously high value, by imposing a (ridiculously high) 30-day
4720 maximum on MaxCircuitDirtiness.
4722 o Minor bugfixes (control protocol):
4723 - Stop sending a stray "(null)" in some cases for the server status
4724 "EXTERNAL_ADDRESS" controller event. Resolves bug 8200; bugfix
4726 - The ADDRMAP command can no longer generate an ill-formed error
4727 code on a failed MAPADDRESS. It now says "internal" rather than
4728 an English sentence fragment with spaces in the middle. Bugfix on
4731 o Minor bugfixes (clients / edges):
4732 - When we receive a RELAY_END cell with the reason DONE, or with no
4733 reason, before receiving a RELAY_CONNECTED cell, report the SOCKS
4734 status as "connection refused". Previously we reported these cases
4735 as success but then immediately closed the connection. Fixes bug
4736 7902; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Reported by "oftc_must_be_destroyed".
4737 - If the guard we choose first doesn't answer, we would try the
4738 second guard, but once we connected to the second guard we would
4739 abandon it and retry the first one, slowing down bootstrapping.
4740 The fix is to treat all our initially chosen guards as acceptable
4741 to use. Fixes bug 9946; bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
4742 - When choosing which stream on a formerly stalled circuit to wake
4743 first, make better use of the platform's weak RNG. Previously,
4744 we had been using the % ("modulo") operator to try to generate a
4745 1/N chance of picking each stream, but this behaves badly with
4746 many platforms' choice of weak RNG. Fixes bug 7801; bugfix on
4749 o Minor bugfixes (path bias detection):
4750 - If the state file's path bias counts are invalid (presumably from a
4751 buggy Tor prior to 0.2.4.10-alpha), make them correct. Also add
4752 additional checks and log messages to the scaling of Path Bias
4753 counts, in case there still are remaining issues with scaling.
4754 Should help resolve bug 8235.
4755 - Prevent rounding error in path bias counts when scaling
4756 them down, and use the correct scale factor default. Also demote
4757 some path bias related log messages down a level and make others
4758 less scary sounding. Fixes bug 6647. Bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4759 - Remove a source of rounding error during path bias count scaling;
4760 don't count cannibalized circuits as used for path bias until we
4761 actually try to use them; and fix a circuit_package_relay_cell()
4762 warning message about n_chan==NULL. Fixes bug 7802.
4763 - Paste the description for PathBias parameters from the man
4764 page into or.h, so the code documents them too. Fixes bug 7982;
4765 bugfix on 0.2.3.17-beta.
4767 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
4768 - Stop trying to resolve our hostname so often (e.g. every time we
4769 think about doing a directory fetch). Now we reuse the cached
4770 answer in some cases. Fixes bugs 1992 (bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc)
4771 and 2410 (bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha).
4772 - When examining the list of network interfaces to find our address,
4773 do not consider non-running or disabled network interfaces. Fixes
4774 bug 9904; bugfix on 0.2.3.11-alpha. Patch from "hantwister".
4776 o Minor bugfixes (blocking resistance):
4777 - Only disable TLS session ticket support when running as a TLS
4778 server. Now clients will blend better with regular Firefox
4779 connections. Fixes bug 7189; bugfix on Tor 0.2.3.23-rc.
4781 o Minor bugfixes (IPv6):
4782 - Use square brackets around IPv6 addresses in numerous places
4783 that needed them, including log messages, HTTPS CONNECT proxy
4784 requests, TransportProxy statefile entries, and pluggable transport
4785 extra-info lines. Fixes bug 7011; patch by David Fifield.
4787 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
4788 - Reject consensus votes with more than 64 known-flags. We aren't even
4789 close to that limit yet, and our code doesn't handle it correctly.
4790 Fixes bug 6833; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4791 - Correctly handle votes with more than 31 flags. Fixes bug 6853;
4792 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
4794 o Minor bugfixes (memory leaks):
4795 - Avoid leaking memory if we fail to compute a consensus signature
4796 or we generate a consensus we can't parse. Bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
4797 - Fix a memory leak when receiving headers from an HTTPS proxy. Bugfix
4798 on 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
4799 - Fix a memory leak during safe-cookie controller authentication.
4800 Bugfix on 0.2.3.13-alpha; fixes bug 7816.
4801 - Free some more still-in-use memory at exit, to make hunting for
4802 memory leaks easier. Resolves bug 7029.
4804 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
4805 - Increase the width of the field used to remember a connection's
4806 link protocol version to two bytes. Harmless for now, since the
4807 only currently recognized versions are one byte long. Reported
4808 pseudonymously. Fixes bug 8062; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
4809 - Fix a crash when debugging unit tests on Windows: deallocate a
4810 shared library with FreeLibrary, not CloseHandle. Fixes bug 7306;
4811 bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha. Reported by "ultramage".
4812 - When detecting the largest possible file descriptor (in order to
4813 close all file descriptors when launching a new program), actually
4814 use _SC_OPEN_MAX. The old code for doing this was very, very broken.
4815 Fixes bug 8209; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha. Found by Coverity; this
4817 - Avoid a crash if we fail to generate an extrainfo descriptor.
4818 Fixes bug 8208; bugfix on 0.2.3.16-alpha. Found by Coverity;
4820 - Avoid an off-by-one error when checking buffer boundaries when
4821 formatting the exit status of a pluggable transport helper.
4822 This is probably not an exploitable bug, but better safe than
4823 sorry. Fixes bug 9928; bugfix on 0.2.3.18-rc. Bug found by
4825 - Get rid of a couple of harmless clang warnings, where we compared
4826 enums to ints. These warnings are newly introduced in clang 3.2.
4828 o Minor bugfixes (code cleanliness):
4829 - Avoid use of reserved identifiers in our C code. The C standard
4830 doesn't like us declaring anything that starts with an
4831 underscore, so let's knock it off before we get in trouble. Fix
4832 for bug 1031; bugfix on the first Tor commit.
4833 - Fix round_to_power_of_2() so it doesn't invoke undefined behavior
4834 with large values. This situation was untriggered, but nevertheless
4835 incorrect. Fixes bug 6831; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4836 - Fix an impossible buffer overrun in the AES unit tests. Fixes
4837 bug 8845; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha. Found by eugenis.
4838 - Fix handling of rendezvous client authorization types over 8.
4839 Fixes bug 6861; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
4840 - Remove a couple of extraneous semicolons that were upsetting the
4841 cparser library. Patch by Christian Grothoff. Fixes bug 7115;
4842 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
4843 - When complaining about a client port on a public address, log
4844 which address we're complaining about. Fixes bug 4020; bugfix on
4845 0.2.3.3-alpha. Patch by Tom Fitzhenry.
4847 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, warnings):
4848 - If we encounter a write failure on a SOCKS connection before we
4849 finish our SOCKS handshake, don't warn that we closed the
4850 connection before we could send a SOCKS reply. Fixes bug 8427;
4851 bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
4852 - Fix a directory authority warn caused when we have a large amount
4853 of badexit bandwidth. Fixes bug 8419; bugfix on 0.2.2.10-alpha.
4854 - Downgrade "Failed to hand off onionskin" messages to "debug"
4855 severity, since they're typically redundant with the "Your computer
4856 is too slow" messages. Fixes bug 7038; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
4857 - Avoid spurious warnings when configuring multiple client ports of
4858 which only some are nonlocal. Previously, we had claimed that some
4859 were nonlocal when in fact they weren't. Fixes bug 7836; bugfix on
4862 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, other):
4863 - Fix log messages and comments to avoid saying "GMT" when we mean
4864 "UTC". Fixes bug 6113.
4865 - When rejecting a configuration because we were unable to parse a
4866 quoted string, log an actual error message. Fixes bug 7950; bugfix
4868 - Correctly recognize that [::1] is a loopback address. Fixes
4869 bug 8377; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
4870 - Don't log inappropriate heartbeat messages when hibernating: a
4871 hibernating node is _expected_ to drop out of the consensus,
4872 decide it isn't bootstrapped, and so forth. Fixes bug 7302;
4873 bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4874 - Eliminate several instances where we use "Nickname=ID" to refer to
4875 nodes in logs. Use "Nickname (ID)" instead. (Elsewhere, we still use
4876 "$ID=Nickname", which is also acceptable.) Fixes bug 7065. Bugfix
4879 o Minor bugfixes (build):
4880 - Fix some bugs in tor-fw-helper-natpmp when trying to build and
4881 run it on Windows. More bugs likely remain. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
4882 Fixes bug 7280; bugfix on 0.2.3.1-alpha.
4884 o Documentation fixes:
4885 - Make the torify manpage no longer refer to tsocks; torify hasn't
4886 supported tsocks since 0.2.3.14-alpha.
4887 - Make the tor manpage no longer reference tsocks.
4888 - Fix the GeoIPExcludeUnknown documentation to refer to
4889 ExcludeExitNodes rather than the currently nonexistent
4890 ExcludeEntryNodes. Spotted by "hamahangi" on tor-talk.
4891 - Resolve a typo in torrc.sample.in. Fixes bug 6819; bugfix on
4893 - Say "KBytes" rather than "KB" in the man page (for various values
4894 of K), to further reduce confusion about whether Tor counts in
4895 units of memory or fractions of units of memory. Resolves ticket 7054.
4896 - Update tor-fw-helper.1.txt and tor-fw-helper.c to make option
4897 names match. Fixes bug 7768.
4898 - Fix the documentation of HeartbeatPeriod to say that the heartbeat
4899 message is logged at notice, not at info.
4900 - Clarify the usage and risks of setting the ContactInfo torrc line
4901 for your relay or bridge. Resolves ticket 9854.
4902 - Add anchors to the manpage so we can link to the html version of
4903 the documentation for specific options. Resolves ticket 9866.
4904 - Replace remaining references to DirServer in man page and
4905 log entries. Resolves ticket 10124.
4908 - Stop exporting estimates of v2 and v3 directory traffic shares
4909 in extrainfo documents. They were unneeded and sometimes inaccurate.
4910 Also stop exporting any v2 directory request statistics. Resolves
4912 - Drop support for detecting and warning about versions of Libevent
4913 before 1.3e. Nothing reasonable ships with them any longer; warning
4914 the user about them shouldn't be needed. Resolves ticket 6826.
4915 - Now that all versions before 0.2.2.x are disallowed, we no longer
4916 need to work around their missing features. Remove a bunch of
4920 - The tor-tsocks.conf is no longer distributed or installed. We
4921 recommend that tsocks users use torsocks instead. Resolves
4923 - Remove some of the older contents of doc/ as obsolete; move others
4924 to torspec.git. Fixes bug 8965.
4926 o Code simplification:
4927 - Avoid using character buffers when constructing most directory
4928 objects: this approach was unwieldy and error-prone. Instead,
4929 build smartlists of strings, and concatenate them when done.
4930 - Rename "isin" functions to "contains", for grammar. Resolves
4932 - Rename Tor's logging function log() to tor_log(), to avoid conflicts
4933 with the natural logarithm function from the system libm. Resolves
4935 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h, so that we don't
4936 need to hand-roll our own pointer and list structures whenever we
4937 need them. (We can't rely on a sys/queue.h, since some operating
4938 systems don't have them, and the ones that do have them don't all
4939 present the same extensions.)
4940 - Start using OpenBSD's implementation of queue.h (originally by
4942 - Enhance our internal sscanf replacement so that we can eliminate
4943 the last remaining uses of the system sscanf. (Though those uses
4944 of sscanf were safe, sscanf itself is generally error prone, so
4945 we want to eliminate when we can.) Fixes ticket 4195 and Coverity
4947 - Replace all calls to snprintf() outside of src/ext with
4948 tor_snprintf(). Also remove the #define to replace snprintf with
4949 _snprintf on Windows; they have different semantics, and all of
4950 our callers should be using tor_snprintf() anyway. Fixes bug 7304.
4953 - Add a wrapper function for the common "log a message with a
4955 - Split the onion.c file into separate modules for the onion queue
4956 and the different handshakes it supports.
4957 - Move the client-side address-map/virtual-address/DNS-cache code
4958 out of connection_edge.c into a new addressmap.c module.
4959 - Move the entry node code from circuitbuild.c to its own file.
4960 - Move the circuit build timeout tracking code from circuitbuild.c
4962 - Source files taken from other packages now reside in src/ext;
4963 previously they were scattered around the rest of Tor.
4964 - Move the generic "config" code into a new file, and have "config.c"
4965 hold only torrc- and state-related code. Resolves ticket 6823.
4966 - Move the core of our "choose a weighted element at random" logic
4967 into its own function, and give it unit tests. Now the logic is
4968 testable, and a little less fragile too.
4969 - Move ipv6_preferred from routerinfo_t to node_t. Addresses bug 4620.
4970 - Move last_reachable and testing_since from routerinfo_t to node_t.
4971 Implements ticket 5529.
4972 - Add replaycache_t structure, functions and unit tests, then refactor
4973 rend_service_introduce() to be more clear to read, improve, debug,
4974 and test. Resolves bug 6177.
4977 - Remove some now-needless code that tried to aggressively flush
4978 OR connections as data was added to them. Since 0.2.0.1-alpha, our
4979 cell queue logic has saved us from the failure mode that this code
4980 was supposed to prevent. Removing this code will limit the number
4981 of baroque control flow paths through Tor's network logic. Reported
4982 pseudonymously on IRC. Fixes bug 6468; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
4983 - Remove unused code for parsing v1 directories and "running routers"
4984 documents. Fixes bug 6887.
4985 - Remove the marshalling/unmarshalling code for sending requests to
4986 cpuworkers over a socket, and instead just send structs. The
4987 recipient will always be the same Tor binary as the sender, so
4988 any encoding is overkill.
4989 - Remove the testing_since field of node_t, which hasn't been used
4990 for anything since 0.2.0.9-alpha.
4991 - Finally remove support for malloc_good_size and malloc_usable_size.
4992 We had hoped that these functions would let us eke a little more
4993 memory out of our malloc implementation. Unfortunately, the only
4994 implementations that provided these functions are also ones that
4995 are already efficient about not overallocation: they never got us
4996 more than 7 or so bytes per allocation. Removing them saves us a
4997 little code complexity and a nontrivial amount of build complexity.
5000 Changes in version 0.2.3.25 - 2012-11-19
5001 The Tor 0.2.3 release series is dedicated to the memory of Len "rabbi"
5002 Sassaman (1980-2011), a long-time cypherpunk, anonymity researcher,
5003 Mixmaster maintainer, Pynchon Gate co-designer, CodeCon organizer,
5004 programmer, and friend. Unstinting in his dedication to the cause of
5005 freedom, he inspired and helped many of us as we began our work on
5006 anonymity, and inspires us still. Please honor his memory by writing
5007 software to protect people's freedoms, and by helping others to do so.
5009 Tor 0.2.3.25, the first stable release in the 0.2.3 branch, features
5010 significantly reduced directory overhead (via microdescriptors),
5011 enormous crypto performance improvements for fast relays on new
5012 enough hardware, a new v3 TLS handshake protocol that can better
5013 resist fingerprinting, support for protocol obfuscation plugins (aka
5014 pluggable transports), better scalability for hidden services, IPv6
5015 support for bridges, performance improvements like allowing clients
5016 to skip the first round-trip on the circuit ("optimistic data") and
5017 refilling token buckets more often, a new "stream isolation" design
5018 to isolate different applications on different circuits, and many
5019 stability, security, and privacy fixes.
5021 Major features (v3 directory protocol):
5022 - Clients now use microdescriptors instead of regular descriptors
5023 to build circuits. Microdescriptors are authority-generated
5024 summaries of regular descriptors' contents, designed to change very
5025 rarely (see proposal 158 for details). This feature is designed
5026 to save bandwidth, especially for clients on slow internet
5027 connections. Use "UseMicrodescriptors 0" to disable it.
5028 - Caches now download, cache, and serve microdescriptors, as well
5029 as multiple "flavors" of the consensus, including a flavor that
5030 describes microdescriptors.
5032 o Major features (build hardening):
5033 - Enable gcc and ld hardening by default. Resolves ticket 5210.
5035 o Major features (relay scaling):
5036 - When built to use OpenSSL 1.0.1, and built for an x86 or x86_64
5037 instruction set, take advantage of OpenSSL's AESNI, bitsliced, or
5038 vectorized AES implementations as appropriate. These can be much,
5039 much faster than other AES implementations.
5040 - When using OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later, use OpenSSL's counter mode
5041 implementation. It makes AES_CTR about 7% faster than our old one
5042 (which was about 10% faster than the one OpenSSL used to provide).
5043 Resolves ticket 4526.
5044 - Use OpenSSL's EVP interface for AES encryption, so that all AES
5045 operations can use hardware acceleration (if present). Resolves
5047 - Unconditionally use OpenSSL's AES implementation instead of our
5048 old built-in one. OpenSSL's AES has been better for a while, and
5049 relatively few servers should still be on any version of OpenSSL
5050 that doesn't have good optimized assembly AES.
5052 o Major features (blocking resistance):
5053 - Update TLS cipher list to match Firefox 8 and later. Resolves
5055 - Remove support for clients falsely claiming to support standard
5056 ciphersuites that they can actually provide. As of modern OpenSSL
5057 versions, it's not necessary to fake any standard ciphersuite,
5058 and doing so prevents us from using better ciphersuites in the
5059 future, since servers can't know whether an advertised ciphersuite
5060 is really supported or not. Some hosts -- notably, ones with very
5061 old versions of OpenSSL or where OpenSSL has been built with ECC
5062 disabled -- will stand out because of this change; TBB users should
5063 not be affected. Implements the client side of proposal 198.
5064 - Implement a new handshake protocol (v3) for authenticating Tors to
5065 each other over TLS. It should be more resistant to fingerprinting
5066 than previous protocols, and should require less TLS hacking for
5067 future Tor implementations. Implements proposal 176.
5068 - Allow variable-length padding cells, to disguise the length of
5069 Tor's TLS records. Implements part of proposal 184.
5070 - While we're trying to bootstrap, record how many TLS connections
5071 fail in each state, and report which states saw the most failures
5072 in response to any bootstrap failures. This feature may speed up
5073 diagnosis of censorship events. Implements ticket 3116.
5075 o Major features (pluggable transports):
5076 - Clients and bridges can now be configured to use a separate
5077 "transport" proxy. This approach makes the censorship arms race
5078 easier by allowing bridges to use protocol obfuscation plugins.
5079 Implements proposal 180 (tickets 2841 and 3472).
5081 o Major features (DoS resistance):
5082 - Now that Tor 0.2.0.x is completely deprecated, enable the final
5083 part of "Proposal 110: Avoiding infinite length circuits" by
5084 refusing all circuit-extend requests that do not use a relay_early
5085 cell. This change helps Tor resist a class of denial-of-service
5086 attacks by limiting the maximum circuit length.
5087 - Tear down the circuit if we get an unexpected SENDME cell. Clients
5088 could use this trick to make their circuits receive cells faster
5089 than our flow control would have allowed, or to gum up the network,
5090 or possibly to do targeted memory denial-of-service attacks on
5091 entry nodes. Fixes bug 6252. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor --
5092 from July 2002, before the release of Tor 0.0.0.
5094 o Major features (hidden services):
5095 - Adjust the number of introduction points that a hidden service
5096 will try to maintain based on how long its introduction points
5097 remain in use and how many introductions they handle. Fixes
5099 - Add a "tor2web mode" for clients that want to connect to hidden
5100 services non-anonymously (and possibly more quickly). As a safety
5101 measure to try to keep users from turning this on without knowing
5102 what they are doing, tor2web mode must be explicitly enabled at
5103 compile time, and a copy of Tor compiled to run in tor2web mode
5104 cannot be used as a normal Tor client. Implements feature 2553.
5106 o Major features (IPv6):
5107 - Clients can now connect to private bridges over IPv6. Bridges
5108 still need at least one IPv4 address in order to connect to
5109 other relays. Note that we don't yet handle the case where the
5110 user has two bridge lines for the same bridge (one IPv4, one
5111 IPv6). Implements parts of proposal 186.
5113 o Major features (directory authorities):
5114 - Use a more secure consensus parameter voting algorithm. Now at
5115 least three directory authorities or a majority of them must
5116 vote on a given parameter before it will be included in the
5117 consensus. Implements proposal 178.
5118 - Remove the artificially low cutoff of 20KB to guarantee the Fast
5119 flag. In the past few years the average relay speed has picked
5120 up, and while the "top 7/8 of the network get the Fast flag" and
5121 "all relays with 20KB or more of capacity get the Fast flag" rules
5122 used to have the same result, now the top 7/8 of the network has
5123 a capacity more like 32KB. Bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc. Fixes bug 4489.
5125 o Major features (performance):
5126 - Exit nodes now accept and queue data on not-yet-connected streams.
5127 Previously, the client wasn't allowed to send data until the
5128 stream was connected, which slowed down all connections. This
5129 change will enable clients to perform a "fast-start" on streams
5130 and send data without having to wait for a confirmation that the
5131 stream has opened. Patch from Ian Goldberg; implements the server
5132 side of Proposal 174.
5133 - When using an exit relay running 0.2.3.x, clients can now
5134 "optimistically" send data before the exit relay reports that
5135 the stream has opened. This saves a round trip when starting
5136 connections where the client speaks first (such as web browsing).
5137 This behavior is controlled by a consensus parameter (currently
5138 disabled). To turn it on or off manually, use the "OptimisticData"
5139 torrc option. Implements proposal 181; code by Ian Goldberg.
5140 - Add a new TokenBucketRefillInterval option to refill token buckets
5141 more frequently than once per second. This should improve network
5142 performance, alleviate queueing problems, and make traffic less
5143 bursty. Implements proposal 183; closes ticket 3630. Design by
5144 Florian Tschorsch and Björn Scheuermann; implementation by
5146 - Raise the threshold of server descriptors needed (75%) and exit
5147 server descriptors needed (50%) before we will declare ourselves
5148 bootstrapped. This will make clients start building circuits a
5149 little later, but makes the initially constructed circuits less
5150 skewed and less in conflict with further directory fetches. Fixes
5153 o Major features (relays):
5154 - Relays now try regenerating and uploading their descriptor more
5155 frequently if they are not listed in the consensus, or if the
5156 version of their descriptor listed in the consensus is too
5157 old. This fix should prevent situations where a server declines
5158 to re-publish itself because it has done so too recently, even
5159 though the authorities decided not to list its recent-enough
5160 descriptor. Fix for bug 3327.
5162 o Major features (stream isolation):
5163 - You can now configure Tor so that streams from different
5164 applications are isolated on different circuits, to prevent an
5165 attacker who sees your streams as they leave an exit node from
5166 linking your sessions to one another. To do this, choose some way
5167 to distinguish the applications: have them connect to different
5168 SocksPorts, or have one of them use SOCKS4 while the other uses
5169 SOCKS5, or have them pass different authentication strings to the
5170 SOCKS proxy. Then, use the new SocksPort syntax to configure the
5171 degree of isolation you need. This implements Proposal 171.
5172 - There's a new syntax for specifying multiple client ports (such as
5173 SOCKSPort, TransPort, DNSPort, NATDPort): you can now just declare
5174 multiple *Port entries with full addr:port syntax on each.
5175 The old *ListenAddress format is still supported, but you can't
5176 mix it with the new *Port syntax.
5178 o Major features (bufferevents):
5179 - Tor can now optionally build with the "bufferevents" buffered IO
5180 backend provided by Libevent 2. To use this feature, make sure you
5181 have the latest possible version of Libevent, and pass the
5182 --enable-bufferevents flag to configure when building Tor from
5183 source. This feature will make our networking code more flexible,
5184 let us stack layers on each other, and let us use more efficient
5185 zero-copy transports where available.
5186 - Add experimental support for running on Windows with IOCP and no
5187 kernel-space socket buffers. This feature is controlled by a new
5188 "UserspaceIOCPBuffers" config option (off by default), which has
5189 no effect unless Tor has been built with bufferevents enabled,
5190 you're running on Windows, and you've set "DisableIOCP 0". In the
5191 long run, this may help solve or mitigate bug 98.
5193 o Major features (path selection):
5194 - The EntryNodes option can now include country codes like {de} or IP
5195 addresses or network masks. Previously we had disallowed these
5196 options because we didn't have an efficient way to keep the list up
5197 to date. Addresses ticket 1982, but see bug 2798 for an unresolved
5200 o Major features (port forwarding):
5201 - Add support for automatic port mapping on the many home routers
5202 that support NAT-PMP or UPnP. To build the support code, you'll
5203 need to have the libnatpnp library and/or the libminiupnpc library,
5204 and you'll need to enable the feature specifically by passing
5205 "--enable-upnp" and/or "--enable-natpnp" to ./configure. To turn
5206 it on, use the new PortForwarding option.
5208 o Major features (logging):
5209 - Add a new 'Heartbeat' log message type to periodically log a message
5210 describing Tor's status at level Notice. This feature is meant for
5211 operators who log at notice, and want to make sure that their Tor
5212 server is still working. Implementation by George Kadianakis.
5213 - Make logging resolution configurable with a new LogTimeGranularity
5214 option, and change the default from 1 millisecond to 1 second.
5215 Implements enhancement 1668.
5217 o Major features (other):
5218 - New "DisableNetwork" config option to prevent Tor from launching any
5219 connections or accepting any connections except on a control port.
5220 Bundles and controllers can set this option before letting Tor talk
5221 to the rest of the network, for example to prevent any connections
5222 to a non-bridge address. Packages like Orbot can also use this
5223 option to instruct Tor to save power when the network is off.
5224 - Try to use system facilities for enumerating local interface
5225 addresses, before falling back to our old approach (which was
5226 binding a UDP socket, and calling getsockname() on it). That
5227 approach was scaring OS X users whose draconian firewall
5228 software warned about binding to UDP sockets regardless of
5229 whether packets were sent. Now we try to use getifaddrs(),
5230 SIOCGIFCONF, or GetAdaptersAddresses(), depending on what the
5231 system supports. Resolves ticket 1827.
5232 - Add experimental support for a "defaults" torrc file to be parsed
5233 before the regular torrc. Torrc options override the defaults file's
5234 options in the same way that the command line overrides the torrc.
5235 The SAVECONF controller command saves only those options which
5236 differ between the current configuration and the defaults file. HUP
5237 reloads both files. Implements task 4552.
5239 o New directory authorities:
5240 - Add Faravahar (run by Sina Rabbani) as the ninth v3 directory
5241 authority. Closes ticket 5749.
5243 o Security/privacy fixes:
5244 - Avoid read-from-freed-memory and double-free bugs that could occur
5245 when a DNS request fails while launching it. Fixes bug 6480;
5246 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5247 - Reject any attempt to extend to an internal address. Without
5248 this fix, a router could be used to probe addresses on an internal
5249 network to see whether they were accepting connections. Fixes bug
5250 6710; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1.
5251 - Close any connection that sends unrecognized junk before the TLS
5252 handshake. Solves an issue noted in bug 4369.
5253 - The advertised platform of a relay now includes only its operating
5254 system's name (e.g., "Linux", "Darwin", "Windows 7"), and not
5255 its service pack level (for Windows) or its CPU architecture
5256 (for Unix). Also drop the "git-XYZ" tag in the version. Packagers
5257 can insert an extra string in the platform line by setting the
5258 preprocessor variable TOR_BUILD_TAG. Resolves bug 2988.
5259 - Disable TLS session tickets. OpenSSL's implementation was giving
5260 our TLS session keys the lifetime of our TLS context objects, when
5261 perfect forward secrecy would want us to discard anything that
5262 could decrypt a link connection as soon as the link connection
5263 was closed. Fixes bug 7139; bugfix on all versions of Tor linked
5264 against OpenSSL 1.0.0 or later. Found by Florent Daignière.
5265 - Tor tries to wipe potentially sensitive data after using it, so
5266 that if some subsequent security failure exposes Tor's memory,
5267 the damage will be limited. But we had a bug where the compiler
5268 was eliminating these wipe operations when it decided that the
5269 memory was no longer visible to a (correctly running) program,
5270 hence defeating our attempt at defense in depth. We fix that
5271 by using OpenSSL's OPENSSL_cleanse() operation, which a compiler
5272 is unlikely to optimize away. Future versions of Tor may use
5273 a less ridiculously heavy approach for this. Fixes bug 7352.
5274 Reported in an article by Andrey Karpov.
5276 o Major bugfixes (crashes and asserts):
5277 - Avoid a pair of double-free and use-after-mark bugs that can
5278 occur with certain timings in canceled and re-received DNS
5279 requests. Fixes bug 6472; bugfix on 0.0.7rc1.
5280 - Fix a denial of service attack by which any directory authority
5281 could crash all the others, or by which a single v2 directory
5282 authority could crash everybody downloading v2 directory
5283 information. Fixes bug 7191; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5284 - Fix an assert that directory authorities could trigger on sighup
5285 during some configuration state transitions. We now don't treat
5286 it as a fatal error when the new descriptor we just generated in
5287 init_keys() isn't accepted. Fixes bug 4438; bugfix on 0.2.1.9-alpha.
5288 - Avoid segfault when starting up having run with an extremely old
5289 version of Tor and parsing its state file. Fixes bug 6801; bugfix
5292 o Major bugfixes (clients):
5293 - If we are unable to find any exit that supports our predicted ports,
5294 stop calling them predicted, so that we don't loop and build
5295 hopeless circuits indefinitely. Fixes bug 3296; bugfix on 0.0.9pre6,
5296 which introduced predicted ports.
5297 - Check at each new consensus whether our entry guards were picked
5298 long enough ago that we should rotate them. Previously, we only
5299 did this check at startup, which could lead to us holding a guard
5300 indefinitely. Fixes bug 5380; bugfix on 0.2.1.14-rc.
5301 - When fetching a bridge descriptor from a bridge authority,
5302 always do so anonymously, whether we have been able to open
5303 circuits or not. Partial fix for bug 1938; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
5304 This behavior makes it *safer* to use UpdateBridgesFromAuthority,
5305 but we'll need to wait for bug 6010 before it's actually usable.
5307 o Major bugfixes (directory voting):
5308 - Check more thoroughly to prevent a rogue authority from
5309 double-voting on any consensus directory parameter. Previously,
5310 authorities would crash in this case if the total number of
5311 votes for any parameter exceeded the number of active voters,
5312 but would let it pass otherwise. Partially fixes bug 5786; bugfix
5314 - When computing weight parameters, behave more robustly in the
5315 presence of a bad bwweightscale value. Previously, the authorities
5316 would crash if they agreed on a sufficiently broken weight_scale
5317 value; now, they use a reasonable default and carry on. Fixes the
5318 rest of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.2.2.17-alpha.
5319 - If authorities are unable to get a v2 consensus document from other
5320 directory authorities, they no longer fall back to fetching
5321 them from regular directory caches. Fixes bug 5635; bugfix on
5322 0.2.2.26-beta, where routers stopped downloading v2 consensus
5325 o Major bugfixes (relays):
5326 - Fix a bug handling SENDME cells on nonexistent streams that could
5327 result in bizarre window values. Report and patch contributed
5328 pseudonymously. Fixes part of bug 6271. This bug was introduced
5329 before the first Tor release, in svn commit r152.
5330 - Don't update the AccountingSoftLimitHitAt state file entry whenever
5331 tor gets started. This prevents a wrong average bandwidth
5332 estimate, which would cause relays to always start a new accounting
5333 interval at the earliest possible moment. Fixes bug 2003; bugfix
5334 on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Reported by Bryon Eldridge, who also helped
5335 immensely in tracking this bug down.
5336 - Fix a possible crash bug when checking for deactivated circuits
5337 in connection_or_flush_from_first_active_circuit(). Fixes bug 6341;
5338 bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha. Bug report and fix received pseudonymously.
5339 - Set the SO_REUSEADDR socket option before we call bind() on outgoing
5340 connections. This change should allow busy exit relays to stop
5341 running out of available sockets as quickly. Fixes bug 4950;
5342 bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5344 o Major bugfixes (blocking resistance):
5345 - Bridges no longer include their address in NETINFO cells on outgoing
5346 OR connections, to allow them to blend in better with clients.
5347 Removes another avenue for enumerating bridges. Reported by
5348 "troll_un". Fixes bug 4348; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha, when NETINFO
5349 cells were introduced.
5350 - Warn the user when HTTPProxy, but no other proxy type, is
5351 configured. This can cause surprising behavior: it doesn't send
5352 all of Tor's traffic over the HTTPProxy -- it sends unencrypted
5353 directory traffic only. Resolves ticket 4663.
5355 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
5356 - Improve hidden service robustness: when an attempt to connect to
5357 a hidden service ends, be willing to refetch its hidden service
5358 descriptors from each of the HSDir relays responsible for them
5359 immediately. Previously, we would not consider refetching the
5360 service's descriptors from each HSDir for 15 minutes after the last
5361 fetch, which was inconvenient if the hidden service was not running
5362 during the first attempt. Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha; fixes bug 3335.
5363 - Hidden services now ignore the timestamps on INTRODUCE2 cells.
5364 They used to check that the timestamp was within 30 minutes
5365 of their system clock, so they could cap the size of their
5366 replay-detection cache, but that approach unnecessarily refused
5367 service to clients with wrong clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha, when
5368 the v3 intro-point protocol (the first one which sent a timestamp
5369 field in the INTRODUCE2 cell) was introduced; fixes bug 3460.
5370 - When one of a hidden service's introduction points appears to be
5371 unreachable, stop trying it. Previously, we would keep trying
5372 to build circuits to the introduction point until we lost the
5373 descriptor, usually because the user gave up and restarted Tor.
5374 Fixes part of bug 3825.
5376 o Changes to default torrc file:
5377 - Stop listing "socksport 9050" in torrc.sample. We open a socks
5378 port on 9050 by default anyway, so this should not change anything
5380 - Stop mentioning the deprecated *ListenAddress options in
5381 torrc.sample. Fixes bug 5438.
5382 - Document unit of bandwidth-related options in sample torrc.
5384 - Fix broken URLs in the sample torrc file, and tell readers about
5385 the OutboundBindAddress, ExitPolicyRejectPrivate, and
5386 PublishServerDescriptor options. Addresses bug 4652.
5388 o Minor features (directory authorities):
5389 - Consider new, removed or changed IPv6 OR ports a non-cosmetic
5390 change when the authority is deciding whether to accept a newly
5391 uploaded descriptor. Implements ticket 6423.
5392 - Directory authorities are now a little more lenient at accepting
5393 older router descriptors, or newer router descriptors that don't
5394 make big changes. This should help ameliorate past and future
5395 issues where routers think they have uploaded valid descriptors,
5396 but the authorities don't think so. Fix for ticket 2479.
5397 - Authority operators can now vote for all relays in a given
5398 set of countries to be BadDir/BadExit/Invalid/Rejected.
5399 - Provide two consensus parameters (FastFlagMinThreshold and
5400 FastFlagMaxThreshold) to control the range of allowable bandwidths
5401 for the Fast directory flag. These allow authorities to run
5402 experiments on appropriate requirements for being a "Fast" node.
5403 The AuthDirFastGuarantee config value still applies. Implements
5406 o Minor features (bridges / bridge authorities):
5407 - Make bridge SSL certificates a bit more stealthy by using random
5408 serial numbers, in the same fashion as OpenSSL when generating
5409 self-signed certificates. Implements ticket 4584.
5410 - Tag a bridge's descriptor as "never to be sent unencrypted".
5411 This shouldn't matter, since bridges don't open non-anonymous
5412 connections to the bridge authority and don't allow unencrypted
5413 directory connections from clients, but we might as well make
5414 sure. Closes bug 5139.
5415 - The Bridge Authority now writes statistics on how many bridge
5416 descriptors it gave out in total, and how many unique descriptors
5417 it gave out. It also lists how often the most and least commonly
5418 fetched descriptors were given out, as well as the median and
5419 25th/75th percentile. Implements tickets 4200 and 4294.
5421 o Minor features (IPv6):
5422 - Make the code that clients use to detect an address change be
5423 IPv6-aware, so that it won't fill clients' logs with error
5424 messages when trying to get the IPv4 address of an IPv6
5425 connection. Implements ticket 5537.
5426 - Relays now understand an IPv6 address when they get one from a
5427 directory server. Resolves ticket 4875.
5429 o Minor features (hidden services):
5430 - Expire old or over-used hidden service introduction points.
5431 Required by fix for bug 3460.
5432 - Reduce the lifetime of elements of hidden services' Diffie-Hellman
5433 public key replay-detection cache from 60 minutes to 5 minutes. This
5434 replay-detection cache is now used only to detect multiple
5435 INTRODUCE2 cells specifying the same rendezvous point, so we can
5436 avoid launching multiple simultaneous attempts to connect to it.
5437 - When a hidden service's introduction point times out, consider
5438 trying it again during the next attempt to connect to the
5439 HS. Previously, we would not try it again unless a newly fetched
5440 descriptor contained it. Required by fixes for bugs 1297 and 3825.
5442 o Minor features (relays):
5443 - Relays now include a reason for regenerating their descriptors
5444 in an HTTP header when uploading to the authorities. This will
5445 make it easier to debug descriptor-upload issues in the future.
5446 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
5447 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
5448 - Replace files in stats/ rather than appending to them. Now that we
5449 include statistics in extra-info descriptors, it makes no sense to
5450 keep old statistics forever. Implements ticket 2930.
5451 - Relays that set "ConnDirectionStatistics 1" write statistics on the
5452 bidirectional use of connections to disk every 24 hours.
5453 - Add a GeoIP file digest to the extra-info descriptor. Implements
5456 o Minor features (new config options):
5457 - New config option "DynamicDHGroups" (disabled by default) provides
5458 each bridge with a unique prime DH modulus to be used during
5459 SSL handshakes. This option attempts to help against censors
5460 who might use the Apache DH modulus as a static identifier for
5461 bridges. Addresses ticket 4548.
5462 - New config option "DisableDebuggerAttachment" (on by default)
5463 to prevent basic debugging attachment attempts by other processes.
5464 Supports Mac OS X and Gnu/Linux. Resolves ticket 3313.
5465 - Ordinarily, Tor does not count traffic from private addresses (like
5466 127.0.0.1 or 10.0.0.1) when calculating rate limits or accounting.
5467 There is now a new option, CountPrivateBandwidth, to disable this
5468 behavior. Patch from Daniel Cagara.
5470 o Minor features (different behavior for old config options):
5471 - Allow MapAddress directives to specify matches against super-domains,
5472 as in "MapAddress *.torproject.org *.torproject.org.torserver.exit".
5473 Implements issue 933.
5474 - Don't disable the DirPort when we cannot exceed our AccountingMax
5475 limit during this interval because the effective bandwidthrate is
5476 low enough. This is useful in a situation where AccountMax is only
5477 used as an additional safeguard or to provide statistics.
5478 - Add port 6523 (Gobby) to LongLivedPorts. Patch by intrigeri;
5479 implements ticket 3439.
5480 - When configuring a large set of nodes in EntryNodes, and there are
5481 enough of them listed as Guard so that we don't need to consider
5482 the non-guard entries, prefer the ones listed with the Guard flag.
5483 - If you set the NumCPUs option to 0, Tor will now try to detect how
5484 many CPUs you have. This is the new default behavior.
5485 - The NodeFamily option -- which let you declare that you want to
5486 consider nodes to be part of a family whether they list themselves
5487 that way or not -- now allows IP address ranges and country codes.
5489 o Minor features (new command-line config behavior):
5490 - Slightly change behavior of "list" options (that is, config
5491 options that can appear more than once) when they appear both in
5492 torrc and on the command line. Previously, the command-line options
5493 would be appended to the ones from torrc. Now, the command-line
5494 options override the torrc options entirely. This new behavior
5495 allows the user to override list options (like exit policies and
5496 ports to listen on) from the command line, rather than simply
5497 appending to the list.
5498 - You can get the old (appending) command-line behavior for "list"
5499 options by prefixing the option name with a "+".
5500 - You can remove all the values for a "list" option from the command
5501 line without adding any new ones by prefixing the option name
5504 o Minor features (controller, new events):
5505 - Extend the control protocol to report flags that control a circuit's
5506 path selection in CIRC events and in replies to 'GETINFO
5507 circuit-status'. Implements part of ticket 2411.
5508 - Extend the control protocol to report the hidden service address
5509 and current state of a hidden-service-related circuit in CIRC
5510 events and in replies to 'GETINFO circuit-status'. Implements part
5512 - Include the creation time of a circuit in CIRC and CIRC2
5513 control-port events and the list produced by the 'GETINFO
5514 circuit-status' control-port command.
5515 - Add a new CONF_CHANGED event so that controllers can be notified
5516 of any configuration changes made by other controllers, or by the
5517 user. Implements ticket 1692.
5518 - Add a new SIGNAL event to the controller interface so that
5519 controllers can be notified when Tor handles a signal. Resolves
5520 issue 1955. Patch by John Brooks.
5522 o Minor features (controller, new getinfo options):
5523 - Expose our view of whether we have gone dormant to the controller,
5524 via a new "GETINFO dormant" value. Torbutton and other controllers
5525 can use this to avoid doing periodic requests through Tor while
5526 it's dormant (bug 4718). Resolves ticket 5954.
5527 - Add a new GETINFO option to get total bytes read and written. Patch
5528 from pipe, revised by atagar. Resolves ticket 2345.
5529 - Implement new GETINFO controller fields to provide information about
5530 the Tor process's pid, euid, username, and resource limits.
5532 o Minor features (controller, other):
5533 - Allow controllers to request an event notification whenever a
5534 circuit is cannibalized or its purpose is changed. Implements
5535 part of ticket 3457.
5536 - Use absolute path names when reporting the torrc filename in the
5537 control protocol, so a controller can more easily find the torrc
5538 file. Resolves bug 1101.
5539 - When reporting the path to the cookie file to the controller,
5540 give an absolute path. Resolves ticket 4881.
5542 o Minor features (log messages):
5543 - Add more information to a log statement that might help track down
5544 bug 4091. If you're seeing "Bug: tor_addr_is_internal() called with a
5545 non-IP address" messages (or any Bug messages, for that matter!),
5546 please let us know about it.
5547 - If EntryNodes are given, but UseEntryGuards is set to 0, warn that
5548 EntryNodes will have no effect. Resolves issue 2571.
5549 - Try to make the introductory warning message that Tor prints on
5550 startup more useful for actually finding help and information.
5551 Resolves ticket 2474.
5552 - When the system call to create a listener socket fails, log the
5553 error message explaining why. This may help diagnose bug 4027.
5555 o Minor features (other):
5556 - When we fail to initialize Libevent, retry with IOCP disabled so we
5557 don't need to turn on multi-threading support in Libevent, which in
5558 turn requires a working socketpair(). This is a workaround for bug
5559 4457, which affects Libevent versions from 2.0.1-alpha through
5561 - When starting as root and then changing our UID via the User
5562 control option, and we have a ControlSocket configured, make sure
5563 that the ControlSocket is owned by the same account that Tor will
5564 run under. Implements ticket 3421; fix by Jérémy Bobbio.
5565 - Accept attempts to include a password authenticator in the
5566 handshake, as supported by SOCKS5. This handles SOCKS clients that
5567 don't know how to omit a password when authenticating. Resolves
5569 - Check for and recover from inconsistency in the microdescriptor
5570 cache. This will make it harder for us to accidentally free a
5571 microdescriptor without removing it from the appropriate data
5572 structures. Fixes issue 3135; issue noted by "wanoskarnet".
5573 - Shorten links in the tor-exit-notice file. Patch by Christian Kujau.
5575 o Minor bugfixes (code security):
5576 - Prevent a null-pointer dereference when receiving a data cell
5577 for a nonexistent stream when the circuit in question has an
5578 empty deliver window. We don't believe this is triggerable,
5579 since we don't currently allow deliver windows to become empty,
5580 but the logic is tricky enough that it's better to make the code
5581 robust. Fixes bug 5541; bugfix on 0.0.2pre14.
5582 - Fix a (harmless) integer overflow in cell statistics reported by
5583 some fast relays. Fixes bug 5849; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5584 - Fix our implementation of crypto_random_hostname() so it can't
5585 overflow on ridiculously large inputs. (No Tor version has ever
5586 provided this kind of bad inputs, but let's be correct in depth.)
5587 Fixes bug 4413; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha. Fix by Stephen Palmateer.
5588 - Add a (probably redundant) memory clear between iterations of
5589 the router status voting loop, to prevent future coding errors
5590 where data might leak between iterations of the loop. Resolves
5593 o Minor bugfixes (wrapper functions):
5594 - Abort if tor_vasprintf() fails in connection_printf_to_buf() (a
5595 utility function used in the control-port code). This shouldn't
5596 ever happen unless Tor is completely out of memory, but if it did
5597 happen and Tor somehow recovered from it, Tor could have sent a log
5598 message to a control port in the middle of a reply to a controller
5599 command. Fixes part of bug 3428; bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
5600 - Fix some (not actually triggerable) buffer size checks in usage of
5601 tor_inet_ntop(). Fixes bug 4434; bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Patch
5603 - Fix parsing of some corner-cases with tor_inet_pton(). Fixes
5604 bug 4515; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fix by Anders Sundman.
5605 - Enforce correct return behavior of tor_vsscanf() when the '%%'
5606 pattern is used. Fixes bug 5558. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13.
5607 - Make our replacement implementation of strtok_r() compatible with
5608 the standard behavior of strtok_r(). Patch by nils. Fixes bug 5091;
5609 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5610 - Find more places in the code that should have been testing for
5611 invalid sockets using the SOCKET_OK macro. Required for a fix
5612 for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5614 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
5615 - Check return value of fputs() when writing authority certificate
5616 file. Fixes Coverity issue 709056; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5617 - When building Tor on Windows with -DUNICODE (not default), ensure
5618 that error messages, filenames, and DNS server names are always
5619 NUL-terminated when we convert them to a single-byte encoding.
5620 Fixes bug 5909; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5621 - Fix a memory leak when trying to launch a DNS request when the
5622 nameservers are unconfigurable. Fixes bug 5916; bugfix on Tor
5624 - Correct file sizes when reading binary files on Cygwin, to avoid
5625 a bug where Tor would fail to read its state file. Fixes bug 6844;
5626 bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
5627 - Make sure to set *socket_error in all error cases in
5628 connection_connect(), so it can't produce a warning about
5629 errno being zero from errno_to_orconn_end_reason(). Bugfix on
5630 0.2.1.1-alpha; resolves ticket 6028.
5631 - Initialize conn->addr to a valid state in spawn_cpuworker(). Fixes
5632 bug 4532; found by "troll_un".
5634 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
5635 - Allow one-hop directory-fetching circuits the full "circuit build
5636 timeout" period, rather than just half of it, before failing them
5637 and marking the relay down. This fix should help reduce cases where
5638 clients declare relays (or worse, bridges) unreachable because
5639 the TLS handshake takes a few seconds to complete. Fixes bug 6743;
5640 bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha, where we changed the timeout from a static
5642 - Ensure we don't cannibalize circuits that are longer than three hops
5643 already, so we don't end up making circuits with 5 or more
5644 hops. Patch contributed by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 5231; bugfix on
5645 0.1.0.1-rc which introduced cannibalization.
5647 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
5648 - Don't publish a new relay descriptor when we reload our onion key,
5649 unless the onion key has actually changed. Fixes bug 3263 and
5650 resolves another cause of bug 1810. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
5651 - When relays refuse a "create" cell because their queue of pending
5652 create cells is too big (typically because their cpu can't keep up
5653 with the arrival rate), send back reason "resource limit" rather
5654 than reason "internal", so network measurement scripts can get a
5655 more accurate picture. Bugfix on 0.1.1.11-alpha; fixes bug 7037.
5656 - Exit nodes don't need to fetch certificates for authorities that
5657 they don't recognize; only directory authorities, bridges,
5658 and caches need to do that. Fixes part of bug 2297; bugfix on
5661 o Minor bugfixes (directory authority / mirrors):
5662 - Avoid O(n^2) performance characteristics when parsing a large
5663 extrainfo cache. Fixes bug 5828; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5664 - Authorities no longer include any router in their microdescriptor
5665 consensuses for which they couldn't generate or agree on a
5666 microdescriptor. Fixes the second piece of bug 6404; fix on
5668 - When checking for requested signatures on the latest consensus
5669 before serving it to a client, make sure to check the right
5670 consensus flavor. Bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5671 - Fix an edge case where TestingTorNetwork is set but the authorities
5672 and relays all have an uptime of zero, so the private Tor network
5673 could briefly lack support for hidden services. Fixes bug 3886;
5674 bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
5675 - Directory caches no longer refuse to clean out descriptors because
5676 of missing v2 networkstatus documents, unless they're configured
5677 to retrieve v2 networkstatus documents. Fixes bug 4838; bugfix on
5678 0.2.2.26-beta. Patch by Daniel Bryg.
5679 - Don't serve or accept v2 hidden service descriptors over a relay's
5680 DirPort. It's never correct to do so, and disabling it might
5681 make it more annoying to exploit any bugs that turn up in the
5682 descriptor-parsing code. Fixes bug 7149.
5684 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, client-side):
5685 - Assert that hidden-service-related operations are not performed
5686 using single-hop circuits. Previously, Tor would assert that
5687 client-side streams are not attached to single-hop circuits,
5688 but not that other sensitive operations on the client and service
5689 side are not performed using single-hop circuits. Fixes bug 3332;
5691 - Avoid undefined behavior when parsing the list of supported
5692 rendezvous/introduction protocols in a hidden service descriptor.
5693 Previously, Tor would have confused (as-yet-unused) protocol version
5694 numbers greater than 32 with lower ones on many platforms. Fixes
5695 bug 6827; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Found by George Kadianakis.
5696 - Don't close hidden service client circuits which have almost
5697 finished connecting to their destination when they reach
5698 the normal circuit-build timeout. Previously, we would close
5699 introduction circuits which are waiting for an acknowledgement
5700 from the introduction point, and rendezvous circuits which have
5701 been specified in an INTRODUCE1 cell sent to a hidden service,
5702 after the normal CBT. Now, we mark them as 'timed out', and launch
5703 another rendezvous attempt in parallel. This behavior change can
5704 be disabled using the new CloseHSClientCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout
5705 option. Fixes part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5707 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services, service-side):
5708 - Don't close hidden-service-side rendezvous circuits when they
5709 reach the normal circuit-build timeout. This behavior change can
5710 be disabled using the new
5711 CloseHSServiceRendCircuitsImmediatelyOnTimeout option. Fixes the
5712 remaining part of bug 1297; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5713 - Don't launch more than 10 service-side introduction-point circuits
5714 for a hidden service in five minutes. Previously, we would consider
5715 launching more introduction-point circuits if at least one second
5716 had passed without any introduction-point circuits failing. Fixes
5717 bug 4607; bugfix on 0.0.7pre1.
5719 o Minor bugfixes (config option behavior):
5720 - If the user tries to set MyFamily on a bridge, refuse to
5721 do so, and warn about the security implications. Fixes bug 4657;
5722 bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
5723 - The "--quiet" and "--hush" options now apply not only to Tor's
5724 behavior before logs are configured, but also to Tor's behavior in
5725 the absense of configured logs. Fixes bug 3550; bugfix on
5727 - Change the AllowDotExit rules so they should actually work.
5728 We now enforce AllowDotExit only immediately after receiving an
5729 address via SOCKS or DNSPort: other sources are free to provide
5730 .exit addresses after the resolution occurs. Fixes bug 3940;
5731 bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
5732 - Make "LearnCircuitBuildTimeout 0" work more reliably. Specifically,
5733 don't depend on the consensus parameters or compute adaptive
5734 timeouts when it is disabled. Fixes bug 5049; bugfix on
5736 - After we pick a directory mirror, we would refuse to use it if
5737 it's in our ExcludeExitNodes list, resulting in mysterious failures
5738 to bootstrap for people who just wanted to avoid exiting from
5739 certain locations. Fixes bug 5623; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
5740 - When told to add a bridge with the same digest as a preexisting
5741 bridge but a different addr:port, change the addr:port as
5742 requested. Previously we would not notice the change. Fixes half
5743 of bug 5603; fix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
5745 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
5746 - Allow manual 'authenticate' commands to the controller interface
5747 from netcat (nc) as well as telnet. We were rejecting them because
5748 they didn't come with the expected whitespace at the end of the
5749 command. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 2893.
5750 - Report a real bootstrap problem to the controller on router
5751 identity mismatch. Previously we just said "foo", which probably
5752 made a lot of sense at the time. Fixes bug 4169; bugfix on
5754 - When we receive a SIGHUP and the controller __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP
5755 option is set to 0 (which Vidalia version 0.2.16 now does when
5756 a SAVECONF attempt fails), perform other actions that SIGHUP
5757 usually causes (like reopening the logs). Fixes bug 5095; bugfix
5759 - Correctly handle checking the permissions on the parent
5760 directory of a control socket in the root directory. Bug found
5761 by Esteban Manchado Velázquez. Fixes bug 5089; bugfix on Tor
5763 - End AUTHCHALLENGE error messages (in the control protocol) with
5764 a CRLF. Fixes bug 5760; bugfix on 0.2.2.36.
5766 o Minor bugfixes (network reading/writing):
5767 - Disable writing on marked-for-close connections when they are
5768 blocked on bandwidth, to prevent busy-looping in Libevent. Fixes
5769 bug 5263; bugfix on 0.0.2pre13, where we first added a special
5770 case for flushing marked connections.
5771 - Make sure that there are no unhandled pending TLS errors before
5772 reading from a TLS stream. We had checks in 0.1.0.3-rc, but
5773 lost them in 0.1.0.5-rc when we refactored read_to_buf_tls().
5774 Bugfix on 0.1.0.5-rc; fixes bug 4528.
5775 - Detect SSL handshake even when the initial attempt to write the
5776 server hello fails. Fixes bug 4592; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
5777 - If the client fails to set a reasonable set of ciphersuites
5778 during its v2 handshake renegotiation, allow the renegotiation to
5779 continue nevertheless (i.e. send all the required certificates).
5780 Fixes bug 4591; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5782 o Minor bugfixes (other):
5783 - Exit nodes now correctly report EADDRINUSE and EADDRNOTAVAIL as
5784 resource exhaustion, so that clients can adjust their load to
5785 try other exits. Fixes bug 4710; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc, which
5786 started using END_STREAM_REASON_RESOURCELIMIT.
5787 - Don't check for whether the address we're using for outbound
5788 connections has changed until after the outbound connection has
5789 completed. On Windows, getsockname() doesn't succeed until the
5790 connection is finished. Fixes bug 5374; bugfix on 0.1.1.14-alpha.
5791 - Don't hold a Windows file handle open for every file mapping;
5792 the file mapping handle is sufficient. Fixes bug 5951; bugfix on
5794 - Fix wrong TCP port range in parse_port_range(). Fixes bug 6218;
5795 bugfix on 0.2.1.10-alpha.
5796 - If we fail to write a microdescriptor to the disk cache, do not
5797 continue replacing the old microdescriptor file. Fixes bug 2954;
5798 bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
5800 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, path selection):
5801 - Downgrade "set buildtimeout to low value" messages to "info"
5802 severity; they were never an actual problem, there was never
5803 anything reasonable to do about them, and they tended to spam logs
5804 from time to time. Fixes bug 6251; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha.
5805 - Rate-limit the "Weighted bandwidth is 0.000000" message, and add
5806 more information to it, so that we can track it down in case it
5807 returns again. Mitigates bug 5235.
5808 - Check CircuitBuildTimeout and LearnCircuitBuildTimeout in
5809 options_validate(); warn if LearnCircuitBuildTimeout is disabled and
5810 CircuitBuildTimeout is set unreasonably low. Resolves ticket 5452.
5811 - Issue a log message if a guard completes less than 40% of your
5812 circuits. Threshold is configurable by torrc option
5813 PathBiasNoticeRate and consensus parameter pb_noticepct. There is
5814 additional, off-by-default code to disable guards which fail too
5815 many circuits. Addresses ticket 5458.
5817 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, client):
5818 - Downgrade "Got a certificate, but we already have it" log messages
5819 from warning to info, except when we're a dirauth. Fixes bug 5238;
5820 bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
5821 - Fix the log message describing how we work around discovering
5822 that our version is the ill-fated OpenSSL 0.9.8l. Fixes bug
5823 4837; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5824 - When logging about a disallowed .exit name, do not also call it
5825 an "invalid onion address". Fixes bug 3325; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
5826 - Fix a log message suggesting that people contact a non-existent
5827 email address. Fixes bug 3448.
5828 - Rephrase the log message emitted if the TestSocks check is
5829 successful. Patch from Fabian Keil; fixes bug 4094.
5830 - Log (at debug level) whenever a circuit's purpose is changed.
5831 - Log SSL state transitions at log level DEBUG, log domain
5832 HANDSHAKE. This can be useful for debugging censorship events.
5833 Implements ticket 3264.
5834 - We now log which torrc file we're using on startup. Implements
5836 - Rate-limit log messages when asked to connect anonymously to
5837 a private address. When these hit, they tended to hit fast and
5838 often. Also, don't bother trying to connect to addresses that we
5839 are sure will resolve to 127.0.0.1: getting 127.0.0.1 in a directory
5840 reply makes us think we have been lied to, even when the address the
5841 client tried to connect to was "localhost." Resolves ticket 2822.
5843 o Minor bugfixes (log messages, non-client):
5844 - Downgrade "eventdns rejected address" message to LOG_PROTOCOL_WARN.
5845 Fixes bug 5932; bugfix on 0.2.2.7-alpha.
5846 - Don't log that we have "decided to publish new relay descriptor"
5847 unless we are actually publishing a descriptor. Fixes bug 3942;
5848 bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5849 - Log which authority we're missing votes from when we go to fetch
5850 them from the other auths.
5851 - Replace "Sending publish request" log messages with "Launching
5852 upload", so that they no longer confusingly imply that we're
5853 sending something to a directory we might not even be connected
5854 to yet. Fixes bug 3311; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
5855 - Warn when Tor is configured to use accounting in a way that can
5856 link a hidden service to some other hidden service or public
5857 address. Resolves ticket 6490.
5858 - Fix a minor formatting issue in one of tor-gencert's error messages.
5862 - Update to the latest version of the tinytest unit testing framework.
5863 This includes a couple of bugfixes that can be relevant for
5864 running forked unit tests on Windows, and removes all reserved
5866 - Avoid a false positive in the util/threads unit test by increasing
5867 the maximum timeout time. Fixes bug 6227; bugfix on 0.2.0.4-alpha.
5868 - Make it possible to set the TestingTorNetwork configuration
5869 option using AlternateDirAuthority and AlternateBridgeAuthority
5870 as an alternative to setting DirServer. Addresses ticket 6377.
5871 - Add a unit test for the environment_variable_names_equal() function.
5872 - A wide variety of new unit tests by Esteban Manchado Velázquez.
5873 - Numerous new unit tests for functions in util.c and address.c by
5875 - The long-disabled benchmark tests are now split into their own
5876 ./src/test/bench binary.
5877 - The benchmark tests can now use more accurate timers than
5878 gettimeofday() when such timers are available.
5879 - Use tt_assert(), not tor_assert(), for checking for test failures.
5880 This makes the unit tests more able to go on in the event that
5883 o Build improvements:
5884 - Use the dead_strip option when building Tor on OS X. This reduces
5885 binary size by almost 19% when linking openssl and libevent
5886 statically, which we do for Tor Browser Bundle.
5887 - Provide a better error message about possible OSX Asciidoc failure
5888 reasons. Fixes bug 6436.
5889 - Detect attempts to build Tor on (as yet hypothetical) versions
5890 of Windows where sizeof(intptr_t) != sizeof(SOCKET). Partial
5891 fix for bug 4533. Bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta.
5892 - On Windows, we now define the _WIN32_WINNT macros only if they
5893 are not already defined. This lets the person building Tor decide,
5894 if they want, to require a later version of Windows.
5895 - Our autogen.sh script now uses autoreconf to launch autoconf,
5896 automake, and so on. This is more robust against some of the failure
5897 modes associated with running the autotools pieces on their own.
5898 - Running "make version" now displays the version of Tor that
5899 we're about to build. Idea from katmagic; resolves issue 4400.
5900 - Make 'tor --digests' list hashes of all Tor source files. Bugfix
5901 on 0.2.2.4-alpha; fixes bug 3427.
5902 - New --enable-static-tor configure option for building Tor as
5903 statically as possible. Idea, general hackery and thoughts from
5904 Alexei Czeskis, John Gilmore, Jacob Appelbaum. Implements ticket
5906 - Limited, experimental support for building with nmake and MSVC.
5908 o Build requirements:
5909 - Building Tor with bufferevent support now requires Libevent
5910 2.0.13-stable or later. Previous versions of Libevent had bugs in
5911 SSL-related bufferevents and related issues that would make Tor
5912 work badly with bufferevents. Requiring 2.0.13-stable also allows
5913 Tor with bufferevents to take advantage of Libevent APIs
5914 introduced after 2.0.8-rc.
5915 - Our build system requires automake 1.6 or later to create the
5916 Makefile.in files. Previously, you could have used 1.4.
5917 This only affects developers and people building Tor from git;
5918 people who build Tor from the source distribution without changing
5919 the Makefile.am files should be fine.
5920 - Detect when we try to build on a platform that doesn't define
5921 AF_UNSPEC to 0. We don't work there, so refuse to compile.
5923 o Build fixes (compile/link):
5924 - Format more doubles with %f, not %lf. Patch from grarpamp to make
5925 Tor build correctly on older BSDs again. Fixes bug 3894; bugfix on
5927 - When building with --enable-static-tor on OpenBSD, do not
5928 erroneously attempt to link -lrt. Fixes bug 5103.
5929 - Set _WIN32_WINNT to 0x0501 consistently throughout the code, so
5930 that IPv6 stuff will compile on MSVC, and compilation issues
5931 will be easier to track down. Fixes bug 5861.
5932 - Fix build and 64-bit compile warnings from --enable-openbsd-malloc.
5933 Fixes bug 6379. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
5934 - Make Tor build correctly again with -DUNICODE -D_UNICODE defined.
5935 Fixes bug 6097; bugfix on 0.2.2.16-alpha.
5937 o Build fixes (other):
5938 - Use the _WIN32 macro throughout our code to detect Windows.
5939 (Previously we had used the obsolete 'WIN32' and the idiosyncratic
5941 - Properly handle the case where the build-tree is not the same
5942 as the source tree when generating src/common/common_sha1.i,
5943 src/or/micro-revision.i, and src/or/or_sha1.i. Fixes bug 3953;
5944 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
5945 - During configure, search for library containing cos function as
5946 libm lives in libcore on some platforms (BeOS/Haiku). Linking
5947 against libm was hard-coded before. Fixes the first part of bug
5948 4727; bugfix on 0.2.2.2-alpha. Patch and analysis by Martin Hebnes
5950 - Prevent a false positive from the check-spaces script, by disabling
5951 the "whitespace between function name and (" check for functions
5954 o Packaging (RPM) changes:
5955 - Update our default RPM spec files to work with mock and rpmbuild
5956 on RHEL/Fedora. They have an updated set of dependencies and
5957 conflicts, a fix for an ancient typo when creating the "_tor"
5958 user, and better instructions. Thanks to Ondrej Mikle for the
5959 patch series. Fixes bug 6043.
5960 - On OpenSUSE, create the /var/run/tor directory on startup if it
5961 is not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
5963 o Code refactoring (safety):
5964 - Do not use SMARTLIST_FOREACH for any loop whose body exceeds
5965 10 lines. Also, don't nest them. Doing so in the past has
5966 led to hard-to-debug code. The new style is to use the
5967 SMARTLIST_FOREACH_{BEGIN,END} pair. Addresses issue 6400.
5968 - Use macros to indicate OpenSSL versions, so we don't need to worry
5969 about accidental hexadecimal bit shifts.
5970 - Use tor_sscanf() in place of scanf() in more places through the
5971 code. This makes us a little more locale-independent, and
5972 should help shut up code-analysis tools that can't tell
5973 a safe sscanf string from a dangerous one.
5974 - Convert more instances of tor_snprintf+tor_strdup into tor_asprintf.
5975 - Use the smartlist_add_asprintf() alias more consistently.
5977 o Code refactoring (consolidate):
5978 - A major revision to our internal node-selecting and listing logic.
5979 Tor already had at least two major ways to look at the question of
5980 "which Tor servers do we know about": a list of router descriptors,
5981 and a list of entries in the current consensus. With
5982 microdescriptors, we're adding a third. Having so many systems
5983 without an abstraction layer over them was hurting the codebase.
5984 Now, we have a new "node_t" abstraction that presents a consistent
5985 interface to a client's view of a Tor node, and holds (nearly) all
5986 of the mutable state formerly in routerinfo_t and routerstatus_t.
5987 - Move tor_gettimeofday_cached() into compat_libevent.c, and use
5988 Libevent's notion of cached time when possible.
5989 - Remove duplicate code for invoking getrlimit() from control.c.
5990 - Use OpenSSL's built-in SSL_state_string_long() instead of our
5991 own homebrewed ssl_state_to_string() replacement. Patch from
5992 Emile Snyder. Fixes bug 4653.
5993 - Change the symmetric cipher interface so that creating and
5994 initializing a stream cipher are no longer separate functions.
5996 o Code refactoring (separate):
5997 - Make a new "entry connection" struct as an internal subtype of "edge
5998 connection", to simplify the code and make exit connections smaller.
5999 - Split connection_about_to_close() into separate functions for each
6001 - Rewrite the listener-selection logic so that parsing which ports
6002 we want to listen on is now separate from binding to the ports
6005 o Code refactoring (name changes):
6006 - Rename a handful of old identifiers, mostly related to crypto
6007 structures and crypto functions. By convention, our "create an
6008 object" functions are called "type_new()", our "free an object"
6009 functions are called "type_free()", and our types indicate that
6010 they are types only with a final "_t". But a handful of older
6011 types and functions broke these rules, with function names like
6012 "type_create" or "subsystem_op_type", or with type names like
6014 - Rename Tor functions that turn strings into addresses, so that
6015 "parse" indicates that no hostname resolution occurs, and
6016 "lookup" indicates that hostname resolution may occur. This
6017 should help prevent mistakes in the future. Fixes bug 3512.
6018 - Use the name "CERTS" consistently to refer to the new cell type;
6019 we were calling it CERT in some places and CERTS in others.
6020 - Use a TOR_INVALID_SOCKET macro when initializing a socket to an
6021 invalid value, rather than just -1.
6022 - Rename the bench_{aes,dmap} functions to test_*, so that tinytest
6023 can pick them up when the tests aren't disabled. Bugfix on
6024 0.2.2.4-alpha which introduced tinytest.
6026 o Code refactoring (other):
6027 - Defensively refactor rend_mid_rendezvous() so that protocol
6028 violations and length checks happen in the beginning. Fixes
6030 - Remove the pure attribute from all functions that used it
6031 previously. In many cases we assigned it incorrectly, because the
6032 functions might assert or call impure functions, and we don't have
6033 evidence that keeping the pure attribute is worthwhile. Implements
6034 changes suggested in ticket 4421.
6035 - Move the replay-detection cache for the RSA-encrypted parts of
6036 INTRODUCE2 cells to the introduction point data structures.
6037 Previously, we would use one replay-detection cache per hidden
6038 service. Required by fix for bug 3460.
6039 - The helper programs tor-gencert, tor-resolve, and tor-checkkey
6040 no longer link against Libevent: they never used it, but
6041 our library structure used to force them to link it.
6043 o Removed features and files:
6044 - Remove all internal support for unpadded RSA. We never used it, and
6045 it would be a bad idea to start.
6046 - Remove some workaround code for OpenSSL 0.9.6 (which is no longer
6048 - Remove some redundant #include directives throughout the code.
6049 Patch from Andrea Gelmini.
6050 - Remove some old code to remember statistics about which descriptors
6051 we've served as a directory mirror. The feature wasn't used and
6052 is outdated now that microdescriptors are around.
6053 - Remove some old code to work around even older versions of Tor that
6054 used forked processes to handle DNS requests. Such versions of Tor
6055 are no longer in use as relays.
6056 - The "torify" script no longer supports the "tsocks" socksifier
6057 tool, since tsocks doesn't support DNS and UDP right for Tor.
6058 Everyone should be using torsocks instead. Fixes bugs 3530 and
6059 5180. Based on a patch by "ugh".
6060 - Remove the torrc.bridge file: we don't use it for anything, and
6061 it had become badly desynchronized from torrc.sample. Resolves
6065 - Begin a doc/state-contents.txt file to explain the contents of
6066 the Tor state file. Fixes bug 2987.
6067 - Clarify the documentation for the Alternate*Authority options.
6069 - Document the --defaults-torrc option, and the new semantics for
6070 overriding, extending, and clearing lists of options. Closes
6072 - Add missing man page documentation for consensus and microdesc
6073 files. Resolves ticket 6732.
6074 - Fix some typos in the manpages. Patch from A. Costa. Fixes bug 6500.
6076 o Documentation fixes:
6077 - Improve the manual's documentation for the NT Service command-line
6078 options. Addresses ticket 3964.
6079 - Clarify SessionGroup documentation slightly; resolves ticket 5437.
6080 - Document the changes to the ORPort and DirPort options, and the
6081 fact that {OR/Dir}ListenAddress is now unnecessary (and
6082 therefore deprecated). Resolves ticket 5597.
6083 - Correct a broken faq link in the INSTALL file. Fixes bug 2307.
6084 - Clarify that hidden services are TCP only. Fixes bug 6024.
6087 Changes in version 0.2.2.39 - 2012-09-11
6088 Tor 0.2.2.39 fixes two more opportunities for remotely triggerable
6092 - Fix an assertion failure in tor_timegm() that could be triggered
6093 by a badly formatted directory object. Bug found by fuzzing with
6094 Radamsa. Fixes bug 6811; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6095 - Do not crash when comparing an address with port value 0 to an
6096 address policy. This bug could have been used to cause a remote
6097 assertion failure by or against directory authorities, or to
6098 allow some applications to crash clients. Fixes bug 6690; bugfix
6102 Changes in version 0.2.2.38 - 2012-08-12
6103 Tor 0.2.2.38 fixes a remotely triggerable crash bug, and fixes a timing
6104 attack that could in theory leak path information.
6107 - Avoid an uninitialized memory read when reading a vote or consensus
6108 document that has an unrecognized flavor name. This read could
6109 lead to a remote crash bug. Fixes bug 6530; bugfix on 0.2.2.6-alpha.
6110 - Try to leak less information about what relays a client is
6111 choosing to a side-channel attacker. Previously, a Tor client would
6112 stop iterating through the list of available relays as soon as it
6113 had chosen one, thus finishing a little earlier when it picked
6114 a router earlier in the list. If an attacker can recover this
6115 timing information (nontrivial but not proven to be impossible),
6116 they could learn some coarse-grained information about which relays
6117 a client was picking (middle nodes in particular are likelier to
6118 be affected than exits). The timing attack might be mitigated by
6119 other factors (see bug 6537 for some discussion), but it's best
6120 not to take chances. Fixes bug 6537; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
6123 Changes in version 0.2.2.37 - 2012-06-06
6124 Tor 0.2.2.37 introduces a workaround for a critical renegotiation
6125 bug in OpenSSL 1.0.1 (where 20% of the Tor network can't talk to itself
6129 - Work around a bug in OpenSSL that broke renegotiation with TLS
6130 1.1 and TLS 1.2. Without this workaround, all attempts to speak
6131 the v2 Tor connection protocol when both sides were using OpenSSL
6132 1.0.1 would fail. Resolves ticket 6033.
6133 - When waiting for a client to renegotiate, don't allow it to add
6134 any bytes to the input buffer. This fixes a potential DoS issue.
6135 Fixes bugs 5934 and 6007; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6136 - Fix an edge case where if we fetch or publish a hidden service
6137 descriptor, we might build a 4-hop circuit and then use that circuit
6138 for exiting afterwards -- even if the new last hop doesn't obey our
6139 ExitNodes config option. Fixes bug 5283; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6142 - Fix a build warning with Clang 3.1 related to our use of vasprintf.
6143 Fixes bug 5969. Bugfix on 0.2.2.11-alpha.
6146 - Tell GCC and Clang to check for any errors in format strings passed
6147 to the tor_v*(print|scan)f functions.
6150 Changes in version 0.2.2.36 - 2012-05-24
6151 Tor 0.2.2.36 updates the addresses for two of the eight directory
6152 authorities, fixes some potential anonymity and security issues,
6153 and fixes several crash bugs.
6155 Tor 0.2.1.x has reached its end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many
6156 known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should upgrade. If
6157 you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete, stop using
6158 those packages and upgrade anyway.
6160 o Directory authority changes:
6161 - Change IP address for maatuska (v3 directory authority).
6162 - Change IP address for ides (v3 directory authority), and rename
6166 - When building or running with any version of OpenSSL earlier
6167 than 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f, disable SSLv3 support. These OpenSSL
6168 versions have a bug (CVE-2011-4576) in which their block cipher
6169 padding includes uninitialized data, potentially leaking sensitive
6170 information to any peer with whom they make a SSLv3 connection. Tor
6171 does not use SSL v3 by default, but a hostile client or server
6172 could force an SSLv3 connection in order to gain information that
6173 they shouldn't have been able to get. The best solution here is to
6174 upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8s or 1.0.0f (or later). But when building
6175 or running with a non-upgraded OpenSSL, we disable SSLv3 entirely
6176 to make sure that the bug can't happen.
6177 - Never use a bridge or a controller-supplied node as an exit, even
6178 if its exit policy allows it. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug
6179 5342. Bugfix on 0.1.1.15-rc (for controller-purpose descriptors)
6180 and 0.2.0.3-alpha (for bridge-purpose descriptors).
6181 - Only build circuits if we have a sufficient threshold of the total
6182 descriptors that are marked in the consensus with the "Exit"
6183 flag. This mitigates an attack proposed by wanoskarnet, in which
6184 all of a client's bridges collude to restrict the exit nodes that
6185 the client knows about. Fixes bug 5343.
6186 - Provide controllers with a safer way to implement the cookie
6187 authentication mechanism. With the old method, if another locally
6188 running program could convince a controller that it was the Tor
6189 process, then that program could trick the controller into telling
6190 it the contents of an arbitrary 32-byte file. The new "SAFECOOKIE"
6191 authentication method uses a challenge-response approach to prevent
6192 this attack. Fixes bug 5185; implements proposal 193.
6195 - Avoid logging uninitialized data when unable to decode a hidden
6196 service descriptor cookie. Fixes bug 5647; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6197 - Avoid a client-side assertion failure when receiving an INTRODUCE2
6198 cell on a general purpose circuit. Fixes bug 5644; bugfix on
6200 - Fix builds when the path to sed, openssl, or sha1sum contains
6201 spaces, which is pretty common on Windows. Fixes bug 5065; bugfix
6203 - Correct our replacements for the timeradd() and timersub() functions
6204 on platforms that lack them (for example, Windows). The timersub()
6205 function is used when expiring circuits, while timeradd() is
6206 currently unused. Bug report and patch by Vektor. Fixes bug 4778;
6207 bugfix on 0.2.2.24-alpha.
6208 - Fix the SOCKET_OK test that we use to tell when socket
6209 creation fails so that it works on Win64. Fixes part of bug 4533;
6210 bugfix on 0.2.2.29-beta. Bug found by wanoskarnet.
6213 - Reject out-of-range times like 23:59:61 in parse_rfc1123_time().
6214 Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.0.8pre3.
6215 - Make our number-parsing functions always treat too-large values
6216 as an error, even when those values exceed the width of the
6217 underlying type. Previously, if the caller provided these
6218 functions with minima or maxima set to the extreme values of the
6219 underlying integer type, these functions would return those
6220 values on overflow rather than treating overflow as an error.
6221 Fixes part of bug 5786; bugfix on 0.0.9.
6222 - Older Linux kernels erroneously respond to strange nmap behavior
6223 by having accept() return successfully with a zero-length
6224 socket. When this happens, just close the connection. Previously,
6225 we would try harder to learn the remote address: but there was
6226 no such remote address to learn, and our method for trying to
6227 learn it was incorrect. Fixes bugs 1240, 4745, and 4747. Bugfix
6228 on 0.1.0.3-rc. Reported and diagnosed by "r1eo".
6229 - Correct parsing of certain date types in parse_http_time().
6230 Without this patch, If-Modified-Since would behave
6231 incorrectly. Fixes bug 5346; bugfix on 0.2.0.2-alpha. Patch from
6232 Esteban Manchado Velázques.
6233 - Change the BridgePassword feature (part of the "bridge community"
6234 design, which is not yet implemented) to use a time-independent
6235 comparison. The old behavior might have allowed an adversary
6236 to use timing to guess the BridgePassword value. Fixes bug 5543;
6237 bugfix on 0.2.0.14-alpha.
6238 - Detect and reject certain misformed escape sequences in
6239 configuration values. Previously, these values would cause us
6240 to crash if received in a torrc file or over an authenticated
6241 control port. Bug found by Esteban Manchado Velázquez, and
6242 independently by Robert Connolly from Matta Consulting who further
6243 noted that it allows a post-authentication heap overflow. Patch
6244 by Alexander Schrijver. Fixes bugs 5090 and 5402 (CVE 2012-1668);
6245 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
6246 - Fix a compile warning when using the --enable-openbsd-malloc
6247 configure option. Fixes bug 5340; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
6248 - During configure, detect when we're building with clang version
6249 3.0 or lower and disable the -Wnormalized=id and -Woverride-init
6250 CFLAGS. clang doesn't support them yet.
6251 - When sending an HTTP/1.1 proxy request, include a Host header.
6252 Fixes bug 5593; bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha.
6253 - Fix a NULL-pointer dereference on a badly formed SETCIRCUITPURPOSE
6254 command. Found by mikeyc. Fixes bug 5796; bugfix on 0.2.2.9-alpha.
6255 - If we hit the error case where routerlist_insert() replaces an
6256 existing (old) server descriptor, make sure to remove that
6257 server descriptor from the old_routers list. Fix related to bug
6258 1776. Bugfix on 0.2.2.18-alpha.
6260 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
6261 - Fix a typo in a log message in rend_service_rendezvous_has_opened().
6262 Fixes bug 4856; bugfix on Tor 0.0.6.
6263 - Update "ClientOnly" man page entry to explain that there isn't
6264 really any point to messing with it. Resolves ticket 5005.
6265 - Document the GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays
6266 directory authority option (introduced in Tor 0.2.2.34).
6267 - Downgrade the "We're missing a certificate" message from notice
6268 to info: people kept mistaking it for a real problem, whereas it
6269 is seldom the problem even when we are failing to bootstrap. Fixes
6270 bug 5067; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6271 - Correctly spell "connect" in a log message on failure to create a
6272 controlsocket. Fixes bug 4803; bugfix on 0.2.2.26-beta.
6273 - Clarify the behavior of MaxCircuitDirtiness with hidden service
6274 circuits. Fixes issue 5259.
6277 - Directory authorities now reject versions of Tor older than
6278 0.2.1.30, and Tor versions between 0.2.2.1-alpha and 0.2.2.20-alpha
6279 inclusive. These versions accounted for only a small fraction of
6280 the Tor network, and have numerous known security issues. Resolves
6282 - Update to the May 1 2012 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6285 - When sending or relaying a RELAY_EARLY cell, we used to convert
6286 it to a RELAY cell if the connection was using the v1 link
6287 protocol. This was a workaround for older versions of Tor, which
6288 didn't handle RELAY_EARLY cells properly. Now that all supported
6289 versions can handle RELAY_EARLY cells, and now that we're enforcing
6290 the "no RELAY_EXTEND commands except in RELAY_EARLY cells" rule,
6291 remove this workaround. Addresses bug 4786.
6294 Changes in version 0.2.2.35 - 2011-12-16
6295 Tor 0.2.2.35 fixes a critical heap-overflow security issue in Tor's
6296 buffers code. Absolutely everybody should upgrade.
6298 The bug relied on an incorrect calculation when making data continuous
6299 in one of our IO buffers, if the first chunk of the buffer was
6300 misaligned by just the wrong amount. The miscalculation would allow an
6301 attacker to overflow a piece of heap-allocated memory. To mount this
6302 attack, the attacker would need to either open a SOCKS connection to
6303 Tor's SocksPort (usually restricted to localhost), or target a Tor
6304 instance configured to make its connections through a SOCKS proxy
6305 (which Tor does not do by default).
6307 Good security practice requires that all heap-overflow bugs should be
6308 presumed to be exploitable until proven otherwise, so we are treating
6309 this as a potential code execution attack. Please upgrade immediately!
6310 This bug does not affect bufferevents-based builds of Tor. Special
6311 thanks to "Vektor" for reporting this issue to us!
6313 Tor 0.2.2.35 also fixes several bugs in previous versions, including
6314 crash bugs for unusual configurations, and a long-term bug that
6315 would prevent Tor from starting on Windows machines with draconian
6318 With this release, we remind everyone that 0.2.0.x has reached its
6319 formal end-of-life. Those Tor versions have many known flaws, and
6320 nobody should be using them. You should upgrade -- ideally to the
6321 0.2.2.x series. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are
6322 obsolete, stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
6324 The Tor 0.2.1.x series is also approaching its end-of-life: it will no
6325 longer receive support after some time in early 2012.
6328 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6329 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6330 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6331 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6332 - Initialize Libevent with the EVENT_BASE_FLAG_NOLOCK flag enabled, so
6333 that it doesn't attempt to allocate a socketpair. This could cause
6334 some problems on Windows systems with overzealous firewalls. Fix for
6335 bug 4457; workaround for Libevent versions 2.0.1-alpha through
6337 - If we mark an OR connection for close based on a cell we process,
6338 don't process any further cells on it. We already avoid further
6339 reads on marked-for-close connections, but now we also discard the
6340 cells we'd already read. Fixes bug 4299; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha,
6341 which was the first version where we might mark a connection for
6342 close based on processing a cell on it.
6343 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6344 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6345 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6346 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6347 - Fix a memory leak when we check whether a hidden service
6348 descriptor has any usable introduction points left. Fixes bug
6349 4424. Bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6350 - Don't crash when we're running as a relay and don't have a GeoIP
6351 file. Bugfix on 0.2.2.34; fixes bug 4340. This backports a fix
6352 we've had in the 0.2.3.x branch already.
6353 - When running as a client, do not print a misleading (and plain
6354 wrong) log message that we're collecting "directory request"
6355 statistics: clients don't collect statistics. Also don't create a
6356 useless (because empty) stats file in the stats/ directory. Fixes
6357 bug 4353; bugfix on 0.2.2.34.
6360 - Detect failure to initialize Libevent. This fix provides better
6361 detection for future instances of bug 4457.
6362 - Avoid frequent calls to the fairly expensive cull_wedged_cpuworkers
6363 function. This was eating up hideously large amounts of time on some
6364 busy servers. Fixes bug 4518; bugfix on 0.0.9.8.
6365 - Resolve an integer overflow bug in smartlist_ensure_capacity().
6366 Fixes bug 4230; bugfix on Tor 0.1.0.1-rc. Based on a patch by
6368 - Don't warn about unused log_mutex in log.c when building with
6369 --disable-threads using a recent GCC. Fixes bug 4437; bugfix on
6370 0.1.0.6-rc which introduced --disable-threads.
6371 - When configuring, starting, or stopping an NT service, stop
6372 immediately after the service configuration attempt has succeeded
6373 or failed. Fixes bug 3963; bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
6374 - When sending a NETINFO cell, include the original address
6375 received for the other side, not its canonical address. Found
6376 by "troll_un"; fixes bug 4349; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6377 - Fix a typo in a hibernation-related log message. Fixes bug 4331;
6378 bugfix on 0.2.2.23-alpha; found by "tmpname0901".
6379 - Fix a memory leak in launch_direct_bridge_descriptor_fetch() that
6380 occurred when a client tried to fetch a descriptor for a bridge
6381 in ExcludeNodes. Fixes bug 4383; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6382 - Backport fixes for a pair of compilation warnings on Windows.
6383 Fixes bug 4521; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta and on 0.2.2.29-beta.
6384 - If we had ever tried to call tor_addr_to_str on an address of
6385 unknown type, we would have done a strdup on an uninitialized
6386 buffer. Now we won't. Fixes bug 4529; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6387 Reported by "troll_un".
6388 - Correctly detect and handle transient lookup failures from
6389 tor_addr_lookup. Fixes bug 4530; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6390 Reported by "troll_un".
6391 - Fix null-pointer access that could occur if TLS allocation failed.
6392 Fixes bug 4531; bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc. Found by "troll_un".
6393 - Use tor_socket_t type for listener argument to accept(). Fixes bug
6394 4535; bugfix on 0.2.2.28-beta. Found by "troll_un".
6397 - Add two new config options for directory authorities:
6398 AuthDirFastGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold for guaranteeing the
6399 Fast flag, and AuthDirGuardBWGuarantee sets a bandwidth threshold
6400 that is always sufficient to satisfy the bandwidth requirement for
6401 the Guard flag. Now it will be easier for researchers to simulate
6402 Tor networks with different values. Resolves ticket 4484.
6403 - When Tor ignores a hidden service specified in its configuration,
6404 include the hidden service's directory in the warning message.
6405 Previously, we would only tell the user that some hidden service
6406 was ignored. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes bug 4426.
6407 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6409 o Packaging changes:
6410 - Make it easier to automate expert package builds on Windows,
6411 by removing an absolute path from makensis.exe command.
6414 Changes in version 0.2.1.32 - 2011-12-16
6415 Tor 0.2.1.32 backports important security and privacy fixes for
6416 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
6417 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
6418 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
6420 The Tor 0.2.1.x series will reach formal end-of-life some time in
6421 early 2012; we will stop releasing patches for it then.
6423 o Major bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6424 - Correctly sanity-check that we don't underflow on a memory
6425 allocation (and then assert) for hidden service introduction
6426 point decryption. Bug discovered by Dan Rosenberg. Fixes bug 4410;
6427 bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6428 - Fix a heap overflow bug that could occur when trying to pull
6429 data into the first chunk of a buffer, when that chunk had
6430 already had some data drained from it. Fixes CVE-2011-2778;
6431 bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Reported by "Vektor".
6434 - Update to the December 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6437 Changes in version 0.2.2.34 - 2011-10-26
6438 Tor 0.2.2.34 fixes a critical anonymity vulnerability where an attacker
6439 can deanonymize Tor users. Everybody should upgrade.
6441 The attack relies on four components: 1) Clients reuse their TLS cert
6442 when talking to different relays, so relays can recognize a user by
6443 the identity key in her cert. 2) An attacker who knows the client's
6444 identity key can probe each guard relay to see if that identity key
6445 is connected to that guard relay right now. 3) A variety of active
6446 attacks in the literature (starting from "Low-Cost Traffic Analysis
6447 of Tor" by Murdoch and Danezis in 2005) allow a malicious website to
6448 discover the guard relays that a Tor user visiting the website is using.
6449 4) Clients typically pick three guards at random, so the set of guards
6450 for a given user could well be a unique fingerprint for her. This
6451 release fixes components #1 and #2, which is enough to block the attack;
6452 the other two remain as open research problems. Special thanks to
6453 "frosty_un" for reporting the issue to us!
6455 Clients should upgrade so they are no longer recognizable by the TLS
6456 certs they present. Relays should upgrade so they no longer allow a
6457 remote attacker to probe them to test whether unpatched clients are
6458 currently connected to them.
6460 This release also fixes several vulnerabilities that allow an attacker
6461 to enumerate bridge relays. Some bridge enumeration attacks still
6462 remain; see for example proposal 188.
6464 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (clients):
6465 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
6466 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
6467 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
6468 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
6469 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
6470 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
6471 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
6472 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
6473 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
6474 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
6475 - Directory authorities no longer assign the Guard flag to relays
6476 that haven't upgraded to the above "refuse EXTEND requests
6477 to client connections" fix. Now directory authorities can
6478 protect clients from the CVE-2011-2768 issue even if neither
6479 the clients nor the relays have upgraded yet. There's a new
6480 "GiveGuardFlagTo_CVE_2011_2768_VulnerableRelays" config option
6481 to let us transition smoothly, else tomorrow there would be no
6484 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (bridge enumeration):
6485 - Bridge relays now do their directory fetches inside Tor TLS
6486 connections, like all the other clients do, rather than connecting
6487 directly to the DirPort like public relays do. Removes another
6488 avenue for enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4115; bugfix on 0.2.0.35.
6489 - Bridges relays now build circuits for themselves in a more similar
6490 way to how clients build them. Removes another avenue for
6491 enumerating bridges. Fixes bug 4124; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
6492 when bridges were introduced.
6493 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
6494 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
6495 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
6496 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6497 Found by "frosty_un".
6500 - Fix a crash bug when changing node restrictions while a DNS lookup
6501 is in-progress. Fixes bug 4259; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha. Bugfix
6503 - Don't launch a useless circuit after failing to use one of a
6504 hidden service's introduction points. Previously, we would
6505 launch a new introduction circuit, but not set the hidden service
6506 which that circuit was intended to connect to, so it would never
6507 actually be used. A different piece of code would then create a
6508 new introduction circuit correctly. Bug reported by katmagic and
6509 found by Sebastian Hahn. Bugfix on 0.2.1.13-alpha; fixes bug 4212.
6512 - Change an integer overflow check in the OpenBSD_Malloc code so
6513 that GCC is less likely to eliminate it as impossible. Patch
6514 from Mansour Moufid. Fixes bug 4059.
6515 - When a hidden service turns an extra service-side introduction
6516 circuit into a general-purpose circuit, free the rend_data and
6517 intro_key fields first, so we won't leak memory if the circuit
6518 is cannibalized for use as another service-side introduction
6519 circuit. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha; fixes bug 4251.
6520 - Bridges now skip DNS self-tests, to act a little more stealthily.
6521 Fixes bug 4201; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, which first introduced
6522 bridges. Patch by "warms0x".
6523 - Fix internal bug-checking logic that was supposed to catch
6524 failures in digest generation so that it will fail more robustly
6525 if we ask for a nonexistent algorithm. Found by Coverity Scan.
6526 Bugfix on 0.2.2.1-alpha; fixes Coverity CID 479.
6527 - Report any failure in init_keys() calls launched because our
6528 IP address has changed. Spotted by Coverity Scan. Bugfix on
6529 0.1.1.4-alpha; fixes CID 484.
6531 o Minor bugfixes (log messages and documentation):
6532 - Remove a confusing dollar sign from the example fingerprint in the
6533 man page, and also make the example fingerprint a valid one. Fixes
6534 bug 4309; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6535 - The next version of Windows will be called Windows 8, and it has
6536 a major version of 6, minor version of 2. Correctly identify that
6537 version instead of calling it "Very recent version". Resolves
6538 ticket 4153; reported by funkstar.
6539 - Downgrade log messages about circuit timeout calibration from
6540 "notice" to "info": they don't require or suggest any human
6541 intervention. Patch from Tom Lowenthal. Fixes bug 4063;
6542 bugfix on 0.2.2.14-alpha.
6545 - Turn on directory request statistics by default and include them in
6546 extra-info descriptors. Don't break if we have no GeoIP database.
6547 Backported from 0.2.3.1-alpha; implements ticket 3951.
6548 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6551 Changes in version 0.2.1.31 - 2011-10-26
6552 Tor 0.2.1.31 backports important security and privacy fixes for
6553 oldstable. This release is intended only for package maintainers and
6554 others who cannot use the 0.2.2 stable series. All others should be
6555 using Tor 0.2.2.x or newer.
6557 o Security fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6558 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
6559 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
6560 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
6561 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
6562 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
6563 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
6564 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
6565 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
6566 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6568 o Privacy/anonymity fixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6569 - Clients and bridges no longer send TLS certificate chains on
6570 outgoing OR connections. Previously, each client or bridge would
6571 use the same cert chain for all outgoing OR connections until
6572 its IP address changes, which allowed any relay that the client
6573 or bridge contacted to determine which entry guards it is using.
6574 Fixes CVE-2011-2768. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5; found by "frosty_un".
6575 - If a relay receives a CREATE_FAST cell on a TLS connection, it
6576 no longer considers that connection as suitable for satisfying a
6577 circuit EXTEND request. Now relays can protect clients from the
6578 CVE-2011-2768 issue even if the clients haven't upgraded yet.
6579 - Bridges now refuse CREATE or CREATE_FAST cells on OR connections
6580 that they initiated. Relays could distinguish incoming bridge
6581 connections from client connections, creating another avenue for
6582 enumerating bridges. Fixes CVE-2011-2769. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6583 Found by "frosty_un".
6584 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
6585 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
6586 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
6587 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
6588 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
6589 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
6590 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
6591 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
6592 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
6593 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
6594 requests for "all" descriptors. It used to include bridge
6595 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
6596 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6597 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
6598 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
6599 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
6600 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
6601 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
6602 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
6604 o Minor bugfixes (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6605 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
6606 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
6607 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
6608 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
6609 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
6610 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
6611 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
6613 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
6614 enabled. Fixes bug 1526.
6615 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
6616 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
6617 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
6618 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
6619 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
6620 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
6621 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
6622 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
6623 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
6624 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
6626 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
6627 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6628 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
6629 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6630 - Require that introduction point keys and onion keys have public
6631 exponent 65537. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
6632 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
6633 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
6634 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
6636 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
6638 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
6639 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
6640 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
6641 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
6642 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
6643 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
6644 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
6645 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
6647 o Minor bugfixes (only in 0.2.1.x):
6648 - Resume using micro-version numbers in 0.2.1.x: our Debian packages
6649 rely on them. Bugfix on 0.2.1.30.
6650 - Use git revisions instead of svn revisions when generating our
6651 micro-version numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
6653 o Minor features (also included in 0.2.2.x):
6654 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
6655 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
6656 - Allow nameservers with IPv6 address. Resolves bug 2574.
6657 - Update to the October 4 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6660 Changes in version 0.2.2.33 - 2011-09-13
6661 Tor 0.2.2.33 fixes several bugs, and includes a slight tweak to Tor's
6662 TLS handshake that makes relays and bridges that run this new version
6663 reachable from Iran again.
6666 - Avoid an assertion failure when reloading a configuration with
6667 TrackExitHosts changes. Found and fixed by 'laruldan'. Fixes bug
6668 3923; bugfix on 0.2.2.25-alpha.
6670 o Minor features (security):
6671 - Check for replays of the public-key encrypted portion of an
6672 INTRODUCE1 cell, in addition to the current check for replays of
6673 the g^x value. This prevents a possible class of active attacks
6674 by an attacker who controls both an introduction point and a
6675 rendezvous point, and who uses the malleability of AES-CTR to
6676 alter the encrypted g^x portion of the INTRODUCE1 cell. We think
6677 that these attacks are infeasible (requiring the attacker to send
6678 on the order of zettabytes of altered cells in a short interval),
6679 but we'd rather block them off in case there are any classes of
6680 this attack that we missed. Reported by Willem Pinckaers.
6683 - Adjust the expiration time on our SSL session certificates to
6684 better match SSL certs seen in the wild. Resolves ticket 4014.
6685 - Change the default required uptime for a relay to be accepted as
6686 a HSDir (hidden service directory) from 24 hours to 25 hours.
6687 Improves on 0.2.0.10-alpha; resolves ticket 2649.
6688 - Add a VoteOnHidServDirectoriesV2 config option to allow directory
6689 authorities to abstain from voting on assignment of the HSDir
6690 consensus flag. Related to bug 2649.
6691 - Update to the September 6 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
6693 o Minor bugfixes (documentation and log messages):
6694 - Correct the man page to explain that HashedControlPassword and
6695 CookieAuthentication can both be set, in which case either method
6696 is sufficient to authenticate to Tor. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha,
6697 when we decided to allow these config options to both be set. Issue
6699 - Demote the 'replay detected' log message emitted when a hidden
6700 service receives the same Diffie-Hellman public key in two different
6701 INTRODUCE2 cells to info level. A normal Tor client can cause that
6702 log message during its normal operation. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha;
6703 fixes part of bug 2442.
6704 - Demote the 'INTRODUCE2 cell is too {old,new}' log message to info
6705 level. There is nothing that a hidden service's operator can do
6706 to fix its clients' clocks. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha; fixes part
6708 - Clarify a log message specifying the characters permitted in
6709 HiddenServiceAuthorizeClient client names. Previously, the log
6710 message said that "[A-Za-z0-9+-_]" were permitted; that could have
6711 given the impression that every ASCII character between "+" and "_"
6712 was permitted. Now we say "[A-Za-z0-9+_-]". Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
6715 - Provide a substitute implementation of lround() for MSVC, which
6716 apparently lacks it. Patch from Gisle Vanem.
6717 - Clean up some code issues that prevented Tor from building on older
6718 BSDs. Fixes bug 3894; reported by "grarpamp".
6719 - Search for a platform-specific version of "ar" when cross-compiling.
6720 Should fix builds on iOS. Resolves bug 3909, found by Marco Bonetti.
6723 Changes in version 0.2.2.32 - 2011-08-27
6724 The Tor 0.2.2 release series is dedicated to the memory of Andreas
6725 Pfitzmann (1958-2010), a pioneer in anonymity and privacy research,
6726 a founder of the PETS community, a leader in our field, a mentor,
6727 and a friend. He left us with these words: "I had the possibility
6728 to contribute to this world that is not as it should be. I hope I
6729 could help in some areas to make the world a better place, and that
6730 I could also encourage other people to be engaged in improving the
6731 world. Please, stay engaged. This world needs you, your love, your
6732 initiative -- now I cannot be part of that anymore."
6734 Tor 0.2.2.32, the first stable release in the 0.2.2 branch, is finally
6735 ready. More than two years in the making, this release features improved
6736 client performance and hidden service reliability, better compatibility
6737 for Android, correct behavior for bridges that listen on more than
6738 one address, more extensible and flexible directory object handling,
6739 better reporting of network statistics, improved code security, and
6740 many many other features and bugfixes.
6742 o Major features (client performance):
6743 - When choosing which cells to relay first, relays now favor circuits
6744 that have been quiet recently, to provide lower latency for
6745 low-volume circuits. By default, relays enable or disable this
6746 feature based on a setting in the consensus. They can override
6747 this default by using the new "CircuitPriorityHalflife" config
6748 option. Design and code by Ian Goldberg, Can Tang, and Chris
6750 - Directory authorities now compute consensus weightings that instruct
6751 clients how to weight relays flagged as Guard, Exit, Guard+Exit,
6752 and no flag. Clients use these weightings to distribute network load
6753 more evenly across these different relay types. The weightings are
6754 in the consensus so we can change them globally in the future. Extra
6755 thanks to "outofwords" for finding some nasty security bugs in
6756 the first implementation of this feature.
6758 o Major features (client performance, circuit build timeout):
6759 - Tor now tracks how long it takes to build client-side circuits
6760 over time, and adapts its timeout to local network performance.
6761 Since a circuit that takes a long time to build will also provide
6762 bad performance, we get significant latency improvements by
6763 discarding the slowest 20% of circuits. Specifically, Tor creates
6764 circuits more aggressively than usual until it has enough data
6765 points for a good timeout estimate. Implements proposal 151.
6766 - Circuit build timeout constants can be controlled by consensus
6767 parameters. We set good defaults for these parameters based on
6768 experimentation on broadband and simulated high-latency links.
6769 - Circuit build time learning can be disabled via consensus parameter
6770 or by the client via a LearnCircuitBuildTimeout config option. We
6771 also automatically disable circuit build time calculation if either
6772 AuthoritativeDirectory is set, or if we fail to write our state
6773 file. Implements ticket 1296.
6775 o Major features (relays use their capacity better):
6776 - Set SO_REUSEADDR socket option on all sockets, not just
6777 listeners. This should help busy exit nodes avoid running out of
6778 useable ports just because all the ports have been used in the
6779 near past. Resolves issue 2850.
6780 - Relays now save observed peak bandwidth throughput rates to their
6781 state file (along with total usage, which was already saved),
6782 so that they can determine their correct estimated bandwidth on
6783 restart. Resolves bug 1863, where Tor relays would reset their
6784 estimated bandwidth to 0 after restarting.
6785 - Lower the maximum weighted-fractional-uptime cutoff to 98%. This
6786 should give us approximately 40-50% more Guard-flagged nodes,
6787 improving the anonymity the Tor network can provide and also
6788 decreasing the dropoff in throughput that relays experience when
6789 they first get the Guard flag.
6790 - Directory authorities now take changes in router IP address and
6791 ORPort into account when determining router stability. Previously,
6792 if a router changed its IP or ORPort, the authorities would not
6793 treat it as having any downtime for the purposes of stability
6794 calculation, whereas clients would experience downtime since the
6795 change would take a while to propagate to them. Resolves issue 1035.
6796 - New AccelName and AccelDir options add support for dynamic OpenSSL
6797 hardware crypto acceleration engines.
6799 o Major features (relays control their load better):
6800 - Exit relays now try harder to block exit attempts from unknown
6801 relays, to make it harder for people to use them as one-hop proxies
6802 a la tortunnel. Controlled by the refuseunknownexits consensus
6803 parameter (currently enabled), or you can override it on your
6804 relay with the RefuseUnknownExits torrc option. Resolves bug 1751;
6805 based on a variant of proposal 163.
6806 - Add separate per-conn write limiting to go with the per-conn read
6807 limiting. We added a global write limit in Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha,
6808 but never per-conn write limits.
6809 - New consensus params "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst" to let us
6810 rate-limit client connections as they enter the network. It's
6811 controlled in the consensus so we can turn it on and off for
6812 experiments. It's starting out off. Based on proposal 163.
6814 o Major features (controllers):
6815 - Export GeoIP information on bridge usage to controllers even if we
6816 have not yet been running for 24 hours. Now Vidalia bridge operators
6817 can get more accurate and immediate feedback about their
6818 contributions to the network.
6819 - Add an __OwningControllerProcess configuration option and a
6820 TAKEOWNERSHIP control-port command. Now a Tor controller can ensure
6821 that when it exits, Tor will shut down. Implements feature 3049.
6823 o Major features (directory authorities):
6824 - Directory authorities now create, vote on, and serve multiple
6825 parallel formats of directory data as part of their voting process.
6826 Partially implements Proposal 162: "Publish the consensus in
6828 - Directory authorities now agree on and publish small summaries
6829 of router information that clients can use in place of regular
6830 server descriptors. This transition will allow Tor 0.2.3 clients
6831 to use far less bandwidth for downloading information about the
6832 network. Begins the implementation of Proposal 158: "Clients
6833 download consensus + microdescriptors".
6834 - The directory voting system is now extensible to use multiple hash
6835 algorithms for signatures and resource selection. Newer formats
6836 are signed with SHA256, with a possibility for moving to a better
6837 hash algorithm in the future.
6838 - Directory authorities can now vote on arbitary integer values as
6839 part of the consensus process. This is designed to help set
6840 network-wide parameters. Implements proposal 167.
6842 o Major features and bugfixes (node selection):
6843 - Revise and reconcile the meaning of the ExitNodes, EntryNodes,
6844 ExcludeEntryNodes, ExcludeExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, and Strict*Nodes
6845 options. Previously, we had been ambiguous in describing what
6846 counted as an "exit" node, and what operations exactly "StrictNodes
6847 0" would permit. This created confusion when people saw nodes built
6848 through unexpected circuits, and made it hard to tell real bugs from
6849 surprises. Now the intended behavior is:
6850 . "Exit", in the context of ExitNodes and ExcludeExitNodes, means
6851 a node that delivers user traffic outside the Tor network.
6852 . "Entry", in the context of EntryNodes, means a node used as the
6853 first hop of a multihop circuit. It doesn't include direct
6854 connections to directory servers.
6855 . "ExcludeNodes" applies to all nodes.
6856 . "StrictNodes" changes the behavior of ExcludeNodes only. When
6857 StrictNodes is set, Tor should avoid all nodes listed in
6858 ExcludeNodes, even when it will make user requests fail. When
6859 StrictNodes is *not* set, then Tor should follow ExcludeNodes
6860 whenever it can, except when it must use an excluded node to
6861 perform self-tests, connect to a hidden service, provide a
6862 hidden service, fulfill a .exit request, upload directory
6863 information, or fetch directory information.
6864 Collectively, the changes to implement the behavior fix bug 1090.
6865 - If EntryNodes, ExitNodes, ExcludeNodes, or ExcludeExitNodes
6866 change during a config reload, mark and discard all our origin
6867 circuits. This fix should address edge cases where we change the
6868 config options and but then choose a circuit that we created before
6870 - Make EntryNodes config option much more aggressive even when
6871 StrictNodes is not set. Before it would prepend your requested
6872 entrynodes to your list of guard nodes, but feel free to use others
6873 after that. Now it chooses only from your EntryNodes if any of
6874 those are available, and only falls back to others if a) they're
6875 all down and b) StrictNodes is not set.
6876 - Now we refresh your entry guards from EntryNodes at each consensus
6877 fetch -- rather than just at startup and then they slowly rot as
6878 the network changes.
6879 - Add support for the country code "{??}" in torrc options like
6880 ExcludeNodes, to indicate all routers of unknown country. Closes
6882 - ExcludeNodes now takes precedence over EntryNodes and ExitNodes: if
6883 a node is listed in both, it's treated as excluded.
6884 - ExcludeNodes now applies to directory nodes -- as a preference if
6885 StrictNodes is 0, or an absolute requirement if StrictNodes is 1.
6886 Don't exclude all the directory authorities and set StrictNodes to 1
6887 unless you really want your Tor to break.
6888 - ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes now override exit enclaving.
6889 - ExcludeExitNodes now overrides .exit requests.
6890 - We don't use bridges listed in ExcludeNodes.
6891 - When StrictNodes is 1:
6892 . We now apply ExcludeNodes to hidden service introduction points
6893 and to rendezvous points selected by hidden service users. This
6894 can make your hidden service less reliable: use it with caution!
6895 . If we have used ExcludeNodes on ourself, do not try relay
6896 reachability self-tests.
6897 . If we have excluded all the directory authorities, we will not
6898 even try to upload our descriptor if we're a relay.
6899 . Do not honor .exit requests to an excluded node.
6900 - When the set of permitted nodes changes, we now remove any mappings
6901 introduced via TrackExitHosts to now-excluded nodes. Bugfix on
6903 - We never cannibalize a circuit that had excluded nodes on it, even
6904 if StrictNodes is 0. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
6905 - Improve log messages related to excluded nodes.
6907 o Major features (misc):
6908 - Numerous changes, bugfixes, and workarounds from Nathan Freitas
6909 to help Tor build correctly for Android phones.
6910 - The options SocksPort, ControlPort, and so on now all accept a
6911 value "auto" that opens a socket on an OS-selected port. A
6912 new ControlPortWriteToFile option tells Tor to write its
6913 actual control port or ports to a chosen file. If the option
6914 ControlPortFileGroupReadable is set, the file is created as
6915 group-readable. Now users can run two Tor clients on the same
6916 system without needing to manually mess with parameters. Resolves
6917 part of ticket 3076.
6918 - Tor now supports tunneling all of its outgoing connections over
6919 a SOCKS proxy, using the SOCKS4Proxy and/or SOCKS5Proxy
6920 configuration options. Code by Christopher Davis.
6922 o Code security improvements:
6923 - Replace all potentially sensitive memory comparison operations
6924 with versions whose runtime does not depend on the data being
6925 compared. This will help resist a class of attacks where an
6926 adversary can use variations in timing information to learn
6927 sensitive data. Fix for one case of bug 3122. (Safe memcmp
6928 implementation by Robert Ransom based partially on code by DJB.)
6929 - Enable Address Space Layout Randomization (ASLR) and Data Execution
6930 Prevention (DEP) by default on Windows to make it harder for
6931 attackers to exploit vulnerabilities. Patch from John Brooks.
6932 - New "--enable-gcc-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
6933 to turn on gcc compile time hardening options. It ensures
6934 that signed ints have defined behavior (-fwrapv), enables
6935 -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 (requiring -O2), adds stack smashing protection
6936 with canaries (-fstack-protector-all), turns on ASLR protection if
6937 supported by the kernel (-fPIE, -pie), and adds additional security
6938 related warnings. Verified to work on Mac OS X and Debian Lenny.
6939 - New "--enable-linker-hardening" ./configure flag (off by default)
6940 to turn on ELF specific hardening features (relro, now). This does
6941 not work with Mac OS X or any other non-ELF binary format.
6942 - Always search the Windows system directory for system DLLs, and
6943 nowhere else. Bugfix on 0.1.1.23; fixes bug 1954.
6944 - New DisableAllSwap option. If set to 1, Tor will attempt to lock all
6945 current and future memory pages via mlockall(). On supported
6946 platforms (modern Linux and probably BSD but not Windows or OS X),
6947 this should effectively disable any and all attempts to page out
6948 memory. This option requires that you start your Tor as root --
6949 if you use DisableAllSwap, please consider using the User option
6950 to properly reduce the privileges of your Tor.
6952 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
6953 - Fix crash bug on platforms where gmtime and localtime can return
6954 NULL. Windows 7 users were running into this one. Fixes part of bug
6955 2077. Bugfix on all versions of Tor. Found by boboper.
6956 - Introduce minimum/maximum values that clients will believe
6957 from the consensus. Now we'll have a better chance to avoid crashes
6958 or worse when a consensus param has a weird value.
6959 - Fix a rare crash bug that could occur when a client was configured
6960 with a large number of bridges. Fixes bug 2629; bugfix on
6961 0.2.1.2-alpha. Bugfix by trac user "shitlei".
6962 - Do not crash when our configuration file becomes unreadable, for
6963 example due to a permissions change, between when we start up
6964 and when a controller calls SAVECONF. Fixes bug 3135; bugfix
6966 - If we're in the pathological case where there's no exit bandwidth
6967 but there is non-exit bandwidth, or no guard bandwidth but there
6968 is non-guard bandwidth, don't crash during path selection. Bugfix
6970 - Fix a crash bug when trying to initialize the evdns module in
6971 Libevent 2. Bugfix on 0.2.1.16-rc.
6973 o Major bugfixes (stability):
6974 - Fix an assert in parsing router descriptors containing IPv6
6975 addresses. This one took down the directory authorities when
6976 somebody tried some experimental code. Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha.
6977 - Fix an uncommon assertion failure when running with DNSPort under
6978 heavy load. Fixes bug 2933; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
6979 - Treat an unset $HOME like an empty $HOME rather than triggering an
6980 assert. Bugfix on 0.0.8pre1; fixes bug 1522.
6981 - More gracefully handle corrupt state files, removing asserts
6982 in favor of saving a backup and resetting state.
6983 - Instead of giving an assertion failure on an internal mismatch
6984 on estimated freelist size, just log a BUG warning and try later.
6985 Mitigates but does not fix bug 1125.
6986 - Fix an assert that got triggered when using the TestingTorNetwork
6987 configuration option and then issuing a GETINFO config-text control
6988 command. Fixes bug 2250; bugfix on 0.2.1.2-alpha.
6989 - If the cached cert file is unparseable, warn but don't exit.
6991 o Privacy fixes (relays/bridges):
6992 - Don't list Windows capabilities in relay descriptors. We never made
6993 use of them, and maybe it's a bad idea to publish them. Bugfix
6995 - If the Nickname configuration option isn't given, Tor would pick a
6996 nickname based on the local hostname as the nickname for a relay.
6997 Because nicknames are not very important in today's Tor and the
6998 "Unnamed" nickname has been implemented, this is now problematic
6999 behavior: It leaks information about the hostname without being
7000 useful at all. Fixes bug 2979; bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, which
7001 introduced the Unnamed nickname. Reported by tagnaq.
7002 - Maintain separate TLS contexts and certificates for incoming and
7003 outgoing connections in bridge relays. Previously we would use the
7004 same TLS contexts and certs for incoming and outgoing connections.
7005 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses bug 988.
7006 - Maintain separate identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS
7007 contexts in bridge relays. Previously we would use the same
7008 identity keys for incoming and outgoing TLS contexts. Bugfix on
7009 0.2.0.3-alpha; addresses the other half of bug 988.
7010 - Make the bridge directory authority refuse to answer directory
7011 requests for "all descriptors". It used to include bridge
7012 descriptors in its answer, which was a major information leak.
7013 Found by "piebeer". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7015 o Privacy fixes (clients):
7016 - When receiving a hidden service descriptor, check that it is for
7017 the hidden service we wanted. Previously, Tor would store any
7018 hidden service descriptors that a directory gave it, whether it
7019 wanted them or not. This wouldn't have let an attacker impersonate
7020 a hidden service, but it did let directories pre-seed a client
7021 with descriptors that it didn't want. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
7022 - Start the process of disabling ".exit" address notation, since it
7023 can be used for a variety of esoteric application-level attacks
7024 on users. To reenable it, set "AllowDotExit 1" in your torrc. Fix
7026 - Reject attempts at the client side to open connections to private
7027 IP addresses (like 127.0.0.1, 10.0.0.1, and so on) with
7028 a randomly chosen exit node. Attempts to do so are always
7029 ill-defined, generally prevented by exit policies, and usually
7030 in error. This will also help to detect loops in transparent
7031 proxy configurations. You can disable this feature by setting
7032 "ClientRejectInternalAddresses 0" in your torrc.
7033 - Log a notice when we get a new control connection. Now it's easier
7034 for security-conscious users to recognize when a local application
7035 is knocking on their controller door. Suggested by bug 1196.
7037 o Privacy fixes (newnym):
7038 - Avoid linkability based on cached hidden service descriptors: forget
7039 all hidden service descriptors cached as a client when processing a
7040 SIGNAL NEWNYM command. Fixes bug 3000; bugfix on 0.0.6.
7041 - On SIGHUP, do not clear out all TrackHostExits mappings, client
7042 DNS cache entries, and virtual address mappings: that's what
7043 NEWNYM is for. Fixes bug 1345; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7044 - Don't attach new streams to old rendezvous circuits after SIGNAL
7045 NEWNYM. Previously, we would keep using an existing rendezvous
7046 circuit if it remained open (i.e. if it were kept open by a
7047 long-lived stream, or if a new stream were attached to it before
7048 Tor could notice that it was old and no longer in use). Bugfix on
7049 0.1.1.15-rc; fixes bug 3375.
7051 o Major bugfixes (relay bandwidth accounting):
7052 - Fix a bug that could break accounting on 64-bit systems with large
7053 time_t values, making them hibernate for impossibly long intervals.
7054 Fixes bug 2146. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre6; fix by boboper.
7055 - Fix a bug in bandwidth accounting that could make us use twice
7056 the intended bandwidth when our interval start changes due to
7057 daylight saving time. Now we tolerate skew in stored vs computed
7058 interval starts: if the start of the period changes by no more than
7059 50% of the period's duration, we remember bytes that we transferred
7060 in the old period. Fixes bug 1511; bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7062 o Major bugfixes (bridges):
7063 - Bridges now use "reject *:*" as their default exit policy. Bugfix
7064 on 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 1113.
7065 - If you configure your bridge with a known identity fingerprint,
7066 and the bridge authority is unreachable (as it is in at least
7067 one country now), fall back to directly requesting the descriptor
7068 from the bridge. Finishes the feature started in 0.2.0.10-alpha;
7070 - Fix a bug where bridge users who configure the non-canonical
7071 address of a bridge automatically switch to its canonical
7072 address. If a bridge listens at more than one address, it
7073 should be able to advertise those addresses independently and
7074 any non-blocked addresses should continue to work. Bugfix on Tor
7075 0.2.0.3-alpha. Fixes bug 2510.
7076 - If you configure Tor to use bridge A, and then quit and
7077 configure Tor to use bridge B instead (or if you change Tor
7078 to use bridge B via the controller), it would happily continue
7079 to use bridge A if it's still reachable. While this behavior is
7080 a feature if your goal is connectivity, in some scenarios it's a
7081 dangerous bug. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 2511.
7082 - When the controller configures a new bridge, don't wait 10 to 60
7083 seconds before trying to fetch its descriptor. Bugfix on
7084 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 3198 (suggested by 2355).
7086 o Major bugfixes (directory authorities):
7087 - Many relays have been falling out of the consensus lately because
7088 not enough authorities know about their descriptor for them to get
7089 a majority of votes. When we deprecated the v2 directory protocol,
7090 we got rid of the only way that v3 authorities can hear from each
7091 other about other descriptors. Now authorities examine every v3
7092 vote for new descriptors, and fetch them from that authority. Bugfix
7094 - Authorities could be tricked into giving out the Exit flag to relays
7095 that didn't allow exiting to any ports. This bug could screw
7096 with load balancing and stats. Bugfix on 0.1.1.6-alpha; fixes bug
7097 1238. Bug discovered by Martin Kowalczyk.
7098 - If all authorities restart at once right before a consensus vote,
7099 nobody will vote about "Running", and clients will get a consensus
7100 with no usable relays. Instead, authorities refuse to build a
7101 consensus if this happens. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1066.
7103 o Major bugfixes (stream-level fairness):
7104 - When receiving a circuit-level SENDME for a blocked circuit, try
7105 to package cells fairly from all the streams that had previously
7106 been blocked on that circuit. Previously, we had started with the
7107 oldest stream, and allowed each stream to potentially exhaust
7108 the circuit's package window. This gave older streams on any
7109 given circuit priority over newer ones. Fixes bug 1937. Detected
7110 originally by Camilo Viecco. This bug was introduced before the
7111 first Tor release, in svn commit r152: it is the new winner of
7112 the longest-lived bug prize.
7113 - Fix a stream fairness bug that would cause newer streams on a given
7114 circuit to get preference when reading bytes from the origin or
7115 destination. Fixes bug 2210. Fix by Mashael AlSabah. This bug was
7116 introduced before the first Tor release, in svn revision r152.
7117 - When the exit relay got a circuit-level sendme cell, it started
7118 reading on the exit streams, even if had 500 cells queued in the
7119 circuit queue already, so the circuit queue just grew and grew in
7120 some cases. We fix this by not re-enabling reading on receipt of a
7121 sendme cell when the cell queue is blocked. Fixes bug 1653. Bugfix
7122 on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Detected by Mashael AlSabah. Original patch by
7124 - Newly created streams were allowed to read cells onto circuits,
7125 even if the circuit's cell queue was blocked and waiting to drain.
7126 This created potential unfairness, as older streams would be
7127 blocked, but newer streams would gladly fill the queue completely.
7128 We add code to detect this situation and prevent any stream from
7129 getting more than one free cell. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha. Partially
7132 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
7133 - Apply circuit timeouts to opened hidden-service-related circuits
7134 based on the correct start time. Previously, we would apply the
7135 circuit build timeout based on time since the circuit's creation;
7136 it was supposed to be applied based on time since the circuit
7137 entered its current state. Bugfix on 0.0.6; fixes part of bug 1297.
7138 - Improve hidden service robustness: When we find that we have
7139 extended a hidden service's introduction circuit to a relay not
7140 listed as an introduction point in the HS descriptor we currently
7141 have, retry with an introduction point from the current
7142 descriptor. Previously we would just give up. Fixes bugs 1024 and
7143 1930; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7144 - Directory authorities now use data collected from their own
7145 uptime observations when choosing whether to assign the HSDir flag
7146 to relays, instead of trusting the uptime value the relay reports in
7147 its descriptor. This change helps prevent an attack where a small
7148 set of nodes with frequently-changing identity keys can blackhole
7149 a hidden service. (Only authorities need upgrade; others will be
7150 fine once they do.) Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 2709.
7151 - Stop assigning the HSDir flag to relays that disable their
7152 DirPort (and thus will refuse to answer directory requests). This
7153 fix should dramatically improve the reachability of hidden services:
7154 hidden services and hidden service clients pick six HSDir relays
7155 to store and retrieve the hidden service descriptor, and currently
7156 about half of the HSDir relays will refuse to work. Bugfix on
7157 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes part of bug 1693.
7159 o Major bugfixes (misc):
7160 - Clients now stop trying to use an exit node associated with a given
7161 destination by TrackHostExits if they fail to reach that exit node.
7162 Fixes bug 2999. Bugfix on 0.2.0.20-rc.
7163 - Fix a regression that caused Tor to rebind its ports if it receives
7164 SIGHUP while hibernating. Bugfix in 0.1.1.6-alpha; closes bug 919.
7165 - Remove an extra pair of quotation marks around the error
7166 message in control-port STATUS_GENERAL BUG events. Bugfix on
7167 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes bug 3732.
7169 o Minor features (relays):
7170 - Ensure that no empty [dirreq-](read|write)-history lines are added
7171 to an extrainfo document. Implements ticket 2497.
7172 - When bandwidth accounting is enabled, be more generous with how
7173 much bandwidth we'll use up before entering "soft hibernation".
7174 Previously, we'd refuse new connections and circuits once we'd
7175 used up 95% of our allotment. Now, we use up 95% of our allotment,
7176 AND make sure that we have no more than 500MB (or 3 hours of
7177 expected traffic, whichever is lower) remaining before we enter
7179 - Relays now log the reason for publishing a new relay descriptor,
7180 so we have a better chance of hunting down instances of bug 1810.
7181 Resolves ticket 3252.
7182 - Log a little more clearly about the times at which we're no longer
7183 accepting new connections (e.g. due to hibernating). Resolves
7185 - When AllowSingleHopExits is set, print a warning to explain to the
7186 relay operator why most clients are avoiding her relay.
7187 - Send END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE in response to EHOSTUNREACH errors.
7188 Clients before 0.2.1.27 didn't handle NOROUTE correctly, but such
7189 clients are already deprecated because of security bugs.
7191 o Minor features (network statistics):
7192 - Directory mirrors that set "DirReqStatistics 1" write statistics
7193 about directory requests to disk every 24 hours. As compared to the
7194 "--enable-geoip-stats" ./configure flag in 0.2.1.x, there are a few
7195 improvements: 1) stats are written to disk exactly every 24 hours;
7196 2) estimated shares of v2 and v3 requests are determined as mean
7197 values, not at the end of a measurement period; 3) unresolved
7198 requests are listed with country code '??'; 4) directories also
7199 measure download times.
7200 - Exit nodes that set "ExitPortStatistics 1" write statistics on the
7201 number of exit streams and transferred bytes per port to disk every
7203 - Relays that set "CellStatistics 1" write statistics on how long
7204 cells spend in their circuit queues to disk every 24 hours.
7205 - Entry nodes that set "EntryStatistics 1" write statistics on the
7206 rough number and origins of connecting clients to disk every 24
7208 - Relays that write any of the above statistics to disk and set
7209 "ExtraInfoStatistics 1" include the past 24 hours of statistics in
7210 their extra-info documents. Implements proposal 166.
7212 o Minor features (GeoIP and statistics):
7213 - Provide a log message stating which geoip file we're parsing
7214 instead of just stating that we're parsing the geoip file.
7215 Implements ticket 2432.
7216 - Make sure every relay writes a state file at least every 12 hours.
7217 Previously, a relay could go for weeks without writing its state
7218 file, and on a crash could lose its bandwidth history, capacity
7219 estimates, client country statistics, and so on. Addresses bug 3012.
7220 - Relays report the number of bytes spent on answering directory
7221 requests in extra-info descriptors similar to {read,write}-history.
7222 Implements enhancement 1790.
7223 - Report only the top 10 ports in exit-port stats in order not to
7224 exceed the maximum extra-info descriptor length of 50 KB. Implements
7226 - If writing the state file to disk fails, wait up to an hour before
7227 retrying again, rather than trying again each second. Fixes bug
7228 2346; bugfix on Tor 0.1.1.3-alpha.
7229 - Delay geoip stats collection by bridges for 6 hours, not 2 hours,
7230 when we switch from being a public relay to a bridge. Otherwise
7231 there will still be clients that see the relay in their consensus,
7232 and the stats will end up wrong. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes
7234 - Update to the August 2 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7236 o Minor features (clients):
7237 - When expiring circuits, use microsecond timers rather than
7238 one-second timers. This can avoid an unpleasant situation where a
7239 circuit is launched near the end of one second and expired right
7240 near the beginning of the next, and prevent fluctuations in circuit
7242 - If we've configured EntryNodes and our network goes away and/or all
7243 our entrynodes get marked down, optimistically retry them all when
7244 a new socks application request appears. Fixes bug 1882.
7245 - Always perform router selections using weighted relay bandwidth,
7246 even if we don't need a high capacity circuit at the time. Non-fast
7247 circuits now only differ from fast ones in that they can use relays
7248 not marked with the Fast flag. This "feature" could turn out to
7249 be a horrible bug; we should investigate more before it goes into
7251 - When we run out of directory information such that we can't build
7252 circuits, but then get enough that we can build circuits, log when
7253 we actually construct a circuit, so the user has a better chance of
7254 knowing what's going on. Fixes bug 1362.
7255 - Log SSL state transitions at debug level during handshake, and
7256 include SSL states in error messages. This may help debug future
7257 SSL handshake issues.
7259 o Minor features (directory authorities):
7260 - When a router changes IP address or port, authorities now launch
7261 a new reachability test for it. Implements ticket 1899.
7262 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any versions of
7263 Tor between 0.2.1.3-alpha and 0.2.1.18 inclusive; they have
7264 known bugs that keep RELAY_EARLY cells from working on rendezvous
7265 circuits. Followup to fix for bug 2081.
7266 - Directory authorities now reject relays running any version of Tor
7267 older than 0.2.0.26-rc. That version is the earliest that fetches
7268 current directory information correctly. Fixes bug 2156.
7269 - Directory authorities now do an immediate reachability check as soon
7270 as they hear about a new relay. This change should slightly reduce
7271 the time between setting up a relay and getting listed as running
7272 in the consensus. It should also improve the time between setting
7273 up a bridge and seeing use by bridge users.
7274 - Directory authorities no longer launch a TLS connection to every
7275 relay as they startup. Now that we have 2k+ descriptors cached,
7276 the resulting network hiccup is becoming a burden. Besides,
7277 authorities already avoid voting about Running for the first half
7278 hour of their uptime.
7279 - Directory authorities now log the source of a rejected POSTed v3
7280 networkstatus vote, so we can track failures better.
7281 - Backport code from 0.2.3.x that allows directory authorities to
7282 clean their microdescriptor caches. Needed to resolve bug 2230.
7284 o Minor features (hidden services):
7285 - Use computed circuit-build timeouts to decide when to launch
7286 parallel introduction circuits for hidden services. (Previously,
7287 we would retry after 15 seconds.)
7288 - Don't allow v0 hidden service authorities to act as clients.
7289 Required by fix for bug 3000.
7290 - Ignore SIGNAL NEWNYM commands on relay-only Tor instances. Required
7291 by fix for bug 3000.
7292 - Make hidden services work better in private Tor networks by not
7293 requiring any uptime to join the hidden service descriptor
7294 DHT. Implements ticket 2088.
7295 - Log (at info level) when purging pieces of hidden-service-client
7296 state because of SIGNAL NEWNYM.
7298 o Minor features (controller interface):
7299 - New "GETINFO net/listeners/(type)" controller command to return
7300 a list of addresses and ports that are bound for listeners for a
7301 given connection type. This is useful when the user has configured
7302 "SocksPort auto" and the controller needs to know which port got
7303 chosen. Resolves another part of ticket 3076.
7304 - Have the controller interface give a more useful message than
7305 "Internal Error" in response to failed GETINFO requests.
7306 - Add a TIMEOUT_RATE keyword to the BUILDTIMEOUT_SET control port
7307 event, to give information on the current rate of circuit timeouts
7308 over our stored history.
7309 - The 'EXTENDCIRCUIT' control port command can now be used with
7310 a circ id of 0 and no path. This feature will cause Tor to build
7311 a new 'fast' general purpose circuit using its own path selection
7313 - Added a BUILDTIMEOUT_SET controller event to describe changes
7314 to the circuit build timeout.
7315 - New controller command "getinfo config-text". It returns the
7316 contents that Tor would write if you send it a SAVECONF command,
7317 so the controller can write the file to disk itself.
7319 o Minor features (controller protocol):
7320 - Add a new ControlSocketsGroupWritable configuration option: when
7321 it is turned on, ControlSockets are group-writeable by the default
7322 group of the current user. Patch by Jérémy Bobbio; implements
7324 - Tor now refuses to create a ControlSocket in a directory that is
7325 world-readable (or group-readable if ControlSocketsGroupWritable
7326 is 0). This is necessary because some operating systems do not
7327 enforce permissions on an AF_UNIX sockets. Permissions on the
7328 directory holding the socket, however, seems to work everywhere.
7329 - Warn when CookieAuthFileGroupReadable is set but CookieAuthFile is
7330 not. This would lead to a cookie that is still not group readable.
7331 Closes bug 1843. Suggested by katmagic.
7332 - Future-proof the controller protocol a bit by ignoring keyword
7333 arguments we do not recognize.
7335 o Minor features (more useful logging):
7336 - Revise most log messages that refer to nodes by nickname to
7337 instead use the "$key=nickname at address" format. This should be
7338 more useful, especially since nicknames are less and less likely
7339 to be unique. Resolves ticket 3045.
7340 - When an HTTPS proxy reports "403 Forbidden", we now explain
7341 what it means rather than calling it an unexpected status code.
7342 Closes bug 2503. Patch from Michael Yakubovich.
7343 - Rate-limit a warning about failures to download v2 networkstatus
7344 documents. Resolves part of bug 1352.
7345 - Rate-limit the "your application is giving Tor only an IP address"
7346 warning. Addresses bug 2000; bugfix on 0.0.8pre2.
7347 - Rate-limit "Failed to hand off onionskin" warnings.
7348 - When logging a rate-limited warning, we now mention how many messages
7349 got suppressed since the last warning.
7350 - Make the formerly ugly "2 unknown, 7 missing key, 0 good, 0 bad,
7351 2 no signature, 4 required" messages about consensus signatures
7352 easier to read, and make sure they get logged at the same severity
7353 as the messages explaining which keys are which. Fixes bug 1290.
7354 - Don't warn when we have a consensus that we can't verify because
7355 of missing certificates, unless those certificates are ones
7356 that we have been trying and failing to download. Fixes bug 1145.
7358 o Minor features (log domains):
7359 - Add documentation for configuring logging at different severities in
7360 different log domains. We've had this feature since 0.2.1.1-alpha,
7361 but for some reason it never made it into the manpage. Fixes
7363 - Make it simpler to specify "All log domains except for A and B".
7364 Previously you needed to say "[*,~A,~B]". Now you can just say
7366 - Add a "LogMessageDomains 1" option to include the domains of log
7367 messages along with the messages. Without this, there's no way
7368 to use log domains without reading the source or doing a lot
7370 - Add a new "Handshake" log domain for activities that happen
7371 during the TLS handshake.
7373 o Minor features (build process):
7374 - Make compilation with clang possible when using
7375 "--enable-gcc-warnings" by removing two warning options that clang
7376 hasn't implemented yet and by fixing a few warnings. Resolves
7378 - Detect platforms that brokenly use a signed size_t, and refuse to
7379 build there. Found and analyzed by doorss and rransom.
7380 - Fix a bunch of compile warnings revealed by mingw with gcc 4.5.
7382 - Add support for statically linking zlib by specifying
7383 "--enable-static-zlib", to go with our support for statically
7384 linking openssl and libevent. Resolves bug 1358.
7385 - Instead of adding the svn revision to the Tor version string, report
7386 the git commit (when we're building from a git checkout).
7387 - Rename the "log.h" header to "torlog.h" so as to conflict with fewer
7389 - New --digests command-line switch to output the digests of the
7390 source files Tor was built with.
7391 - Generate our manpage and HTML documentation using Asciidoc. This
7392 change should make it easier to maintain the documentation, and
7393 produce nicer HTML. The build process fails if asciidoc cannot
7394 be found and building with asciidoc isn't disabled (via the
7395 "--disable-asciidoc" argument to ./configure. Skipping the manpage
7396 speeds up the build considerably.
7398 o Minor features (options / torrc):
7399 - Warn when the same option is provided more than once in a torrc
7400 file, on the command line, or in a single SETCONF statement, and
7401 the option is one that only accepts a single line. Closes bug 1384.
7402 - Warn when the user configures two HiddenServiceDir lines that point
7403 to the same directory. Bugfix on 0.0.6 (the version introducing
7404 HiddenServiceDir); fixes bug 3289.
7405 - Add new "perconnbwrate" and "perconnbwburst" consensus params to
7406 do individual connection-level rate limiting of clients. The torrc
7407 config options with the same names trump the consensus params, if
7408 both are present. Replaces the old "bwconnrate" and "bwconnburst"
7409 consensus params which were broken from 0.2.2.7-alpha through
7410 0.2.2.14-alpha. Closes bug 1947.
7411 - New config option "WarnUnsafeSocks 0" disables the warning that
7412 occurs whenever Tor receives a socks handshake using a version of
7413 the socks protocol that can only provide an IP address (rather
7414 than a hostname). Setups that do DNS locally over Tor are fine,
7415 and we shouldn't spam the logs in that case.
7416 - New config option "CircuitStreamTimeout" to override our internal
7417 timeout schedule for how many seconds until we detach a stream from
7418 a circuit and try a new circuit. If your network is particularly
7419 slow, you might want to set this to a number like 60.
7420 - New options for SafeLogging to allow scrubbing only log messages
7421 generated while acting as a relay. Specify "SafeLogging relay" if
7422 you want to ensure that only messages known to originate from
7423 client use of the Tor process will be logged unsafely.
7424 - Time and memory units in the configuration file can now be set to
7425 fractional units. For example, "2.5 GB" is now a valid value for
7427 - Support line continuations in the torrc config file. If a line
7428 ends with a single backslash character, the newline is ignored, and
7429 the configuration value is treated as continuing on the next line.
7432 o Minor features (unit tests):
7433 - Revise our unit tests to use the "tinytest" framework, so we
7434 can run tests in their own processes, have smarter setup/teardown
7435 code, and so on. The unit test code has moved to its own
7436 subdirectory, and has been split into multiple modules.
7437 - Add a unit test for cross-platform directory-listing code.
7438 - Add some forgotten return value checks during unit tests. Found
7440 - Use GetTempDir to find the proper temporary directory location on
7441 Windows when generating temporary files for the unit tests. Patch
7444 o Minor features (misc):
7445 - The "torify" script now uses torsocks where available.
7446 - Make Libevent log messages get delivered to controllers later,
7447 and not from inside the Libevent log handler. This prevents unsafe
7448 reentrant Libevent calls while still letting the log messages
7450 - Certain Tor clients (such as those behind check.torproject.org) may
7451 want to fetch the consensus in an extra early manner. To enable this
7452 a user may now set FetchDirInfoExtraEarly to 1. This also depends on
7453 setting FetchDirInfoEarly to 1. Previous behavior will stay the same
7454 as only certain clients who must have this information sooner should
7456 - Expand homedirs passed to tor-checkkey. This should silence a
7457 coverity complaint about passing a user-supplied string into
7458 open() without checking it.
7459 - Make sure to disable DirPort if running as a bridge. DirPorts aren't
7460 used on bridges, and it makes bridge scanning somewhat easier.
7461 - Create the /var/run/tor directory on startup on OpenSUSE if it is
7462 not already created. Patch from Andreas Stieger. Fixes bug 2573.
7464 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
7465 - When a relay decides that its DNS is too broken for it to serve
7466 as an exit server, it advertised itself as a non-exit, but
7467 continued to act as an exit. This could create accidental
7468 partitioning opportunities for users. Instead, if a relay is
7469 going to advertise reject *:* as its exit policy, it should
7470 really act with exit policy "reject *:*". Fixes bug 2366.
7471 Bugfix on Tor 0.1.2.5-alpha. Bugfix by user "postman" on trac.
7472 - Publish a router descriptor even if generating an extra-info
7473 descriptor fails. Previously we would not publish a router
7474 descriptor without an extra-info descriptor; this can cause fast
7475 exit relays collecting exit-port statistics to drop from the
7476 consensus. Bugfix on 0.1.2.9-rc; fixes bug 2195.
7477 - When we're trying to guess whether we know our IP address as
7478 a relay, we would log various ways that we failed to guess
7479 our address, but never log that we ended up guessing it
7480 successfully. Now add a log line to help confused and anxious
7481 relay operators. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; fixes bug 1534.
7482 - For bandwidth accounting, calculate our expected bandwidth rate
7483 based on the time during which we were active and not in
7484 soft-hibernation during the last interval. Previously, we were
7485 also considering the time spent in soft-hibernation. If this
7486 was a long time, we would wind up underestimating our bandwidth
7487 by a lot, and skewing our wakeup time towards the start of the
7488 accounting interval. Fixes bug 1789. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7489 - Demote a confusing TLS warning that relay operators might get when
7490 someone tries to talk to their ORPort. It is not the operator's
7491 fault, nor can they do anything about it. Fixes bug 1364; bugfix
7493 - Change "Application request when we're believed to be offline."
7494 notice to "Application request when we haven't used client
7495 functionality lately.", to clarify that it's not an error. Bugfix
7496 on 0.0.9.3; fixes bug 1222.
7498 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
7499 - When a client starts or stops using bridges, never use a circuit
7500 that was built before the configuration change. This behavior could
7501 put at risk a user who uses bridges to ensure that her traffic
7502 only goes to the chosen addresses. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes
7504 - Do not reset the bridge descriptor download status every time we
7505 re-parse our configuration or get a configuration change. Fixes
7506 bug 3019; bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7507 - Users couldn't configure a regular relay to be their bridge. It
7508 didn't work because when Tor fetched the bridge descriptor, it found
7509 that it already had it, and didn't realize that the purpose of the
7510 descriptor had changed. Now we replace routers with a purpose other
7511 than bridge with bridge descriptors when fetching them. Bugfix on
7512 0.1.1.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1776.
7513 - In the special case where you configure a public exit relay as your
7514 bridge, Tor would be willing to use that exit relay as the last
7515 hop in your circuit as well. Now we fail that circuit instead.
7516 Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 2403. Reported by "piebeer".
7518 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
7519 - We now ask the other side of a stream (the client or the exit)
7520 for more data on that stream when the amount of queued data on
7521 that stream dips low enough. Previously, we wouldn't ask the
7522 other side for more data until either it sent us more data (which
7523 it wasn't supposed to do if it had exhausted its window!) or we
7524 had completely flushed all our queued data. This flow control fix
7525 should improve throughput. Fixes bug 2756; bugfix on the earliest
7526 released versions of Tor (svn commit r152).
7527 - When a client finds that an origin circuit has run out of 16-bit
7528 stream IDs, we now mark it as unusable for new streams. Previously,
7529 we would try to close the entire circuit. Bugfix on 0.0.6.
7530 - Make it explicit that we don't cannibalize one-hop circuits. This
7531 happens in the wild, but doesn't turn out to be a problem because
7532 we fortunately don't use those circuits. Many thanks to outofwords
7533 for the initial analysis and to swissknife who confirmed that
7534 two-hop circuits are actually created.
7535 - Resolve an edge case in path weighting that could make us misweight
7536 our relay selection. Fixes bug 1203; bugfix on 0.0.8rc1.
7537 - Make the DNSPort option work with libevent 2.x. Don't alter the
7538 behavior for libevent 1.x. Fixes bug 1143. Found by SwissTorExit.
7540 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
7541 - Make directory authorities more accurate at recording when
7542 relays that have failed several reachability tests became
7543 unreachable, so we can provide more accuracy at assigning Stable,
7544 Guard, HSDir, etc flags. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha. Resolves bug 2716.
7545 - Directory authorities are now more robust to hops back in time
7546 when calculating router stability. Previously, if a run of uptime
7547 or downtime appeared to be negative, the calculation could give
7548 incorrect results. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha; noticed when fixing
7550 - Directory authorities will now attempt to download consensuses
7551 if their own efforts to make a live consensus have failed. This
7552 change means authorities that restart will fetch a valid
7553 consensus, and it means authorities that didn't agree with the
7554 current consensus will still fetch and serve it if it has enough
7555 signatures. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; fixes bug 1300.
7556 - Never vote for a server as "Running" if we have a descriptor for
7557 it claiming to be hibernating, and that descriptor was published
7558 more recently than our last contact with the server. Bugfix on
7559 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 911.
7560 - Directory authorities no longer change their opinion of, or vote on,
7561 whether a router is Running, unless they have themselves been
7562 online long enough to have some idea. Bugfix on 0.2.0.6-alpha.
7565 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
7566 - Log malformed requests for rendezvous descriptors as protocol
7567 warnings, not warnings. Also, use a more informative log message
7568 in case someone sees it at log level warning without prior
7569 info-level messages. Fixes bug 2748; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7570 - Accept hidden service descriptors if we think we might be a hidden
7571 service directory, regardless of what our consensus says. This
7572 helps robustness, since clients and hidden services can sometimes
7573 have a more up-to-date view of the network consensus than we do,
7574 and if they think that the directory authorities list us a HSDir,
7575 we might actually be one. Related to bug 2732; bugfix on
7577 - Correct the warning displayed when a rendezvous descriptor exceeds
7578 the maximum size. Fixes bug 2750; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by
7580 - Clients and hidden services now use HSDir-flagged relays for hidden
7581 service descriptor downloads and uploads even if the relays have no
7582 DirPort set and the client has disabled TunnelDirConns. This will
7583 eventually allow us to give the HSDir flag to relays with no
7584 DirPort. Fixes bug 2722; bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7585 - Only limit the lengths of single HS descriptors, even when multiple
7586 HS descriptors are published to an HSDir relay in a single POST
7587 operation. Fixes bug 2948; bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Found by hsdir.
7589 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
7590 - Allow GETINFO fingerprint to return a fingerprint even when
7591 we have not yet built a router descriptor. Fixes bug 3577;
7592 bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7593 - Send a SUCCEEDED stream event to the controller when a reverse
7594 resolve succeeded. Fixes bug 3536; bugfix on 0.0.8pre1. Issue
7595 discovered by katmagic.
7596 - Remove a trailing asterisk from "exit-policy/default" in the
7597 output of the control port command "GETINFO info/names". Bugfix
7599 - Make the SIGNAL DUMP controller command work on FreeBSD. Fixes bug
7600 2917. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
7601 - When we restart our relay, we might get a successful connection
7602 from the outside before we've started our reachability tests,
7603 triggering a warning: "ORPort found reachable, but I have no
7604 routerinfo yet. Failing to inform controller of success." This
7605 bug was harmless unless Tor is running under a controller
7606 like Vidalia, in which case the controller would never get a
7607 REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED status event. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha;
7609 - When a controller changes TrackHostExits, remove mappings for
7610 hosts that should no longer have their exits tracked. Bugfix on
7612 - When a controller changes VirtualAddrNetwork, remove any mappings
7613 for hosts that were automapped to the old network. Bugfix on
7615 - When a controller changes one of the AutomapHosts* options, remove
7616 any mappings for hosts that should no longer be automapped. Bugfix
7618 - Fix an off-by-one error in calculating some controller command
7619 argument lengths. Fortunately, this mistake is harmless since
7620 the controller code does redundant NUL termination too. Found by
7621 boboper. Bugfix on 0.1.1.1-alpha.
7622 - Fix a bug in the controller interface where "GETINFO ns/asdaskljkl"
7623 would return "551 Internal error" rather than "552 Unrecognized key
7624 ns/asdaskljkl". Bugfix on 0.1.2.3-alpha.
7625 - Don't spam the controller with events when we have no file
7626 descriptors available. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. (Rate-limiting
7627 for log messages was already solved from bug 748.)
7628 - Emit a GUARD DROPPED controller event for a case we missed.
7629 - Ensure DNS requests launched by "RESOLVE" commands from the
7630 controller respect the __LeaveStreamsUnattached setconf options. The
7631 same goes for requests launched via DNSPort or transparent
7632 proxying. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1525.
7634 o Minor bugfixes (config options):
7635 - Tor used to limit HttpProxyAuthenticator values to 48 characters.
7636 Change the limit to 512 characters by removing base64 newlines.
7637 Fixes bug 2752. Fix by Michael Yakubovich.
7638 - Complain if PublishServerDescriptor is given multiple arguments that
7639 include 0 or 1. This configuration will be rejected in the future.
7640 Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; closes bug 1107.
7641 - Disallow BridgeRelay 1 and ORPort 0 at once in the configuration.
7642 Bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha; closes bug 928.
7644 o Minor bugfixes (log subsystem fixes):
7645 - When unable to format an address as a string, report its value
7646 as "???" rather than reusing the last formatted address. Bugfix
7648 - Be more consistent in our treatment of file system paths. "~" should
7649 get expanded to the user's home directory in the Log config option.
7650 Fixes bug 2971; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha, which introduced the
7651 feature for the -f and --DataDirectory options.
7653 o Minor bugfixes (memory management):
7654 - Don't stack-allocate the list of supplementary GIDs when we're
7655 about to log them. Stack-allocating NGROUPS_MAX gid_t elements
7656 could take up to 256K, which is way too much stack. Found by
7657 Coverity; CID #450. Bugfix on 0.2.1.7-alpha.
7658 - Save a couple bytes in memory allocation every time we escape
7659 certain characters in a string. Patch from Florian Zumbiehl.
7661 o Minor bugfixes (protocol correctness):
7662 - When checking for 1024-bit keys, check for 1024 bits, not 128
7663 bytes. This allows Tor to correctly discard keys of length 1017
7664 through 1023. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5.
7665 - Require that introduction point keys and onion handshake keys
7666 have a public exponent of 65537. Starts to fix bug 3207; bugfix
7668 - Handle SOCKS messages longer than 128 bytes long correctly, rather
7669 than waiting forever for them to finish. Fixes bug 2330; bugfix
7670 on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Found by doorss.
7671 - Never relay a cell for a circuit we have already destroyed.
7672 Between marking a circuit as closeable and finally closing it,
7673 it may have been possible for a few queued cells to get relayed,
7674 even though they would have been immediately dropped by the next
7675 OR in the circuit. Fixes bug 1184; bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7676 - Never queue a cell for a circuit that's already been marked
7678 - Fix a spec conformance issue: the network-status-version token
7679 must be the first token in a v3 consensus or vote. Discovered by
7680 "parakeep". Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7681 - A networkstatus vote must contain exactly one signature. Spec
7682 conformance issue. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7683 - When asked about a DNS record type we don't support via a
7684 client DNSPort, reply with NOTIMPL rather than an empty
7685 reply. Patch by intrigeri. Fixes bug 3369; bugfix on 2.0.1-alpha.
7686 - Make more fields in the controller protocol case-insensitive, since
7687 control-spec.txt said they were.
7689 o Minor bugfixes (log messages):
7690 - Fix a log message that said "bits" while displaying a value in
7691 bytes. Found by wanoskarnet. Fixes bug 3318; bugfix on
7693 - Downgrade "no current certificates known for authority" message from
7694 Notice to Info. Fixes bug 2899; bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
7695 - Correctly describe errors that occur when generating a TLS object.
7696 Previously we would attribute them to a failure while generating a
7697 TLS context. Patch by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc; fixes
7699 - Fix an instance where a Tor directory mirror might accidentally
7700 log the IP address of a misbehaving Tor client. Bugfix on
7702 - Stop logging at severity 'warn' when some other Tor client tries
7703 to establish a circuit with us using weak DH keys. It's a protocol
7704 violation, but that doesn't mean ordinary users need to hear about
7705 it. Fixes the bug part of bug 1114. Bugfix on 0.1.0.13.
7706 - If your relay can't keep up with the number of incoming create
7707 cells, it would log one warning per failure into your logs. Limit
7708 warnings to 1 per minute. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre10; fixes bug 1042.
7710 o Minor bugfixes (build fixes):
7711 - Fix warnings from GCC 4.6's "-Wunused-but-set-variable" option.
7712 - When warning about missing zlib development packages during compile,
7713 give the correct package names. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7714 - Fix warnings that newer versions of autoconf produce during
7715 ./autogen.sh. These warnings appear to be harmless in our case,
7716 but they were extremely verbose. Fixes bug 2020.
7717 - Squash a compile warning on OpenBSD. Reported by Tas; fixes
7720 o Minor bugfixes (portability):
7721 - Write several files in text mode, on OSes that distinguish text
7722 mode from binary mode (namely, Windows). These files are:
7723 'buffer-stats', 'dirreq-stats', and 'entry-stats' on relays
7724 that collect those statistics; 'client_keys' and 'hostname' for
7725 hidden services that use authentication; and (in the tor-gencert
7726 utility) newly generated identity and signing keys. Previously,
7727 we wouldn't specify text mode or binary mode, leading to an
7728 assertion failure. Fixes bug 3607. Bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha (when
7729 the DirRecordUsageByCountry option which would have triggered
7730 the assertion failure was added), although this assertion failure
7731 would have occurred in tor-gencert on Windows in 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7732 - Selectively disable deprecation warnings on OS X because Lion
7733 started deprecating the shipped copy of openssl. Fixes bug 3643.
7734 - Use a wide type to hold sockets when built for 64-bit Windows.
7736 - Fix an issue that prevented static linking of libevent on
7737 some platforms (notably Linux). Fixes bug 2698; bugfix on 0.2.1.23,
7738 where we introduced the "--with-static-libevent" configure option.
7739 - Fix a bug with our locking implementation on Windows that couldn't
7740 correctly detect when a file was already locked. Fixes bug 2504,
7741 bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
7742 - Build correctly on OSX with zlib 1.2.4 and higher with all warnings
7744 - Fix IPv6-related connect() failures on some platforms (BSD, OS X).
7745 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes first part of bug 2660. Patch by
7748 o Minor bugfixes (code correctness):
7749 - Always NUL-terminate the sun_path field of a sockaddr_un before
7750 passing it to the kernel. (Not a security issue: kernels are
7751 smart enough to reject bad sockaddr_uns.) Found by Coverity;
7752 CID #428. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.3-alpha.
7753 - Make connection_printf_to_buf()'s behavior sane. Its callers
7754 expect it to emit a CRLF iff the format string ends with CRLF;
7755 it actually emitted a CRLF iff (a) the format string ended with
7756 CRLF or (b) the resulting string was over 1023 characters long or
7757 (c) the format string did not end with CRLF *and* the resulting
7758 string was 1021 characters long or longer. Bugfix on 0.1.1.9-alpha;
7759 fixes part of bug 3407.
7760 - Make send_control_event_impl()'s behavior sane. Its callers
7761 expect it to always emit a CRLF at the end of the string; it
7762 might have emitted extra control characters as well. Bugfix on
7763 0.1.1.9-alpha; fixes another part of bug 3407.
7764 - Make crypto_rand_int() check the value of its input correctly.
7765 Previously, it accepted values up to UINT_MAX, but could return a
7766 negative number if given a value above INT_MAX+1. Found by George
7767 Kadianakis. Fixes bug 3306; bugfix on 0.2.2pre14.
7768 - Fix a potential null-pointer dereference while computing a
7769 consensus. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha, found with the help of
7771 - If we fail to compute the identity digest of a v3 legacy keypair,
7772 warn, and don't use a buffer-full of junk instead. Bugfix on
7773 0.2.1.1-alpha; fixes bug 3106.
7774 - Resolve an untriggerable issue in smartlist_string_num_isin(),
7775 where if the function had ever in the future been used to check
7776 for the presence of a too-large number, it would have given an
7777 incorrect result. (Fortunately, we only used it for 16-bit
7778 values.) Fixes bug 3175; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7779 - Be more careful about reporting the correct error from a failed
7780 connect() system call. Under some circumstances, it was possible to
7781 look at an incorrect value for errno when sending the end reason.
7782 Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7783 - Correctly handle an "impossible" overflow cases in connection byte
7784 counting, where we write or read more than 4GB on an edge connection
7785 in a single second. Bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
7786 - Avoid a double mark-for-free warning when failing to attach a
7787 transparent proxy connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha. Fixes
7789 - Correctly detect failure to allocate an OpenSSL BIO. Fixes bug 2378;
7790 found by "cypherpunks". This bug was introduced before the first
7791 Tor release, in svn commit r110.
7792 - Fix a bug in bandwidth history state parsing that could have been
7793 triggered if a future version of Tor ever changed the timing
7794 granularity at which bandwidth history is measured. Bugfix on
7796 - Add assertions to check for overflow in arguments to
7797 base32_encode() and base32_decode(); fix a signed-unsigned
7798 comparison there too. These bugs are not actually reachable in Tor,
7799 but it's good to prevent future errors too. Found by doorss.
7800 - Avoid a bogus overlapped memcpy in tor_addr_copy(). Reported by
7802 - Set target port in get_interface_address6() correctly. Bugfix
7803 on 0.1.1.4-alpha and 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes second part of bug 2660.
7804 - Fix an impossible-to-actually-trigger buffer overflow in relay
7805 descriptor generation. Bugfix on 0.1.0.15.
7806 - Fix numerous small code-flaws found by Coverity Scan Rung 3.
7808 o Minor bugfixes (code improvements):
7809 - After we free an internal connection structure, overwrite it
7810 with a different memory value than we use for overwriting a freed
7811 internal circuit structure. Should help with debugging. Suggested
7813 - If OpenSSL fails to make a duplicate of a private or public key, log
7814 an error message and try to exit cleanly. May help with debugging
7815 if bug 1209 ever remanifests.
7816 - Some options used different conventions for uppercasing of acronyms
7817 when comparing manpage and source. Fix those in favor of the
7818 manpage, as it makes sense to capitalize acronyms.
7819 - Take a first step towards making or.h smaller by splitting out
7820 function definitions for all source files in src/or/. Leave
7821 structures and defines in or.h for now.
7822 - Remove a few dead assignments during router parsing. Found by
7824 - Don't use 1-bit wide signed bit fields. Found by coverity.
7825 - Avoid signed/unsigned comparisons by making SIZE_T_CEILING unsigned.
7826 None of the cases where we did this before were wrong, but by making
7827 this change we avoid warnings. Fixes bug 2475; bugfix on 0.2.1.28.
7828 - The memarea code now uses a sentinel value at the end of each area
7829 to make sure nothing writes beyond the end of an area. This might
7830 help debug some conceivable causes of bug 930.
7831 - Always treat failure to allocate an RSA key as an unrecoverable
7833 - Add some more defensive programming for architectures that can't
7834 handle unaligned integer accesses. We don't know of any actual bugs
7835 right now, but that's the best time to fix them. Fixes bug 1943.
7837 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
7838 - Fix a rare bug in rend_fn unit tests: we would fail a test when
7839 a randomly generated port is 0. Diagnosed by Matt Edman. Bugfix
7840 on 0.2.0.10-alpha; fixes bug 1808.
7841 - Where available, use Libevent 2.0's periodic timers so that our
7842 once-per-second cleanup code gets called even more closely to
7843 once per second than it would otherwise. Fixes bug 943.
7844 - Ignore OutboundBindAddress when connecting to localhost.
7845 Connections to localhost need to come _from_ localhost, or else
7846 local servers (like DNS and outgoing HTTP/SOCKS proxies) will often
7848 - Update our OpenSSL 0.9.8l fix so that it works with OpenSSL 0.9.8m
7850 - If any of the v3 certs we download are unparseable, we should
7851 actually notice the failure so we don't retry indefinitely. Bugfix
7852 on 0.2.0.x; reported by "rotator".
7853 - When Tor fails to parse a descriptor of any kind, dump it to disk.
7854 Might help diagnosing bug 1051.
7855 - Make our 'torify' script more portable; if we have only one of
7856 'torsocks' or 'tsocks' installed, don't complain to the user;
7857 and explain our warning about tsocks better.
7858 - Fix some urls in the exit notice file and make it XHTML1.1 strict
7859 compliant. Based on a patch from Christian Kujau.
7861 o Documentation changes:
7862 - Modernize the doxygen configuration file slightly. Fixes bug 2707.
7863 - Resolve all doxygen warnings except those for missing documentation.
7865 - Add doxygen documentation for more functions, fields, and types.
7866 - Convert the HACKING file to asciidoc, and add a few new sections
7867 to it, explaining how we use Git, how we make changelogs, and
7868 what should go in a patch.
7869 - Document the default socks host and port (127.0.0.1:9050) for
7871 - Removed some unnecessary files from the source distribution. The
7872 AUTHORS file has now been merged into the people page on the
7873 website. The roadmaps and design doc can now be found in the
7874 projects directory in svn.
7876 o Deprecated and removed features (config):
7877 - Remove the torrc.complete file. It hasn't been kept up to date
7878 and users will have better luck checking out the manpage.
7879 - Remove the HSAuthorityRecordStats option that version 0 hidden
7880 service authorities could use to track statistics of overall v0
7881 hidden service usage.
7882 - Remove the obsolete "NoPublish" option; it has been flagged
7883 as obsolete and has produced a warning since 0.1.1.18-rc.
7884 - Caches no longer download and serve v2 networkstatus documents
7885 unless FetchV2Networkstatus flag is set: these documents haven't
7886 haven't been used by clients or relays since 0.2.0.x. Resolves
7889 o Deprecated and removed features (controller):
7890 - The controller no longer accepts the old obsolete "addr-mappings/"
7891 or "unregistered-servers-" GETINFO values.
7892 - The EXTENDED_EVENTS and VERBOSE_NAMES controller features are now
7893 always on; using them is necessary for correct forward-compatible
7896 o Deprecated and removed features (misc):
7897 - Hidden services no longer publish version 0 descriptors, and clients
7898 do not request or use version 0 descriptors. However, the old hidden
7899 service authorities still accept and serve version 0 descriptors
7900 when contacted by older hidden services/clients.
7901 - Remove undocumented option "-F" from tor-resolve: it hasn't done
7902 anything since 0.2.1.16-rc.
7903 - Remove everything related to building the expert bundle for OS X.
7904 It has confused many users, doesn't work right on OS X 10.6,
7905 and is hard to get rid of once installed. Resolves bug 1274.
7906 - Remove support for .noconnect style addresses. Nobody was using
7907 them, and they provided another avenue for detecting Tor users
7908 via application-level web tricks.
7909 - When we fixed bug 1038 we had to put in a restriction not to send
7910 RELAY_EARLY cells on rend circuits. This was necessary as long
7911 as relays using Tor 0.2.1.3-alpha through 0.2.1.18-alpha were
7912 active. Now remove this obsolete check. Resolves bug 2081.
7913 - Remove workaround code to handle directory responses from servers
7914 that had bug 539 (they would send HTTP status 503 responses _and_
7915 send a body too). Since only server versions before
7916 0.2.0.16-alpha/0.1.2.19 were affected, there is no longer reason to
7917 keep the workaround in place.
7918 - Remove the old 'fuzzy time' logic. It was supposed to be used for
7919 handling calculations where we have a known amount of clock skew and
7920 an allowed amount of unknown skew. But we only used it in three
7921 places, and we never adjusted the known/unknown skew values. This is
7922 still something we might want to do someday, but if we do, we'll
7923 want to do it differently.
7924 - Remove the "--enable-iphone" option to ./configure. According to
7925 reports from Marco Bonetti, Tor builds fine without any special
7926 tweaking on recent iPhone SDK versions.
7929 Changes in version 0.2.1.30 - 2011-02-23
7930 Tor 0.2.1.30 fixes a variety of less critical bugs. The main other
7931 change is a slight tweak to Tor's TLS handshake that makes relays
7932 and bridges that run this new version reachable from Iran again.
7933 We don't expect this tweak will win the arms race long-term, but it
7934 buys us time until we roll out a better solution.
7937 - Stop sending a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
7938 we fetch directory information from a relay that has a wrong clock.
7939 Instead, only inform the controller when it's a trusted authority
7940 that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha; fixes
7941 the rest of bug 1074.
7942 - Fix a bounds-checking error that could allow an attacker to
7943 remotely crash a directory authority. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha.
7945 - If relays set RelayBandwidthBurst but not RelayBandwidthRate,
7946 Tor would ignore their RelayBandwidthBurst setting,
7947 potentially using more bandwidth than expected. Bugfix on
7948 0.2.0.1-alpha. Reported by Paul Wouters. Fixes bug 2470.
7949 - Ignore and warn if the user mistakenly sets "PublishServerDescriptor
7950 hidserv" in her torrc. The 'hidserv' argument never controlled
7951 publication of hidden service descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
7954 - Adjust our TLS Diffie-Hellman parameters to match those used by
7956 - Update to the February 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
7959 - Check for and reject overly long directory certificates and
7960 directory tokens before they have a chance to hit any assertions.
7961 Bugfix on 0.2.1.28. Found by "doorss".
7962 - Bring the logic that gathers routerinfos and assesses the
7963 acceptability of circuits into line. This prevents a Tor OP from
7964 getting locked in a cycle of choosing its local OR as an exit for a
7965 path (due to a .exit request) and then rejecting the circuit because
7966 its OR is not listed yet. It also prevents Tor clients from using an
7967 OR running in the same instance as an exit (due to a .exit request)
7968 if the OR does not meet the same requirements expected of an OR
7969 running elsewhere. Fixes bug 1859; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
7971 o Packaging changes:
7972 - Stop shipping the Tor specs files and development proposal documents
7973 in the tarball. They are now in a separate git repository at
7974 git://git.torproject.org/torspec.git
7975 - Do not include Git version tags as though they are SVN tags when
7976 generating a tarball from inside a repository that has switched
7977 between branches. Bugfix on 0.2.1.15-rc; fixes bug 2402.
7980 Changes in version 0.2.1.29 - 2011-01-15
7981 Tor 0.2.1.29 continues our recent code security audit work. The main
7982 fix resolves a remote heap overflow vulnerability that can allow remote
7983 code execution. Other fixes address a variety of assert and crash bugs,
7984 most of which we think are hard to exploit remotely.
7986 o Major bugfixes (security):
7987 - Fix a heap overflow bug where an adversary could cause heap
7988 corruption. This bug probably allows remote code execution
7989 attacks. Reported by "debuger". Fixes CVE-2011-0427. Bugfix on
7991 - Prevent a denial-of-service attack by disallowing any
7992 zlib-compressed data whose compression factor is implausibly
7993 high. Fixes part of bug 2324; reported by "doorss".
7994 - Zero out a few more keys in memory before freeing them. Fixes
7995 bug 2384 and part of bug 2385. These key instances found by
7996 "cypherpunks", based on Andrew Case's report about being able
7997 to find sensitive data in Tor's memory space if you have enough
7998 permissions. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre9.
8000 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8001 - Prevent calls to Libevent from inside Libevent log handlers.
8002 This had potential to cause a nasty set of crashes, especially
8003 if running Libevent with debug logging enabled, and running
8004 Tor with a controller watching for low-severity log messages.
8005 Bugfix on 0.1.0.2-rc. Fixes bug 2190.
8006 - Add a check for SIZE_T_MAX to tor_realloc() to try to avoid
8007 underflow errors there too. Fixes the other part of bug 2324.
8008 - Fix a bug where we would assert if we ever had a
8009 cached-descriptors.new file (or another file read directly into
8010 memory) of exactly SIZE_T_CEILING bytes. Fixes bug 2326; bugfix
8011 on 0.2.1.25. Found by doorss.
8012 - Fix some potential asserts and parsing issues with grossly
8013 malformed router caches. Fixes bug 2352; bugfix on Tor 0.2.1.27.
8016 o Minor bugfixes (other):
8017 - Fix a bug with handling misformed replies to reverse DNS lookup
8018 requests in DNSPort. Bugfix on Tor 0.2.0.1-alpha. Related to a
8019 bug reported by doorss.
8020 - Fix compilation on mingw when a pthreads compatibility library
8021 has been installed. (We don't want to use it, so we shouldn't
8022 be including pthread.h.) Fixes bug 2313; bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc.
8023 - Fix a bug where we would declare that we had run out of virtual
8024 addresses when the address space was only half-exhausted. Bugfix
8026 - Correctly handle the case where AutomapHostsOnResolve is set but
8027 no virtual addresses are available. Fixes bug 2328; bugfix on
8028 0.1.2.1-alpha. Bug found by doorss.
8029 - Correctly handle wrapping around when we run out of virtual
8030 address space. Found by cypherpunks; bugfix on 0.2.0.5-alpha.
8033 - Update to the January 1 2011 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8034 - Introduce output size checks on all of our decryption functions.
8037 - Tor does not build packages correctly with Automake 1.6 and earlier;
8038 added a check to Makefile.am to make sure that we're building with
8039 Automake 1.7 or later.
8040 - The 0.2.1.28 tarball was missing src/common/OpenBSD_malloc_Linux.c
8041 because we built it with a too-old version of automake. Thus that
8042 release broke ./configure --enable-openbsd-malloc, which is popular
8043 among really fast exit relays on Linux.
8046 Changes in version 0.2.1.28 - 2010-12-17
8047 Tor 0.2.1.28 does some code cleanup to reduce the risk of remotely
8048 exploitable bugs. We also took this opportunity to change the IP address
8049 for one of our directory authorities, and to update the geoip database
8053 - Fix a remotely exploitable bug that could be used to crash instances
8054 of Tor remotely by overflowing on the heap. Remote-code execution
8055 hasn't been confirmed, but can't be ruled out. Everyone should
8056 upgrade. Bugfix on the 0.1.1 series and later.
8058 o Directory authority changes:
8059 - Change IP address and ports for gabelmoo (v3 directory authority).
8062 - Update to the December 1 2010 Maxmind GeoLite Country database.
8065 Changes in version 0.2.1.27 - 2010-11-23
8066 Yet another OpenSSL security patch broke its compatibility with Tor:
8067 Tor 0.2.1.27 makes relays work with openssl 0.9.8p and 1.0.0.b. We
8068 also took this opportunity to fix several crash bugs, integrate a new
8069 directory authority, and update the bundled GeoIP database.
8072 - Resolve an incompatibility with OpenSSL 0.9.8p and OpenSSL 1.0.0b:
8073 No longer set the tlsext_host_name extension on server SSL objects;
8074 but continue to set it on client SSL objects. Our goal in setting
8075 it was to imitate a browser, not a vhosting server. Fixes bug 2204;
8076 bugfix on 0.2.1.1-alpha.
8077 - Do not log messages to the controller while shrinking buffer
8078 freelists. Doing so would sometimes make the controller connection
8079 try to allocate a buffer chunk, which would mess up the internals
8080 of the freelist and cause an assertion failure. Fixes bug 1125;
8081 fixed by Robert Ransom. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8082 - Learn our external IP address when we're a relay or bridge, even if
8083 we set PublishServerDescriptor to 0. Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha,
8084 where we introduced bridge relays that don't need to publish to
8085 be useful. Fixes bug 2050.
8086 - Do even more to reject (and not just ignore) annotations on
8087 router descriptors received anywhere but from the cache. Previously
8088 we would ignore such annotations at first, but cache them to disk
8089 anyway. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8090 - When you're using bridges and your network goes away and your
8091 bridges get marked as down, recover when you attempt a new socks
8092 connection (if the network is back), rather than waiting up to an
8093 hour to try fetching new descriptors for your bridges. Bugfix on
8094 0.2.0.3-alpha; fixes bug 1981.
8097 - Move to the November 2010 Maxmind GeoLite country db (rather
8098 than the June 2009 ip-to-country GeoIP db) for our statistics that
8099 count how many users relays are seeing from each country. Now we'll
8100 have more accurate data, especially for many African countries.
8102 o New directory authorities:
8103 - Set up maatuska (run by Linus Nordberg) as the eighth v3 directory
8107 - Fix an assertion failure that could occur in directory caches or
8108 bridge users when using a very short voting interval on a testing
8109 network. Diagnosed by Robert Hogan. Fixes bug 1141; bugfix on
8111 - Enforce multiplicity rules when parsing annotations. Bugfix on
8112 0.2.0.8-alpha. Found by piebeer.
8113 - Allow handshaking OR connections to take a full KeepalivePeriod
8114 seconds to handshake. Previously, we would close them after
8115 IDLE_OR_CONN_TIMEOUT (180) seconds, the same timeout as if they
8116 were open. Bugfix on 0.2.1.26; fixes bug 1840. Thanks to mingw-san
8118 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings on OpenBSD, disable
8119 warnings in system headers. This makes --enable-gcc-warnings
8120 pass on OpenBSD 4.8.
8123 - Exit nodes didn't recognize EHOSTUNREACH as a plausible error code,
8124 and so sent back END_STREAM_REASON_MISC. Clients now recognize a new
8125 stream ending reason for this case: END_STREAM_REASON_NOROUTE.
8126 Servers can start sending this code when enough clients recognize
8127 it. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc; fixes part of bug 1793.
8128 - Build correctly on mingw with more recent versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8.
8129 Patch from mingw-san.
8132 - Remove the old debian/ directory from the main Tor distribution.
8133 The official Tor-for-debian git repository lives at the URL
8134 https://git.torproject.org/debian/tor.git
8135 - Stop shipping the old doc/website/ directory in the tarball. We
8136 changed the website format in late 2010, and what we shipped in
8137 0.2.1.26 really wasn't that useful anyway.
8140 Changes in version 0.2.1.26 - 2010-05-02
8141 Tor 0.2.1.26 addresses the recent connection and memory overload
8142 problems we've been seeing on relays, especially relays with their
8143 DirPort open. If your relay has been crashing, or you turned it off
8144 because it used too many resources, give this release a try.
8146 This release also fixes yet another instance of broken OpenSSL libraries
8147 that was causing some relays to drop out of the consensus.
8150 - Teach relays to defend themselves from connection overload. Relays
8151 now close idle circuits early if it looks like they were intended
8152 for directory fetches. Relays are also more aggressive about closing
8153 TLS connections that have no circuits on them. Such circuits are
8154 unlikely to be re-used, and tens of thousands of them were piling
8155 up at the fast relays, causing the relays to run out of sockets
8156 and memory. Bugfix on 0.2.0.22-rc (where clients started tunneling
8157 their directory fetches over TLS).
8158 - Fix SSL renegotiation behavior on OpenSSL versions like on Centos
8159 that claim to be earlier than 0.9.8m, but which have in reality
8160 backported huge swaths of 0.9.8m or 0.9.8n renegotiation
8161 behavior. Possible fix for some cases of bug 1346.
8162 - Directory mirrors were fetching relay descriptors only from v2
8163 directory authorities, rather than v3 authorities like they should.
8164 Only 2 v2 authorities remain (compared to 7 v3 authorities), leading
8165 to a serious bottleneck. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha. Fixes bug 1324.
8168 - Finally get rid of the deprecated and now harmful notion of "clique
8169 mode", where directory authorities maintain TLS connections to
8173 - In the util/threads test, no longer free the test_mutex before all
8174 worker threads have finished. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8175 - The master thread could starve the worker threads quite badly on
8176 certain systems, causing them to run only partially in the allowed
8177 window. This resulted in test failures. Now the master thread sleeps
8178 occasionally for a few microseconds while the two worker-threads
8179 compete for the mutex. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8182 Changes in version 0.2.1.25 - 2010-03-16
8183 Tor 0.2.1.25 fixes a regression introduced in 0.2.1.23 that could
8184 prevent relays from guessing their IP address correctly. It also fixes
8185 several minor potential security bugs.
8188 - Fix a regression from our patch for bug 1244 that caused relays
8189 to guess their IP address incorrectly if they didn't set Address
8190 in their torrc and/or their address fails to resolve. Bugfix on
8191 0.2.1.23; fixes bug 1269.
8192 - When freeing a session key, zero it out completely. We only zeroed
8193 the first ptrsize bytes. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8. Discovered and
8194 patched by ekir. Fixes bug 1254.
8197 - Fix a dereference-then-NULL-check sequence when publishing
8198 descriptors. Bugfix on 0.2.1.5-alpha. Discovered by ekir; fixes
8200 - Fix another dereference-then-NULL-check sequence. Bugfix on
8201 0.2.1.14-rc. Discovered by ekir; fixes bug 1256.
8202 - Make sure we treat potentially not NUL-terminated strings correctly.
8203 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha. Discovered by rieo; fixes bug 1257.
8206 Changes in version 0.2.1.24 - 2010-02-21
8207 Tor 0.2.1.24 makes Tor work again on the latest OS X -- this time
8211 - Work correctly out-of-the-box with even more vendor-patched versions
8212 of OpenSSL. In particular, make it so Debian and OS X don't need
8213 customized patches to run/build.
8216 Changes in version 0.2.1.23 - 2010-02-13
8217 Tor 0.2.1.23 fixes a huge client-side performance bug, makes Tor work
8218 again on the latest OS X, and updates the location of a directory
8221 o Major bugfixes (performance):
8222 - We were selecting our guards uniformly at random, and then weighting
8223 which of our guards we'd use uniformly at random. This imbalance
8224 meant that Tor clients were severely limited on throughput (and
8225 probably latency too) by the first hop in their circuit. Now we
8226 select guards weighted by currently advertised bandwidth. We also
8227 automatically discard guards picked using the old algorithm. Fixes
8228 bug 1217; bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha. Found by Mike Perry.
8231 - Make Tor work again on the latest OS X: when deciding whether to
8232 use strange flags to turn TLS renegotiation on, detect the OpenSSL
8233 version at run-time, not compile time. We need to do this because
8234 Apple doesn't update its dev-tools headers when it updates its
8235 libraries in a security patch.
8236 - Fix a potential buffer overflow in lookup_last_hid_serv_request()
8237 that could happen on 32-bit platforms with 64-bit time_t. Also fix
8238 a memory leak when requesting a hidden service descriptor we've
8239 requested before. Fixes bug 1242, bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha. Found
8243 - Refactor resolve_my_address() to not use gethostbyname() anymore.
8244 Fixes bug 1244; bugfix on 0.0.2pre25. Reported by Mike Mestnik.
8247 - Avoid a mad rush at the beginning of each month when each client
8248 rotates half of its guards. Instead we spread the rotation out
8249 throughout the month, but we still avoid leaving a precise timestamp
8250 in the state file about when we first picked the guard. Improves
8251 over the behavior introduced in 0.1.2.17.
8254 Changes in version 0.2.1.22 - 2010-01-19
8255 Tor 0.2.1.22 fixes a critical privacy problem in bridge directory
8256 authorities -- it would tell you its whole history of bridge descriptors
8257 if you make the right directory request. This stable update also
8258 rotates two of the seven v3 directory authority keys and locations.
8260 o Directory authority changes:
8261 - Rotate keys (both v3 identity and relay identity) for moria1
8265 - Stop bridge directory authorities from answering dbg-stability.txt
8266 directory queries, which would let people fetch a list of all
8267 bridge identities they track. Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8270 Changes in version 0.2.1.21 - 2009-12-21
8271 Tor 0.2.1.21 fixes an incompatibility with the most recent OpenSSL
8272 library. If you use Tor on Linux / Unix and you're getting SSL
8273 renegotiation errors, upgrading should help. We also recommend an
8274 upgrade if you're an exit relay.
8277 - Work around a security feature in OpenSSL 0.9.8l that prevents our
8278 handshake from working unless we explicitly tell OpenSSL that we
8279 are using SSL renegotiation safely. We are, of course, but OpenSSL
8280 0.9.8l won't work unless we say we are.
8281 - Avoid crashing if the client is trying to upload many bytes and the
8282 circuit gets torn down at the same time, or if the flip side
8283 happens on the exit relay. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha; fixes bug 1150.
8286 - Do not refuse to learn about authority certs and v2 networkstatus
8287 documents that are older than the latest consensus. This bug might
8288 have degraded client bootstrapping. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8289 Spotted and fixed by xmux.
8290 - Fix a couple of very-hard-to-trigger memory leaks, and one hard-to-
8291 trigger platform-specific option misparsing case found by Coverity
8293 - Fix a compilation warning on Fedora 12 by removing an impossible-to-
8294 trigger assert. Fixes bug 1173.
8297 Changes in version 0.2.1.20 - 2009-10-15
8298 Tor 0.2.1.20 fixes a crash bug when you're accessing many hidden
8299 services at once, prepares for more performance improvements, and
8300 fixes a bunch of smaller bugs.
8302 The Windows and OS X bundles also include a more recent Vidalia,
8303 and switch from Privoxy to Polipo.
8305 The OS X installers are now drag and drop. It's best to un-install
8306 Tor/Vidalia and then install this new bundle, rather than upgrade. If
8307 you want to upgrade, you'll need to update the paths for Tor and Polipo
8308 in the Vidalia Settings window.
8311 - Send circuit or stream sendme cells when our window has decreased
8312 by 100 cells, not when it has decreased by 101 cells. Bug uncovered
8313 by Karsten when testing the "reduce circuit window" performance
8314 patch. Bugfix on the 54th commit on Tor -- from July 2002,
8315 before the release of Tor 0.0.0. This is the new winner of the
8317 - Fix a remotely triggerable memory leak when a consensus document
8318 contains more than one signature from the same voter. Bugfix on
8320 - Avoid segfault in rare cases when finishing an introduction circuit
8321 as a client and finding out that we don't have an introduction key
8322 for it. Fixes bug 1073. Reported by Aaron Swartz.
8325 - Tor now reads the "circwindow" parameter out of the consensus,
8326 and uses that value for its circuit package window rather than the
8327 default of 1000 cells. Begins the implementation of proposal 168.
8329 o New directory authorities:
8330 - Set up urras (run by Jacob Appelbaum) as the seventh v3 directory
8332 - Move moria1 and tonga to alternate IP addresses.
8335 - Fix a signed/unsigned compile warning in 0.2.1.19.
8336 - Fix possible segmentation fault on directory authorities. Bugfix on
8338 - Fix an extremely rare infinite recursion bug that could occur if
8339 we tried to log a message after shutting down the log subsystem.
8340 Found by Matt Edman. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha.
8341 - Fix an obscure bug where hidden services on 64-bit big-endian
8342 systems might mis-read the timestamp in v3 introduce cells, and
8343 refuse to connect back to the client. Discovered by "rotor".
8344 Bugfix on 0.2.1.6-alpha.
8345 - We were triggering a CLOCK_SKEW controller status event whenever
8346 we connect via the v2 connection protocol to any relay that has
8347 a wrong clock. Instead, we should only inform the controller when
8348 it's a trusted authority that claims our clock is wrong. Bugfix
8349 on 0.2.0.20-rc; starts to fix bug 1074. Reported by SwissTorExit.
8350 - We were telling the controller about CHECKING_REACHABILITY and
8351 REACHABILITY_FAILED status events whenever we launch a testing
8352 circuit or notice that one has failed. Instead, only tell the
8353 controller when we want to inform the user of overall success or
8354 overall failure. Bugfix on 0.1.2.6-alpha. Fixes bug 1075. Reported
8356 - Don't warn when we're using a circuit that ends with a node
8357 excluded in ExcludeExitNodes, but the circuit is not used to access
8358 the outside world. This should help fix bug 1090. Bugfix on
8360 - Work around a small memory leak in some versions of OpenSSL that
8361 stopped the memory used by the hostname TLS extension from being
8365 - Add a "getinfo status/accepted-server-descriptor" controller
8366 command, which is the recommended way for controllers to learn
8367 whether our server descriptor has been successfully received by at
8368 least on directory authority. Un-recommend good-server-descriptor
8369 getinfo and status events until we have a better design for them.
8372 Changes in version 0.2.1.19 - 2009-07-28
8373 Tor 0.2.1.19 fixes a major bug with accessing and providing hidden
8377 - Make accessing hidden services on 0.2.1.x work right again.
8378 Bugfix on 0.2.1.3-alpha; workaround for bug 1038. Diagnosis and
8379 part of patch provided by "optimist".
8382 - When a relay/bridge is writing out its identity key fingerprint to
8383 the "fingerprint" file and to its logs, write it without spaces. Now
8384 it will look like the fingerprints in our bridges documentation,
8385 and confuse fewer users.
8388 - Relays no longer publish a new server descriptor if they change
8389 their MaxAdvertisedBandwidth config option but it doesn't end up
8390 changing their advertised bandwidth numbers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.28-rc;
8391 fixes bug 1026. Patch from Sebastian.
8392 - Avoid leaking memory every time we get a create cell but we have
8393 so many already queued that we refuse it. Bugfix on 0.2.0.19-alpha;
8394 fixes bug 1034. Reported by BarkerJr.
8397 Changes in version 0.2.1.18 - 2009-07-24
8398 Tor 0.2.1.18 lays the foundations for performance improvements,
8399 adds status events to help users diagnose bootstrap problems, adds
8400 optional authentication/authorization for hidden services, fixes a
8401 variety of potential anonymity problems, and includes a huge pile of
8402 other features and bug fixes.
8404 o Major features (clients):
8405 - Start sending "bootstrap phase" status events to the controller,
8406 so it can keep the user informed of progress fetching directory
8407 information and establishing circuits. Also inform the controller
8408 if we think we're stuck at a particular bootstrap phase. Implements
8410 - Clients replace entry guards that were chosen more than a few months
8411 ago. This change should significantly improve client performance,
8412 especially once more people upgrade, since relays that have been
8413 a guard for a long time are currently overloaded.
8414 - Network status consensus documents and votes now contain bandwidth
8415 information for each relay. Clients use the bandwidth values
8416 in the consensus, rather than the bandwidth values in each
8417 relay descriptor. This approach opens the door to more accurate
8418 bandwidth estimates once the directory authorities start doing
8419 active measurements. Implements part of proposal 141.
8421 o Major features (relays):
8422 - Disable and refactor some debugging checks that forced a linear scan
8423 over the whole server-side DNS cache. These accounted for over 50%
8424 of CPU time on a relatively busy exit node's gprof profile. Also,
8425 disable some debugging checks that appeared in exit node profile
8426 data. Found by Jacob.
8427 - New DirPortFrontPage option that takes an html file and publishes
8428 it as "/" on the DirPort. Now relay operators can provide a
8429 disclaimer without needing to set up a separate webserver. There's
8430 a sample disclaimer in contrib/tor-exit-notice.html.
8432 o Major features (hidden services):
8433 - Make it possible to build hidden services that only certain clients
8434 are allowed to connect to. This is enforced at several points,
8435 so that unauthorized clients are unable to send INTRODUCE cells
8436 to the service, or even (depending on the type of authentication)
8437 to learn introduction points. This feature raises the bar for
8438 certain kinds of active attacks against hidden services. Design
8439 and code by Karsten Loesing. Implements proposal 121.
8440 - Relays now store and serve v2 hidden service descriptors by default,
8441 i.e., the new default value for HidServDirectoryV2 is 1. This is
8442 the last step in proposal 114, which aims to make hidden service
8443 lookups more reliable.
8445 o Major features (path selection):
8446 - ExitNodes and Exclude*Nodes config options now allow you to restrict
8447 by country code ("{US}") or IP address or address pattern
8448 ("255.128.0.0/16"). Patch from Robert Hogan. It still needs some
8449 refinement to decide what config options should take priority if
8450 you ask to both use a particular node and exclude it.
8452 o Major features (misc):
8453 - When building a consensus, do not include routers that are down.
8454 This cuts down 30% to 40% on consensus size. Implements proposal
8456 - New TestingTorNetwork config option to allow adjustment of
8457 previously constant values that could slow bootstrapping. Implements
8458 proposal 135. Patch from Karsten.
8459 - Convert many internal address representations to optionally hold
8460 IPv6 addresses. Generate and accept IPv6 addresses in many protocol
8461 elements. Make resolver code handle nameservers located at IPv6
8463 - More work on making our TLS handshake blend in: modify the list
8464 of ciphers advertised by OpenSSL in client mode to even more
8465 closely resemble a common web browser. We cheat a little so that
8466 we can advertise ciphers that the locally installed OpenSSL doesn't
8468 - Use the TLS1 hostname extension to more closely resemble browser
8471 o Security fixes (anonymity/entropy):
8472 - Never use a connection with a mismatched address to extend a
8473 circuit, unless that connection is canonical. A canonical
8474 connection is one whose address is authenticated by the router's
8475 identity key, either in a NETINFO cell or in a router descriptor.
8476 - Implement most of proposal 110: The first K cells to be sent
8477 along a circuit are marked as special "early" cells; only K "early"
8478 cells will be allowed. Once this code is universal, we can block
8479 certain kinds of denial-of-service attack by requiring that EXTEND
8480 commands must be sent using an "early" cell.
8481 - Resume using OpenSSL's RAND_poll() for better (and more portable)
8482 cross-platform entropy collection again. We used to use it, then
8483 stopped using it because of a bug that could crash systems that
8484 called RAND_poll when they had a lot of fds open. It looks like the
8485 bug got fixed in late 2006. Our new behavior is to call RAND_poll()
8486 at startup, and to call RAND_poll() when we reseed later only if
8487 we have a non-buggy OpenSSL version.
8488 - When the client is choosing entry guards, now it selects at most
8489 one guard from a given relay family. Otherwise we could end up with
8490 all of our entry points into the network run by the same operator.
8491 Suggested by Camilo Viecco. Fix on 0.1.1.11-alpha.
8492 - Do not use or believe expired v3 authority certificates. Patch
8493 from Karsten. Bugfix in 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 851.
8494 - Drop begin cells to a hidden service if they come from the middle
8495 of a circuit. Patch from lark.
8496 - When we erroneously receive two EXTEND cells for the same circuit
8497 ID on the same connection, drop the second. Patch from lark.
8498 - Authorities now vote for the Stable flag for any router whose
8499 weighted MTBF is at least 5 days, regardless of the mean MTBF.
8500 - Clients now never report any stream end reason except 'MISC'.
8501 Implements proposal 148.
8503 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
8504 - Parse dates and IPv4 addresses in a locale- and libc-independent
8505 manner, to avoid platform-dependent behavior on malformed input.
8506 - Fix a crash that occurs on exit nodes when a nameserver request
8507 timed out. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha; our CLEAR debugging code had
8508 been suppressing the bug since 0.1.2.10-alpha. Partial fix for
8510 - Do not assume that a stack-allocated character array will be
8511 64-bit aligned on platforms that demand that uint64_t access is
8512 aligned. Possible fix for bug 604.
8513 - Resolve a very rare crash bug that could occur when the user forced
8514 a nameserver reconfiguration during the middle of a nameserver
8515 probe. Fixes bug 526. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
8516 - Avoid a "0 divided by 0" calculation when calculating router uptime
8517 at directory authorities. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
8518 - Fix an assertion bug in parsing policy-related options; possible fix
8520 - Rate-limit too-many-sockets messages: when they happen, they happen
8521 a lot and end up filling up the disk. Resolves bug 748.
8522 - Fix a race condition that could cause crashes or memory corruption
8523 when running as a server with a controller listening for log
8525 - Avoid crashing when we have a policy specified in a DirPolicy or
8526 SocksPolicy or ReachableAddresses option with ports set on it,
8527 and we re-load the policy. May fix bug 996.
8528 - Fix an assertion failure on 64-bit platforms when we allocated
8529 memory right up to the end of a memarea, then realigned the memory
8530 one step beyond the end. Fixes a possible cause of bug 930.
8531 - Protect the count of open sockets with a mutex, so we can't
8532 corrupt it when two threads are closing or opening sockets at once.
8533 Fix for bug 939. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8535 o Major bugfixes (clients):
8536 - Discard router descriptors as we load them if they are more than
8537 five days old. Otherwise if Tor is off for a long time and then
8538 starts with cached descriptors, it will try to use the onion keys
8539 in those obsolete descriptors when building circuits. Fixes bug 887.
8540 - When we choose to abandon a new entry guard because we think our
8541 older ones might be better, close any circuits pending on that
8542 new entry guard connection. This fix should make us recover much
8543 faster when our network is down and then comes back. Bugfix on
8544 0.1.2.8-beta; found by lodger.
8545 - When Tor clients restart after 1-5 days, they discard all their
8546 cached descriptors as too old, but they still use the cached
8547 consensus document. This approach is good for robustness, but
8548 bad for performance: since they don't know any bandwidths, they
8549 end up choosing at random rather than weighting their choice by
8550 speed. Fixed by the above feature of putting bandwidths in the
8553 o Major bugfixes (relays):
8554 - Relays were falling out of the networkstatus consensus for
8555 part of a day if they changed their local config but the
8556 authorities discarded their new descriptor as "not sufficiently
8557 different". Now directory authorities accept a descriptor as changed
8558 if BandwidthRate or BandwidthBurst changed. Partial fix for bug 962;
8560 - Ensure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
8561 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
8562 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779; fixes a bug on 0.1.0.4-rc.
8563 - Directory authorities were neglecting to mark relays down in their
8564 internal histories if the relays fall off the routerlist without
8565 ever being found unreachable. So there were relays in the histories
8566 that haven't been seen for eight months, and are listed as being
8567 up for eight months. This wreaked havoc on the "median wfu" and
8568 "median mtbf" calculations, in turn making Guard and Stable flags
8569 wrong, hurting network performance. Fixes bugs 696 and 969. Bugfix
8572 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
8573 - When establishing a hidden service, introduction points that
8574 originate from cannibalized circuits were completely ignored
8575 and not included in rendezvous service descriptors. This might
8576 have been another reason for delay in making a hidden service
8577 available. Bugfix from long ago (0.0.9.x?)
8579 o Major bugfixes (memory and resource management):
8580 - Fixed some memory leaks -- some quite frequent, some almost
8581 impossible to trigger -- based on results from Coverity.
8582 - Speed up parsing and cut down on memory fragmentation by using
8583 stack-style allocations for parsing directory objects. Previously,
8584 this accounted for over 40% of allocations from within Tor's code
8585 on a typical directory cache.
8586 - Use a Bloom filter rather than a digest-based set to track which
8587 descriptors we need to keep around when we're cleaning out old
8588 router descriptors. This speeds up the computation significantly,
8589 and may reduce fragmentation.
8591 o New/changed config options:
8592 - Now NodeFamily and MyFamily config options allow spaces in
8593 identity fingerprints, so it's easier to paste them in.
8594 Suggested by Lucky Green.
8595 - Allow ports 465 and 587 in the default exit policy again. We had
8596 rejected them in 0.1.0.15, because back in 2005 they were commonly
8597 misconfigured and ended up as spam targets. We hear they are better
8598 locked down these days.
8599 - Make TrackHostExit mappings expire a while after their last use, not
8600 after their creation. Patch from Robert Hogan.
8601 - Add an ExcludeExitNodes option so users can list a set of nodes
8602 that should be be excluded from the exit node position, but
8603 allowed elsewhere. Implements proposal 151.
8604 - New --hush command-line option similar to --quiet. While --quiet
8605 disables all logging to the console on startup, --hush limits the
8606 output to messages of warning and error severity.
8607 - New configure/torrc options (--enable-geoip-stats,
8608 DirRecordUsageByCountry) to record how many IPs we've served
8609 directory info to in each country code, how many status documents
8610 total we've sent to each country code, and what share of the total
8611 directory requests we should expect to see.
8612 - Make outbound DNS packets respect the OutboundBindAddress setting.
8613 Fixes the bug part of bug 798. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha.
8614 - Allow separate log levels to be configured for different logging
8615 domains. For example, this allows one to log all notices, warnings,
8616 or errors, plus all memory management messages of level debug or
8617 higher, with: Log [MM] debug-err [*] notice-err file /var/log/tor.
8618 - Update to the "June 3 2009" ip-to-country file.
8620 o Minor features (relays):
8621 - Raise the minimum rate limiting to be a relay from 20000 bytes
8622 to 20480 bytes (aka 20KB/s), to match our documentation. Also
8623 update directory authorities so they always assign the Fast flag
8624 to relays with 20KB/s of capacity. Now people running relays won't
8625 suddenly find themselves not seeing any use, if the network gets
8627 - If we're a relay and we change our IP address, be more verbose
8628 about the reason that made us change. Should help track down
8629 further bugs for relays on dynamic IP addresses.
8630 - Exit servers can now answer resolve requests for ip6.arpa addresses.
8631 - Implement most of Proposal 152: allow specialized servers to permit
8632 single-hop circuits, and clients to use those servers to build
8633 single-hop circuits when using a specialized controller. Patch
8634 from Josh Albrecht. Resolves feature request 768.
8635 - When relays do their initial bandwidth measurement, don't limit
8636 to just our entry guards for the test circuits. Otherwise we tend
8637 to have multiple test circuits going through a single entry guard,
8638 which makes our bandwidth test less accurate. Fixes part of bug 654;
8639 patch contributed by Josh Albrecht.
8641 o Minor features (directory authorities):
8642 - Try not to open more than one descriptor-downloading connection
8643 to an authority at once. This should reduce load on directory
8644 authorities. Fixes bug 366.
8645 - Add cross-certification to newly generated certificates, so that
8646 a signing key is enough information to look up a certificate. Start
8647 serving certificates by <identity digest, signing key digest>
8648 pairs. Implements proposal 157.
8649 - When a directory authority downloads a descriptor that it then
8650 immediately rejects, do not retry downloading it right away. Should
8651 save some bandwidth on authorities. Fix for bug 888. Patch by
8653 - Directory authorities now serve a /tor/dbg-stability.txt URL to
8654 help debug WFU and MTBF calculations.
8655 - In directory authorities' approved-routers files, allow
8656 fingerprints with or without space.
8658 o Minor features (directory mirrors):
8659 - When a download gets us zero good descriptors, do not notify
8660 Tor that new directory information has arrived.
8661 - Servers support a new URL scheme for consensus downloads that
8662 allows the client to specify which authorities are trusted.
8663 The server then only sends the consensus if the client will trust
8664 it. Otherwise a 404 error is sent back. Clients use this
8665 new scheme when the server supports it (meaning it's running
8666 0.2.1.1-alpha or later). Implements proposal 134.
8668 o Minor features (bridges):
8669 - If the bridge config line doesn't specify a port, assume 443.
8670 This makes bridge lines a bit smaller and easier for users to
8672 - If we're using bridges and our network goes away, be more willing
8673 to forgive our bridges and try again when we get an application
8676 o Minor features (hidden services):
8677 - When the client launches an introduction circuit, retry with a
8678 new circuit after 30 seconds rather than 60 seconds.
8679 - Launch a second client-side introduction circuit in parallel
8680 after a delay of 15 seconds (based on work by Christian Wilms).
8681 - Hidden services start out building five intro circuits rather
8682 than three, and when the first three finish they publish a service
8683 descriptor using those. Now we publish our service descriptor much
8684 faster after restart.
8685 - Drop the requirement to have an open dir port for storing and
8686 serving v2 hidden service descriptors.
8688 o Minor features (build and packaging):
8689 - On Linux, use the prctl call to re-enable core dumps when the User
8691 - Try to make sure that the version of Libevent we're running with
8692 is binary-compatible with the one we built with. May address bug
8694 - Add a new --enable-local-appdata configuration switch to change
8695 the default location of the datadir on win32 from APPDATA to
8696 LOCAL_APPDATA. In the future, we should migrate to LOCAL_APPDATA
8697 entirely. Patch from coderman.
8698 - Build correctly against versions of OpenSSL 0.9.8 or later that
8699 are built without support for deprecated functions.
8700 - On platforms with a maximum syslog string length, truncate syslog
8701 messages to that length ourselves, rather than relying on the
8702 system to do it for us.
8703 - Automatically detect MacOSX versions earlier than 10.4.0, and
8704 disable kqueue from inside Tor when running with these versions.
8705 We previously did this from the startup script, but that was no
8706 help to people who didn't use the startup script. Resolves bug 863.
8707 - Build correctly when configured to build outside the main source
8708 path. Patch from Michael Gold.
8709 - Disable GCC's strict alias optimization by default, to avoid the
8710 likelihood of its introducing subtle bugs whenever our code violates
8711 the letter of C99's alias rules.
8712 - Change the contrib/tor.logrotate script so it makes the new
8713 logs as "_tor:_tor" rather than the default, which is generally
8714 "root:wheel". Fixes bug 676, reported by Serge Koksharov.
8715 - Change our header file guard macros to be less likely to conflict
8716 with system headers. Adam Langley noticed that we were conflicting
8717 with log.h on Android.
8718 - Add a couple of extra warnings to --enable-gcc-warnings for GCC 4.3,
8719 and stop using a warning that had become unfixably verbose under
8721 - Use a lockfile to make sure that two Tor processes are not
8722 simultaneously running with the same datadir.
8723 - Allow OpenSSL to use dynamic locks if it wants.
8724 - Add LIBS=-lrt to Makefile.am so the Tor RPMs use a static libevent.
8726 o Minor features (controllers):
8727 - When generating circuit events with verbose nicknames for
8728 controllers, try harder to look up nicknames for routers on a
8729 circuit. (Previously, we would look in the router descriptors we had
8730 for nicknames, but not in the consensus.) Partial fix for bug 941.
8731 - New controller event NEWCONSENSUS that lists the networkstatus
8732 lines for every recommended relay. Now controllers like Torflow
8733 can keep up-to-date on which relays they should be using.
8734 - New controller event "clients_seen" to report a geoip-based summary
8735 of which countries we've seen clients from recently. Now controllers
8736 like Vidalia can show bridge operators that they're actually making
8738 - Add a 'getinfo status/clients-seen' controller command, in case
8739 controllers want to hear clients_seen events but connect late.
8740 - New CONSENSUS_ARRIVED event to note when a new consensus has
8741 been fetched and validated.
8742 - Add an internal-use-only __ReloadTorrcOnSIGHUP option for
8743 controllers to prevent SIGHUP from reloading the configuration.
8745 - Return circuit purposes in response to GETINFO circuit-status.
8747 - Serve the latest v3 networkstatus consensus via the control
8748 port. Use "getinfo dir/status-vote/current/consensus" to fetch it.
8749 - Add a "GETINFO /status/bootstrap-phase" controller option, so the
8750 controller can query our current bootstrap state in case it attaches
8751 partway through and wants to catch up.
8752 - Provide circuit purposes along with circuit events to the controller.
8754 o Minor features (tools):
8755 - Do not have tor-resolve automatically refuse all .onion addresses;
8756 if AutomapHostsOnResolve is set in your torrc, this will work fine.
8757 - Add a -p option to tor-resolve for specifying the SOCKS port: some
8758 people find host:port too confusing.
8759 - Print the SOCKS5 error message string as well as the error code
8760 when a tor-resolve request fails. Patch from Jacob.
8762 o Minor bugfixes (memory and resource management):
8763 - Clients no longer cache certificates for authorities they do not
8764 recognize. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8765 - Do not use C's stdio library for writing to log files. This will
8766 improve logging performance by a minute amount, and will stop
8767 leaking fds when our disk is full. Fixes bug 861.
8768 - Stop erroneous use of O_APPEND in cases where we did not in fact
8769 want to re-seek to the end of a file before every last write().
8770 - Fix a small alignment and memory-wasting bug on buffer chunks.
8772 - Add a malloc_good_size implementation to OpenBSD_malloc_linux.c,
8773 to avoid unused RAM in buffer chunks and memory pools.
8774 - Reduce the default smartlist size from 32 to 16; it turns out that
8775 most smartlists hold around 8-12 elements tops.
8776 - Make dumpstats() log the fullness and size of openssl-internal
8778 - If the user has applied the experimental SSL_MODE_RELEASE_BUFFERS
8779 patch to their OpenSSL, turn it on to save memory on servers. This
8780 patch will (with any luck) get included in a mainline distribution
8782 - Fix a memory leak when v3 directory authorities load their keys
8783 and cert from disk. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
8784 - Stop using malloc_usable_size() to use more area than we had
8785 actually allocated: it was safe, but made valgrind really unhappy.
8786 - Make the assert_circuit_ok() function work correctly on circuits that
8787 have already been marked for close.
8788 - Fix uninitialized size field for memory area allocation: may improve
8789 memory performance during directory parsing.
8791 o Minor bugfixes (clients):
8792 - Stop reloading the router list from disk for no reason when we
8793 run out of reachable directory mirrors. Once upon a time reloading
8794 it would set the 'is_running' flag back to 1 for them. It hasn't
8795 done that for a long time.
8796 - When we had picked an exit node for a connection, but marked it as
8797 "optional", and it turned out we had no onion key for the exit,
8798 stop wanting that exit and try again. This situation may not
8799 be possible now, but will probably become feasible with proposal
8800 158. Spotted by rovv. Fixes another case of bug 752.
8801 - Fix a bug in address parsing that was preventing bridges or hidden
8802 service targets from being at IPv6 addresses.
8803 - Do not remove routers as too old if we do not have any consensus
8804 document. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha.
8805 - When an exit relay resolves a stream address to a local IP address,
8806 do not just keep retrying that same exit relay over and
8807 over. Instead, just close the stream. Addresses bug 872. Bugfix
8808 on 0.2.0.32. Patch from rovv.
8809 - Made Tor a little less aggressive about deleting expired
8810 certificates. Partial fix for bug 854.
8811 - Treat duplicate certificate fetches as failures, so that we do
8812 not try to re-fetch an expired certificate over and over and over.
8813 - Do not say we're fetching a certificate when we'll in fact skip it
8814 because of a pending download.
8815 - If we have correct permissions on $datadir, we complain to stdout
8816 and fail to start. But dangerous permissions on
8817 $datadir/cached-status/ would cause us to open a log and complain
8818 there. Now complain to stdout and fail to start in both cases. Fixes
8819 bug 820, reported by seeess.
8821 o Minor bugfixes (bridges):
8822 - When we made bridge authorities stop serving bridge descriptors over
8823 unencrypted links, we also broke DirPort reachability testing for
8824 bridges. So bridges with a non-zero DirPort were printing spurious
8825 warns to their logs. Bugfix on 0.2.0.16-alpha. Fixes bug 709.
8826 - Don't allow a bridge to publish its router descriptor to a
8827 non-bridge directory authority. Fixes part of bug 932.
8828 - When we change to or from being a bridge, reset our counts of
8829 client usage by country. Fixes bug 932.
8831 o Minor bugfixes (relays):
8832 - Log correct error messages for DNS-related network errors on
8834 - Actually return -1 in the error case for read_bandwidth_usage().
8835 Harmless bug, since we currently don't care about the return value
8836 anywhere. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha.
8837 - Provide a more useful log message if bug 977 (related to buffer
8838 freelists) ever reappears, and do not crash right away.
8839 - We were already rejecting relay begin cells with destination port
8840 of 0. Now also reject extend cells with destination port or address
8841 of 0. Suggested by lark.
8842 - When we can't transmit a DNS request due to a network error, retry
8843 it after a while, and eventually transmit a failing response to
8844 the RESOLVED cell. Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha.
8845 - Solve a bug that kept hardware crypto acceleration from getting
8846 enabled when accounting was turned on. Fixes bug 907. Bugfix on
8848 - When a canonical connection appears later in our internal list
8849 than a noncanonical one for a given OR ID, always use the
8850 canonical one. Bugfix on 0.2.0.12-alpha. Fixes bug 805.
8852 - Avoid some nasty corner cases in the logic for marking connections
8853 as too old or obsolete or noncanonical for circuits. Partial
8855 - Fix another interesting corner-case of bug 891 spotted by rovv:
8856 Previously, if two hosts had different amounts of clock drift, and
8857 one of them created a new connection with just the wrong timing,
8858 the other might decide to deprecate the new connection erroneously.
8859 Bugfix on 0.1.1.13-alpha.
8860 - If one win32 nameserver fails to get added, continue adding the
8861 rest, and don't automatically fail.
8862 - Fix a bug where an unreachable relay would establish enough
8863 reachability testing circuits to do a bandwidth test -- if
8864 we already have a connection to the middle hop of the testing
8865 circuit, then it could establish the last hop by using the existing
8866 connection. Bugfix on 0.1.2.2-alpha, exposed when we made testing
8867 circuits no longer use entry guards in 0.2.1.3-alpha.
8869 o Minor bugfixes (directory authorities):
8870 - Limit uploaded directory documents to be 16M rather than 500K.
8871 The directory authorities were refusing v3 consensus votes from
8872 other authorities, since the votes are now 504K. Fixes bug 959;
8873 bugfix on 0.0.2pre17 (where we raised it from 50K to 500K ;).
8874 - Directory authorities should never send a 503 "busy" response to
8875 requests for votes or keys. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha; exposed by
8877 - Fix code so authorities _actually_ send back X-Descriptor-Not-New
8878 headers. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
8880 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
8881 - When we can't find an intro key for a v2 hidden service descriptor,
8882 fall back to the v0 hidden service descriptor and log a bug message.
8883 Workaround for bug 1024.
8884 - In very rare situations new hidden service descriptors were
8885 published earlier than 30 seconds after the last change to the
8886 service. (We currently think that a hidden service descriptor
8887 that's been stable for 30 seconds is worth publishing.)
8888 - If a hidden service sends us an END cell, do not consider
8889 retrying the connection; just close it. Patch from rovv.
8890 - If we are not using BEGIN_DIR cells, don't attempt to contact hidden
8891 service directories if they have no advertised dir port. Bugfix
8894 o Minor bugfixes (tools):
8895 - In the torify(1) manpage, mention that tsocks will leak your
8898 o Minor bugfixes (controllers):
8899 - If the controller claimed responsibility for a stream, but that
8900 stream never finished making its connection, it would live
8901 forever in circuit_wait state. Now we close it after SocksTimeout
8902 seconds. Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha; reported by Mike Perry.
8903 - Make DNS resolved controller events into "CLOSED", not
8904 "FAILED". Bugfix on 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves
8906 - The control port would close the connection before flushing long
8907 replies, such as the network consensus, if a QUIT command was issued
8908 before the reply had completed. Now, the control port flushes all
8909 pending replies before closing the connection. Also fix a spurious
8910 warning when a QUIT command is issued after a malformed or rejected
8911 AUTHENTICATE command, but before the connection was closed. Patch
8912 by Marcus Griep. Fixes bugs 1015 and 1016.
8913 - Fix a bug that made stream bandwidth get misreported to the
8916 o Deprecated and removed features:
8917 - The old "tor --version --version" command, which would print out
8918 the subversion "Id" of most of the source files, is now removed. It
8919 turned out to be less useful than we'd expected, and harder to
8921 - RedirectExits has been removed. It was deprecated since
8923 - Finally remove deprecated "EXTENDED_FORMAT" controller feature. It
8924 has been called EXTENDED_EVENTS since 0.1.2.4-alpha.
8925 - Cell pools are now always enabled; --disable-cell-pools is ignored.
8926 - Directory mirrors no longer fetch the v1 directory or
8927 running-routers files. They are obsolete, and nobody asks for them
8928 anymore. This is the first step to making v1 authorities obsolete.
8929 - Take out the TestVia config option, since it was a workaround for
8930 a bug that was fixed in Tor 0.1.1.21.
8931 - Mark RendNodes, RendExcludeNodes, HiddenServiceNodes, and
8932 HiddenServiceExcludeNodes as obsolete: they never worked properly,
8933 and nobody seems to be using them. Fixes bug 754. Bugfix on
8934 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch from Christian Wilms.
8935 - Remove all backward-compatibility code for relays running
8936 versions of Tor so old that they no longer work at all on the
8939 o Code simplifications and refactoring:
8940 - Tool-assisted documentation cleanup. Nearly every function or
8941 static variable in Tor should have its own documentation now.
8942 - Rename the confusing or_is_obsolete field to the more appropriate
8943 is_bad_for_new_circs, and move it to or_connection_t where it
8945 - Move edge-only flags from connection_t to edge_connection_t: not
8946 only is this better coding, but on machines of plausible alignment,
8947 it should save 4-8 bytes per connection_t. "Every little bit helps."
8948 - Rename ServerDNSAllowBrokenResolvConf to ServerDNSAllowBrokenConfig
8949 for consistency; keep old option working for backward compatibility.
8950 - Simplify the code for finding connections to use for a circuit.
8951 - Revise the connection_new functions so that a more typesafe variant
8952 exists. This will work better with Coverity, and let us find any
8953 actual mistakes we're making here.
8954 - Refactor unit testing logic so that dmalloc can be used sensibly
8955 with unit tests to check for memory leaks.
8956 - Move all hidden-service related fields from connection and circuit
8957 structure to substructures: this way they won't eat so much memory.
8958 - Squeeze 2-5% out of client performance (according to oprofile) by
8959 improving the implementation of some policy-manipulation functions.
8960 - Change the implementation of ExcludeNodes and ExcludeExitNodes to
8961 be more efficient. Formerly it was quadratic in the number of
8962 servers; now it should be linear. Fixes bug 509.
8963 - Save 16-22 bytes per open circuit by moving the n_addr, n_port,
8964 and n_conn_id_digest fields into a separate structure that's
8965 only needed when the circuit has not yet attached to an n_conn.
8966 - Optimize out calls to time(NULL) that occur for every IO operation,
8967 or for every cell. On systems like Windows where time() is a
8968 slow syscall, this fix will be slightly helpful.
8971 Changes in version 0.2.0.35 - 2009-06-24
8973 - Avoid crashing in the presence of certain malformed descriptors.
8974 Found by lark, and by automated fuzzing.
8975 - Fix an edge case where a malicious exit relay could convince a
8976 controller that the client's DNS question resolves to an internal IP
8977 address. Bug found and fixed by "optimist"; bugfix on 0.1.2.8-beta.
8980 - Finally fix the bug where dynamic-IP relays disappear when their
8981 IP address changes: directory mirrors were mistakenly telling
8982 them their old address if they asked via begin_dir, so they
8983 never got an accurate answer about their new address, so they
8984 just vanished after a day. For belt-and-suspenders, relays that
8985 don't set Address in their config now avoid using begin_dir for
8986 all direct connections. Should fix bugs 827, 883, and 900.
8987 - Fix a timing-dependent, allocator-dependent, DNS-related crash bug
8988 that would occur on some exit nodes when DNS failures and timeouts
8989 occurred in certain patterns. Fix for bug 957.
8992 - When starting with a cache over a few days old, do not leak
8993 memory for the obsolete router descriptors in it. Bugfix on
8994 0.2.0.33; fixes bug 672.
8995 - Hidden service clients didn't use a cached service descriptor that
8996 was older than 15 minutes, but wouldn't fetch a new one either,
8997 because there was already one in the cache. Now, fetch a v2
8998 descriptor unless the same descriptor was added to the cache within
8999 the last 15 minutes. Fixes bug 997; reported by Marcus Griep.
9002 Changes in version 0.2.0.34 - 2009-02-08
9003 Tor 0.2.0.34 features several more security-related fixes. You should
9004 upgrade, especially if you run an exit relay (remote crash) or a
9005 directory authority (remote infinite loop), or you're on an older
9006 (pre-XP) or not-recently-patched Windows (remote exploit).
9008 This release marks end-of-life for Tor 0.1.2.x. Those Tor versions
9009 have many known flaws, and nobody should be using them. You should
9010 upgrade. If you're using a Linux or BSD and its packages are obsolete,
9011 stop using those packages and upgrade anyway.
9014 - Fix an infinite-loop bug on handling corrupt votes under certain
9015 circumstances. Bugfix on 0.2.0.8-alpha.
9016 - Fix a temporary DoS vulnerability that could be performed by
9017 a directory mirror. Bugfix on 0.2.0.9-alpha; reported by lark.
9018 - Avoid a potential crash on exit nodes when processing malformed
9019 input. Remote DoS opportunity. Bugfix on 0.2.0.33.
9020 - Do not accept incomplete ipv4 addresses (like 192.168.0) as valid.
9021 Spec conformance issue. Bugfix on Tor 0.0.2pre27.
9024 - Fix compilation on systems where time_t is a 64-bit integer.
9025 Patch from Matthias Drochner.
9026 - Don't consider expiring already-closed client connections. Fixes
9027 bug 893. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre20.
9030 Changes in version 0.2.0.33 - 2009-01-21
9031 Tor 0.2.0.33 fixes a variety of bugs that were making relays less
9032 useful to users. It also finally fixes a bug where a relay or client
9033 that's been off for many days would take a long time to bootstrap.
9035 This update also fixes an important security-related bug reported by
9036 Ilja van Sprundel. You should upgrade. (We'll send out more details
9037 about the bug once people have had some time to upgrade.)
9040 - Fix a heap-corruption bug that may be remotely triggerable on
9041 some platforms. Reported by Ilja van Sprundel.
9044 - When a stream at an exit relay is in state "resolving" or
9045 "connecting" and it receives an "end" relay cell, the exit relay
9046 would silently ignore the end cell and not close the stream. If
9047 the client never closes the circuit, then the exit relay never
9048 closes the TCP connection. Bug introduced in Tor 0.1.2.1-alpha;
9050 - When sending CREATED cells back for a given circuit, use a 64-bit
9051 connection ID to find the right connection, rather than an addr:port
9052 combination. Now that we can have multiple OR connections between
9053 the same ORs, it is no longer possible to use addr:port to uniquely
9054 identify a connection.
9055 - Bridge relays that had DirPort set to 0 would stop fetching
9056 descriptors shortly after startup, and then briefly resume
9057 after a new bandwidth test and/or after publishing a new bridge
9058 descriptor. Bridge users that try to bootstrap from them would
9059 get a recent networkstatus but would get descriptors from up to
9060 18 hours earlier, meaning most of the descriptors were obsolete
9061 already. Reported by Tas; bugfix on 0.2.0.13-alpha.
9062 - Prevent bridge relays from serving their 'extrainfo' document
9063 to anybody who asks, now that extrainfo docs include potentially
9064 sensitive aggregated client geoip summaries. Bugfix on
9066 - If the cached networkstatus consensus is more than five days old,
9067 discard it rather than trying to use it. In theory it could be
9068 useful because it lists alternate directory mirrors, but in practice
9069 it just means we spend many minutes trying directory mirrors that
9070 are long gone from the network. Also discard router descriptors as
9071 we load them if they are more than five days old, since the onion
9072 key is probably wrong by now. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x. Fixes bug 887.
9075 - Do not mark smartlist_bsearch_idx() function as ATTR_PURE. This bug
9076 could make gcc generate non-functional binary search code. Bugfix
9078 - Build correctly on platforms without socklen_t.
9079 - Compile without warnings on solaris.
9080 - Avoid potential crash on internal error during signature collection.
9081 Fixes bug 864. Patch from rovv.
9082 - Correct handling of possible malformed authority signing key
9083 certificates with internal signature types. Fixes bug 880.
9084 Bugfix on 0.2.0.3-alpha.
9085 - Fix a hard-to-trigger resource leak when logging credential status.
9087 - When we can't initialize DNS because the network is down, do not
9088 automatically stop Tor from starting. Instead, we retry failed
9089 dns_init() every 10 minutes, and change the exit policy to reject
9090 *:* until one succeeds. Fixes bug 691.
9091 - Use 64 bits instead of 32 bits for connection identifiers used with
9092 the controller protocol, to greatly reduce risk of identifier reuse.
9093 - When we're choosing an exit node for a circuit, and we have
9094 no pending streams, choose a good general exit rather than one that
9095 supports "all the pending streams". Bugfix on 0.1.1.x. Fix by rovv.
9096 - Fix another case of assuming, when a specific exit is requested,
9097 that we know more than the user about what hosts it allows.
9098 Fixes one case of bug 752. Patch from rovv.
9099 - Clip the MaxCircuitDirtiness config option to a minimum of 10
9100 seconds. Warn the user if lower values are given in the
9101 configuration. Bugfix on 0.1.0.1-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
9102 - Clip the CircuitBuildTimeout to a minimum of 30 seconds. Warn the
9103 user if lower values are given in the configuration. Bugfix on
9104 0.1.1.17-rc. Patch by Sebastian.
9105 - Fix a memory leak when we decline to add a v2 rendezvous descriptor to
9106 the cache because we already had a v0 descriptor with the same ID.
9107 Bugfix on 0.2.0.18-alpha.
9108 - Fix a race condition when freeing keys shared between main thread
9109 and CPU workers that could result in a memory leak. Bugfix on
9110 0.1.0.1-rc. Fixes bug 889.
9111 - Send a valid END cell back when a client tries to connect to a
9112 nonexistent hidden service port. Bugfix on 0.1.2.15. Fixes bug
9113 840. Patch from rovv.
9114 - Check which hops rendezvous stream cells are associated with to
9115 prevent possible guess-the-streamid injection attacks from
9116 intermediate hops. Fixes another case of bug 446. Based on patch
9118 - If a broken client asks a non-exit router to connect somewhere,
9119 do not even do the DNS lookup before rejecting the connection.
9120 Fixes another case of bug 619. Patch from rovv.
9121 - When a relay gets a create cell it can't decrypt (e.g. because it's
9122 using the wrong onion key), we were dropping it and letting the
9123 client time out. Now actually answer with a destroy cell. Fixes
9124 bug 904. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre8.
9126 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
9127 - Do not throw away existing introduction points on SIGHUP. Bugfix on
9128 0.0.6pre1. Patch by Karsten. Fixes bug 874.
9131 - Report the case where all signatures in a detached set are rejected
9132 differently than the case where there is an error handling the
9134 - When we realize that another process has modified our cached
9135 descriptors, print out a more useful error message rather than
9136 triggering an assertion. Fixes bug 885. Patch from Karsten.
9137 - Implement the 0x20 hack to better resist DNS poisoning: set the
9138 case on outgoing DNS requests randomly, and reject responses that do
9139 not match the case correctly. This logic can be disabled with the
9140 ServerDNSRamdomizeCase setting, if you are using one of the 0.3%
9141 of servers that do not reliably preserve case in replies. See
9142 "Increased DNS Forgery Resistance through 0x20-Bit Encoding"
9144 - Check DNS replies for more matching fields to better resist DNS
9146 - Never use OpenSSL compression: it wastes RAM and CPU trying to
9147 compress cells, which are basically all encrypted, compressed, or
9151 Changes in version 0.2.0.32 - 2008-11-20
9152 Tor 0.2.0.32 fixes a major security problem in Debian and Ubuntu
9153 packages (and maybe other packages) noticed by Theo de Raadt, fixes
9154 a smaller security flaw that might allow an attacker to access local
9155 services, further improves hidden service performance, and fixes a
9156 variety of other issues.
9159 - The "User" and "Group" config options did not clear the
9160 supplementary group entries for the Tor process. The "User" option
9161 is now more robust, and we now set the groups to the specified
9162 user's primary group. The "Group" option is now ignored. For more
9163 detailed logging on credential switching, set CREDENTIAL_LOG_LEVEL
9164 in common/compat.c to LOG_NOTICE or higher. Patch by Jacob Appelbaum
9165 and Steven Murdoch. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre14. Fixes bug 848 and 857.
9166 - The "ClientDNSRejectInternalAddresses" config option wasn't being
9167 consistently obeyed: if an exit relay refuses a stream because its
9168 exit policy doesn't allow it, we would remember what IP address
9169 the relay said the destination address resolves to, even if it's
9170 an internal IP address. Bugfix on 0.2.0.7-alpha; patch by rovv.
9173 - Fix a DOS opportunity during the voting signature collection process
9174 at directory authorities. Spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.x.
9176 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
9177 - When fetching v0 and v2 rendezvous service descriptors in parallel,
9178 we were failing the whole hidden service request when the v0
9179 descriptor fetch fails, even if the v2 fetch is still pending and
9180 might succeed. Similarly, if the last v2 fetch fails, we were
9181 failing the whole hidden service request even if a v0 fetch is
9182 still pending. Fixes bug 814. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha.
9183 - When extending a circuit to a hidden service directory to upload a
9184 rendezvous descriptor using a BEGIN_DIR cell, almost 1/6 of all
9185 requests failed, because the router descriptor has not been
9186 downloaded yet. In these cases, do not attempt to upload the
9187 rendezvous descriptor, but wait until the router descriptor is
9188 downloaded and retry. Likewise, do not attempt to fetch a rendezvous
9189 descriptor from a hidden service directory for which the router
9190 descriptor has not yet been downloaded. Fixes bug 767. Bugfix
9194 - Fix several infrequent memory leaks spotted by Coverity.
9195 - When testing for libevent functions, set the LDFLAGS variable
9196 correctly. Found by Riastradh.
9197 - Avoid a bug where the FastFirstHopPK 0 option would keep Tor from
9198 bootstrapping with tunneled directory connections. Bugfix on
9199 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fixes bug 797. Found by Erwin Lam.
9200 - When asked to connect to A.B.exit:80, if we don't know the IP for A
9201 and we know that server B rejects most-but-not all connections to
9202 port 80, we would previously reject the connection. Now, we assume
9203 the user knows what they were asking for. Fixes bug 752. Bugfix
9204 on 0.0.9rc5. Diagnosed by BarkerJr.
9205 - If we overrun our per-second write limits a little, count this as
9206 having used up our write allocation for the second, and choke
9207 outgoing directory writes. Previously, we had only counted this when
9208 we had met our limits precisely. Fixes bug 824. Patch from by rovv.
9209 Bugfix on 0.2.0.x (??).
9210 - Remove the old v2 directory authority 'lefkada' from the default
9211 list. It has been gone for many months.
9212 - Stop doing unaligned memory access that generated bus errors on
9213 sparc64. Bugfix on 0.2.0.10-alpha. Fixes bug 862.
9214 - Make USR2 log-level switch take effect immediately. Bugfix on
9217 o Minor bugfixes (controller):
9218 - Make DNS resolved events into "CLOSED", not "FAILED". Bugfix on
9219 0.1.2.5-alpha. Fix by Robert Hogan. Resolves bug 807.
9222 Changes in version 0.2.0.31 - 2008-09-03
9223 Tor 0.2.0.31 addresses two potential anonymity issues, starts to fix
9224 a big bug we're seeing where in rare cases traffic from one Tor stream
9225 gets mixed into another stream, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
9228 - Make sure that two circuits can never exist on the same connection
9229 with the same circuit ID, even if one is marked for close. This
9230 is conceivably a bugfix for bug 779. Bugfix on 0.1.0.4-rc.
9231 - Relays now reject risky extend cells: if the extend cell includes
9232 a digest of all zeroes, or asks to extend back to the relay that
9233 sent the extend cell, tear down the circuit. Ideas suggested
9235 - If not enough of our entry guards are available so we add a new
9236 one, we might use the new one even if it overlapped with the
9237 current circuit's exit relay (or its family). Anonymity bugfix
9238 pointed out by rovv.
9241 - Recover 3-7 bytes that were wasted per memory chunk. Fixes bug
9242 794; bug spotted by rovv. Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9243 - Correctly detect the presence of the linux/netfilter_ipv4.h header
9244 when building against recent kernels. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
9245 - Pick size of default geoip filename string correctly on windows.
9246 Fixes bug 806. Bugfix on 0.2.0.30.
9247 - Make the autoconf script accept the obsolete --with-ssl-dir
9248 option as an alias for the actually-working --with-openssl-dir
9249 option. Fix the help documentation to recommend --with-openssl-dir.
9250 Based on a patch by "Dave". Bugfix on 0.2.0.1-alpha.
9251 - When using the TransPort option on OpenBSD, and using the User
9252 option to change UID and drop privileges, make sure to open
9253 /dev/pf before dropping privileges. Fixes bug 782. Patch from
9254 Christopher Davis. Bugfix on 0.1.2.1-alpha.
9255 - Try to attach connections immediately upon receiving a RENDEZVOUS2
9256 or RENDEZVOUS_ESTABLISHED cell. This can save a second or two
9257 on the client side when connecting to a hidden service. Bugfix
9258 on 0.0.6pre1. Found and fixed by Christian Wilms; resolves bug 743.
9259 - When closing an application-side connection because its circuit is
9260 getting torn down, generate the stream event correctly. Bugfix on
9261 0.1.2.x. Anonymous patch.
9264 Changes in version 0.2.0.30 - 2008-07-15
9265 This new stable release switches to a more efficient directory
9266 distribution design, adds features to make connections to the Tor
9267 network harder to block, allows Tor to act as a DNS proxy, adds separate
9268 rate limiting for relayed traffic to make it easier for clients to
9269 become relays, fixes a variety of potential anonymity problems, and
9270 includes the usual huge pile of other features and bug fixes.
9272 o New v3 directory design:
9273 - Tor now uses a new way to learn about and distribute information
9274 about the network: the directory authorities vote on a common
9275 network status document rather than each publishing their own
9276 opinion. Now clients and caches download only one networkstatus
9277 document to bootstrap, rather than downloading one for each
9278 authority. Clients only download router descriptors listed in
9279 the consensus. Implements proposal 101; see doc/spec/dir-spec.txt
9281 - Set up moria1, tor26, and dizum as v3 directory authorities
9282 in addition to being v2 authorities. Also add three new ones:
9283 ides (run by Mike Perry), gabelmoo (run by Karsten Loesing), and
9284 dannenberg (run by CCC).
9285 - Switch to multi-level keys for directory authorities: now their
9286 long-term identity key can be kept offline, and they periodically
9287 generate a new signing key. Clients fetch the "key certificates"
9288 to keep up to date on the right keys. Add a standalone tool
9289 "tor-gencert" to generate key certificates. Implements proposal 103.
9290 - Add a new V3AuthUseLegacyKey config option to make it easier for
9291 v3 authorities to change their identity keys if another bug like
9292 Debian's OpenSSL RNG flaw appears.
9293 - Authorities and caches fetch the v2 networkstatus documents
9294 less often, now that v3 is recommended.
9296 o Make Tor connections stand out less on the wire:
9297 - Use an improved TLS handshake designed by Steven Murdoch in proposal
9298 124, as revised in proposal 130. The new handshake is meant to
9299 be harder for censors to fingerprint, and it adds the ability
9300 to detect certain kinds of man-in-the-middle traffic analysis
9301 attacks. The new handshake format includes version negotiation for
9302 OR connections as described in proposal 105, which will allow us
9303 to improve Tor's link protocol more safely in the future.
9304 - Enable encrypted directory connections by default for non-relays,
9305 so censor tools that block Tor directory connections based on their
9306 plaintext patterns will no longer work. This means Tor works in
9307 certain censored countries by default again.
9308 - Stop including recognizeable strings in the commonname part of
9309 Tor's x509 certificates.
9311 o Implement bridge relays:
9312 - Bridge relays (or "bridges" for short) are Tor relays that aren't
9313 listed in the main Tor directory. Since there is no complete public
9314 list of them, even an ISP that is filtering connections to all the
9315 known Tor relays probably won't be able to block all the bridges.
9316 See doc/design-paper/blocking.pdf and proposal 125 for details.
9317 - New config option BridgeRelay that specifies you want to be a
9318 bridge relay rather than a normal relay. When BridgeRelay is set
9319 to 1, then a) you cache dir info even if your DirPort ins't on,
9320 and b) the default for PublishServerDescriptor is now "bridge"
9321 rather than "v2,v3".
9322 - New config option "UseBridges 1" for clients that want to use bridge
9323 relays instead of ordinary entry guards. Clients then specify
9324 bridge relays by adding "Bridge" lines to their config file. Users
9325 can learn about a bridge relay either manually through word of
9326 mouth, or by one of our rate-limited mechanisms for giving out
9327 bridge addresses without letting an attacker easily enumerate them
9328 all. See https://www.torproject.org/bridges for details.
9329 - Bridge relays behave like clients with respect to time intervals
9330 for downloading new v3 consensus documents -- otherwise they
9331 stand out. Bridge users now wait until the end of the interval,
9332 so their bridge relay will be sure to have a new consensus document.
9334 o Implement bridge directory authorities:
9335 - Bridge authorities are like normal directory authorities, except
9336 they don't serve a list of known bridges. Therefore users that know
9337 a bridge's fingerprint can fetch a relay descriptor for that bridge,
9338 including fetching updates e.g. if the bridge changes IP address,
9339 yet an attacker can't just fetch a list of all the bridges.
9340 - Set up Tonga as the default bridge directory authority.
9341 - Bridge authorities refuse to serve bridge descriptors or other
9342 bridge information over unencrypted connections (that is, when
9343 responding to direct DirPort requests rather than begin_dir cells.)
9344 - Bridge directory authorities do reachability testing on the
9345 bridges they know. They provide router status summaries to the
9346 controller via "getinfo ns/purpose/bridge", and also dump summaries
9347 to a file periodically, so we can keep internal stats about which
9348 bridges are functioning.
9349 - If bridge users set the UpdateBridgesFromAuthority config option,
9350 but the digest they ask for is a 404 on the bridge authority,
9351 they fall back to contacting the bridge directly.
9352 - Bridges always use begin_dir to publish their server descriptor to
9353 the bridge authority using an anonymous encrypted tunnel.
9354 - Early work on a "bridge community" design: if bridge authorities set
9355 the BridgePassword config option, they will serve a snapshot of
9356 known bridge routerstatuses from their DirPort to anybody who
9357 knows that password. Unset by default.
9358 - Tor now includes an IP-to-country GeoIP file, so bridge relays can
9359 report sanitized aggregated summaries in their extra-info documents
9360 privately to the bridge authority, listing which countries are
9361 able to reach them. We hope this mechanism will let us learn when
9362 certain countries start trying to block bridges.
9363 - Bridge authorities write bridge descriptors to disk, so they can
9364 reload them after a reboot. They can also export the descriptors
9365 to other programs, so we can distribute them to blocked users via
9366 the BridgeDB interface, e.g. via https://bridges.torproject.org/
9367 and bridges@torproject.org.
9369 o Tor can be a DNS proxy:
9370 - The new client-side DNS proxy feature replaces the need for
9371 dns-proxy-tor: Just set "DNSPort 9999", and Tor will now listen
9372 for DNS requests on port 9999, use the Tor network to resolve them
9373 anonymously, and send the reply back like a regular DNS server.
9374 The code still only implements a subset of DNS.
9375 - Add a new AutomapHostsOnResolve option: when it is enabled, any
9376 resolve request for hosts matching a given pattern causes Tor to
9377 generate an internal virtual address mapping for that host. This
9378 allows DNSPort to work sensibly with hidden service users. By
9379 default, .exit and .onion addresses are remapped; the list of
9380 patterns can be reconfigured with AutomapHostsSuffixes.
9381 - Add an "-F" option to tor-resolve to force a resolve for a .onion
9382 address. Thanks to the AutomapHostsOnResolve option, this is no
9383 longer a completely silly thing to do.
9385 o Major features (relay usability):
9386 - New config options RelayBandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthBurst:
9387 a separate set of token buckets for relayed traffic. Right now
9388 relayed traffic is defined as answers to directory requests, and
9389 OR connections that don't have any local circuits on them. See
9390 proposal 111 for details.
9391 - Create listener connections before we setuid to the configured
9392 User and Group. Now non-Windows users can choose port values
9393 under 1024, start Tor as root, and have Tor bind those ports
9394 before it changes to another UID. (Windows users could already
9396 - Added a new ConstrainedSockets config option to set SO_SNDBUF and
9397 SO_RCVBUF on TCP sockets. Hopefully useful for Tor servers running
9398 on "vserver" accounts. Patch from coderman.
9400 o Major features (directory authorities):
9401 - Directory authorities track weighted fractional uptime and weighted
9402 mean-time-between failures for relays. WFU is suitable for deciding
9403 whether a node is "usually up", while MTBF is suitable for deciding
9404 whether a node is "likely to stay up." We need both, because
9405 "usually up" is a good requirement for guards, while "likely to
9406 stay up" is a good requirement for long-lived connections.
9407 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
9408 to advertise as Guards: they must be in the top 7/8 in terms of
9409 how long we have known about them, and above the median of those
9410 nodes in terms of weighted fractional uptime.
9411 - Directory authorities use a new formula for selecting which relays
9412 to advertise as Stable: when we have 4 or more days of data, use
9413 median measured MTBF rather than median declared uptime. Implements
9415 - Directory authorities accept and serve "extra info" documents for
9416 routers. Routers now publish their bandwidth-history lines in the
9417 extra-info docs rather than the main descriptor. This step saves
9418 60% (!) on compressed router descriptor downloads. Servers upload
9419 extra-info docs to any authority that accepts them; directory
9420 authorities now allow multiple router descriptors and/or extra
9421 info documents to be uploaded in a single go. Authorities, and
9422 caches that have been configured to download extra-info documents,
9423 download them as needed. Implements proposal 104.
9424 - Authorities now list relays who have the same nickname as
9425 a different named relay, but list them with a new flag:
9426 "Unnamed". Now we can make use of relays that happen to pick the
9427 same nickname as a server that registered two years ago and then
9428 disappeared. Implements proposal 122.
9429 - Store routers in a file called cached-descriptors instead of in
9430 cached-routers. Initialize cached-descriptors from cached-routers
9431 if the old format is around. The new format allows us to store
9432 annotations along with descriptors, to record the time we received
9433 each descriptor, its source, and its purpose: currently one of
9434 general, controller, or bridge.
9436 o Major features (other):
9437 - New config options WarnPlaintextPorts and RejectPlaintextPorts so
9438 Tor can warn and/or refuse connections to ports commonly used with
9439 vulnerable-plaintext protocols. Currently we warn on ports 23,
9440 109, 110, and 143, but we don't reject any. Based on proposal 129
9441 by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
9442 - Integrate Karsten Loesing's Google Summer of Code project to publish
9443 hidden service descriptors on a set of redundant relays that are a
9444 function of the hidden service address. Now we don't have to rely
9445 on three central hidden service authorities for publishing and
9446 fetching every hidden service descriptor. Implements proposal 114.
9447 - Allow tunnelled directory connections to ask for an encrypted
9448 "begin_dir" connection or an anonymized "uses a full Tor circuit"
9449 connection independently. Now we can make anonymized begin_dir
9450 connections for (e.g.) more secure hidden service posting and
9453 o Major bugfixes (crashes and assert failures):
9454 - Stop imposing an arbitrary maximum on the number of file descriptors
9455 used for busy servers. Bug reported by Olaf Selke; patch from
9457 - Avoid possible failures when generating a directory with routers
9458 with over-long versions strings, or too many flags set.
9459 - Fix a rare assert error when we're closing one of our threads:
9460 use a mutex to protect the list of logs, so we never write to the
9461 list as it's being freed. Fixes the very rare bug 575, which is
9462 kind of the revenge of bug 222.
9463 - Avoid segfault in the case where a badly behaved v2 versioning
9464 directory sends a signed networkstatus with missing client-versions.
9465 - When we hit an EOF on a log (probably because we're shutting down),
9466 don't try to remove the log from the list: just mark it as
9467 unusable. (Bulletproofs against bug 222.)
9469 o Major bugfixes (code security fixes):
9470 - Detect size overflow in zlib code. Reported by Justin Ferguson and
9472 - Rewrite directory tokenization code to never run off the end of
9473 a string. Fixes bug 455. Patch from croup.
9474 - Be more paranoid about overwriting sensitive memory on free(),
9475 as a defensive programming tactic to ensure forward secrecy.
9477 o Major bugfixes (anonymity fixes):
9478 - Reject requests for reverse-dns lookup of names that are in
9479 a private address space. Patch from lodger.
9480 - Never report that we've used more bandwidth than we're willing to
9481 relay: it leaks how much non-relay traffic we're using. Resolves
9483 - As a client, do not believe any server that tells us that an
9484 address maps to an internal address space.
9485 - Warn about unsafe ControlPort configurations.
9486 - Directory authorities now call routers Fast if their bandwidth is
9487 at least 100KB/s, and consider their bandwidth adequate to be a
9488 Guard if it is at least 250KB/s, no matter the medians. This fix
9489 complements proposal 107.
9490 - Directory authorities now never mark more than 2 servers per IP as
9491 Valid and Running (or 5 on addresses shared by authorities).
9492 Implements proposal 109, by Kevin Bauer and Damon McCoy.
9493 - If we're a relay, avoid picking ourselves as an introduction point,
9494 a rendezvous point, or as the final hop for internal circuits. Bug
9495 reported by taranis and lodger.
9496 - Exit relays that are used as a client can now reach themselves
9497 using the .exit notation, rather than just launching an infinite
9498 pile of circuits. Fixes bug 641. Reported by Sebastian Hahn.
9499 - Fix a bug where, when we were choosing the 'end stream reason' to
9500 put in our relay end cell that we send to the exit relay, Tor
9501 clients on Windows were sometimes sending the wrong 'reason'. The
9502 anonymity problem is that exit relays may be able to guess whether
9503 the client is running Windows, thus helping partition the anonymity
9504 set. Down the road we should stop sending reasons to exit relays,
9505 or otherwise prevent future versions of this bug.
9506 - Only update guard status (usable / not usable) once we have
9507 enough directory information. This was causing us to discard all our
9508 guards on startup if we hadn't been running for a few weeks. Fixes
9510 - When our directory information has been expired for a while, stop
9511 being willing to build circuits using it. Fixes bug 401.
9513 o Major bugfixes (peace of mind for relay operators)
9514 - Non-exit relays no longer answer "resolve" relay cells, so they
9515 can't be induced to do arbitrary DNS requests. (Tor clients already
9516 avoid using non-exit relays for resolve cells, but now servers
9517 enforce this too.) Fixes bug 619. Patch from lodger.
9518 - When we setconf ClientOnly to 1, close any current OR and Dir
9519 listeners. Reported by mwenge.
9521 o Major bugfixes (other):
9522 - If we only ever used Tor for hidden service lookups or posts, we
9523 would stop building circuits and start refusing connections after
9524 24 hours, since we falsely believed that Tor was dormant. Reported
9526 - Add a new __HashedControlSessionPassword option for controllers
9527 to use for one-off session password hashes that shouldn't get
9528 saved to disk by SAVECONF --- Vidalia users were accumulating a
9529 pile of HashedControlPassword lines in their torrc files, one for
9530 each time they had restarted Tor and then clicked Save. Make Tor
9531 automatically convert "HashedControlPassword" to this new option but
9532 only when it's given on the command line. Partial fix for bug 586.
9533 - Patch from "Andrew S. Lists" to catch when we contact a directory
9534 mirror at IP address X and he says we look like we're coming from
9535 IP address X. Otherwise this would screw up our address detection.
9536 - Reject uploaded descriptors and extrainfo documents if they're
9537 huge. Otherwise we'll cache them all over the network and it'll
9538 clog everything up. Suggested by Aljosha Judmayer.
9539 - When a hidden service was trying to establish an introduction point,
9540 and Tor *did* manage to reuse one of the preemptively built
9541 circuits, it didn't correctly remember which one it used,
9542 so it asked for another one soon after, until there were no
9543 more preemptive circuits, at which point it launched one from
9544 scratch. Bugfix on 0.0.9.x.
9546 o Rate limiting and load balancing improvements:
9547 - When we add data to a write buffer in response to the data on that
9548 write buffer getting low because of a flush, do not consider the
9549 newly added data as a candidate for immediate flushing, but rather
9550 make it wait until the next round of writing. Otherwise, we flush
9551 and refill recursively, and a single greedy TLS connection can
9552 eat all of our bandwidth.
9553 - When counting the number of bytes written on a TLS connection,
9554 look at the BIO actually used for writing to the network, not
9555 at the BIO used (sometimes) to buffer data for the network.
9556 Looking at different BIOs could result in write counts on the
9557 order of ULONG_MAX. Fixes bug 614.
9558 - If we change our MaxAdvertisedBandwidth and then reload torrc,
9559 Tor won't realize it should publish a new relay descriptor. Fixes
9560 bug 688, reported by mfr.
9561 - Avoid using too little bandwidth when our clock skips a few seconds.
9562 - Choose which bridge to use proportional to its advertised bandwidth,
9563 rather than uniformly at random. This should speed up Tor for
9564 bridge users. Also do this for people who set StrictEntryNodes.
9566 o Bootstrapping faster and building circuits more intelligently:
9567 - Fix bug 660 that was preventing us from knowing that we should
9568 preemptively build circuits to handle expected directory requests.
9569 - When we're checking if we have enough dir info for each relay
9570 to begin establishing circuits, make sure that we actually have
9571 the descriptor listed in the consensus, not just any descriptor.
9572 - Correctly notify one-hop connections when a circuit build has
9573 failed. Possible fix for bug 669. Found by lodger.
9574 - Clients now hold circuitless TLS connections open for 1.5 times
9575 MaxCircuitDirtiness (15 minutes), since it is likely that they'll
9576 rebuild a new circuit over them within that timeframe. Previously,
9577 they held them open only for KeepalivePeriod (5 minutes).
9579 o Performance improvements (memory):
9580 - Add OpenBSD malloc code from "phk" as an optional malloc
9581 replacement on Linux: some glibc libraries do very poorly with
9582 Tor's memory allocation patterns. Pass --enable-openbsd-malloc to
9583 ./configure to get the replacement malloc code.
9584 - Switch our old ring buffer implementation for one more like that
9585 used by free Unix kernels. The wasted space in a buffer with 1mb
9586 of data will now be more like 8k than 1mb. The new implementation
9587 also avoids realloc();realloc(); patterns that can contribute to
9588 memory fragmentation.
9589 - Change the way that Tor buffers data that it is waiting to write.
9590 Instead of queueing data cells in an enormous ring buffer for each
9591 client->OR or OR->OR connection, we now queue cells on a separate
9592 queue for each circuit. This lets us use less slack memory, and
9593 will eventually let us be smarter about prioritizing different kinds
9595 - Reference-count and share copies of address policy entries; only 5%
9596 of them were actually distinct.
9597 - Tune parameters for cell pool allocation to minimize amount of
9599 - Keep unused 4k and 16k buffers on free lists, rather than wasting 8k
9600 for every single inactive connection_t. Free items from the
9601 4k/16k-buffer free lists when they haven't been used for a while.
9602 - Make memory debugging information describe more about history
9603 of cell allocation, so we can help reduce our memory use.
9604 - Be even more aggressive about releasing RAM from small
9605 empty buffers. Thanks to our free-list code, this shouldn't be too
9606 performance-intensive.
9607 - Log malloc statistics from mallinfo() on platforms where it exists.
9608 - Use memory pools to allocate cells with better speed and memory
9609 efficiency, especially on platforms where malloc() is inefficient.
9610 - Add a --with-tcmalloc option to the configure script to link
9611 against tcmalloc (if present). Does not yet search for non-system
9614 o Performance improvements (socket management):
9615 - Count the number of open sockets separately from the number of
9616 active connection_t objects. This will let us avoid underusing
9617 our allocated connection limit.
9618 - We no longer use socket pairs to link an edge connection to an
9619 anonymous directory connection or a DirPort test connection.
9620 Instead, we track the link internally and transfer the data
9621 in-process. This saves two sockets per "linked" connection (at the
9622 client and at the server), and avoids the nasty Windows socketpair()
9624 - We were leaking a file descriptor if Tor started with a zero-length
9625 cached-descriptors file. Patch by "freddy77".
9627 o Performance improvements (CPU use):
9628 - Never walk through the list of logs if we know that no log target
9629 is interested in a given message.
9630 - Call routerlist_remove_old_routers() much less often. This should
9631 speed startup, especially on directory caches.
9632 - Base64 decoding was actually showing up on our profile when parsing
9633 the initial descriptor file; switch to an in-process all-at-once
9634 implementation that's about 3.5x times faster than calling out to
9636 - Use a slightly simpler string hashing algorithm (copying Python's
9637 instead of Java's) and optimize our digest hashing algorithm to take
9638 advantage of 64-bit platforms and to remove some possibly-costly
9640 - When implementing AES counter mode, update only the portions of the
9641 counter buffer that need to change, and don't keep separate
9642 network-order and host-order counters on big-endian hosts (where
9644 - Add an in-place version of aes_crypt() so that we can avoid doing a
9645 needless memcpy() call on each cell payload.
9646 - Use Critical Sections rather than Mutexes for synchronizing threads
9647 on win32; Mutexes are heavier-weight, and designed for synchronizing
9650 o Performance improvements (bandwidth use):
9651 - Don't try to launch new descriptor downloads quite so often when we
9652 already have enough directory information to build circuits.
9653 - Version 1 directories are no longer generated in full. Instead,
9654 authorities generate and serve "stub" v1 directories that list
9655 no servers. This will stop Tor versions 0.1.0.x and earlier from
9656 working, but (for security reasons) nobody should be running those
9658 - Avoid going directly to the directory authorities even if you're a
9659 relay, if you haven't found yourself reachable yet or if you've
9660 decided not to advertise your dirport yet. Addresses bug 556.
9661 - If we've gone 12 hours since our last bandwidth check, and we
9662 estimate we have less than 50KB bandwidth capacity but we could
9663 handle more, do another bandwidth test.
9664 - Support "If-Modified-Since" when answering HTTP requests for
9665 directories, running-routers documents, and v2 and v3 networkstatus
9666 documents. (There's no need to support it for router descriptors,
9667 since those are downloaded by descriptor digest.)
9668 - Stop fetching directory info so aggressively if your DirPort is
9669 on but your ORPort is off; stop fetching v2 dir info entirely.
9670 You can override these choices with the new FetchDirInfoEarly
9673 o Changed config option behavior (features):
9674 - Configuration files now accept C-style strings as values. This
9675 helps encode characters not allowed in the current configuration
9676 file format, such as newline or #. Addresses bug 557.
9677 - Add hidden services and DNSPorts to the list of things that make
9678 Tor accept that it has running ports. Change starting Tor with no
9679 ports from a fatal error to a warning; we might change it back if
9680 this turns out to confuse anybody. Fixes bug 579.
9681 - Make PublishServerDescriptor default to 1, so the default doesn't
9682 have to change as we invent new directory protocol versions.
9683 - Allow people to say PreferTunnelledDirConns rather than
9684 PreferTunneledDirConns, for those alternate-spellers out there.
9685 - Raise the default BandwidthRate/BandwidthBurst to 5MB/10MB, to
9686 accommodate the growing number of servers that use the default
9687 and are reaching it.
9688 - Make it possible to enable HashedControlPassword and
9689 CookieAuthentication at the same time.
9690 - When a TrackHostExits-chosen exit fails too many times in a row,
9691 stop using it. Fixes bug 437.
9693 o Changed config option behavior (bugfixes):
9694 - Do not read the configuration file when we've only been told to
9695 generate a password hash. Fixes bug 643. Bugfix on 0.0.9pre5. Fix
9696 based on patch from Sebastian Hahn.
9697 - Actually validate the options passed to AuthDirReject,
9698 AuthDirInvalid, AuthDirBadDir, and AuthDirBadExit.
9699 - Make "ClientOnly 1" config option disable directory ports too.
9700 - Don't stop fetching descriptors when FetchUselessDescriptors is
9701 set, even if we stop asking for circuits. Bug reported by tup
9703 - Servers used to decline to publish their DirPort if their
9704 BandwidthRate or MaxAdvertisedBandwidth were below a threshold. Now
9705 they look only at BandwidthRate and RelayBandwidthRate.
9706 - Treat "2gb" when given in torrc for a bandwidth as meaning 2gb,
9707 minus 1 byte: the actual maximum declared bandwidth.
9708 - Make "TrackHostExits ." actually work. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x.
9709 - Make the NodeFamilies config option work. (Reported by
9710 lodger -- it has never actually worked, even though we added it
9712 - If Tor is invoked from something that isn't a shell (e.g. Vidalia),
9713 now we expand "-f ~/.tor/torrc" correctly. Suggested by Matt Edman.
9715 o New config options:
9716 - New configuration options AuthDirMaxServersPerAddr and
9717 AuthDirMaxServersperAuthAddr to override default maximum number
9718 of servers allowed on a single IP address. This is important for
9719 running a test network on a single host.
9720 - Three new config options (AlternateDirAuthority,
9721 AlternateBridgeAuthority, and AlternateHSAuthority) that let the
9722 user selectively replace the default directory authorities by type,
9723 rather than the all-or-nothing replacement that DirServer offers.
9724 - New config options AuthDirBadDir and AuthDirListBadDirs for
9725 authorities to mark certain relays as "bad directories" in the
9726 networkstatus documents. Also supports the "!baddir" directive in
9727 the approved-routers file.
9728 - New config option V2AuthoritativeDirectory that all v2 directory
9729 authorities must set. This lets v3 authorities choose not to serve
9730 v2 directory information.
9732 o Minor features (other):
9733 - When we're not serving v2 directory information, there is no reason
9734 to actually keep any around. Remove the obsolete files and directory
9735 on startup if they are very old and we aren't going to serve them.
9736 - When we negotiate a v2 link-layer connection (not yet implemented),
9737 accept RELAY_EARLY cells and turn them into RELAY cells if we've
9738 negotiated a v1 connection for their next step. Initial steps for
9740 - When we have no consensus, check FallbackNetworkstatusFile (defaults
9741 to $PREFIX/share/tor/fallback-consensus) for a consensus. This way
9742 we can start out knowing some directory caches. We don't ship with
9743 a fallback consensus by default though, because it was making
9744 bootstrapping take too long while we tried many down relays.
9745 - Authorities send back an X-Descriptor-Not-New header in response to
9746 an accepted-but-discarded descriptor upload. Partially implements
9748 - If we find a cached-routers file that's been sitting around for more
9749 than 28 days unmodified, then most likely it's a leftover from
9750 when we upgraded to 0.2.0.8-alpha. Remove it. It has no good
9752 - When we (as a cache) download a descriptor because it was listed
9753 in a consensus, remember when the consensus was supposed to expire,
9754 and don't expire the descriptor until then.
9755 - Optionally (if built with -DEXPORTMALLINFO) export the output
9756 of mallinfo via http, as tor/mallinfo.txt. Only accessible
9758 - Tag every guard node in our state file with the version that
9759 we believe added it, or with our own version if we add it. This way,
9760 if a user temporarily runs an old version of Tor and then switches
9761 back to a new one, she doesn't automatically lose her guards.
9762 - When somebody requests a list of statuses or servers, and we have
9763 none of those, return a 404 rather than an empty 200.
9764 - Merge in some (as-yet-unused) IPv6 address manipulation code. (Patch
9766 - Add an HSAuthorityRecordStats option that hidden service authorities
9767 can use to track statistics of overall hidden service usage without
9768 logging information that would be as useful to an attacker.
9769 - Allow multiple HiddenServicePort directives with the same virtual
9770 port; when they occur, the user is sent round-robin to one
9771 of the target ports chosen at random. Partially fixes bug 393 by
9772 adding limited ad-hoc round-robining.
9773 - Revamp file-writing logic so we don't need to have the entire
9774 contents of a file in memory at once before we write to disk. Tor,
9777 o Minor bugfixes (other):
9778 - Alter the code that tries to recover from unhandled write
9779 errors, to not try to flush onto a socket that's given us
9781 - Directory mirrors no longer include a guess at the client's IP
9782 address if the connection appears to be coming from the same /24
9783 network; it was producing too many wrong guesses.
9784 - If we're trying to flush the last bytes on a connection (for
9785 example, when answering a directory request), reset the
9786 time-to-give-up timeout every time we manage to write something
9788 - Reject router descriptors with out-of-range bandwidthcapacity or
9789 bandwidthburst values.
9790 - If we can't expand our list of entry guards (e.g. because we're
9791 using bridges or we have StrictEntryNodes set), don't mark relays
9792 down when they fail a directory request. Otherwise we're too quick
9793 to mark all our entry points down.
9794 - Authorities no longer send back "400 you're unreachable please fix
9795 it" errors to Tor servers that aren't online all the time. We're
9796 supposed to tolerate these servers now.
9797 - Let directory authorities startup even when they can't generate
9798 a descriptor immediately, e.g. because they don't know their
9800 - Correctly enforce that elements of directory objects do not appear
9801 more often than they are allowed to appear.
9802 - Stop allowing hibernating servers to be "stable" or "fast".
9803 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
9804 cached-routers while Tor was running. (Reported by janbar)
9805 - Check return values from pthread_mutex functions.
9806 - When opening /dev/null in finish_daemonize(), do not pass the
9807 O_CREAT flag. Fortify was complaining, and correctly so. Fixes
9808 bug 742; fix from Michael Scherer. Bugfix on 0.0.2pre19.
9810 o Controller features:
9811 - The GETCONF command now escapes and quotes configuration values
9812 that don't otherwise fit into the torrc file.
9813 - The SETCONF command now handles quoted values correctly.
9814 - Add "GETINFO/desc-annotations/id/<OR digest>" so controllers can
9815 ask about source, timestamp of arrival, purpose, etc. We need
9816 something like this to help Vidalia not do GeoIP lookups on bridge
9818 - Allow multiple HashedControlPassword config lines, to support
9819 multiple controller passwords.
9820 - Accept LF instead of CRLF on controller, since some software has a
9821 hard time generating real Internet newlines.
9822 - Add GETINFO values for the server status events
9823 "REACHABILITY_SUCCEEDED" and "GOOD_SERVER_DESCRIPTOR". Patch from
9825 - There is now an ugly, temporary "desc/all-recent-extrainfo-hack"
9826 GETINFO for Torstat to use until it can switch to using extrainfos.
9827 - New config option CookieAuthFile to choose a new location for the
9828 cookie authentication file, and config option
9829 CookieAuthFileGroupReadable to make it group-readable.
9830 - Add a SOURCE_ADDR field to STREAM NEW events so that controllers can
9831 match requests to applications. Patch from Robert Hogan.
9832 - Add a RESOLVE command to launch hostname lookups. Original patch
9834 - Add GETINFO status/enough-dir-info to let controllers tell whether
9835 Tor has downloaded sufficient directory information. Patch from Tup.
9836 - You can now use the ControlSocket option to tell Tor to listen for
9837 controller connections on Unix domain sockets on systems that
9838 support them. Patch from Peter Palfrader.
9839 - New "GETINFO address-mappings/*" command to get address mappings
9840 with expiry information. "addr-mappings/*" is now deprecated.
9842 - Add a new config option __DisablePredictedCircuits designed for
9843 use by the controller, when we don't want Tor to build any circuits
9845 - Let the controller specify HOP=%d as an argument to ATTACHSTREAM,
9846 so we can exit from the middle of the circuit.
9847 - Implement "getinfo status/circuit-established".
9848 - Implement "getinfo status/version/..." so a controller can tell
9849 whether the current version is recommended, and whether any versions
9850 are good, and how many authorities agree. Patch from "shibz".
9851 - Controllers should now specify cache=no or cache=yes when using
9852 the +POSTDESCRIPTOR command.
9853 - Add a "PURPOSE=" argument to "STREAM NEW" events, as suggested by
9854 Robert Hogan. Fixes the first part of bug 681.
9855 - When reporting clock skew, and we know that the clock is _at least
9856 as skewed_ as some value, but we don't know the actual value,
9857 report the value as a "minimum skew."
9859 o Controller bugfixes:
9860 - Generate "STATUS_SERVER" events rather than misspelled
9861 "STATUS_SEVER" events. Caught by mwenge.
9862 - Reject controller commands over 1MB in length, so rogue
9863 processes can't run us out of memory.
9864 - Change the behavior of "getinfo status/good-server-descriptor"
9865 so it doesn't return failure when any authority disappears.
9866 - Send NAMESERVER_STATUS messages for a single failed nameserver
9868 - When the DANGEROUS_VERSION controller status event told us we're
9869 running an obsolete version, it used the string "OLD" to describe
9870 it. Yet the "getinfo" interface used the string "OBSOLETE". Now use
9871 "OBSOLETE" in both cases.
9872 - Respond to INT and TERM SIGNAL commands before we execute the
9873 signal, in case the signal shuts us down. We had a patch in
9874 0.1.2.1-alpha that tried to do this by queueing the response on
9875 the connection's buffer before shutting down, but that really
9876 isn't the same thing at all. Bug located by Matt Edman.
9877 - Provide DNS expiry times in GMT, not in local time. For backward
9878 compatibility, ADDRMAP events only provide GMT expiry in an extended
9879 field. "GETINFO address-mappings" always does the right thing.
9880 - Use CRLF line endings properly in NS events.
9881 - Make 'getinfo fingerprint' return a 551 error if we're not a
9882 server, so we match what the control spec claims we do. Reported
9884 - Fix a typo in an error message when extendcircuit fails that
9885 caused us to not follow the \r\n-based delimiter protocol. Reported
9887 - When tunneling an encrypted directory connection, and its first
9888 circuit fails, do not leave it unattached and ask the controller
9889 to deal. Fixes the second part of bug 681.
9890 - Treat some 403 responses from directory servers as INFO rather than
9891 WARN-severity events.
9893 o Portability / building / compiling:
9894 - When building with --enable-gcc-warnings, check for whether Apple's
9895 warning "-Wshorten-64-to-32" is available.
9896 - Support compilation to target iPhone; patch from cjacker huang.
9897 To build for iPhone, pass the --enable-iphone option to configure.
9898 - Port Tor to build and run correctly on Windows CE systems, using
9899 the wcecompat library. Contributed by Valerio Lupi.
9900 - Detect non-ASCII platforms (if any still exist) and refuse to
9901 build there: some of our code assumes that 'A' is 65 and so on.
9902 - Clear up some MIPSPro compiler warnings.
9903 - Make autoconf search for libevent, openssl, and zlib consistently.
9904 - Update deprecated macros in configure.in.
9905 - When warning about missing headers, tell the user to let us
9906 know if the compile succeeds anyway, so we can downgrade the
9908 - Include the current subversion revision as part of the version
9909 string: either fetch it directly if we're in an SVN checkout, do
9910 some magic to guess it if we're in an SVK checkout, or use
9911 the last-detected version if we're building from a .tar.gz.
9912 Use this version consistently in log messages.
9913 - Correctly report platform name on Windows 95 OSR2 and Windows 98 SE.
9914 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
9915 partial results on small file reads.
9916 - Build without verbose warnings even on gcc 4.2 and 4.3.
9917 - On Windows, correctly detect errors when listing the contents of
9918 a directory. Fix from lodger.
9919 - Run 'make test' as part of 'make dist', so we stop releasing so
9920 many development snapshots that fail their unit tests.
9921 - Add support to detect Libevent versions in the 1.4.x series
9923 - Add command-line arguments to unit-test executable so that we can
9924 invoke any chosen test from the command line rather than having
9925 to run the whole test suite at once; and so that we can turn on
9926 logging for the unit tests.
9927 - Do not automatically run configure from autogen.sh. This
9928 non-standard behavior tended to annoy people who have built other
9930 - Fix a macro/CPP interaction that was confusing some compilers:
9931 some GCCs don't like #if/#endif pairs inside macro arguments.
9933 - Fix macro collision between OpenSSL 0.9.8h and Windows headers.
9934 Fixes bug 704; fix from Steven Murdoch.
9935 - Correctly detect transparent proxy support on Linux hosts that
9936 require in.h to be included before netfilter_ipv4.h. Patch
9939 o Logging improvements:
9940 - When we haven't had any application requests lately, don't bother
9941 logging that we have expired a bunch of descriptors.
9942 - When attempting to open a logfile fails, tell us why.
9943 - Only log guard node status when guard node status has changed.
9944 - Downgrade the 3 most common "INFO" messages to "DEBUG". This will
9945 make "INFO" 75% less verbose.
9946 - When SafeLogging is disabled, log addresses along with all TLS
9948 - Report TLS "zero return" case as a "clean close" and "IO error"
9949 as a "close". Stop calling closes "unexpected closes": existing
9950 Tors don't use SSL_close(), so having a connection close without
9951 the TLS shutdown handshake is hardly unexpected.
9952 - When we receive a consensus from the future, warn about skew.
9953 - Make "not enough dir info yet" warnings describe *why* Tor feels
9954 it doesn't have enough directory info yet.
9955 - On the USR1 signal, when dmalloc is in use, log the top 10 memory
9956 consumers. (We already do this on HUP.)
9957 - Give more descriptive well-formedness errors for out-of-range
9958 hidden service descriptor/protocol versions.
9959 - Stop recommending that every server operator send mail to tor-ops.
9960 Resolves bug 597. Bugfix on 0.1.2.x.
9961 - Improve skew reporting: try to give the user a better log message
9962 about how skewed they are, and how much this matters.
9963 - New --quiet command-line option to suppress the default console log.
9964 Good in combination with --hash-password.
9965 - Don't complain that "your server has not managed to confirm that its
9966 ports are reachable" if we haven't been able to build any circuits
9968 - Detect the reason for failing to mmap a descriptor file we just
9969 wrote, and give a more useful log message. Fixes bug 533.
9970 - Always prepend "Bug: " to any log message about a bug.
9971 - When dumping memory usage, list bytes used in buffer memory
9973 - When running with dmalloc, dump more stats on hup and on exit.
9974 - Put a platform string (e.g. "Linux i686") in the startup log
9975 message, so when people paste just their logs, we know if it's
9976 OpenBSD or Windows or what.
9977 - When logging memory usage, break down memory used in buffers by
9979 - When we are reporting the DirServer line we just parsed, we were
9980 logging the second stanza of the key fingerprint, not the first.
9981 - Even though Windows is equally happy with / and \ as path separators,
9982 try to use \ consistently on Windows and / consistently on Unix: it
9983 makes the log messages nicer.
9984 - On OSX, stop warning the user that kqueue support in libevent is
9985 "experimental", since it seems to have worked fine for ages.
9987 o Contributed scripts and tools:
9988 - Update linux-tor-prio.sh script to allow QoS based on the uid of
9989 the Tor process. Patch from Marco Bonetti with tweaks from Mike
9991 - Include the "tor-ctrl.sh" bash script by Stefan Behte to provide
9992 Unix users an easy way to script their Tor process (e.g. by
9993 adjusting bandwidth based on the time of the day).
9994 - In the exitlist script, only consider the most recently published
9995 server descriptor for each server. Also, when the user requests
9996 a list of servers that _reject_ connections to a given address,
9997 explicitly exclude the IPs that also have servers that accept
9998 connections to that address. Resolves bug 405.
9999 - Include a new contrib/tor-exit-notice.html file that exit relay
10000 operators can put on their website to help reduce abuse queries.
10002 o Newly deprecated features:
10003 - The status/version/num-versioning and status/version/num-concurring
10004 GETINFO controller options are no longer useful in the v3 directory
10005 protocol: treat them as deprecated, and warn when they're used.
10006 - The RedirectExits config option is now deprecated.
10008 o Removed features:
10009 - Drop the old code to choke directory connections when the
10010 corresponding OR connections got full: thanks to the cell queue
10011 feature, OR conns don't get full any more.
10012 - Remove the old "dns worker" server DNS code: it hasn't been default
10013 since 0.1.2.2-alpha, and all the servers are using the new
10015 - Remove the code to generate the oldest (v1) directory format.
10016 - Remove support for the old bw_accounting file: we've been storing
10017 bandwidth accounting information in the state file since
10018 0.1.2.5-alpha. This may result in bandwidth accounting errors
10019 if you try to upgrade from 0.1.1.x or earlier, or if you try to
10020 downgrade to 0.1.1.x or earlier.
10021 - Drop support for OpenSSL version 0.9.6. Just about nobody was using
10022 it, it had no AES, and it hasn't seen any security patches since
10024 - Stop overloading the circuit_t.onionskin field for both "onionskin
10025 from a CREATE cell that we are waiting for a cpuworker to be
10026 assigned" and "onionskin from an EXTEND cell that we are going to
10027 send to an OR as soon as we are connected". Might help with bug 600.
10028 - Remove the tor_strpartition() function: its logic was confused,
10029 and it was only used for one thing that could be implemented far
10031 - Remove the contrib scripts ExerciseServer.py, PathDemo.py,
10032 and TorControl.py, as they use the old v0 controller protocol,
10033 and are obsoleted by TorFlow anyway.
10034 - Drop support for v1 rendezvous descriptors, since we never used
10035 them anyway, and the code has probably rotted by now. Based on
10036 patch from Karsten Loesing.
10037 - Stop allowing address masks that do not correspond to bit prefixes.
10038 We have warned about these for a really long time; now it's time
10039 to reject them. (Patch from croup.)
10040 - Remove an optimization in the AES counter-mode code that assumed
10041 that the counter never exceeded 2^68. When the counter can be set
10042 arbitrarily as an IV (as it is by Karsten's new hidden services
10043 code), this assumption no longer holds.
10044 - Disable the SETROUTERPURPOSE controller command: it is now
10048 Changes in version 0.1.2.19 - 2008-01-17
10049 Tor 0.1.2.19 fixes a huge memory leak on exit relays, makes the default
10050 exit policy a little bit more conservative so it's safer to run an
10051 exit relay on a home system, and fixes a variety of smaller issues.
10054 - Exit policies now reject connections that are addressed to a
10055 relay's public (external) IP address too, unless
10056 ExitPolicyRejectPrivate is turned off. We do this because too
10057 many relays are running nearby to services that trust them based
10058 on network address.
10061 - When the clock jumps forward a lot, do not allow the bandwidth
10062 buckets to become negative. Fixes bug 544.
10063 - Fix a memory leak on exit relays; we were leaking a cached_resolve_t
10064 on every successful resolve. Reported by Mike Perry.
10065 - Purge old entries from the "rephist" database and the hidden
10066 service descriptor database even when DirPort is zero.
10067 - Stop thinking that 0.1.2.x directory servers can handle "begin_dir"
10068 requests. Should ease bugs 406 and 419 where 0.1.2.x relays are
10069 crashing or mis-answering these requests.
10070 - When we decide to send a 503 response to a request for servers, do
10071 not then also send the server descriptors: this defeats the whole
10072 purpose. Fixes bug 539.
10075 - Changing the ExitPolicyRejectPrivate setting should cause us to
10076 rebuild our server descriptor.
10077 - Fix handling of hex nicknames when answering controller requests for
10078 networkstatus by name, or when deciding whether to warn about
10079 unknown routers in a config option. (Patch from mwenge.)
10080 - Fix a couple of hard-to-trigger autoconf problems that could result
10081 in really weird results on platforms whose sys/types.h files define
10082 nonstandard integer types.
10083 - Don't try to create the datadir when running --verify-config or
10084 --hash-password. Resolves bug 540.
10085 - If we were having problems getting a particular descriptor from the
10086 directory caches, and then we learned about a new descriptor for
10087 that router, we weren't resetting our failure count. Reported
10089 - Although we fixed bug 539 (where servers would send HTTP status 503
10090 responses _and_ send a body too), there are still servers out there
10091 that haven't upgraded. Therefore, make clients parse such bodies
10092 when they receive them.
10093 - Run correctly on systems where rlim_t is larger than unsigned long.
10094 This includes some 64-bit systems.
10095 - Run correctly on platforms (like some versions of OS X 10.5) where
10096 the real limit for number of open files is OPEN_FILES, not rlim_max
10097 from getrlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILES).
10098 - Avoid a spurious free on base64 failure.
10099 - Avoid segfaults on certain complex invocations of
10100 router_get_by_hexdigest().
10101 - Fix rare bug on REDIRECTSTREAM control command when called with no
10102 port set: it could erroneously report an error when none had
10106 Changes in version 0.1.2.18 - 2007-10-28
10107 Tor 0.1.2.18 fixes many problems including crash bugs, problems with
10108 hidden service introduction that were causing huge delays, and a big
10109 bug that was causing some servers to disappear from the network status
10110 lists for a few hours each day.
10112 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10113 - If a connection is shut down abruptly because of something that
10114 happened inside connection_flushed_some(), do not call
10115 connection_finished_flushing(). Should fix bug 451:
10116 "connection_stop_writing: Assertion conn->write_event failed"
10117 Bugfix on 0.1.2.7-alpha.
10118 - Fix possible segfaults in functions called from
10119 rend_process_relay_cell().
10121 o Major bugfixes (hidden services):
10122 - Hidden services were choosing introduction points uniquely by
10123 hexdigest, but when constructing the hidden service descriptor
10124 they merely wrote the (potentially ambiguous) nickname.
10125 - Clients now use the v2 intro format for hidden service
10126 connections: they specify their chosen rendezvous point by identity
10127 digest rather than by (potentially ambiguous) nickname. These
10128 changes could speed up hidden service connections dramatically.
10130 o Major bugfixes (other):
10131 - Stop publishing a new server descriptor just because we get a
10132 HUP signal. This led (in a roundabout way) to some servers getting
10133 dropped from the networkstatus lists for a few hours each day.
10134 - When looking for a circuit to cannibalize, consider family as well
10135 as identity. Fixes bug 438. Bugfix on 0.1.0.x (which introduced
10136 circuit cannibalization).
10137 - When a router wasn't listed in a new networkstatus, we were leaving
10138 the flags for that router alone -- meaning it remained Named,
10139 Running, etc -- even though absence from the networkstatus means
10140 that it shouldn't be considered to exist at all anymore. Now we
10141 clear all the flags for routers that fall out of the networkstatus
10142 consensus. Fixes bug 529.
10145 - Don't try to access (or alter) the state file when running
10146 --list-fingerprint or --verify-config or --hash-password. Resolves
10148 - When generating information telling us how to extend to a given
10149 router, do not try to include the nickname if it is
10150 absent. Resolves bug 467.
10151 - Fix a user-triggerable segfault in expand_filename(). (There isn't
10152 a way to trigger this remotely.)
10153 - When sending a status event to the controller telling it that an
10154 OR address is reachable, set the port correctly. (Previously we
10155 were reporting the dir port.)
10156 - Fix a minor memory leak whenever a controller sends the PROTOCOLINFO
10157 command. Bugfix on 0.1.2.17.
10158 - When loading bandwidth history, do not believe any information in
10159 the future. Fixes bug 434.
10160 - When loading entry guard information, do not believe any information
10162 - When we have our clock set far in the future and generate an
10163 onion key, then re-set our clock to be correct, we should not stop
10164 the onion key from getting rotated.
10165 - On some platforms, accept() can return a broken address. Detect
10166 this more quietly, and deal accordingly. Fixes bug 483.
10167 - It's not actually an error to find a non-pending entry in the DNS
10168 cache when canceling a pending resolve. Don't log unless stuff
10169 is fishy. Resolves bug 463.
10170 - Don't reset trusted dir server list when we set a configuration
10171 option. Patch from Robert Hogan.
10174 Changes in version 0.1.2.17 - 2007-08-30
10175 Tor 0.1.2.17 features a new Vidalia version in the Windows and OS
10176 X bundles. Vidalia 0.0.14 makes authentication required for the
10177 ControlPort in the default configuration, which addresses important
10178 security risks. Everybody who uses Vidalia (or another controller)
10181 In addition, this Tor update fixes major load balancing problems with
10182 path selection, which should speed things up a lot once many people
10185 o Major bugfixes (security):
10186 - We removed support for the old (v0) control protocol. It has been
10187 deprecated since Tor 0.1.1.1-alpha, and keeping it secure has
10188 become more of a headache than it's worth.
10190 o Major bugfixes (load balancing):
10191 - When choosing nodes for non-guard positions, weight guards
10192 proportionally less, since they already have enough load. Patch
10194 - Raise the "max believable bandwidth" from 1.5MB/s to 10MB/s. This
10195 will allow fast Tor servers to get more attention.
10196 - When we're upgrading from an old Tor version, forget our current
10197 guards and pick new ones according to the new weightings. These
10198 three load balancing patches could raise effective network capacity
10199 by a factor of four. Thanks to Mike Perry for measurements.
10201 o Major bugfixes (stream expiration):
10202 - Expire not-yet-successful application streams in all cases if
10203 they've been around longer than SocksTimeout. Right now there are
10204 some cases where the stream will live forever, demanding a new
10205 circuit every 15 seconds. Fixes bug 454; reported by lodger.
10207 o Minor features (controller):
10208 - Add a PROTOCOLINFO controller command. Like AUTHENTICATE, it
10209 is valid before any authentication has been received. It tells
10210 a controller what kind of authentication is expected, and what
10211 protocol is spoken. Implements proposal 119.
10213 o Minor bugfixes (performance):
10214 - Save on most routerlist_assert_ok() calls in routerlist.c, thus
10215 greatly speeding up loading cached-routers from disk on startup.
10216 - Disable sentinel-based debugging for buffer code: we squashed all
10217 the bugs that this was supposed to detect a long time ago, and now
10218 its only effect is to change our buffer sizes from nice powers of
10219 two (which platform mallocs tend to like) to values slightly over
10220 powers of two (which make some platform mallocs sad).
10222 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10223 - If exit bandwidth ever exceeds one third of total bandwidth, then
10224 use the correct formula to weight exit nodes when choosing paths.
10225 Based on patch from Mike Perry.
10226 - Choose perfectly fairly among routers when choosing by bandwidth and
10227 weighting by fraction of bandwidth provided by exits. Previously, we
10228 would choose with only approximate fairness, and correct ourselves
10229 if we ran off the end of the list.
10230 - If we require CookieAuthentication but we fail to write the
10231 cookie file, we would warn but not exit, and end up in a state
10232 where no controller could authenticate. Now we exit.
10233 - If we require CookieAuthentication, stop generating a new cookie
10234 every time we change any piece of our config.
10235 - Refuse to start with certain directory authority keys, and
10236 encourage people using them to stop.
10237 - Terminate multi-line control events properly. Original patch
10239 - Fix a minor memory leak when we fail to find enough suitable
10240 servers to choose a circuit.
10241 - Stop leaking part of the descriptor when we run into a particularly
10242 unparseable piece of it.
10245 Changes in version 0.1.2.16 - 2007-08-01
10246 Tor 0.1.2.16 fixes a critical security vulnerability that allows a
10247 remote attacker in certain situations to rewrite the user's torrc
10248 configuration file. This can completely compromise anonymity of users
10249 in most configurations, including those running the Vidalia bundles,
10250 TorK, etc. Or worse.
10252 o Major security fixes:
10253 - Close immediately after missing authentication on control port;
10254 do not allow multiple authentication attempts.
10257 Changes in version 0.1.2.15 - 2007-07-17
10258 Tor 0.1.2.15 fixes several crash bugs, fixes some anonymity-related
10259 problems, fixes compilation on BSD, and fixes a variety of other
10260 bugs. Everybody should upgrade.
10262 o Major bugfixes (compilation):
10263 - Fix compile on FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD. Oops.
10265 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10266 - Try even harder not to dereference the first character after
10267 an mmap(). Reported by lodger.
10268 - Fix a crash bug in directory authorities when we re-number the
10269 routerlist while inserting a new router.
10270 - When the cached-routers file is an even multiple of the page size,
10271 don't run off the end and crash. (Fixes bug 455; based on idea
10273 - Fix eventdns.c behavior on Solaris: It is critical to include
10274 orconfig.h _before_ sys/types.h, so that we can get the expected
10275 definition of _FILE_OFFSET_BITS.
10277 o Major bugfixes (security):
10278 - Fix a possible buffer overrun when using BSD natd support. Bug
10280 - When sending destroy cells from a circuit's origin, don't include
10281 the reason for tearing down the circuit. The spec says we didn't,
10282 and now we actually don't. Reported by lodger.
10283 - Keep streamids from different exits on a circuit separate. This
10284 bug may have allowed other routers on a given circuit to inject
10285 cells into streams. Reported by lodger; fixes bug 446.
10286 - If there's a never-before-connected-to guard node in our list,
10287 never choose any guards past it. This way we don't expand our
10288 guard list unless we need to.
10290 o Minor bugfixes (guard nodes):
10291 - Weight guard selection by bandwidth, so that low-bandwidth nodes
10292 don't get overused as guards.
10294 o Minor bugfixes (directory):
10295 - Correctly count the number of authorities that recommend each
10296 version. Previously, we were under-counting by 1.
10297 - Fix a potential crash bug when we load many server descriptors at
10298 once and some of them make others of them obsolete. Fixes bug 458.
10300 o Minor bugfixes (hidden services):
10301 - Stop tearing down the whole circuit when the user asks for a
10302 connection to a port that the hidden service didn't configure.
10305 o Minor bugfixes (misc):
10306 - On Windows, we were preventing other processes from reading
10307 cached-routers while Tor was running. Reported by janbar.
10308 - Fix a possible (but very unlikely) bug in picking routers by
10309 bandwidth. Add a log message to confirm that it is in fact
10310 unlikely. Patch from lodger.
10311 - Backport a couple of memory leak fixes.
10312 - Backport miscellaneous cosmetic bugfixes.
10315 Changes in version 0.1.2.14 - 2007-05-25
10316 Tor 0.1.2.14 changes the addresses of two directory authorities (this
10317 change especially affects those who serve or use hidden services),
10318 and fixes several other crash- and security-related bugs.
10320 o Directory authority changes:
10321 - Two directory authorities (moria1 and moria2) just moved to new
10322 IP addresses. This change will particularly affect those who serve
10323 or use hidden services.
10325 o Major bugfixes (crashes):
10326 - If a directory server runs out of space in the connection table
10327 as it's processing a begin_dir request, it will free the exit stream
10328 but leave it attached to the circuit, leading to unpredictable
10329 behavior. (Reported by seeess, fixes bug 425.)
10330 - Fix a bug in dirserv_remove_invalid() that would cause authorities
10331 to corrupt memory under some really unlikely scenarios.
10332 - Tighten router parsing rules. (Bugs reported by Benedikt Boss.)
10333 - Avoid segfaults when reading from mmaped descriptor file. (Reported
10336 o Major bugfixes (security):
10337 - When choosing an entry guard for a circuit, avoid using guards
10338 that are in the same family as the chosen exit -- not just guards
10339 that are exactly the chosen exit. (Reported by lodger.)
10341 o Major bugfixes (resource management):
10342 - If a directory authority is down, skip it when deciding where to get
10343 networkstatus objects or descriptors. Otherwise we keep asking
10344 every 10 seconds forever. Fixes bug 384.
10345 - Count it as a failure if we fetch a valid network-status but we
10346 don't want to keep it. Otherwise we'll keep fetching it and keep
10347 not wanting to keep it. Fixes part of bug 422.
10348 - If all of our dirservers have given us bad or no networkstatuses
10349 lately, then stop hammering them once per minute even when we
10350 think they're failed. Fixes another part of bug 422.
10353 - Actually set the purpose correctly for descriptors inserted with
10354 purpose=controller.
10355 - When we have k non-v2 authorities in our DirServer config,
10356 we ignored the last k authorities in the list when updating our
10358 - Correctly back-off from requesting router descriptors that we are
10359 having a hard time downloading.
10360 - Read resolv.conf files correctly on platforms where read() returns
10361 partial results on small file reads.
10362 - Don't rebuild the entire router store every time we get 32K of
10363 routers: rebuild it when the journal gets very large, or when
10364 the gaps in the store get very large.
10367 - When routers publish SVN revisions in their router descriptors,
10368 authorities now include those versions correctly in networkstatus
10370 - Warn when using a version of libevent before 1.3b to run a server on
10371 OSX or BSD: these versions interact badly with userspace threads.
10374 Changes in version 0.1.2.13 - 2007-04-24
10375 This release features some major anonymity fixes, such as safer path
10376 selection; better client performance; faster bootstrapping, better
10377 address detection, and better DNS support for servers; write limiting as
10378 well as read limiting to make servers easier to run; and a huge pile of
10379 other features and bug fixes. The bundles also ship with Vidalia 0.0.11.
10381 Tor 0.1.2.13 is released in memory of Rob Levin (1955-2006), aka lilo
10382 of the Freenode IRC network, remembering his patience and vision for
10383 free speech on the Internet.
10385 o Major features, client performance:
10386 - Weight directory requests by advertised bandwidth. Now we can
10387 let servers enable write limiting but still allow most clients to
10388 succeed at their directory requests. (We still ignore weights when
10389 choosing a directory authority; I hope this is a feature.)
10390 - Stop overloading exit nodes -- avoid choosing them for entry or
10391 middle hops when the total bandwidth available from non-exit nodes
10392 is much higher than the total bandwidth available from exit nodes.
10393 - Rather than waiting a fixed amount of time between retrying
10394 application connections, we wait only 10 seconds for the first,
10395 10 seconds for the second, and 15 seconds for each retry after
10396 that. Hopefully this will improve the expected user experience.
10397 - Sometimes we didn't bother sending a RELAY_END cell when an attempt
10398 to open a stream fails; now we do in more cases. This should
10399 make clients able to find a good exit faster in some cases, since
10400 unhandleable requests will now get an error rather than timing out.
10402 o Major features, client functionality:
10403 - Implement BEGIN_DIR cells, so we can connect to a directory
10404 server via TLS to do encrypted directory requests rather than
10405 plaintext. Enable via the TunnelDirConns and PreferTunneledDirConns
10406 config options if you like. For now, this feature only works if
10407 you already have a descriptor for the destination dirserver.
10408 - Add support for transparent application connections: this basically
10409 bundles the functionality of trans-proxy-tor into the Tor
10410 mainline. Now hosts with compliant pf/netfilter implementations
10411 can redirect TCP connections straight to Tor without diverting
10412 through SOCKS. (Based on patch from tup.)
10413 - Add support for using natd; this allows FreeBSDs earlier than
10414 5.1.2 to have ipfw send connections through Tor without using
10415 SOCKS. (Patch from Zajcev Evgeny with tweaks from tup.)
10417 o Major features, servers:
10418 - Setting up a dyndns name for your server is now optional: servers
10419 with no hostname or IP address will learn their IP address by
10420 asking the directory authorities. This code only kicks in when you
10421 would normally have exited with a "no address" error. Nothing's
10422 authenticated, so use with care.
10423 - Directory servers now spool server descriptors, v1 directories,
10424 and v2 networkstatus objects to buffers as needed rather than en
10425 masse. They also mmap the cached-routers files. These steps save
10427 - Stop requiring clients to have well-formed certificates, and stop
10428 checking nicknames in certificates. (Clients have certificates so
10429 that they can look like Tor servers, but in the future we might want
10430 to allow them to look like regular TLS clients instead. Nicknames
10431 in certificates serve no purpose other than making our protocol
10432 easier to recognize on the wire.) Implements proposal 106.
10434 o Improvements on DNS support:
10435 - Add "eventdns" asynchronous dns library originally based on code
10436 from Adam Langley. Now we can discard the old rickety dnsworker
10437 concept, and support a wider variety of DNS functions. Allows
10438 multithreaded builds on NetBSD and OpenBSD again.
10439 - Add server-side support for "reverse" DNS lookups (using PTR
10440 records so clients can determine the canonical hostname for a given
10441 IPv4 address). Only supported by servers using eventdns; servers
10442 now announce in their descriptors if they don't support eventdns.
10443 - Workaround for name servers (like Earthlink's) that hijack failing
10444 DNS requests and replace the no-such-server answer with a "helpful"
10445 redirect to an advertising-driven search portal. Also work around
10446 DNS hijackers who "helpfully" decline to hijack known-invalid
10447 RFC2606 addresses. Config option "ServerDNSDetectHijacking 0"
10448 lets you turn it off.
10449 - Servers now check for the case when common DNS requests are going to
10450 wildcarded addresses (i.e. all getting the same answer), and change
10451 their exit policy to reject *:* if it's happening.
10452 - When asked to resolve a hostname, don't use non-exit servers unless
10453 requested to do so. This allows servers with broken DNS to be
10454 useful to the network.
10455 - Start passing "ipv4" hints to getaddrinfo(), so servers don't do
10456 useless IPv6 DNS resolves.
10457 - Specify and implement client-side SOCKS5 interface for reverse DNS
10458 lookups (see doc/socks-extensions.txt). Also cache them.
10459 - When we change nameservers or IP addresses, reset and re-launch
10460 our tests for DNS hijacking.
10462 o Improvements on reachability testing:
10463 - Servers send out a burst of long-range padding cells once they've
10464 established that they're reachable. Spread them over 4 circuits,
10465 so hopefully a few will be fast. This exercises bandwidth and
10466 bootstraps them into the directory more quickly.
10467 - When we find our DirPort to be reachable, publish a new descriptor
10468 so we'll tell the world (reported by pnx).
10469 - Directory authorities now only decide that routers are reachable
10470 if their identity keys are as expected.
10471 - Do DirPort reachability tests less often, since a single test
10472 chews through many circuits before giving up.
10473 - Avoid some false positives during reachability testing: don't try
10474 to test via a server that's on the same /24 network as us.
10475 - Start publishing one minute or so after we find our ORPort
10476 to be reachable. This will help reduce the number of descriptors
10477 we have for ourselves floating around, since it's quite likely
10478 other things (e.g. DirPort) will change during that minute too.
10479 - Routers no longer try to rebuild long-term connections to directory
10480 authorities, and directory authorities no longer try to rebuild
10481 long-term connections to all servers. We still don't hang up
10482 connections in these two cases though -- we need to look at it
10483 more carefully to avoid flapping, and we likely need to wait til
10484 0.1.1.x is obsolete.
10486 o Improvements on rate limiting:
10487 - Enable write limiting as well as read limiting. Now we sacrifice
10488 capacity if we're pushing out lots of directory traffic, rather
10489 than overrunning the user's intended bandwidth limits.
10490 - Include TLS overhead when counting bandwidth usage; previously, we
10491 would count only the bytes sent over TLS, but not the bytes used
10493 - Servers decline directory requests much more aggressively when
10494 they're low on bandwidth. Otherwise they end up queueing more and
10495 more directory responses, which can't be good for latency.
10496 - But never refuse directory requests from local addresses.
10497 - Be willing to read or write on local connections (e.g. controller
10498 connections) even when the global rate limiting buckets are empty.
10499 - Flush local controller connection buffers periodically as we're
10500 writing to them, so we avoid queueing 4+ megabytes of data before
10502 - Revise and clean up the torrc.sample that we ship with; add
10503 a section for BandwidthRate and BandwidthBurst.
10505 o Major features, NT services:
10506 - Install as NT_AUTHORITY\LocalService rather than as SYSTEM; add a
10507 command-line flag so that admins can override the default by saying
10508 "tor --service install --user "SomeUser"". This will not affect
10509 existing installed services. Also, warn the user that the service
10510 will look for its configuration file in the service user's
10511 %appdata% directory. (We can't do the "hardwire the user's appdata
10512 directory" trick any more, since we may not have read access to that
10514 - Support running the Tor service with a torrc not in the same
10515 directory as tor.exe and default to using the torrc located in
10516 the %appdata%\Tor\ of the user who installed the service. Patch
10518 - Add an --ignore-missing-torrc command-line option so that we can
10519 get the "use sensible defaults if the configuration file doesn't
10520 exist" behavior even when specifying a torrc location on the
10522 - When stopping an NT service, wait up to 10 sec for it to actually
10523 stop. (Patch from Matt Edman; resolves bug 295.)
10525 o Directory authority improvements:
10526 - Stop letting hibernating or obsolete servers affect uptime and
10528 - Stop listing hibernating servers in the v1 directory.
10529 - Authorities no longer recommend exits as guards if this would shift
10530 too much load to the exit nodes.
10531 - Authorities now specify server versions in networkstatus. This adds
10532 about 2% to the size of compressed networkstatus docs, and allows
10533 clients to tell which servers support BEGIN_DIR and which don't.
10534 The implementation is forward-compatible with a proposed future
10535 protocol version scheme not tied to Tor versions.
10536 - DirServer configuration lines now have an orport= option so
10537 clients can open encrypted tunnels to the authorities without
10538 having downloaded their descriptors yet. Enabled for moria1,
10539 moria2, tor26, and lefkada now in the default configuration.
10540 - Add a BadDirectory flag to network status docs so that authorities
10541 can (eventually) tell clients about caches they believe to be
10542 broken. Not used yet.
10543 - Allow authorities to list nodes as bad exits in their
10544 approved-routers file by fingerprint or by address. If most
10545 authorities set a BadExit flag for a server, clients don't think
10546 of it as a general-purpose exit. Clients only consider authorities
10547 that advertise themselves as listing bad exits.
10548 - Patch from Steve Hildrey: Generate network status correctly on
10549 non-versioning dirservers.
10550 - Have directory authorities allow larger amounts of drift in uptime
10551 without replacing the server descriptor: previously, a server that
10552 restarted every 30 minutes could have 48 "interesting" descriptors
10554 - Reserve the nickname "Unnamed" for routers that can't pick
10555 a hostname: any router can call itself Unnamed; directory
10556 authorities will never allocate Unnamed to any particular router;
10557 clients won't believe that any router is the canonical Unnamed.
10559 o Directory mirrors and clients:
10560 - Discard any v1 directory info that's over 1 month old (for
10561 directories) or over 1 week old (for running-routers lists).
10562 - Clients track responses with status 503 from dirservers. After a
10563 dirserver has given us a 503, we try not to use it until an hour has
10564 gone by, or until we have no dirservers that haven't given us a 503.
10565 - When we get a 503 from a directory, and we're not a server, we no
10566 longer count the failure against the total number of failures
10567 allowed for the object we're trying to download.
10568 - Prepare for servers to publish descriptors less often: never
10569 discard a descriptor simply for being too old until either it is
10570 recommended by no authorities, or until we get a better one for
10571 the same router. Make caches consider retaining old recommended
10572 routers for even longer.
10573 - Directory servers now provide 'Pragma: no-cache' and 'Expires'
10574 headers for content, so that we can work better in the presence of
10575 caching HTTP proxies.
10576 - Stop fetching descriptors if you're not a dir mirror and you
10577 haven't tried to establish any circuits lately. (This currently
10578 causes some dangerous behavior, because when you start up again
10579 you'll use your ancient server descriptors.)
10581 o Major fixes, crashes:
10582 - Stop crashing when the controller asks us to resetconf more than
10583 one config option at once. (Vidalia 0.0.11 does this.)
10584 - Fix a longstanding obscure crash bug that could occur when we run
10585 out of DNS worker processes, if we're not using eventdns. (Resolves
10587 - Fix an assert that could trigger if a controller quickly set then
10588 cleared EntryNodes. (Bug found by Udo van den Heuvel.)
10589 - Avoid crash when telling controller about stream-status and a
10590 stream is detached.
10591 - Avoid sending junk to controllers or segfaulting when a controller
10592 uses EVENT_NEW_DESC with verbose nicknames.
10593 - Stop triggering asserts if the controller tries to extend hidden
10594 service circuits (reported by mwenge).
10595 - If we start a server with ClientOnly 1, then set ClientOnly to 0
10596 and hup, stop triggering an assert based on an empty onion_key.
10597 - Mask out all signals in sub-threads; only the libevent signal
10598 handler should be processing them. This should prevent some crashes
10599 on some machines using pthreads. (Patch from coderman.)
10600 - Disable kqueue on OS X 10.3 and earlier, to fix bug 371.
10602 o Major fixes, anonymity/security:
10603 - Automatically avoid picking more than one node from the same
10604 /16 network when constructing a circuit. Add an
10605 "EnforceDistinctSubnets" option to let people disable it if they
10606 want to operate private test networks on a single subnet.
10607 - When generating bandwidth history, round down to the nearest
10608 1k. When storing accounting data, round up to the nearest 1k.
10609 - When we're running as a server, remember when we last rotated onion
10610 keys, so that we will rotate keys once they're a week old even if
10611 we never stay up for a week ourselves.
10612 - If a client asked for a server by name, and there's a named server
10613 in our network-status but we don't have its descriptor yet, we
10614 could return an unnamed server instead.
10615 - Reject (most) attempts to use Tor circuits with length one. (If
10616 many people start using Tor as a one-hop proxy, exit nodes become
10617 a more attractive target for compromise.)
10618 - Just because your DirPort is open doesn't mean people should be
10619 able to remotely teach you about hidden service descriptors. Now
10620 only accept rendezvous posts if you've got HSAuthoritativeDir set.
10621 - Fix a potential race condition in the rpm installer. Found by
10623 - Do not log IPs with TLS failures for incoming TLS
10624 connections. (Fixes bug 382.)
10626 o Major fixes, other:
10627 - If our system clock jumps back in time, don't publish a negative
10628 uptime in the descriptor.
10629 - When we start during an accounting interval before it's time to wake
10630 up, remember to wake up at the correct time. (May fix bug 342.)
10631 - Previously, we would cache up to 16 old networkstatus documents
10632 indefinitely, if they came from nontrusted authorities. Now we
10633 discard them if they are more than 10 days old.
10634 - When we have a state file we cannot parse, tell the user and
10635 move it aside. Now we avoid situations where the user starts
10636 Tor in 1904, Tor writes a state file with that timestamp in it,
10637 the user fixes her clock, and Tor refuses to start.
10638 - Publish a new descriptor after we hup/reload. This is important
10639 if our config has changed such that we'll want to start advertising
10640 our DirPort now, etc.
10641 - If we are using an exit enclave and we can't connect, e.g. because
10642 its webserver is misconfigured to not listen on localhost, then
10643 back off and try connecting from somewhere else before we fail.
10645 o New config options or behaviors:
10646 - When EntryNodes are configured, rebuild the guard list to contain,
10647 in order: the EntryNodes that were guards before; the rest of the
10648 EntryNodes; the nodes that were guards before.
10649 - Do not warn when individual nodes in the configuration's EntryNodes,
10650 ExitNodes, etc are down: warn only when all possible nodes
10651 are down. (Fixes bug 348.)
10652 - Put a lower-bound on MaxAdvertisedBandwidth.
10653 - Start using the state file to store bandwidth accounting data:
10654 the bw_accounting file is now obsolete. We'll keep generating it
10655 for a while for people who are still using 0.1.2.4-alpha.
10656 - Try to batch changes to the state file so that we do as few
10657 disk writes as possible while still storing important things in
10659 - The state file and the bw_accounting file get saved less often when
10660 the AvoidDiskWrites config option is set.
10661 - Make PIDFile work on Windows.
10662 - Add internal descriptions for a bunch of configuration options:
10663 accessible via controller interface and in comments in saved
10665 - Reject *:563 (NNTPS) in the default exit policy. We already reject
10666 NNTP by default, so this seems like a sensible addition.
10667 - Clients now reject hostnames with invalid characters. This should
10668 avoid some inadvertent info leaks. Add an option
10669 AllowNonRFC953Hostnames to disable this behavior, in case somebody
10670 is running a private network with hosts called @, !, and #.
10671 - Check for addresses with invalid characters at the exit as well,
10672 and warn less verbosely when they fail. You can override this by
10673 setting ServerDNSAllowNonRFC953Addresses to 1.
10674 - Remove some options that have been deprecated since at least
10675 0.1.0.x: AccountingMaxKB, LogFile, DebugLogFile, LogLevel, and
10676 SysLog. Use AccountingMax instead of AccountingMaxKB, and use Log
10677 to set log options. Mark PathlenCoinWeight as obsolete.
10678 - Stop accepting certain malformed ports in configured exit policies.
10679 - When the user uses bad syntax in the Log config line, stop
10680 suggesting other bad syntax as a replacement.
10681 - Add new config option "ResolvConf" to let the server operator
10682 choose an alternate resolve.conf file when using eventdns.
10683 - If one of our entry guards is on the ExcludeNodes list, or the
10684 directory authorities don't think it's a good guard, treat it as
10685 if it were unlisted: stop using it as a guard, and throw it off
10686 the guards list if it stays that way for a long time.
10687 - Allow directory authorities to be marked separately as authorities
10688 for the v1 directory protocol, the v2 directory protocol, and
10689 as hidden service directories, to make it easier to retire old
10690 authorities. V1 authorities should set "HSAuthoritativeDir 1"
10691 to continue being hidden service authorities too.
10692 - Remove 8888 as a LongLivedPort, and add 6697 (IRCS).
10693 - Make TrackExitHosts case-insensitive, and fix the behavior of
10694 ".suffix" TrackExitHosts items to avoid matching in the middle of
10696 - New DirPort behavior: if you have your dirport set, you download
10697 descriptors aggressively like a directory mirror, whether or not
10698 your ORPort is set.
10701 - Create a new file ReleaseNotes which was the old ChangeLog. The
10702 new ChangeLog file now includes the notes for all development
10704 - Add a new address-spec.txt document to describe our special-case
10705 addresses: .exit, .onion, and .noconnnect.
10706 - Fork the v1 directory protocol into its own spec document,
10707 and mark dir-spec.txt as the currently correct (v2) spec.
10709 o Packaging, porting, and contrib
10710 - "tor --verify-config" now exits with -1(255) or 0 depending on
10711 whether the config options are bad or good.
10712 - The Debian package now uses --verify-config when (re)starting,
10713 to distinguish configuration errors from other errors.
10714 - Adapt a patch from goodell to let the contrib/exitlist script
10715 take arguments rather than require direct editing.
10716 - Prevent the contrib/exitlist script from printing the same
10717 result more than once.
10718 - Add support to tor-resolve tool for reverse lookups and SOCKS5.
10719 - In the hidden service example in torrc.sample, stop recommending
10720 esoteric and discouraged hidden service options.
10721 - Patch from Michael Mohr to contrib/cross.sh, so it checks more
10722 values before failing, and always enables eventdns.
10723 - Try to detect Windows correctly when cross-compiling.
10724 - Libevent-1.2 exports, but does not define in its headers, strlcpy.
10725 Try to fix this in configure.in by checking for most functions
10726 before we check for libevent.
10727 - Update RPMs to require libevent 1.2.
10728 - Experimentally re-enable kqueue on OSX when using libevent 1.1b
10729 or later. Log when we are doing this, so we can diagnose it when
10730 it fails. (Also, recommend libevent 1.1b for kqueue and
10731 win32 methods; deprecate libevent 1.0b harder; make libevent
10732 recommendation system saner.)
10733 - Build with recent (1.3+) libevents on platforms that do not
10734 define the nonstandard types "u_int8_t" and friends.
10735 - Remove architecture from OS X builds. The official builds are
10736 now universal binaries.
10737 - Run correctly on OS X platforms with case-sensitive filesystems.
10738 - Correctly set maximum connection limit on Cygwin. (This time
10740 - Start compiling on MinGW on Windows (patches from Mike Chiussi
10742 - Start compiling on MSVC6 on Windows (patches from Frediano Ziglio).
10743 - Finally fix the openssl warnings from newer gccs that believe that
10744 ignoring a return value is okay, but casting a return value and
10745 then ignoring it is a sign of madness.
10746 - On architectures where sizeof(int)>4, still clamp declarable
10747 bandwidth to INT32_MAX.
10749 o Minor features, controller:
10750 - Warn the user when an application uses the obsolete binary v0
10751 control protocol. We're planning to remove support for it during
10752 the next development series, so it's good to give people some
10754 - Add STREAM_BW events to report per-entry-stream bandwidth
10755 use. (Patch from Robert Hogan.)
10756 - Rate-limit SIGNEWNYM signals in response to controllers that
10757 impolitely generate them for every single stream. (Patch from
10758 mwenge; closes bug 394.)
10759 - Add a REMAP status to stream events to note that a stream's
10760 address has changed because of a cached address or a MapAddress
10762 - Make REMAP stream events have a SOURCE (cache or exit), and
10763 make them generated in every case where we get a successful
10764 connected or resolved cell.
10765 - Track reasons for OR connection failure; make these reasons
10766 available via the controller interface. (Patch from Mike Perry.)
10767 - Add a SOCKS_BAD_HOSTNAME client status event so controllers
10768 can learn when clients are sending malformed hostnames to Tor.
10769 - Specify and implement some of the controller status events.
10770 - Have GETINFO dir/status/* work on hosts with DirPort disabled.
10771 - Reimplement GETINFO so that info/names stays in sync with the
10773 - Implement "GETINFO fingerprint".
10774 - Implement "SETEVENTS GUARD" so controllers can get updates on
10775 entry guard status as it changes.
10776 - Make all connections to addresses of the form ".noconnect"
10777 immediately get closed. This lets application/controller combos
10778 successfully test whether they're talking to the same Tor by
10779 watching for STREAM events.
10780 - Add a REASON field to CIRC events; for backward compatibility, this
10781 field is sent only to controllers that have enabled the extended
10782 event format. Also, add additional reason codes to explain why
10783 a given circuit has been destroyed or truncated. (Patches from
10785 - Add a REMOTE_REASON field to extended CIRC events to tell the
10786 controller why a remote OR told us to close a circuit.
10787 - Stream events also now have REASON and REMOTE_REASON fields,
10788 working much like those for circuit events.
10789 - There's now a GETINFO ns/... field so that controllers can ask Tor
10790 about the current status of a router.
10791 - A new event type "NS" to inform a controller when our opinion of
10792 a router's status has changed.
10793 - Add a GETINFO events/names and GETINFO features/names so controllers
10794 can tell which events and features are supported.
10795 - A new CLEARDNSCACHE signal to allow controllers to clear the
10796 client-side DNS cache without expiring circuits.
10797 - Fix CIRC controller events so that controllers can learn the
10798 identity digests of non-Named servers used in circuit paths.
10799 - Let controllers ask for more useful identifiers for servers. Instead
10800 of learning identity digests for un-Named servers and nicknames
10801 for Named servers, the new identifiers include digest, nickname,
10802 and indication of Named status. Off by default; see control-spec.txt
10803 for more information.
10804 - Add a "getinfo address" controller command so it can display Tor's
10805 best guess to the user.
10806 - New controller event to alert the controller when our server
10807 descriptor has changed.
10808 - Give more meaningful errors on controller authentication failure.
10809 - Export the default exit policy via the control port, so controllers
10810 don't need to guess what it is / will be later.
10812 o Minor bugfixes, controller:
10813 - When creating a circuit via the controller, send a 'launched'
10814 event when we're done, so we follow the spec better.
10815 - Correct the control spec to match how the code actually responds
10816 to 'getinfo addr-mappings/*'. Reported by daejees.
10817 - The control spec described a GUARDS event, but the code
10818 implemented a GUARD event. Standardize on GUARD, but let people
10819 ask for GUARDS too. Reported by daejees.
10820 - Give the controller END_STREAM_REASON_DESTROY events _before_ we
10821 clear the corresponding on_circuit variable, and remember later
10822 that we don't need to send a redundant CLOSED event. (Resolves part
10824 - Report events where a resolve succeeded or where we got a socks
10825 protocol error correctly, rather than calling both of them
10827 - Change reported stream target addresses to IP consistently when
10828 we finally get the IP from an exit node.
10829 - Send log messages to the controller even if they happen to be very
10831 - Flush ERR-level controller status events just like we currently
10832 flush ERR-level log events, so that a Tor shutdown doesn't prevent
10833 the controller from learning about current events.
10834 - Report the circuit number correctly in STREAM CLOSED events. Bug
10835 reported by Mike Perry.
10836 - Do not report bizarre values for results of accounting GETINFOs
10837 when the last second's write or read exceeds the allotted bandwidth.
10838 - Report "unrecognized key" rather than an empty string when the
10839 controller tries to fetch a networkstatus that doesn't exist.
10840 - When the controller does a "GETINFO network-status", tell it
10841 about even those routers whose descriptors are very old, and use
10842 long nicknames where appropriate.
10843 - Fix handling of verbose nicknames with ORCONN controller events:
10844 make them show up exactly when requested, rather than exactly when
10846 - Controller signals now work on non-Unix platforms that don't define
10847 SIGUSR1 and SIGUSR2 the way we expect.
10848 - Respond to SIGNAL command before we execute the signal, in case
10849 the signal shuts us down. Suggested by Karsten Loesing.
10850 - Handle reporting OR_CONN_EVENT_NEW events to the controller.
10852 o Minor features, code performance:
10853 - Major performance improvement on inserting descriptors: change
10854 algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n).
10855 - Do not rotate onion key immediately after setting it for the first
10857 - Call router_have_min_dir_info half as often. (This is showing up in
10858 some profiles, but not others.)
10859 - When using GCC, make log_debug never get called at all, and its
10860 arguments never get evaluated, when no debug logs are configured.
10861 (This is showing up in some profiles, but not others.)
10862 - Statistics dumped by -USR2 now include a breakdown of public key
10863 operations, for profiling.
10864 - Make the common memory allocation path faster on machines where
10865 malloc(0) returns a pointer.
10866 - Split circuit_t into origin_circuit_t and or_circuit_t, and
10867 split connection_t into edge, or, dir, control, and base structs.
10868 These will save quite a bit of memory on busy servers, and they'll
10869 also help us track down bugs in the code and bugs in the spec.
10870 - Use OpenSSL's AES implementation on platforms where it's faster.
10871 This could save us as much as 10% CPU usage.
10873 o Minor features, descriptors and descriptor handling:
10874 - Avoid duplicate entries on MyFamily line in server descriptor.
10875 - When Tor receives a router descriptor that it asked for, but
10876 no longer wants (because it has received fresh networkstatuses
10877 in the meantime), do not warn the user. Cache the descriptor if
10878 we're a cache; drop it if we aren't.
10879 - Servers no longer ever list themselves in their "family" line,
10880 even if configured to do so. This makes it easier to configure
10881 family lists conveniently.
10883 o Minor fixes, confusing/misleading log messages:
10884 - Display correct results when reporting which versions are
10885 recommended, and how recommended they are. (Resolves bug 383.)
10886 - Inform the server operator when we decide not to advertise a
10887 DirPort due to AccountingMax enabled or a low BandwidthRate.
10888 - Only include function names in log messages for info/debug messages.
10889 For notice/warn/err, the content of the message should be clear on
10890 its own, and printing the function name only confuses users.
10891 - Remove even more protocol-related warnings from Tor server logs,
10892 such as bad TLS handshakes and malformed begin cells.
10893 - Fix bug 314: Tor clients issued "unsafe socks" warnings even
10894 when the IP address is mapped through MapAddress to a hostname.
10895 - Fix misleading log messages: an entry guard that is "unlisted",
10896 as well as not known to be "down" (because we've never heard
10897 of it), is not therefore "up".
10899 o Minor fixes, old/obsolete behavior:
10900 - Start assuming we can use a create_fast cell if we don't know
10901 what version a router is running.
10902 - We no longer look for identity and onion keys in "identity.key" and
10903 "onion.key" -- these were replaced by secret_id_key and
10904 secret_onion_key in 0.0.8pre1.
10905 - We no longer require unrecognized directory entries to be
10907 - Drop compatibility with obsolete Tors that permit create cells
10908 to have the wrong circ_id_type.
10909 - Remove code to special-case "-cvs" ending, since it has not
10910 actually mattered since 0.0.9.
10911 - Don't re-write the fingerprint file every restart, unless it has
10914 o Minor fixes, misc client-side behavior:
10915 - Always remove expired routers and networkstatus docs before checking
10916 whether we have enough information to build circuits. (Fixes
10918 - When computing clock skew from directory HTTP headers, consider what
10919 time it was when we finished asking for the directory, not what
10921 - Make our socks5 handling more robust to broken socks clients:
10922 throw out everything waiting on the buffer in between socks
10923 handshake phases, since they can't possibly (so the theory
10924 goes) have predicted what we plan to respond to them.
10925 - Expire socks connections if they spend too long waiting for the
10926 handshake to finish. Previously we would let them sit around for
10927 days, if the connecting application didn't close them either.
10928 - And if the socks handshake hasn't started, don't send a
10929 "DNS resolve socks failed" handshake reply; just close it.
10930 - If the user asks to use invalid exit nodes, be willing to use
10932 - Track unreachable entry guards correctly: don't conflate
10933 'unreachable by us right now' with 'listed as down by the directory
10934 authorities'. With the old code, if a guard was unreachable by us
10935 but listed as running, it would clog our guard list forever.
10936 - Behave correctly in case we ever have a network with more than
10937 2GB/s total advertised capacity.
10938 - Claim a commonname of Tor, rather than TOR, in TLS handshakes.
10939 - Fix a memory leak when we ask for "all" networkstatuses and we
10940 get one we don't recognize.
10943 Changes in version 0.1.1.26 - 2006-12-14
10944 o Security bugfixes:
10945 - Stop sending the HttpProxyAuthenticator string to directory
10946 servers when directory connections are tunnelled through Tor.
10947 - Clients no longer store bandwidth history in the state file.
10948 - Do not log introduction points for hidden services if SafeLogging
10952 - Fix an assert failure when a directory authority sets
10953 AuthDirRejectUnlisted and then receives a descriptor from an
10954 unlisted router (reported by seeess).
10957 Changes in version 0.1.1.25 - 2006-11-04
10959 - When a client asks us to resolve (rather than connect to)
10960 an address, and we have a cached answer, give them the cached
10961 answer. Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
10962 - We were building exactly the wrong circuits when we predict
10963 hidden service requirements, meaning Tor would have to build all
10964 its circuits on demand.
10965 - If none of our live entry guards have a high uptime, but we
10966 require a guard with a high uptime, try adding a new guard before
10967 we give up on the requirement. This patch should make long-lived
10968 connections more stable on average.
10969 - When testing reachability of our DirPort, don't launch new
10970 tests when there's already one in progress -- unreachable
10971 servers were stacking up dozens of testing streams.
10973 o Security bugfixes:
10974 - When the user sends a NEWNYM signal, clear the client-side DNS
10975 cache too. Otherwise we continue to act on previous information.
10978 - Avoid a memory corruption bug when creating a hash table for
10980 - Avoid possibility of controller-triggered crash when misusing
10981 certain commands from a v0 controller on platforms that do not
10982 handle printf("%s",NULL) gracefully.
10983 - Avoid infinite loop on unexpected controller input.
10984 - Don't log spurious warnings when we see a circuit close reason we
10985 don't recognize; it's probably just from a newer version of Tor.
10986 - Add Vidalia to the OS X uninstaller script, so when we uninstall
10987 Tor/Privoxy we also uninstall Vidalia.
10990 Changes in version 0.1.1.24 - 2006-09-29
10992 - Allow really slow clients to not hang up five minutes into their
10993 directory downloads (suggested by Adam J. Richter).
10994 - Fix major performance regression from 0.1.0.x: instead of checking
10995 whether we have enough directory information every time we want to
10996 do something, only check when the directory information has changed.
10997 This should improve client CPU usage by 25-50%.
10998 - Don't crash if, after a server has been running for a while,
10999 it can't resolve its hostname.
11000 - When a client asks us to resolve (not connect to) an address,
11001 and we have a cached answer, give them the cached answer.
11002 Previously, we would give them no answer at all.
11005 - Allow Tor to start when RunAsDaemon is set but no logs are set.
11006 - Don't crash when the controller receives a third argument to an
11007 "extendcircuit" request.
11008 - Controller protocol fixes: fix encoding in "getinfo addr-mappings"
11009 response; fix error code when "getinfo dir/status/" fails.
11010 - Fix configure.in to not produce broken configure files with
11011 more recent versions of autoconf. Thanks to Clint for his auto*
11013 - Fix security bug on NetBSD that could allow someone to force
11014 uninitialized RAM to be sent to a server's DNS resolver. This
11015 only affects NetBSD and other platforms that do not bounds-check
11017 - Warn user when using libevent 1.1a or earlier with win32 or kqueue
11018 methods: these are known to be buggy.
11019 - If we're a directory mirror and we ask for "all" network status
11020 documents, we would discard status documents from authorities
11021 we don't recognize.
11024 Changes in version 0.1.1.23 - 2006-07-30
11026 - Fast Tor servers, especially exit nodes, were triggering asserts
11027 due to a bug in handling the list of pending DNS resolves. Some
11028 bugs still remain here; we're hunting them.
11029 - Entry guards could crash clients by sending unexpected input.
11030 - More fixes on reachability testing: if you find yourself reachable,
11031 then don't ever make any client requests (so you stop predicting
11032 circuits), then hup or have your clock jump, then later your IP
11033 changes, you won't think circuits are working, so you won't try to
11034 test reachability, so you won't publish.
11037 - Avoid a crash if the controller does a resetconf firewallports
11038 and then a setconf fascistfirewall=1.
11039 - Avoid an integer underflow when the dir authority decides whether
11040 a router is stable: we might wrongly label it stable, and compute
11041 a slightly wrong median stability, when a descriptor is published
11043 - Fix a place where we might trigger an assert if we can't build our
11044 own server descriptor yet.
11047 Changes in version 0.1.1.22 - 2006-07-05
11049 - Fix a big bug that was causing servers to not find themselves
11050 reachable if they changed IP addresses. Since only 0.1.1.22+
11051 servers can do reachability testing correctly, now we automatically
11052 make sure to test via one of these.
11053 - Fix to allow clients and mirrors to learn directory info from
11054 descriptor downloads that get cut off partway through.
11055 - Directory authorities had a bug in deciding if a newly published
11056 descriptor was novel enough to make everybody want a copy -- a few
11057 servers seem to be publishing new descriptors many times a minute.
11059 - Fix a rare bug that was causing some servers to complain about
11060 "closing wedged cpuworkers" and skip some circuit create requests.
11061 - Make the Exit flag in directory status documents actually work.
11064 Changes in version 0.1.1.21 - 2006-06-10
11065 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.1.20:
11066 - Fix a rare crash on Tor servers that have enabled hibernation.
11067 - Fix a seg fault on startup for Tor networks that use only one
11068 directory authority.
11069 - Fix an assert from a race condition that occurs on Tor servers
11070 while exiting, where various threads are trying to log that they're
11071 exiting, and delete the logs, at the same time.
11072 - Make our unit tests pass again on certain obscure platforms.
11075 - Add support for building SUSE RPM packages.
11076 - Speed up initial bootstrapping for clients: if we are making our
11077 first ever connection to any entry guard, then don't mark it down
11079 - When only one Tor server in the network is labelled as a guard,
11080 and we've already picked him, we would cycle endlessly picking him
11081 again, being unhappy about it, etc. Now we specifically exclude
11082 current guards when picking a new guard.
11083 - Servers send create cells more reliably after the TLS connection
11084 is established: we were sometimes forgetting to send half of them
11085 when we had more than one pending.
11086 - If we get a create cell that asks us to extend somewhere, but the
11087 Tor server there doesn't match the expected digest, we now send
11088 a destroy cell back, rather than silently doing nothing.
11089 - Make options->RedirectExit work again.
11090 - Make cookie authentication for the controller work again.
11091 - Stop being picky about unusual characters in the arguments to
11092 mapaddress. It's none of our business.
11093 - Add a new config option "TestVia" that lets you specify preferred
11094 middle hops to use for test circuits. Perhaps this will let me
11095 debug the reachability problems better.
11097 o Log / documentation fixes:
11098 - If we're a server and some peer has a broken TLS certificate, don't
11099 log about it unless ProtocolWarnings is set, i.e., we want to hear
11100 about protocol violations by others.
11101 - Fix spelling of VirtualAddrNetwork in man page.
11102 - Add a better explanation at the top of the autogenerated torrc file
11103 about what happened to our old torrc.
11106 Changes in version 0.1.1.20 - 2006-05-23
11107 o Crash and assert fixes from 0.1.0.17:
11108 - Fix assert bug in close_logs() on exit: when we close and delete
11109 logs, remove them all from the global "logfiles" list.
11110 - Fix an assert error when we're out of space in the connection_list
11111 and we try to post a hidden service descriptor (reported by Peter
11113 - Fix a rare assert error when we've tried all intro points for
11114 a hidden service and we try fetching the service descriptor again:
11115 "Assertion conn->state != AP_CONN_STATE_RENDDESC_WAIT failed".
11116 - Setconf SocksListenAddress kills Tor if it fails to bind. Now back
11117 out and refuse the setconf if it would fail.
11118 - If you specify a relative torrc path and you set RunAsDaemon in
11119 your torrc, then it chdir()'s to the new directory. If you then
11120 HUP, it tries to load the new torrc location, fails, and exits.
11121 The fix: no longer allow a relative path to torrc when using -f.
11122 - Check for integer overflows in more places, when adding elements
11123 to smartlists. This could possibly prevent a buffer overflow
11124 on malicious huge inputs.
11126 o Security fixes, major:
11127 - When we're printing strings from the network, don't try to print
11128 non-printable characters. Now we're safer against shell escape
11129 sequence exploits, and also against attacks to fool users into
11130 misreading their logs.
11131 - Implement entry guards: automatically choose a handful of entry
11132 nodes and stick with them for all circuits. Only pick new guards
11133 when the ones you have are unsuitable, and if the old guards
11134 become suitable again, switch back. This will increase security
11135 dramatically against certain end-point attacks. The EntryNodes
11136 config option now provides some hints about which entry guards you
11137 want to use most; and StrictEntryNodes means to only use those.
11138 Fixes CVE-2006-0414.
11139 - Implement exit enclaves: if we know an IP address for the
11140 destination, and there's a running Tor server at that address
11141 which allows exit to the destination, then extend the circuit to
11142 that exit first. This provides end-to-end encryption and end-to-end
11143 authentication. Also, if the user wants a .exit address or enclave,
11144 use 4 hops rather than 3, and cannibalize a general circ for it
11146 - Obey our firewall options more faithfully:
11147 . If we can't get to a dirserver directly, try going via Tor.
11148 . Don't ever try to connect (as a client) to a place our
11149 firewall options forbid.
11150 . If we specify a proxy and also firewall options, obey the
11151 firewall options even when we're using the proxy: some proxies
11152 can only proxy to certain destinations.
11153 - Make clients regenerate their keys when their IP address changes.
11154 - For the OS X package's modified privoxy config file, comment
11155 out the "logfile" line so we don't log everything passed
11157 - Our TLS handshakes were generating a single public/private
11158 keypair for the TLS context, rather than making a new one for
11159 each new connection. Oops. (But we were still rotating them
11160 periodically, so it's not so bad.)
11161 - When we were cannibalizing a circuit with a particular exit
11162 node in mind, we weren't checking to see if that exit node was
11163 already present earlier in the circuit. Now we are.
11164 - Require server descriptors to list IPv4 addresses -- hostnames
11165 are no longer allowed. This also fixes potential vulnerabilities
11166 to servers providing hostnames as their address and then
11167 preferentially resolving them so they can partition users.
11168 - Our logic to decide if the OR we connected to was the right guy
11169 was brittle and maybe open to a mitm for invalid routers.
11171 o Security fixes, minor:
11172 - Adjust tor-spec.txt to parameterize cell and key lengths. Now
11173 Ian Goldberg can prove things about our handshake protocol more
11175 - Make directory authorities generate a separate "guard" flag to
11176 mean "would make a good entry guard". Clients now honor the
11177 is_guard flag rather than looking at is_fast or is_stable.
11178 - Try to list MyFamily elements by key, not by nickname, and warn
11179 if we've not heard of a server.
11180 - Start using RAND_bytes rather than RAND_pseudo_bytes from
11181 OpenSSL. Also, reseed our entropy every hour, not just at
11182 startup. And add entropy in 512-bit chunks, not 160-bit chunks.
11183 - Refuse server descriptors where the fingerprint line doesn't match
11184 the included identity key. Tor doesn't care, but other apps (and
11185 humans) might actually be trusting the fingerprint line.
11186 - We used to kill the circuit when we receive a relay command we
11187 don't recognize. Now we just drop that cell.
11188 - Fix a bug found by Lasse Overlier: when we were making internal
11189 circuits (intended to be cannibalized later for rendezvous and
11190 introduction circuits), we were picking them so that they had
11191 useful exit nodes. There was no need for this, and it actually
11192 aids some statistical attacks.
11193 - Start treating internal circuits and exit circuits separately.
11194 It's important to keep them separate because internal circuits
11195 have their last hops picked like middle hops, rather than like
11196 exit hops. So exiting on them will break the user's expectations.
11197 - Fix a possible way to DoS dirservers.
11198 - When the client asked for a rendezvous port that the hidden
11199 service didn't want to provide, we were sending an IP address
11200 back along with the end cell. Fortunately, it was zero. But stop
11203 o Packaging improvements:
11204 - Implement --with-libevent-dir option to ./configure. Improve
11205 search techniques to find libevent, and use those for openssl too.
11206 - Fix a couple of bugs in OpenSSL detection. Deal better when
11207 there are multiple SSLs installed with different versions.
11208 - Avoid warnings about machine/limits.h on Debian GNU/kFreeBSD.
11209 - On non-gcc compilers (e.g. Solaris's cc), use "-g -O" instead of
11211 - Make unit tests (and other invocations that aren't the real Tor)
11212 run without launching listeners, creating subdirectories, and so on.
11213 - The OS X installer was adding a symlink for tor_resolve but
11214 the binary was called tor-resolve (reported by Thomas Hardly).
11215 - Now we can target arch and OS in rpm builds (contributed by
11216 Phobos). Also make the resulting dist-rpm filename match the
11218 - Apply Matt Ghali's --with-syslog-facility patch to ./configure
11219 if you log to syslog and want something other than LOG_DAEMON.
11220 - Fix the torify (tsocks) config file to not use Tor for localhost
11222 - Start shipping socks-extensions.txt, tor-doc-unix.html,
11223 tor-doc-server.html, and stylesheet.css in the tarball.
11224 - Stop shipping tor-doc.html, INSTALL, and README in the tarball.
11225 They are useless now.
11226 - Add Peter Palfrader's contributed check-tor script. It lets you
11227 easily check whether a given server (referenced by nickname)
11228 is reachable by you.
11229 - Add BSD-style contributed startup script "rc.subr" from Peter
11232 o Directory improvements -- new directory protocol:
11233 - See tor/doc/dir-spec.txt for all the juicy details. Key points:
11234 - Authorities and caches publish individual descriptors (by
11235 digest, by fingerprint, by "all", and by "tell me yours").
11236 - Clients don't download or use the old directory anymore. Now they
11237 download network-statuses from the directory authorities, and
11238 fetch individual server descriptors as needed from mirrors.
11239 - Clients don't download descriptors of non-running servers.
11240 - Download descriptors by digest, not by fingerprint. Caches try to
11241 download all listed digests from authorities; clients try to
11242 download "best" digests from caches. This avoids partitioning
11243 and isolating attacks better.
11244 - Only upload a new server descriptor when options change, 18
11245 hours have passed, uptime is reset, or bandwidth changes a lot.
11246 - Directory authorities silently throw away new descriptors that
11247 haven't changed much if the timestamps are similar. We do this to
11248 tolerate older Tor servers that upload a new descriptor every 15
11249 minutes. (It seemed like a good idea at the time.)
11250 - Clients choose directory servers from the network status lists,
11251 not from their internal list of router descriptors. Now they can
11252 go to caches directly rather than needing to go to authorities
11253 to bootstrap the first set of descriptors.
11254 - When picking a random directory, prefer non-authorities if any
11256 - Add a new flag to network-status indicating whether the server
11257 can answer v2 directory requests too.
11258 - Directory mirrors now cache up to 16 unrecognized network-status
11259 docs, so new directory authorities will be cached too.
11260 - Stop parsing, storing, or using running-routers output (but
11261 mirrors still cache and serve it).
11262 - Clients consider a threshold of "versioning" directory authorities
11263 before deciding whether to warn the user that he's obsolete.
11264 - Authorities publish separate sorted lists of recommended versions
11265 for clients and for servers.
11266 - Change DirServers config line to note which dirs are v1 authorities.
11267 - Put nicknames on the DirServer line, so we can refer to them
11268 without requiring all our users to memorize their IP addresses.
11269 - Remove option when getting directory cache to see whether they
11270 support running-routers; they all do now. Replace it with one
11271 to see whether caches support v2 stuff.
11272 - Stop listing down or invalid nodes in the v1 directory. This
11273 reduces its bulk by about 1/3, and reduces load on mirrors.
11274 - Mirrors no longer cache the v1 directory as often.
11275 - If we as a directory mirror don't know of any v1 directory
11276 authorities, then don't try to cache any v1 directories.
11278 o Other directory improvements:
11279 - Add lefkada.eecs.harvard.edu and tor.dizum.com as fourth and
11280 fifth authoritative directory servers.
11281 - Directory authorities no longer require an open connection from
11282 a server to consider him "reachable". We need this change because
11283 when we add new directory authorities, old servers won't know not
11284 to hang up on them.
11285 - Dir authorities now do their own external reachability testing
11286 of each server, and only list as running the ones they found to
11287 be reachable. We also send back warnings to the server's logs if
11288 it uploads a descriptor that we already believe is unreachable.
11289 - Spread the directory authorities' reachability testing over the
11290 entire testing interval, so we don't try to do 500 TLS's at once
11292 - Make the "stable" router flag in network-status be the median of
11293 the uptimes of running valid servers, and make clients pay
11294 attention to the network-status flags. Thus the cutoff adapts
11295 to the stability of the network as a whole, making IRC, IM, etc
11296 connections more reliable.
11297 - Make the v2 dir's "Fast" flag based on relative capacity, just
11298 like "Stable" is based on median uptime. Name everything in the
11299 top 7/8 Fast, and only the top 1/2 gets to be a Guard.
11300 - Retry directory requests if we fail to get an answer we like
11301 from a given dirserver (we were retrying before, but only if
11302 we fail to connect).
11303 - Return a robots.txt on our dirport to discourage google indexing.
11305 o Controller protocol improvements:
11306 - Revised controller protocol (version 1) that uses ascii rather
11307 than binary: tor/doc/control-spec.txt. Add supporting libraries
11308 in python and java and c# so you can use the controller from your
11309 applications without caring how our protocol works.
11310 - Allow the DEBUG controller event to work again. Mark certain log
11311 entries as "don't tell this to controllers", so we avoid cycles.
11312 - New controller function "getinfo accounting", to ask how
11313 many bytes we've used in this time period.
11314 - Add a "resetconf" command so you can set config options like
11315 AllowUnverifiedNodes and LongLivedPorts to "". Also, if you give
11316 a config option in the torrc with no value, then it clears it
11317 entirely (rather than setting it to its default).
11318 - Add a "getinfo config-file" to tell us where torrc is. Also
11319 expose guard nodes, config options/names.
11320 - Add a "quit" command (when when using the controller manually).
11321 - Add a new signal "newnym" to "change pseudonyms" -- that is, to
11322 stop using any currently-dirty circuits for new streams, so we
11323 don't link new actions to old actions. This also occurs on HUP
11324 or "signal reload".
11325 - If we would close a stream early (e.g. it asks for a .exit that
11326 we know would refuse it) but the LeaveStreamsUnattached config
11327 option is set by the controller, then don't close it.
11328 - Add a new controller event type "authdir_newdescs" that allows
11329 controllers to get all server descriptors that were uploaded to
11330 a router in its role as directory authority.
11331 - New controller option "getinfo desc/all-recent" to fetch the
11332 latest server descriptor for every router that Tor knows about.
11333 - Fix the controller's "attachstream 0" command to treat conn like
11334 it just connected, doing address remapping, handling .exit and
11335 .onion idioms, and so on. Now we're more uniform in making sure
11336 that the controller hears about new and closing connections.
11337 - Permit transitioning from ORPort==0 to ORPort!=0, and back, from
11338 the controller. Also, rotate dns and cpu workers if the controller
11339 changes options that will affect them; and initialize the dns
11340 worker cache tree whether or not we start out as a server.
11341 - Add a new circuit purpose 'controller' to let the controller ask
11342 for a circuit that Tor won't try to use. Extend the "extendcircuit"
11343 controller command to let you specify the purpose if you're starting
11344 a new circuit. Add a new "setcircuitpurpose" controller command to
11345 let you change a circuit's purpose after it's been created.
11346 - Let the controller ask for "getinfo dir/server/foo" so it can ask
11347 directly rather than connecting to the dir port. "getinfo
11348 dir/status/foo" also works, but currently only if your DirPort
11350 - Let the controller tell us about certain router descriptors
11351 that it doesn't want Tor to use in circuits. Implement
11352 "setrouterpurpose" and modify "+postdescriptor" to do this.
11353 - If the controller's *setconf commands fail, collect an error
11354 message in a string and hand it back to the controller -- don't
11355 just tell them to go read their logs.
11357 o Scalability, resource management, and performance:
11358 - Fix a major load balance bug: we were round-robin reading in 16 KB
11359 chunks, and servers with bandwidthrate of 20 KB, while downloading
11360 a 600 KB directory, would starve their other connections. Now we
11361 try to be a bit more fair.
11362 - Be more conservative about whether to advertise our DirPort.
11363 The main change is to not advertise if we're running at capacity
11364 and either a) we could hibernate ever or b) our capacity is low
11365 and we're using a default DirPort.
11366 - We weren't cannibalizing circuits correctly for
11367 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_C_ESTABLISH_REND and
11368 CIRCUIT_PURPOSE_S_ESTABLISH_INTRO, so we were being forced to
11369 build those from scratch. This should make hidden services faster.
11370 - Predict required circuits better, with an eye toward making hidden
11371 services faster on the service end.
11372 - Compress exit policies even more: look for duplicate lines and
11374 - Generate 18.0.0.0/8 address policy format in descs when we can;
11375 warn when the mask is not reducible to a bit-prefix.
11376 - There used to be two ways to specify your listening ports in a
11377 server descriptor: on the "router" line and with a separate "ports"
11378 line. Remove support for the "ports" line.
11379 - Reduce memory requirements in our structs by changing the order
11380 of fields. Replace balanced trees with hash tables. Inline
11381 bottleneck smartlist functions. Add a "Map from digest to void*"
11382 abstraction so we can do less hex encoding/decoding, and use it
11383 in router_get_by_digest(). Many other CPU and memory improvements.
11384 - Allow tor_gzip_uncompress to extract as much as possible from
11385 truncated compressed data. Try to extract as many
11386 descriptors as possible from truncated http responses (when
11387 purpose is DIR_PURPOSE_FETCH_ROUTERDESC).
11388 - Make circ->onionskin a pointer, not a static array. moria2 was using
11389 125000 circuit_t's after it had been up for a few weeks, which
11390 translates to 20+ megs of wasted space.
11391 - The private half of our EDH handshake keys are now chosen out
11392 of 320 bits, not 1024 bits. (Suggested by Ian Goldberg.)
11393 - Stop doing the complex voodoo overkill checking for insecure
11394 Diffie-Hellman keys. Just check if it's in [2,p-2] and be happy.
11395 - Do round-robin writes for TLS of at most 16 kB per write. This
11396 might be more fair on loaded Tor servers.
11397 - Do not use unaligned memory access on alpha, mips, or mipsel.
11398 It *works*, but is very slow, so we treat them as if it doesn't.
11400 o Other bugfixes and improvements:
11401 - Start storing useful information to $DATADIR/state, so we can
11402 remember things across invocations of Tor. Retain unrecognized
11403 lines so we can be forward-compatible, and write a TorVersion line
11404 so we can be backward-compatible.
11405 - If ORPort is set, Address is not explicitly set, and our hostname
11406 resolves to a private IP address, try to use an interface address
11407 if it has a public address. Now Windows machines that think of
11408 themselves as localhost can guess their address.
11409 - Regenerate our local descriptor if it's dirty and we try to use
11410 it locally (e.g. if it changes during reachability detection).
11411 This was causing some Tor servers to keep publishing the same
11412 initial descriptor forever.
11413 - Tor servers with dynamic IP addresses were needing to wait 18
11414 hours before they could start doing reachability testing using
11415 the new IP address and ports. This is because they were using
11416 the internal descriptor to learn what to test, yet they were only
11417 rebuilding the descriptor once they decided they were reachable.
11418 - It turns out we couldn't bootstrap a network since we added
11419 reachability detection in 0.1.0.1-rc. Good thing the Tor network
11420 has never gone down. Add an AssumeReachable config option to let
11421 servers and authorities bootstrap. When we're trying to build a
11422 high-uptime or high-bandwidth circuit but there aren't enough
11423 suitable servers, try being less picky rather than simply failing.
11424 - Newly bootstrapped Tor networks couldn't establish hidden service
11425 circuits until they had nodes with high uptime. Be more tolerant.
11426 - Really busy servers were keeping enough circuits open on stable
11427 connections that they were wrapping around the circuit_id
11428 space. (It's only two bytes.) This exposed a bug where we would
11429 feel free to reuse a circuit_id even if it still exists but has
11430 been marked for close. Try to fix this bug. Some bug remains.
11431 - When we fail to bind or listen on an incoming or outgoing
11432 socket, we now close it before refusing, rather than just
11433 leaking it. (Thanks to Peter Palfrader for finding.)
11434 - Fix a file descriptor leak in start_daemon().
11435 - On Windows, you can't always reopen a port right after you've
11436 closed it. So change retry_listeners() to only close and re-open
11437 ports that have changed.
11438 - Workaround a problem with some http proxies that refuse GET
11439 requests that specify "Content-Length: 0". Reported by Adrian.
11440 - Recover better from TCP connections to Tor servers that are
11441 broken but don't tell you (it happens!); and rotate TLS
11442 connections once a week.
11443 - Fix a scary-looking but apparently harmless bug where circuits
11444 would sometimes start out in state CIRCUIT_STATE_OR_WAIT at
11445 servers, and never switch to state CIRCUIT_STATE_OPEN.
11446 - Check for even more Windows version flags when writing the platform
11447 string in server descriptors, and note any we don't recognize.
11448 - Add reasons to DESTROY and RELAY_TRUNCATED cells, so clients can
11449 get a better idea of why their circuits failed. Not used yet.
11450 - Add TTLs to RESOLVED, CONNECTED, and END_REASON_EXITPOLICY cells.
11451 We don't use them yet, but maybe one day our DNS resolver will be
11452 able to discover them.
11453 - Let people type "tor --install" as well as "tor -install" when they
11454 want to make it an NT service.
11455 - Looks like we were never delivering deflated (i.e. compressed)
11456 running-routers lists, even when asked. Oops.
11457 - We were leaking some memory every time the client changed IPs.
11458 - Clean up more of the OpenSSL memory when exiting, so we can detect
11459 memory leaks better.
11460 - Never call free() on tor_malloc()d memory. This will help us
11461 use dmalloc to detect memory leaks.
11462 - Some Tor servers process billions of cells per day. These
11463 statistics are now uint64_t's.
11464 - Check [X-]Forwarded-For headers in HTTP requests when generating
11465 log messages. This lets people run dirservers (and caches) behind
11466 Apache but still know which IP addresses are causing warnings.
11467 - Fix minor integer overflow in calculating when we expect to use up
11468 our bandwidth allocation before hibernating.
11469 - Lower the minimum required number of file descriptors to 1000,
11470 so we can have some overhead for Valgrind on Linux, where the
11471 default ulimit -n is 1024.
11472 - Stop writing the "router.desc" file, ever. Nothing uses it anymore,
11473 and its existence is confusing some users.
11475 o Config option fixes:
11476 - Add a new config option ExitPolicyRejectPrivate which defaults
11477 to on. Now all exit policies will begin with rejecting private
11478 addresses, unless the server operator explicitly turns it off.
11479 - Bump the default bandwidthrate to 3 MB, and burst to 6 MB.
11480 - Add new ReachableORAddresses and ReachableDirAddresses options
11481 that understand address policies. FascistFirewall is now a synonym
11482 for "ReachableORAddresses *:443", "ReachableDirAddresses *:80".
11483 - Start calling it FooListenAddress rather than FooBindAddress,
11484 since few of our users know what it means to bind an address
11486 - If the user gave Tor an odd number of command-line arguments,
11487 we were silently ignoring the last one. Now we complain and fail.
11488 This wins the oldest-bug prize -- this bug has been present since
11489 November 2002, as released in Tor 0.0.0.
11490 - If you write "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1 6668" in your
11491 torrc rather than "HiddenServicePort 6667 127.0.0.1:6668",
11492 it would silently ignore the 6668.
11493 - If we get a linelist or linelist_s config option from the torrc,
11494 e.g. ExitPolicy, and it has no value, warn and skip rather than
11495 silently resetting it to its default.
11496 - Setconf was appending items to linelists, not clearing them.
11497 - Add MyFamily to torrc.sample in the server section, so operators
11498 will be more likely to learn that it exists.
11499 - Make ContactInfo mandatory for authoritative directory servers.
11500 - MaxConn has been obsolete for a while now. Document the ConnLimit
11501 config option, which is a *minimum* number of file descriptors
11502 that must be available else Tor refuses to start.
11503 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
11504 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
11505 - Make MonthlyAccountingStart config option truly obsolete now.
11506 - Correct the man page entry on TrackHostExitsExpire.
11507 - Let directory authorities start even if they don't specify an
11508 Address config option.
11509 - Change "AllowUnverifiedNodes" to "AllowInvalidNodes", to
11510 reflect the updated flags in our v2 dir protocol.
11512 o Config option features:
11513 - Add a new config option FastFirstHopPK (on by default) so clients
11514 do a trivial crypto handshake for their first hop, since TLS has
11515 already taken care of confidentiality and authentication.
11516 - Let the user set ControlListenAddress in the torrc. This can be
11517 dangerous, but there are some cases (like a secured LAN) where it
11519 - New config options to help controllers: FetchServerDescriptors
11520 and FetchHidServDescriptors for whether to fetch server
11521 info and hidserv info or let the controller do it, and
11522 PublishServerDescriptor and PublishHidServDescriptors.
11523 - Also let the controller set the __AllDirActionsPrivate config
11524 option if you want all directory fetches/publishes to happen via
11525 Tor (it assumes your controller bootstraps your circuits).
11526 - Add "HardwareAccel" config option: support for crypto hardware
11527 accelerators via OpenSSL. Off by default, until we find somebody
11528 smart who can test it for us. (It appears to produce seg faults
11529 in at least some cases.)
11530 - New config option "AuthDirRejectUnlisted" for directory authorities
11531 as a panic button: if we get flooded with unusable servers we can
11532 revert to only listing servers in the approved-routers file.
11533 - Directory authorities can now reject/invalidate by key and IP,
11534 with the config options "AuthDirInvalid" and "AuthDirReject", or
11535 by marking a fingerprint as "!reject" or "!invalid" (as its
11536 nickname) in the approved-routers file. This is useful since
11537 currently we automatically list servers as running and usable
11538 even if we know they're jerks.
11539 - Add a new config option TestSocks so people can see whether their
11540 applications are using socks4, socks4a, socks5-with-ip, or
11541 socks5-with-fqdn. This way they don't have to keep mucking
11542 with tcpdump and wondering if something got cached somewhere.
11543 - Add "private:*" as an alias in configuration for policies. Now
11544 you can simplify your exit policy rather than needing to list
11545 every single internal or nonroutable network space.
11546 - Accept "private:*" in routerdesc exit policies; not generated yet
11547 because older Tors do not understand it.
11548 - Add configuration option "V1AuthoritativeDirectory 1" which
11549 moria1, moria2, and tor26 have set.
11550 - Implement an option, VirtualAddrMask, to set which addresses
11551 get handed out in response to mapaddress requests. This works
11552 around a bug in tsocks where 127.0.0.0/8 is never socksified.
11553 - Add a new config option FetchUselessDescriptors, off by default,
11554 for when you plan to run "exitlist" on your client and you want
11555 to know about even the non-running descriptors.
11556 - SocksTimeout: How long do we let a socks connection wait
11557 unattached before we fail it?
11558 - CircuitBuildTimeout: Cull non-open circuits that were born
11559 at least this many seconds ago.
11560 - CircuitIdleTimeout: Cull open clean circuits that were born
11561 at least this many seconds ago.
11562 - New config option SafeSocks to reject all application connections
11563 using unsafe socks protocols. Defaults to off.
11565 o Improved and clearer log messages:
11566 - Reduce clutter in server logs. We're going to try to make
11567 them actually usable now. New config option ProtocolWarnings that
11568 lets you hear about how _other Tors_ are breaking the protocol. Off
11570 - Divide log messages into logging domains. Once we put some sort
11571 of interface on this, it will let people looking at more verbose
11572 log levels specify the topics they want to hear more about.
11573 - Log server fingerprint on startup, so new server operators don't
11574 have to go hunting around their filesystem for it.
11575 - Provide dire warnings to any users who set DirServer manually;
11576 move it out of torrc.sample and into torrc.complete.
11577 - Make the log message less scary when all the dirservers are
11578 temporarily unreachable.
11579 - When tor_socketpair() fails in Windows, give a reasonable
11580 Windows-style errno back.
11581 - Improve tor_gettimeofday() granularity on windows.
11582 - We were printing the number of idle dns workers incorrectly when
11584 - Handle duplicate lines in approved-routers files without warning.
11585 - We were whining about using socks4 or socks5-with-local-lookup
11586 even when it's an IP address in the "virtual" range we designed
11587 exactly for this case.
11588 - Check for named servers when looking them up by nickname;
11589 warn when we're calling a non-named server by its nickname;
11590 don't warn twice about the same name.
11591 - Downgrade the dirserver log messages when whining about
11593 - Correct "your server is reachable" log entries to indicate that
11594 it was self-testing that told us so.
11595 - If we're trying to be a Tor server and running Windows 95/98/ME
11596 as a server, explain that we'll likely crash.
11597 - Provide a more useful warn message when our onion queue gets full:
11598 the CPU is too slow or the exit policy is too liberal.
11599 - Don't warn when we receive a 503 from a dirserver/cache -- this
11600 will pave the way for them being able to refuse if they're busy.
11601 - When we fail to bind a listener, try to provide a more useful
11602 log message: e.g., "Is Tor already running?"
11603 - Only start testing reachability once we've established a
11604 circuit. This will make startup on dir authorities less noisy.
11605 - Don't try to upload hidden service descriptors until we have
11606 established a circuit.
11607 - Tor didn't warn when it failed to open a log file.
11608 - Warn when listening on a public address for socks. We suspect a
11609 lot of people are setting themselves up as open socks proxies,
11610 and they have no idea that jerks on the Internet are using them,
11611 since they simply proxy the traffic into the Tor network.
11612 - Give a useful message when people run Tor as the wrong user,
11613 rather than telling them to start chowning random directories.
11614 - Fix a harmless bug that was causing Tor servers to log
11615 "Got an end because of misc error, but we're not an AP. Closing."
11616 - Fix wrong log message when you add a "HiddenServiceNodes" config
11617 line without any HiddenServiceDir line (reported by Chris Thomas).
11618 - Directory authorities now stop whining so loudly about bad
11619 descriptors that they fetch from other dirservers. So when there's
11620 a log complaint, it's for sure from a freshly uploaded descriptor.
11621 - When logging via syslog, include the pid whenever we provide
11622 a log entry. Suggested by Todd Fries.
11623 - When we're shutting down and we do something like try to post a
11624 server descriptor or rendezvous descriptor, don't complain that
11625 we seem to be unreachable. Of course we are, we're shutting down.
11626 - Change log line for unreachability to explicitly suggest /etc/hosts
11627 as the culprit. Also make it clearer what IP address and ports we're
11628 testing for reachability.
11629 - Put quotes around user-supplied strings when logging so users are
11630 more likely to realize if they add bad characters (like quotes)
11632 - NT service patch from Matt Edman to improve error messages on Win32.
11635 Changes in version 0.1.0.17 - 2006-02-17
11636 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11637 - When servers with a non-zero DirPort came out of hibernation,
11638 sometimes they would trigger an assert.
11640 o Other important bugfixes:
11641 - On platforms that don't have getrlimit (like Windows), we were
11642 artificially constraining ourselves to a max of 1024
11643 connections. Now just assume that we can handle as many as 15000
11644 connections. Hopefully this won't cause other problems.
11646 o Backported features:
11647 - When we're a server, a client asks for an old-style directory,
11648 and our write bucket is empty, don't give it to him. This way
11649 small servers can continue to serve the directory *sometimes*,
11650 without getting overloaded.
11651 - Whenever you get a 503 in response to a directory fetch, try
11652 once more. This will become important once servers start sending
11653 503's whenever they feel busy.
11654 - Fetch a new directory every 120 minutes, not every 40 minutes.
11655 Now that we have hundreds of thousands of users running the old
11656 directory algorithm, it's starting to hurt a lot.
11657 - Bump up the period for forcing a hidden service descriptor upload
11658 from 20 minutes to 1 hour.
11661 Changes in version 0.1.0.16 - 2006-01-02
11662 o Crash bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11663 - On Windows, build with a libevent patch from "I-M Weasel" to avoid
11664 corrupting the heap, losing FDs, or crashing when we need to resize
11665 the fd_sets. (This affects the Win32 binaries, not Tor's sources.)
11666 - It turns out sparc64 platforms crash on unaligned memory access
11667 too -- so detect and avoid this.
11668 - Handle truncated compressed data correctly (by detecting it and
11670 - Fix possible-but-unlikely free(NULL) in control.c.
11671 - When we were closing connections, there was a rare case that
11672 stomped on memory, triggering seg faults and asserts.
11673 - Avoid potential infinite recursion when building a descriptor. (We
11674 don't know that it ever happened, but better to fix it anyway.)
11675 - We were neglecting to unlink marked circuits from soon-to-close OR
11676 connections, which caused some rare scribbling on freed memory.
11677 - Fix a memory stomping race bug when closing the joining point of two
11678 rendezvous circuits.
11679 - Fix an assert in time parsing found by Steven Murdoch.
11681 o Other bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11682 - When we're doing reachability testing, provide more useful log
11683 messages so the operator knows what to expect.
11684 - Do not check whether DirPort is reachable when we are suppressing
11685 advertising it because of hibernation.
11686 - When building with -static or on Solaris, we sometimes needed -ldl.
11687 - One of the dirservers (tor26) changed its IP address.
11688 - When we're deciding whether a stream has enough circuits around
11689 that can handle it, count the freshly dirty ones and not the ones
11690 that are so dirty they won't be able to handle it.
11691 - When we're expiring old circuits, we had a logic error that caused
11692 us to close new rendezvous circuits rather than old ones.
11693 - Give a more helpful log message when you try to change ORPort via
11694 the controller: you should upgrade Tor if you want that to work.
11695 - We were failing to parse Tor versions that start with "Tor ".
11696 - Tolerate faulty streams better: when a stream fails for reason
11697 exitpolicy, stop assuming that the router is lying about his exit
11698 policy. When a stream fails for reason misc, allow it to retry just
11699 as if it was resolvefailed. When a stream has failed three times,
11700 reset its failure count so we can try again and get all three tries.
11703 Changes in version 0.1.0.15 - 2005-09-23
11704 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11705 - Reject ports 465 and 587 (spam targets) in default exit policy.
11706 - Don't crash when we don't have any spare file descriptors and we
11707 try to spawn a dns or cpu worker.
11708 - Get rid of IgnoreVersion undocumented config option, and make us
11709 only warn, never exit, when we're running an obsolete version.
11710 - Don't try to print a null string when your server finds itself to
11711 be unreachable and the Address config option is empty.
11712 - Make the numbers in read-history and write-history into uint64s,
11713 so they don't overflow and publish negatives in the descriptor.
11714 - Fix a minor memory leak in smartlist_string_remove().
11715 - We were only allowing ourselves to upload a server descriptor at
11716 most every 20 minutes, even if it changed earlier than that.
11717 - Clean up log entries that pointed to old URLs.
11720 Changes in version 0.1.0.14 - 2005-08-08
11721 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11722 - Fix the other half of the bug with crypto handshakes
11724 - Fix an assert trigger if you send a 'signal term' via the
11725 controller when it's listening for 'event info' messages.
11728 Changes in version 0.1.0.13 - 2005-08-04
11729 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11730 - Fix a critical bug in the security of our crypto handshakes.
11731 - Fix a size_t underflow in smartlist_join_strings2() that made
11732 it do bad things when you hand it an empty smartlist.
11733 - Fix Windows installer to ship Tor license (thanks to Aphex for
11734 pointing out this oversight) and put a link to the doc directory
11736 - Explicitly set no-unaligned-access for sparc: it turns out the
11737 new gcc's let you compile broken code, but that doesn't make it
11741 Changes in version 0.1.0.12 - 2005-07-18
11742 o New directory servers:
11743 - tor26 has changed IP address.
11745 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11746 - Fix a possible double-free in tor_gzip_uncompress().
11747 - When --disable-threads is set, do not search for or link against
11748 pthreads libraries.
11749 - Don't trigger an assert if an authoritative directory server
11750 claims its dirport is 0.
11751 - Fix bug with removing Tor as an NT service: some people were
11752 getting "The service did not return an error." Thanks to Matt
11756 Changes in version 0.1.0.11 - 2005-06-30
11757 o Bugfixes on 0.1.0.x:
11758 - Fix major security bug: servers were disregarding their
11759 exit policies if clients behaved unexpectedly.
11760 - Make OS X init script check for missing argument, so we don't
11761 confuse users who invoke it incorrectly.
11762 - Fix a seg fault in "tor --hash-password foo".
11763 - The MAPADDRESS control command was broken.
11766 Changes in version 0.1.0.10 - 2005-06-14
11768 - Make NT services work and start on startup on Win32 (based on
11769 patch by Matt Edman). See the FAQ entry for details.
11770 - Make 'platform' string in descriptor more accurate for Win32
11771 servers, so it's not just "unknown platform".
11772 - REUSEADDR on normal platforms means you can rebind to the port
11773 right after somebody else has let it go. But REUSEADDR on Win32
11774 means you can bind to the port _even when somebody else already
11775 has it bound_! So, don't do that on Win32.
11776 - Clean up the log messages when starting on Win32 with no config
11778 - Allow seeding the RNG on Win32 even when you're not running as
11779 Administrator. If seeding the RNG on Win32 fails, quit.
11781 o Assert / crash bugs:
11782 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
11783 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
11784 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
11786 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
11787 Tor server triggers an assert. Stop asserting, and start handling
11788 TLS errors better in other situations too.
11789 - Fix a race condition that can trigger an assert when we have a
11790 pending create cell and an OR connection attempt fails.
11793 - Use pthreads for worker processes rather than forking. This was
11794 forced because when we forked, we ended up wasting a lot of
11795 duplicate ram over time.
11796 - Also switch to foo_r versions of some library calls to allow
11797 reentry and threadsafeness.
11798 - Implement --disable-threads configure option. Disable threads on
11799 netbsd and openbsd by default, because they have no reentrant
11800 resolver functions (!), and on solaris since it has other
11802 - Fix possible bug on threading platforms (e.g. win32) which was
11803 leaking a file descriptor whenever a cpuworker or dnsworker died.
11804 - Fix a minor memory leak when somebody establishes an introduction
11805 point at your Tor server.
11806 - Fix possible memory leak in tor_lookup_hostname(). (Thanks to
11808 - Add ./configure --with-dmalloc option, to track memory leaks.
11809 - And try to free all memory on closing, so we can detect what
11812 o Protocol correctness:
11813 - When we've connected to an OR and handshaked but didn't like
11814 the result, we were closing the conn without sending destroy
11815 cells back for pending circuits. Now send those destroys.
11816 - Start sending 'truncated' cells back rather than destroy cells
11817 if the circuit closes in front of you. This means we won't have
11818 to abandon partially built circuits.
11819 - Handle changed router status correctly when dirserver reloads
11820 fingerprint file. We used to be dropping all unverified descriptors
11821 right then. The bug was hidden because we would immediately
11822 fetch a directory from another dirserver, which would include the
11823 descriptors we just dropped.
11824 - Revise tor-spec to add more/better stream end reasons.
11825 - Revise all calls to connection_edge_end to avoid sending 'misc',
11826 and to take errno into account where possible.
11827 - Client now retries when streams end early for 'hibernating' or
11828 'resource limit' reasons, rather than failing them.
11829 - Try to be more zealous about calling connection_edge_end when
11830 things go bad with edge conns in connection.c.
11832 o Robustness improvements:
11833 - Better handling for heterogeneous / unreliable nodes:
11834 - Annotate circuits with whether they aim to contain high uptime
11835 nodes and/or high capacity nodes. When building circuits, choose
11837 - This means that every single node in an intro rend circuit,
11838 not just the last one, will have a minimum uptime.
11839 - New config option LongLivedPorts to indicate application streams
11840 that will want high uptime circuits.
11841 - Servers reset uptime when a dir fetch entirely fails. This
11842 hopefully reflects stability of the server's network connectivity.
11843 - If somebody starts his tor server in Jan 2004 and then fixes his
11844 clock, don't make his published uptime be a year.
11845 - Reset published uptime when we wake up from hibernation.
11846 - Introduce a notion of 'internal' circs, which are chosen without
11847 regard to the exit policy of the last hop. Intro and rendezvous
11848 circs must be internal circs, to avoid leaking information. Resolve
11849 and connect streams can use internal circs if they want.
11850 - New circuit pooling algorithm: keep track of what destination ports
11851 we've used recently (start out assuming we'll want to use 80), and
11852 make sure to have enough circs around to satisfy these ports. Also
11853 make sure to have 2 internal circs around if we've required internal
11854 circs lately (and with high uptime if we've seen that lately too).
11855 - Turn addr_policy_compare from a tristate to a quadstate; this should
11856 help address our "Ah, you allow 1.2.3.4:80. You are a good choice
11857 for google.com" problem.
11858 - When a client asks us for a dir mirror and we don't have one,
11859 launch an attempt to get a fresh one.
11860 - First cut at support for "create-fast" cells. Clients can use
11861 these when extending to their first hop, since the TLS already
11862 provides forward secrecy and authentication. Not enabled on
11865 o Reachability testing.
11866 - Your Tor server will automatically try to see if its ORPort and
11867 DirPort are reachable from the outside, and it won't upload its
11868 descriptor until it decides at least ORPort is reachable (when
11869 DirPort is not yet found reachable, publish it as zero).
11870 - When building testing circs for ORPort testing, use only
11871 high-bandwidth nodes, so fewer circuits fail.
11872 - Notice when our IP changes, and reset stats/uptime/reachability.
11873 - Authdirservers don't do ORPort reachability detection, since
11874 they're in clique mode, so it will be rare to find a server not
11875 already connected to them.
11876 - Authdirservers now automatically approve nodes running 0.1.0.2-rc
11880 - Now we allow two unverified servers with the same nickname
11881 but different keys. But if a nickname is verified, only that
11882 nickname+key are allowed.
11883 - If you're an authdirserver connecting to an address:port,
11884 and it's not the OR you were expecting, forget about that
11885 descriptor. If he *was* the one you were expecting, then forget
11886 about all other descriptors for that address:port.
11887 - Allow servers to publish descriptors from 12 hours in the future.
11888 Corollary: only whine about clock skew from the dirserver if
11889 he's a trusted dirserver (since now even verified servers could
11890 have quite wrong clocks).
11891 - Require servers that use the default dirservers to have public IP
11892 addresses. We have too many servers that are configured with private
11893 IPs and their admins never notice the log entries complaining that
11894 their descriptors are being rejected.
11896 o Efficiency improvements:
11897 - Use libevent. Now we can use faster async cores (like epoll, kpoll,
11898 and /dev/poll), and hopefully work better on Windows too.
11899 - Apple's OS X 10.4.0 ships with a broken kqueue API, and using
11900 kqueue on 10.3.9 causes kernel panics. Don't use kqueue on OS X.
11901 - Find libevent even if it's hiding in /usr/local/ and your
11902 CFLAGS and LDFLAGS don't tell you to look there.
11903 - Be able to link with libevent as a shared library (the default
11904 after 1.0d), even if it's hiding in /usr/local/lib and even
11905 if you haven't added /usr/local/lib to your /etc/ld.so.conf,
11906 assuming you're running gcc. Otherwise fail and give a useful
11908 - Switch to a new buffer management algorithm, which tries to avoid
11909 reallocing and copying quite as much. In first tests it looks like
11910 it uses *more* memory on average, but less cpu.
11911 - Switch our internal buffers implementation to use a ring buffer,
11912 to hopefully improve performance for fast servers a lot.
11913 - Reenable the part of the code that tries to flush as soon as an
11914 OR outbuf has a full TLS record available. Perhaps this will make
11915 OR outbufs not grow as huge except in rare cases, thus saving lots
11916 of CPU time plus memory.
11917 - Improve performance for dirservers: stop re-parsing the whole
11918 directory every time you regenerate it.
11919 - Keep a big splay tree of (circid,orconn)->circuit mappings to make
11920 it much faster to look up a circuit for each relay cell.
11921 - Remove most calls to assert_all_pending_dns_resolves_ok(),
11922 since they're eating our cpu on exit nodes.
11923 - Stop wasting time doing a case insensitive comparison for every
11924 dns name every time we do any lookup. Canonicalize the names to
11925 lowercase when you first see them.
11928 - Handle unavailable hidden services better. Handle slow or busy
11929 hidden services better.
11930 - Cannibalize GENERAL circs to be C_REND, C_INTRO, S_INTRO, and S_REND
11931 circ as necessary, if there are any completed ones lying around
11932 when we try to launch one.
11933 - Make hidden services try to establish a rendezvous for 30 seconds
11934 after fetching the descriptor, rather than for n (where n=3)
11935 attempts to build a circuit.
11936 - Adjust maximum skew and age for rendezvous descriptors: let skew
11937 be 48 hours rather than 90 minutes.
11938 - Reject malformed .onion addresses rather then passing them on as
11939 normal web requests.
11942 - More Tor controller support. See
11943 http://tor.eff.org/doc/control-spec.txt for all the new features,
11944 including signals to emulate unix signals from any platform;
11945 redirectstream; extendcircuit; mapaddress; getinfo; postdescriptor;
11946 closestream; closecircuit; etc.
11947 - Encode hashed controller passwords in hex instead of base64,
11948 to make it easier to write controllers.
11949 - Revise control spec and implementation to allow all log messages to
11950 be sent to controller with their severities intact (suggested by
11951 Matt Edman). Disable debug-level logs while delivering a debug-level
11952 log to the controller, to prevent loop. Update TorControl to handle
11953 new log event types.
11955 o New config options/defaults:
11956 - Begin scrubbing sensitive strings from logs by default. Turn off
11957 the config option SafeLogging if you need to do debugging.
11958 - New exit policy: accept most low-numbered ports, rather than
11959 rejecting most low-numbered ports.
11960 - Put a note in the torrc about abuse potential with the default
11962 - Add support for CONNECTing through https proxies, with "HttpsProxy"
11964 - Add HttpProxyAuthenticator and HttpsProxyAuthenticator support
11965 based on patch from Adam Langley (basic auth only).
11966 - Bump the default BandwidthRate from 1 MB to 2 MB, to accommodate
11967 the fast servers that have been joining lately. (Clients are now
11968 willing to load balance over up to 2 MB of advertised bandwidth
11970 - New config option MaxAdvertisedBandwidth which lets you advertise
11971 a low bandwidthrate (to not attract as many circuits) while still
11972 allowing a higher bandwidthrate in reality.
11973 - Require BandwidthRate to be at least 20kB/s for servers.
11974 - Add a NoPublish config option, so you can be a server (e.g. for
11975 testing running Tor servers in other Tor networks) without
11976 publishing your descriptor to the primary dirservers.
11977 - Add a new AddressMap config directive to rewrite incoming socks
11978 addresses. This lets you, for example, declare an implicit
11979 required exit node for certain sites.
11980 - Add a new TrackHostExits config directive to trigger addressmaps
11981 for certain incoming socks addresses -- for sites that break when
11982 your exit keeps changing (based on patch from Mike Perry).
11983 - Split NewCircuitPeriod option into NewCircuitPeriod (30 secs),
11984 which describes how often we retry making new circuits if current
11985 ones are dirty, and MaxCircuitDirtiness (10 mins), which describes
11986 how long we're willing to make use of an already-dirty circuit.
11987 - Change compiled-in SHUTDOWN_WAIT_LENGTH from a fixed 30 secs to
11988 a config option "ShutdownWaitLength" (when using kill -INT on
11990 - Fix an edge case in parsing config options: if they say "--"
11991 on the commandline, it's not a config option (thanks weasel).
11992 - New config option DirAllowPrivateAddresses for authdirservers.
11993 Now by default they refuse router descriptors that have non-IP or
11994 private-IP addresses.
11995 - Change DirFetchPeriod/StatusFetchPeriod to have a special "Be
11996 smart" default value: low for servers and high for clients.
11997 - Some people were putting "Address " in their torrc, and they had
11998 a buggy resolver that resolved " " to 0.0.0.0. Oops.
11999 - If DataDir is ~/.tor, and that expands to /.tor, then default to
12000 LOCALSTATEDIR/tor instead.
12001 - Implement --verify-config command-line option to check if your torrc
12002 is valid without actually launching Tor.
12004 o Logging improvements:
12005 - When dirservers refuse a server descriptor, we now log its
12006 contactinfo, platform, and the poster's IP address.
12007 - Only warn once per nickname from add_nickname_list_to_smartlist()
12008 per failure, so an entrynode or exitnode choice that's down won't
12010 - When we're connecting to an OR and he's got a different nickname/key
12011 than we were expecting, only complain loudly if we're an OP or a
12012 dirserver. Complaining loudly to the OR admins just confuses them.
12013 - Whine at you if you're a server and you don't set your contactinfo.
12014 - Warn when exit policy implicitly allows local addresses.
12015 - Give a better warning when some other server advertises an
12016 ORPort that is actually an apache running ssl.
12017 - If we get an incredibly skewed timestamp from a dirserver mirror
12018 that isn't a verified OR, don't warn -- it's probably him that's
12020 - When a dirserver causes you to give a warn, mention which dirserver
12022 - Initialize libevent later in the startup process, so the logs are
12023 already established by the time we start logging libevent warns.
12024 - Use correct errno on win32 if libevent fails.
12025 - Check and warn about known-bad/slow libevent versions.
12026 - Stop warning about sigpipes in the logs. We're going to
12027 pretend that getting these occassionally is normal and fine.
12029 o New contrib scripts:
12030 - New experimental script tor/contrib/exitlist: a simple python
12031 script to parse directories and find Tor nodes that exit to listed
12033 - New experimental script tor/contrib/ExerciseServer.py (needs more
12034 work) that uses the controller interface to build circuits and
12035 fetch pages over them. This will help us bootstrap servers that
12036 have lots of capacity but haven't noticed it yet.
12037 - New experimental script tor/contrib/PathDemo.py (needs more work)
12038 that uses the controller interface to let you choose whole paths
12040 "<hostname>.<path,separated by dots>.<length of path>.path"
12041 - New contributed script "privoxy-tor-toggle" to toggle whether
12042 Privoxy uses Tor. Seems to be configured for Debian by default.
12043 - Have torctl.in/tor.sh.in check for location of su binary (needed
12047 - chdir() to your datadirectory at the *end* of the daemonize process,
12048 not the beginning. This was a problem because the first time you
12049 run tor, if your datadir isn't there, and you have runasdaemon set
12050 to 1, it will try to chdir to it before it tries to create it. Oops.
12051 - Fix several double-mark-for-close bugs, e.g. where we were finding
12052 a conn for a cell even if that conn is already marked for close.
12053 - Stop most cases of hanging up on a socks connection without sending
12055 - Fix a bug in the RPM package: set home directory for _tor to
12056 something more reasonable when first installing.
12057 - Stop putting nodename in the Platform string in server descriptors.
12058 It doesn't actually help, and it is confusing/upsetting some people.
12059 - When using preferred entry or exit nodes, ignore whether the
12060 circuit wants uptime or capacity. They asked for the nodes, they
12062 - Tie MAX_DIR_SIZE to MAX_BUF_SIZE, so now directory sizes won't get
12063 artificially capped at 500kB.
12064 - Cache local dns resolves correctly even when they're .exit
12066 - If we're hibernating and we get a SIGINT, exit immediately.
12067 - tor-resolve requests were ignoring .exit if there was a working circuit
12068 they could use instead.
12069 - Pay more attention to the ClientOnly config option.
12070 - Resolve OS X installer bugs: stop claiming to be 0.0.9.2 in certain
12071 installer screens; and don't put stuff into StartupItems unless
12072 the user asks you to.
12075 - Rewrite address "serifos.exit" to "externalIP.serifos.exit"
12076 rather than just rejecting it.
12077 - If our clock jumps forward by 100 seconds or more, assume something
12078 has gone wrong with our network and abandon all not-yet-used circs.
12079 - When an application is using socks5, give him the whole variety of
12080 potential socks5 responses (connect refused, host unreachable, etc),
12081 rather than just "success" or "failure".
12082 - A more sane version numbering system. See
12083 http://tor.eff.org/cvs/tor/doc/version-spec.txt for details.
12084 - Change version parsing logic: a version is "obsolete" if it is not
12085 recommended and (1) there is a newer recommended version in the
12086 same series, or (2) there are no recommended versions in the same
12087 series, but there are some recommended versions in a newer series.
12088 A version is "new" if it is newer than any recommended version in
12090 - Report HTTP reasons to client when getting a response from directory
12091 servers -- so you can actually know what went wrong.
12092 - Reject odd-looking addresses at the client (e.g. addresses that
12093 contain a colon), rather than having the server drop them because
12095 - Stop publishing socksport in the directory, since it's not
12096 actually meant to be public. For compatibility, publish a 0 there
12098 - Since we ship our own Privoxy on OS X, tweak it so it doesn't write
12099 cookies to disk and doesn't log each web request to disk. (Thanks
12100 to Brett Carrington for pointing this out.)
12101 - Add OSX uninstall instructions. An actual uninstall script will
12103 - Add "opt hibernating 1" to server descriptor to make it clearer
12104 whether the server is hibernating.
12107 Changes in version 0.0.9.10 - 2005-06-16
12108 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (backported from 0.1.0.10):
12109 - Refuse relay cells that claim to have a length larger than the
12110 maximum allowed. This prevents a potential attack that could read
12111 arbitrary memory (e.g. keys) from an exit server's process
12115 Changes in version 0.0.9.9 - 2005-04-23
12116 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
12117 - If unofficial Tor clients connect and send weird TLS certs, our
12118 Tor server triggers an assert. This release contains a minimal
12119 backport from the broader fix that we put into 0.1.0.4-rc.
12122 Changes in version 0.0.9.8 - 2005-04-07
12123 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
12124 - We have a bug that I haven't found yet. Sometimes, very rarely,
12125 cpuworkers get stuck in the 'busy' state, even though the cpuworker
12126 thinks of itself as idle. This meant that no new circuits ever got
12127 established. Here's a workaround to kill any cpuworker that's been
12128 busy for more than 100 seconds.
12131 Changes in version 0.0.9.7 - 2005-04-01
12132 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
12133 - Fix another race crash bug (thanks to Glenn Fink for reporting).
12134 - Compare identity to identity, not to nickname, when extending to
12135 a router not already in the directory. This was preventing us from
12136 extending to unknown routers. Oops.
12137 - Make sure to create OS X Tor user in <500 range, so we aren't
12138 creating actual system users.
12139 - Note where connection-that-hasn't-sent-end was marked, and fix
12140 a few really loud instances of this harmless bug (it's fixed more
12144 Changes in version 0.0.9.6 - 2005-03-24
12145 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (crashes and asserts):
12146 - Add new end stream reasons to maintainance branch. Fix bug where
12147 reason (8) could trigger an assert. Prevent bug from recurring.
12148 - Apparently win32 stat wants paths to not end with a slash.
12149 - Fix assert triggers in assert_cpath_layer_ok(), where we were
12150 blowing away the circuit that conn->cpath_layer points to, then
12151 checking to see if the circ is well-formed. Backport check to make
12152 sure we dont use the cpath on a closed connection.
12153 - Prevent circuit_resume_edge_reading_helper() from trying to package
12154 inbufs for marked-for-close streams.
12155 - Don't crash on hup if your options->address has become unresolvable.
12156 - Some systems (like OS X) sometimes accept() a connection and tell
12157 you the remote host is 0.0.0.0:0. If this happens, due to some
12158 other mis-features, we get confused; so refuse the conn for now.
12160 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x (other):
12161 - Fix harmless but scary "Unrecognized content encoding" warn message.
12162 - Add new stream error reason: TORPROTOCOL reason means "you are not
12163 speaking a version of Tor I understand; say bye-bye to your stream."
12164 - Be willing to cache directories from up to ROUTER_MAX_AGE seconds
12165 into the future, now that we are more tolerant of skew. This
12166 resolves a bug where a Tor server would refuse to cache a directory
12167 because all the directories it gets are too far in the future;
12168 yet the Tor server never logs any complaints about clock skew.
12169 - Mac packaging magic: make man pages useable, and do not overwrite
12170 existing torrc files.
12171 - Make OS X log happily to /var/log/tor/tor.log
12174 Changes in version 0.0.9.5 - 2005-02-22
12175 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9.x:
12176 - Fix an assert race at exit nodes when resolve requests fail.
12177 - Stop picking unverified dir mirrors--it only leads to misery.
12178 - Patch from Matt Edman to make NT services work better. Service
12179 support is still not compiled into the executable by default.
12180 - Patch from Dmitri Bely so the Tor service runs better under
12181 the win32 SYSTEM account.
12182 - Make tor-resolve actually work (?) on Win32.
12183 - Fix a sign bug when getrlimit claims to have 4+ billion
12184 file descriptors available.
12185 - Stop refusing to start when bandwidthburst == bandwidthrate.
12186 - When create cells have been on the onion queue more than five
12187 seconds, just send back a destroy and take them off the list.
12190 Changes in version 0.0.9.4 - 2005-02-03
12191 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
12192 - Fix an assert bug that took down most of our servers: when
12193 a server claims to have 1 GB of bandwidthburst, don't
12195 - Don't crash as badly if we have spawned the max allowed number
12196 of dnsworkers, or we're out of file descriptors.
12197 - Block more file-sharing ports in the default exit policy.
12198 - MaxConn is now automatically set to the hard limit of max
12199 file descriptors we're allowed (ulimit -n), minus a few for
12201 - Give a clearer message when servers need to raise their
12202 ulimit -n when they start running out of file descriptors.
12203 - SGI Compatibility patches from Jan Schaumann.
12204 - Tolerate a corrupt cached directory better.
12205 - When a dirserver hasn't approved your server, list which one.
12206 - Go into soft hibernation after 95% of the bandwidth is used,
12207 not 99%. This is especially important for daily hibernators who
12208 have a small accounting max. Hopefully it will result in fewer
12209 cut connections when the hard hibernation starts.
12210 - Load-balance better when using servers that claim more than
12211 800kB/s of capacity.
12212 - Make NT services work (experimental, only used if compiled in).
12215 Changes in version 0.0.9.3 - 2005-01-21
12216 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
12217 - Backport the cpu use fixes from main branch, so busy servers won't
12218 need as much processor time.
12219 - Work better when we go offline and then come back, or when we
12220 run Tor at boot before the network is up. We do this by
12221 optimistically trying to fetch a new directory whenever an
12222 application request comes in and we think we're offline -- the
12223 human is hopefully a good measure of when the network is back.
12224 - Backport some minimal hidserv bugfixes: keep rend circuits open as
12225 long as you keep using them; actually publish hidserv descriptors
12226 shortly after they change, rather than waiting 20-40 minutes.
12227 - Enable Mac startup script by default.
12228 - Fix duplicate dns_cancel_pending_resolve reported by Giorgos Pallas.
12229 - When you update AllowUnverifiedNodes or FirewallPorts via the
12230 controller's setconf feature, we were always appending, never
12232 - When you update HiddenServiceDir via setconf, it was screwing up
12233 the order of reading the lines, making it fail.
12234 - Do not rewrite a cached directory back to the cache; otherwise we
12235 will think it is recent and not fetch a newer one on startup.
12236 - Workaround for webservers that lie about Content-Encoding: Tor
12237 now tries to autodetect compressed directories and compression
12238 itself. This lets us Proxypass dir fetches through apache.
12241 Changes in version 0.0.9.2 - 2005-01-04
12242 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (crashes and asserts):
12243 - Fix an assert on startup when the disk is full and you're logging
12245 - If you do socks4 with an IP of 0.0.0.x but *don't* provide a socks4a
12246 style address, then we'd crash.
12247 - Fix an assert trigger when the running-routers string we get from
12248 a dirserver is broken.
12249 - Make worker threads start and run on win32. Now win32 servers
12251 - Bandaid (not actually fix, but now it doesn't crash) an assert
12252 where the dns worker dies mysteriously and the main Tor process
12253 doesn't remember anything about the address it was resolving.
12255 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (Win32):
12256 - Workaround for brain-damaged __FILE__ handling on MSVC: keep Nick's
12257 name out of the warning/assert messages.
12258 - Fix a superficial "unhandled error on read" bug on win32.
12259 - The win32 installer no longer requires a click-through for our
12260 license, since our Free Software license grants rights but does not
12262 - Win32: When connecting to a dirserver fails, try another one
12263 immediately. (This was already working for non-win32 Tors.)
12264 - Stop trying to parse $HOME on win32 when hunting for default
12266 - Make tor-resolve.c work on win32 by calling network_init().
12268 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9 (other):
12269 - Make 0.0.9.x build on Solaris again.
12270 - Due to a fencepost error, we were blowing away the \n when reporting
12271 confvalue items in the controller. So asking for multiple config
12272 values at once couldn't work.
12273 - When listing circuits that are pending on an opening OR connection,
12274 if we're an OR we were listing circuits that *end* at us as
12275 being pending on every listener, dns/cpu worker, etc. Stop that.
12276 - Dirservers were failing to create 'running-routers' or 'directory'
12277 strings if we had more than some threshold of routers. Fix them so
12278 they can handle any number of routers.
12279 - Fix a superficial "Duplicate mark for close" bug.
12280 - Stop checking for clock skew for OR connections, even for servers.
12281 - Fix a fencepost error that was chopping off the last letter of any
12282 nickname that is the maximum allowed nickname length.
12283 - Update URLs in log messages so they point to the new website.
12284 - Fix a potential problem in mangling server private keys while
12285 writing to disk (not triggered yet, as far as we know).
12286 - Include the licenses for other free software we include in Tor,
12287 now that we're shipping binary distributions more regularly.
12290 Changes in version 0.0.9.1 - 2004-12-15
12291 o Bugfixes on 0.0.9:
12292 - Make hibernation actually work.
12293 - Make HashedControlPassword config option work.
12294 - When we're reporting event circuit status to a controller,
12295 don't use the stream status code.
12298 Changes in version 0.0.9 - 2004-12-12
12299 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Crashes and asserts):
12300 - Catch and ignore SIGXFSZ signals when log files exceed 2GB; our
12301 write() call will fail and we handle it there.
12302 - When we run out of disk space, or other log writing error, don't
12303 crash. Just stop logging to that log and continue.
12304 - Fix isspace() and friends so they still make Solaris happy
12305 but also so they don't trigger asserts on win32.
12306 - Fix assert failure on malformed socks4a requests.
12307 - Fix an assert bug where a hidden service provider would fail if
12308 the first hop of his rendezvous circuit was down.
12309 - Better handling of size_t vs int, so we're more robust on 64
12312 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Win32):
12313 - Make windows sockets actually non-blocking (oops), and handle
12314 win32 socket errors better.
12315 - Fix parse_iso_time on platforms without strptime (eg win32).
12316 - win32: when being multithreaded, leave parent fdarray open.
12317 - Better handling of winsock includes on non-MSV win32 compilers.
12318 - Change our file IO stuff (especially wrt OpenSSL) so win32 is
12320 - Make unit tests work on win32.
12322 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Path selection and streams):
12323 - Calculate timeout for waiting for a connected cell from the time
12324 we sent the begin cell, not from the time the stream started. If
12325 it took a long time to establish the circuit, we would time out
12326 right after sending the begin cell.
12327 - Fix router_compare_addr_to_addr_policy: it was not treating a port
12328 of * as always matching, so we were picking reject *:* nodes as
12329 exit nodes too. Oops.
12330 - When read() failed on a stream, we would close it without sending
12331 back an end. So 'connection refused' would simply be ignored and
12332 the user would get no response.
12333 - Stop a sigpipe: when an 'end' cell races with eof from the app,
12334 we shouldn't hold-open-until-flush if the eof arrived first.
12335 - Let resolve conns retry/expire also, rather than sticking around
12337 - Fix more dns related bugs: send back resolve_failed and end cells
12338 more reliably when the resolve fails, rather than closing the
12339 circuit and then trying to send the cell. Also attach dummy resolve
12340 connections to a circuit *before* calling dns_resolve(), to fix
12341 a bug where cached answers would never be sent in RESOLVED cells.
12343 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Circuits):
12344 - Finally fix a bug that's been plaguing us for a year:
12345 With high load, circuit package window was reaching 0. Whenever
12346 we got a circuit-level sendme, we were reading a lot on each
12347 socket, but only writing out a bit. So we would eventually reach
12348 eof. This would be noticed and acted on even when there were still
12349 bytes sitting in the inbuf.
12350 - Use identity comparison, not nickname comparison, to choose which
12351 half of circuit-ID-space each side gets to use. This is needed
12352 because sometimes we think of a router as a nickname, and sometimes
12353 as a hex ID, and we can't predict what the other side will do.
12355 o Bugfixes on 0.0.8.1 (Other):
12356 - Fix a whole slew of memory leaks.
12357 - Disallow NDEBUG. We don't ever want anybody to turn off debug.
12358 - If we are using select, make sure we stay within FD_SETSIZE.
12359 - When poll() is interrupted, we shouldn't believe the revents values.
12360 - Add a FAST_SMARTLIST define to optionally inline smartlist_get
12361 and smartlist_len, which are two major profiling offenders.
12362 - If do_hup fails, actually notice.
12363 - Flush the log file descriptor after we print "Tor opening log file",
12364 so we don't see those messages days later.
12365 - Hidden service operators now correctly handle version 1 style
12366 INTRODUCE1 cells (nobody generates them still, so not a critical
12368 - Handle more errnos from accept() without closing the listener.
12369 Some OpenBSD machines were closing their listeners because
12370 they ran out of file descriptors.
12371 - Some people had wrapped their tor client/server in a script
12372 that would restart it whenever it died. This did not play well
12373 with our "shut down if your version is obsolete" code. Now people
12374 don't fetch a new directory if their local cached version is
12376 - Make our autogen.sh work on ksh as well as bash.
12377 - Better torrc example lines for dirbindaddress and orbindaddress.
12378 - Improved bounds checking on parsed ints (e.g. config options and
12379 the ones we find in directories.)
12380 - Stop using separate defaults for no-config-file and
12381 empty-config-file. Now you have to explicitly turn off SocksPort,
12382 if you don't want it open.
12383 - We were starting to daemonize before we opened our logs, so if
12384 there were any problems opening logs, we would complain to stderr,
12385 which wouldn't work, and then mysteriously exit.
12386 - If a verified OR connects to us before he's uploaded his descriptor,
12387 or we verify him and hup but he still has the original TLS
12388 connection, then conn->nickname is still set like he's unverified.
12390 o Code security improvements, inspired by Ilja:
12391 - tor_snprintf wrapper over snprintf with consistent (though not C99)
12393 - Replace sprintf with tor_snprintf. (I think they were all safe, but
12395 - Replace strcpy/strncpy with strlcpy in more places.
12396 - Avoid strcat; use tor_snprintf or strlcat instead.
12398 o Features (circuits and streams):
12399 - New circuit building strategy: keep a list of ports that we've
12400 used in the past 6 hours, and always try to have 2 circuits open
12401 or on the way that will handle each such port. Seed us with port
12402 80 so web users won't complain that Tor is "slow to start up".
12403 - Make kill -USR1 dump more useful stats about circuits.
12404 - When warning about retrying or giving up, print the address, so
12405 the user knows which one it's talking about.
12406 - If you haven't used a clean circuit in an hour, throw it away,
12407 just to be on the safe side. (This means after 6 hours a totally
12408 unused Tor client will have no circuits open.)
12409 - Support "foo.nickname.exit" addresses, to let Alice request the
12410 address "foo" as viewed by exit node "nickname". Based on a patch
12411 from Geoff Goodell.
12412 - If your requested entry or exit node has advertised bandwidth 0,
12414 - Be more greedy about filling up relay cells -- we try reading again
12415 once we've processed the stuff we read, in case enough has arrived
12416 to fill the last cell completely.
12417 - Refuse application socks connections to port 0.
12418 - Use only 0.0.9pre1 and later servers for resolve cells.
12420 o Features (bandwidth):
12421 - Hibernation: New config option "AccountingMax" lets you
12422 set how many bytes per month (in each direction) you want to
12423 allow your server to consume. Rather than spreading those
12424 bytes out evenly over the month, we instead hibernate for some
12425 of the month and pop up at a deterministic time, work until
12426 the bytes are consumed, then hibernate again. Config option
12427 "MonthlyAccountingStart" lets you specify which day of the month
12428 your billing cycle starts on.
12429 - Implement weekly/monthly/daily accounting: now you specify your
12430 hibernation properties by
12431 AccountingMax N bytes|KB|MB|GB|TB
12432 AccountingStart day|week|month [day] HH:MM
12433 Defaults to "month 1 0:00".
12434 - Let bandwidth and interval config options be specified as 5 bytes,
12435 kb, kilobytes, etc; and as seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks.
12437 o Features (directories):
12438 - New "router-status" line in directory, to better bind each verified
12439 nickname to its identity key.
12440 - Clients can ask dirservers for /dir.z to get a compressed version
12441 of the directory. Only works for servers running 0.0.9, of course.
12442 - Make clients cache directories and use them to seed their router
12443 lists at startup. This means clients have a datadir again.
12444 - Respond to content-encoding headers by trying to uncompress as
12446 - Clients and servers now fetch running-routers; cache
12447 running-routers; compress running-routers; serve compressed
12449 - Make moria2 advertise a dirport of 80, so people behind firewalls
12450 will be able to get a directory.
12451 - Http proxy support
12452 - Dirservers translate requests for http://%s:%d/x to /x
12453 - You can specify "HttpProxy %s[:%d]" and all dir fetches will
12454 be routed through this host.
12455 - Clients ask for /tor/x rather than /x for new enough dirservers.
12456 This way we can one day coexist peacefully with apache.
12457 - Clients specify a "Host: %s%d" http header, to be compatible
12458 with more proxies, and so running squid on an exit node can work.
12459 - Protect dirservers from overzealous descriptor uploading -- wait
12460 10 seconds after directory gets dirty, before regenerating.
12462 o Features (packages and install):
12463 - Add NSI installer contributed by J Doe.
12464 - Apply NT service patch from Osamu Fujino. Still needs more work.
12465 - Commit VC6 and VC7 workspace/project files.
12466 - Commit a tor.spec for making RPM files, with help from jbash.
12467 - Add contrib/torctl.in contributed by Glenn Fink.
12468 - Make expand_filename handle ~ and ~username.
12469 - Use autoconf to enable largefile support where necessary. Use
12470 ftello where available, since ftell can fail at 2GB.
12471 - Ship src/win32/ in the tarball, so people can use it to build.
12472 - Make old win32 fall back to CWD if SHGetSpecialFolderLocation
12475 o Features (ui controller):
12476 - Control interface: a separate program can now talk to your
12477 client/server over a socket, and get/set config options, receive
12478 notifications of circuits and streams starting/finishing/dying,
12479 bandwidth used, etc. The next step is to get some GUIs working.
12480 Let us know if you want to help out. See doc/control-spec.txt .
12481 - Ship a contrib/tor-control.py as an example script to interact
12482 with the control port.
12483 - "tor --hash-password zzyxz" will output a salted password for
12484 use in authenticating to the control interface.
12485 - Implement the control-spec's SAVECONF command, to write your
12486 configuration to torrc.
12487 - Get cookie authentication for the controller closer to working.
12488 - When set_conf changes our server descriptor, upload a new copy.
12489 But don't upload it too often if there are frequent changes.
12491 o Features (config and command-line):
12492 - Deprecate unofficial config option abbreviations, and abbreviations
12493 not on the command line.
12494 - Configuration infrastructure support for warning on obsolete
12496 - Give a slightly more useful output for "tor -h".
12497 - Break DirFetchPostPeriod into:
12498 - DirFetchPeriod for fetching full directory,
12499 - StatusFetchPeriod for fetching running-routers,
12500 - DirPostPeriod for posting server descriptor,
12501 - RendPostPeriod for posting hidden service descriptors.
12502 - New log format in config:
12503 "Log minsev[-maxsev] stdout|stderr|syslog" or
12504 "Log minsev[-maxsev] file /var/foo"
12505 - DirPolicy config option, to let people reject incoming addresses
12506 from their dirserver.
12507 - "tor --list-fingerprint" will list your identity key fingerprint
12509 - Make tor --version --version dump the cvs Id of every file.
12510 - New 'MyFamily nick1,...' config option for a server to
12511 specify other servers that shouldn't be used in the same circuit
12512 with it. Only believed if nick1 also specifies us.
12513 - New 'NodeFamily nick1,nick2,...' config option for a client to
12514 specify nodes that it doesn't want to use in the same circuit.
12515 - New 'Redirectexit pattern address:port' config option for a
12516 server to redirect exit connections, e.g. to a local squid.
12517 - Add "pass" target for RedirectExit, to make it easier to break
12518 out of a sequence of RedirectExit rules.
12519 - Make the dirservers file obsolete.
12520 - Include a dir-signing-key token in directories to tell the
12521 parsing entity which key is being used to sign.
12522 - Remove the built-in bulky default dirservers string.
12523 - New config option "Dirserver %s:%d [fingerprint]", which can be
12524 repeated as many times as needed. If no dirservers specified,
12525 default to moria1,moria2,tor26.
12526 - Make 'Routerfile' config option obsolete.
12527 - Discourage people from setting their dirfetchpostperiod more often
12528 than once per minute.
12530 o Features (other):
12531 - kill -USR2 now moves all logs to loglevel debug (kill -HUP to
12532 get back to normal.)
12533 - Accept *:706 (silc) in default exit policy.
12534 - Implement new versioning format for post 0.1.
12535 - Distinguish between TOR_TLS_CLOSE and TOR_TLS_ERROR, so we can
12536 log more informatively.
12537 - Check clock skew for verified servers, but allow unverified
12538 servers and clients to have any clock skew.
12539 - Make sure the hidden service descriptors are at a random offset
12540 from each other, to hinder linkability.
12541 - Clients now generate a TLS cert too, in preparation for having
12542 them act more like real nodes.
12543 - Add a pure-C tor-resolve implementation.
12544 - Use getrlimit and friends to ensure we can reach MaxConn (currently
12545 1024) file descriptors.
12546 - Raise the max dns workers from 50 to 100.
12549 Changes in version 0.0.8.1 - 2004-10-13
12551 - Fix a seg fault that can be triggered remotely for Tor
12552 clients/servers with an open dirport.
12553 - Fix a rare assert trigger, where routerinfos for entries in
12554 our cpath would expire while we're building the path.
12555 - Fix a bug in OutboundBindAddress so it (hopefully) works.
12556 - Fix a rare seg fault for people running hidden services on
12557 intermittent connections.
12558 - Fix a bug in parsing opt keywords with objects.
12559 - Fix a stale pointer assert bug when a stream detaches and
12561 - Fix a string format vulnerability (probably not exploitable)
12562 in reporting stats locally.
12563 - Fix an assert trigger: sometimes launching circuits can fail
12564 immediately, e.g. because too many circuits have failed recently.
12565 - Fix a compile warning on 64 bit platforms.
12568 Changes in version 0.0.8 - 2004-08-25
12570 - Made our unit tests compile again on OpenBSD 3.5, and tor
12571 itself compile again on OpenBSD on a sparc64.
12572 - We were neglecting milliseconds when logging on win32, so
12573 everything appeared to happen at the beginning of each second.
12574 - Check directory signature _before_ you decide whether you're
12575 you're running an obsolete version and should exit.
12576 - Check directory signature _before_ you parse the running-routers
12577 list to decide who's running.
12578 - Check return value of fclose while writing to disk, so we don't
12579 end up with broken files when servers run out of disk space.
12580 - Port it to SunOS 5.9 / Athena
12581 - Fix two bugs in saving onion keys to disk when rotating, so
12582 hopefully we'll get fewer people using old onion keys.
12583 - Remove our mostly unused -- and broken -- hex_encode()
12584 function. Use base16_encode() instead. (Thanks to Timo Lindfors
12585 for pointing out this bug.)
12586 - Only pick and establish intro points after we've gotten a
12588 - Fix assert triggers: if the other side returns an address 0.0.0.0,
12589 don't put it into the client dns cache.
12590 - If a begin failed due to exit policy, but we believe the IP
12591 address should have been allowed, switch that router to exitpolicy
12592 reject *:* until we get our next directory.
12594 o Protocol changes:
12595 - 'Extend' relay cell payloads now include the digest of the
12596 intended next hop's identity key. Now we can verify that we're
12597 extending to the right router, and also extend to routers we
12598 hadn't heard of before.
12601 - Tor nodes can now act as relays (with an advertised ORPort)
12602 without being manually verified by the dirserver operators.
12603 - Uploaded descriptors of unverified routers are now accepted
12604 by the dirservers, and included in the directory.
12605 - Verified routers are listed by nickname in the running-routers
12606 list; unverified routers are listed as "$<fingerprint>".
12607 - We now use hash-of-identity-key in most places rather than
12608 nickname or addr:port, for improved security/flexibility.
12609 - AllowUnverifiedNodes config option to let circuits choose no-name
12610 routers in entry,middle,exit,introduction,rendezvous positions.
12611 Allow middle and rendezvous positions by default.
12612 - When picking unverified routers, skip those with low uptime and/or
12613 low bandwidth, depending on what properties you care about.
12614 - ClientOnly option for nodes that never want to become servers.
12615 - Directory caching.
12616 - "AuthoritativeDir 1" option for the official dirservers.
12617 - Now other nodes (clients and servers) will cache the latest
12618 directory they've pulled down.
12619 - They can enable their DirPort to serve it to others.
12620 - Clients will pull down a directory from any node with an open
12621 DirPort, and check the signature/timestamp correctly.
12622 - Authoritative dirservers now fetch directories from other
12623 authdirservers, to stay better synced.
12624 - Running-routers list tells who's down also, along with noting
12625 if they're verified (listed by nickname) or unverified (listed
12627 - Allow dirservers to serve running-router list separately.
12628 This isn't used yet.
12629 - You can now fetch $DIRURL/running-routers to get just the
12630 running-routers line, not the whole descriptor list. (But
12631 clients don't use this yet.)
12632 - Clients choose nodes proportional to advertised bandwidth.
12633 - Clients avoid using nodes with low uptime as introduction points.
12634 - Handle servers with dynamic IP addresses: don't just replace
12635 options->Address with the resolved one at startup, and
12636 detect our address right before we make a routerinfo each time.
12637 - 'FascistFirewall' option to pick dirservers and ORs on specific
12638 ports; plus 'FirewallPorts' config option to tell FascistFirewall
12639 which ports are open. (Defaults to 80,443)
12640 - Try other dirservers immediately if the one you try is down. This
12641 should tolerate down dirservers better now.
12642 - ORs connect-on-demand to other ORs
12643 - If you get an extend cell to an OR you're not connected to,
12644 connect, handshake, and forward the create cell.
12645 - The authoritative dirservers stay connected to everybody,
12646 and everybody stays connected to 0.0.7 servers, but otherwise
12647 clients/servers expire unused connections after 5 minutes.
12648 - When servers get a sigint, they delay 30 seconds (refusing new
12649 connections) then exit. A second sigint causes immediate exit.
12650 - File and name management:
12651 - Look for .torrc if no CONFDIR "torrc" is found.
12652 - If no datadir is defined, then choose, make, and secure ~/.tor
12654 - If torrc not found, exitpolicy reject *:*.
12655 - Expands ~/ in filenames to $HOME/ (but doesn't yet expand ~arma).
12656 - If no nickname is defined, derive default from hostname.
12657 - Rename secret key files, e.g. identity.key -> secret_id_key,
12658 to discourage people from mailing their identity key to tor-ops.
12659 - Refuse to build a circuit before the directory has arrived --
12660 it won't work anyway, since you won't know the right onion keys
12662 - Parse tor version numbers so we can do an is-newer-than check
12663 rather than an is-in-the-list check.
12664 - New socks command 'resolve', to let us shim gethostbyname()
12666 - A 'tor_resolve' script to access the socks resolve functionality.
12667 - A new socks-extensions.txt doc file to describe our
12668 interpretation and extensions to the socks protocols.
12669 - Add a ContactInfo option, which gets published in descriptor.
12670 - Write tor version at the top of each log file
12671 - New docs in the tarball:
12673 - Document that you should proxy your SSL traffic too.
12674 - Log a warning if the user uses an unsafe socks variant, so people
12675 are more likely to learn about privoxy or socat.
12676 - Log a warning if you're running an unverified server, to let you
12677 know you might want to get it verified.
12678 - Change the default exit policy to reject the default edonkey,
12679 kazaa, gnutella ports.
12680 - Add replace_file() to util.[ch] to handle win32's rename().
12681 - Publish OR uptime in descriptor (and thus in directory) too.
12682 - Remember used bandwidth (both in and out), and publish 15-minute
12683 snapshots for the past day into our descriptor.
12684 - Be more aggressive about trying to make circuits when the network
12685 has changed (e.g. when you unsuspend your laptop).
12686 - Check for time skew on http headers; report date in response to
12688 - If the entrynode config line has only one node, don't pick it as
12690 - Add strict{entry|exit}nodes config options. If set to 1, then
12691 we refuse to build circuits that don't include the specified entry
12693 - OutboundBindAddress config option, to bind to a specific
12694 IP address for outgoing connect()s.
12695 - End truncated log entries (e.g. directories) with "[truncated]".
12698 Changes in version 0.0.7.3 - 2004-08-12
12699 o Stop dnsworkers from triggering an assert failure when you
12700 ask them to resolve the host "".
12703 Changes in version 0.0.7.2 - 2004-07-07
12704 o A better fix for the 0.0.0.0 problem, that will hopefully
12705 eliminate the remaining related assertion failures.
12708 Changes in version 0.0.7.1 - 2004-07-04
12709 o When an address resolves to 0.0.0.0, treat it as a failed resolve,
12710 since internally we use 0.0.0.0 to signify "not yet resolved".
12713 Changes in version 0.0.7 - 2004-06-07
12714 o Fixes for crashes and other obnoxious bugs:
12715 - Fix an epipe bug: sometimes when directory connections failed
12716 to connect, we would give them a chance to flush before closing
12718 - When we detached from a circuit because of resolvefailed, we
12719 would immediately try the same circuit twice more, and then
12720 give up on the resolve thinking we'd tried three different
12722 - Limit the number of intro circuits we'll attempt to build for a
12723 hidden service per 15-minute period.
12724 - Check recommended-software string *early*, before actually parsing
12725 the directory. Thus we can detect an obsolete version and exit,
12726 even if the new directory format doesn't parse.
12727 o Fixes for security bugs:
12728 - Remember which nodes are dirservers when you startup, and if a
12729 random OR enables his dirport, don't automatically assume he's
12730 a trusted dirserver.
12732 - Directory connections were asking the wrong poll socket to
12733 start writing, and not asking themselves to start writing.
12734 - When we detached from a circuit because we sent a begin but
12735 didn't get a connected, we would use it again the first time;
12736 but after that we would correctly switch to a different one.
12737 - Stop warning when the first onion decrypt attempt fails; they
12738 will sometimes legitimately fail now that we rotate keys.
12739 - Override unaligned-access-ok check when $host_cpu is ia64 or
12740 arm. Apparently they allow it but the kernel whines.
12741 - Dirservers try to reconnect periodically too, in case connections
12743 - Fix some memory leaks in directory servers.
12744 - Allow backslash in Win32 filenames.
12745 - Made Tor build complain-free on FreeBSD, hopefully without
12746 breaking other BSD builds. We'll see.
12747 - Check directory signatures based on name of signer, not on whom
12748 we got the directory from. This will let us cache directories more
12750 - Rotate dnsworkers and cpuworkers on SIGHUP, so they get new config
12753 - Doxygen markup on all functions and global variables.
12754 - Make directory functions update routerlist, not replace it. So
12755 now directory disagreements are not so critical a problem.
12756 - Remove the upper limit on number of descriptors in a dirserver's
12757 directory (not that we were anywhere close).
12758 - Allow multiple logfiles at different severity ranges.
12759 - Allow *BindAddress to specify ":port" rather than setting *Port
12760 separately. Allow multiple instances of each BindAddress config
12761 option, so you can bind to multiple interfaces if you want.
12762 - Allow multiple exit policy lines, which are processed in order.
12763 Now we don't need that huge line with all the commas in it.
12764 - Enable accept/reject policies on SOCKS connections, so you can bind
12765 to 0.0.0.0 but still control who can use your OP.
12766 - Updated the man page to reflect these features.
12769 Changes in version 0.0.6.2 - 2004-05-16
12770 o Our integrity-checking digest was checking only the most recent cell,
12771 not the previous cells like we'd thought.
12772 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
12775 Changes in version 0.0.6.1 - 2004-05-06
12776 o Fix two bugs in our AES counter-mode implementation (this affected
12777 onion-level stream encryption, but not TLS-level). It turns
12778 out we were doing something much more akin to a 16-character
12779 polyalphabetic cipher. Oops.
12780 Thanks to Stefan Mark for finding the flaw!
12781 o Retire moria3 as a directory server, and add tor26 as a directory
12785 Changes in version 0.0.6 - 2004-05-02
12787 - Hidden services and rendezvous points are implemented. Go to
12788 http://6sxoyfb3h2nvok2d.onion/ for an index of currently available
12789 hidden services. (This only works via a socks4a proxy such as
12790 Privoxy, and currently it's quite slow.)
12791 - We now rotate link (tls context) keys and onion keys.
12792 - CREATE cells now include oaep padding, so you can tell
12793 if you decrypted them correctly.
12794 - Retry stream correctly when we fail to connect because of
12795 exit-policy-reject (should try another) or can't-resolve-address.
12796 - When we hup a dirserver and we've *removed* a server from the
12797 approved-routers list, now we remove that server from the
12798 in-memory directories too.
12799 - Add bandwidthburst to server descriptor.
12800 - Directories now say which dirserver signed them.
12801 - Use a tor_assert macro that logs failed assertions too.
12802 - Since we don't support truncateds much, don't bother sending them;
12803 just close the circ.
12804 - Fetch randomness from /dev/urandom better (not via fopen/fread)
12805 - Better debugging for tls errors
12806 - Set Content-Type on the directory and hidserv descriptor.
12807 - Remove IVs from cipher code, since AES-ctr has none.
12809 - Fix an assert trigger for exit nodes that's been plaguing us since
12810 the days of 0.0.2prexx (thanks weasel!)
12811 - Fix a bug where we were closing tls connections intermittently.
12812 It turns out openssl keeps its errors around -- so if an error
12813 happens, and you don't ask about it, and then another openssl
12814 operation happens and succeeds, and you ask if there was an error,
12815 it tells you about the first error.
12816 - Fix a bug that's been lurking since 27 may 03 (!)
12817 When passing back a destroy cell, we would use the wrong circ id.
12818 - Don't crash if a conn that sent a begin has suddenly lost its circuit.
12819 - Some versions of openssl have an SSL_pending function that erroneously
12820 returns bytes when there is a non-application record pending.
12821 - Win32 fixes. Tor now compiles on win32 with no warnings/errors.
12822 o We were using an array of length zero in a few places.
12823 o Win32's gethostbyname can't resolve an IP to an IP.
12824 o Win32's close can't close a socket.
12825 o Handle windows socket errors correctly.
12827 - check for <sys/limits.h> so we build on FreeBSD again, and
12828 <machine/limits.h> for NetBSD.
12831 Changes in version 0.0.5 - 2004-03-30
12832 o Install torrc as torrc.sample -- we no longer clobber your
12834 o Fix mangled-state bug in directory fetching (was causing sigpipes).
12835 o Only build circuits after we've fetched the directory: clients were
12836 using only the directory servers before they'd fetched a directory.
12837 This also means longer startup time; so it goes.
12838 o Fix an assert trigger where an OP would fail to handshake, and we'd
12839 expect it to have a nickname.
12840 o Work around a tsocks bug: do a socks reject when AP connection dies
12841 early, else tsocks goes into an infinite loop.
12842 o Hold socks connection open until reply is flushed (if possible)
12843 o Make exit nodes resolve IPs to IPs immediately, rather than asking
12844 the dns farm to do it.
12845 o Fix c99 aliasing warnings in rephist.c
12846 o Don't include server descriptors that are older than 24 hours in the
12848 o Give socks 'reject' replies their whole 15s to attempt to flush,
12849 rather than seeing the 60s timeout and assuming the flush had failed.
12850 o Clean automake droppings from the cvs repository
12851 o Add in a 'notice' log level for things the operator should hear
12852 but that aren't warnings
12855 Changes in version 0.0.4 - 2004-03-26
12856 o When connecting to a dirserver or OR and the network is down,
12860 Changes in version 0.0.3 - 2004-03-26
12861 o Warn and fail if server chose a nickname with illegal characters
12862 o Port to Solaris and Sparc:
12863 - include missing header fcntl.h
12864 - have autoconf find -lsocket -lnsl automatically
12865 - deal with hardware word alignment
12866 - make uname() work (solaris has a different return convention)
12867 - switch from using signal() to sigaction()
12868 o Preliminary work on reputation system:
12869 - Keep statistics on success/fail of connect attempts; they're published
12870 by kill -USR1 currently.
12871 - Add a RunTesting option to try to learn link state by creating test
12872 circuits, even when SocksPort is off.
12873 - Remove unused open circuits when there are too many.
12876 Changes in version 0.0.2 - 2004-03-19
12877 - Include strlcpy and strlcat for safer string ops
12878 - define INADDR_NONE so we compile (but still not run) on solaris
12881 Changes in version 0.0.2pre27 - 2004-03-14
12883 - Allow internal tor networks (we were rejecting internal IPs,
12884 now we allow them if they're set explicitly).
12885 - And fix a few endian issues.
12888 Changes in version 0.0.2pre26 - 2004-03-14
12890 - If a stream times out after 15s without a connected cell, don't
12891 try that circuit again: try a new one.
12892 - Retry streams at most 4 times. Then give up.
12893 - When a dirserver gets a descriptor from an unknown router, it
12894 logs its fingerprint (so the dirserver operator can choose to
12895 accept it even without mail from the server operator).
12896 - Inform unapproved servers when we reject their descriptors.
12897 - Make tor build on Windows again. It works as a client, who knows
12899 - Clearer instructions in the torrc for how to set up a server.
12900 - Be more efficient about reading fd's when our global token bucket
12901 (used for rate limiting) becomes empty.
12903 - Stop asserting that computers always go forward in time. It's
12905 - When we sent a cell (e.g. destroy) and then marked an OR connection
12906 expired, we might close it before finishing a flush if the other
12907 side isn't reading right then.
12908 - Don't allow dirservers to start if they haven't defined
12909 RecommendedVersions
12910 - We were caching transient dns failures. Oops.
12911 - Prevent servers from publishing an internal IP as their address.
12912 - Address a strcat vulnerability in circuit.c
12915 Changes in version 0.0.2pre25 - 2004-03-04
12917 - Put the OR's IP in its router descriptor, not its fqdn. That way
12918 we'll stop being stalled by gethostbyname for nodes with flaky dns,
12921 - If the user typed in an address that didn't resolve, the server
12925 Changes in version 0.0.2pre24 - 2004-03-03
12927 - Fix an assertion failure in dns.c, where we were trying to dequeue
12928 a pending dns resolve even if it wasn't pending
12929 - Fix a spurious socks5 warning about still trying to write after the
12930 connection is finished.
12931 - Hold certain marked_for_close connections open until they're finished
12932 flushing, rather than losing bytes by closing them too early.
12933 - Correctly report the reason for ending a stream
12934 - Remove some duplicate calls to connection_mark_for_close
12935 - Put switch_id and start_daemon earlier in the boot sequence, so it
12936 will actually try to chdir() to options.DataDirectory
12937 - Make 'make test' exit(1) if a test fails; fix some unit tests
12938 - Make tor fail when you use a config option it doesn't know about,
12939 rather than warn and continue.
12940 - Make --version work
12941 - Bugfixes on the rpm spec file and tor.sh, so it's more up to date
12944 Changes in version 0.0.2pre23 - 2004-02-29
12946 - Print a statement when the first circ is finished, so the user
12947 knows it's working.
12948 - If a relay cell is unrecognized at the end of the circuit,
12949 send back a destroy. (So attacks to mutate cells are more
12951 - New config option 'excludenodes' to avoid certain nodes for circuits.
12952 - When it daemonizes, it chdir's to the DataDirectory rather than "/",
12953 so you can collect coredumps there.
12955 - Fix a bug in tls flushing where sometimes data got wedged and
12956 didn't flush until more data got sent. Hopefully this bug was
12957 a big factor in the random delays we were seeing.
12958 - Make 'connected' cells include the resolved IP, so the client
12959 dns cache actually gets populated.
12960 - Disallow changing from ORPort=0 to ORPort>0 on hup.
12961 - When we time-out on a stream and detach from the circuit, send an
12962 end cell down it first.
12963 - Only warn about an unknown router (in exitnodes, entrynodes,
12964 excludenodes) after we've fetched a directory.
12967 Changes in version 0.0.2pre22 - 2004-02-26
12969 - Servers publish less revealing uname information in descriptors.
12970 - More memory tracking and assertions, to crash more usefully when
12972 - If the default torrc isn't there, just use some default defaults.
12973 Plus provide an internal dirservers file if they don't have one.
12974 - When the user tries to use Tor as an http proxy, give them an http
12975 501 failure explaining that we're a socks proxy.
12976 - Dump a new router.desc on hup, to help confused people who change
12977 their exit policies and then wonder why router.desc doesn't reflect
12979 - Clean up the generic tor.sh init script that we ship with.
12981 - If the exit stream is pending on the resolve, and a destroy arrives,
12982 then the stream wasn't getting removed from the pending list. I
12983 think this was the one causing recent server crashes.
12984 - Use a more robust poll on OSX 10.3, since their poll is flaky.
12985 - When it couldn't resolve any dirservers, it was useless from then on.
12986 Now it reloads the RouterFile (or default dirservers) if it has no
12988 - Move the 'tor' binary back to /usr/local/bin/ -- it turns out
12989 many users don't even *have* a /usr/local/sbin/.
12992 Changes in version 0.0.2pre21 - 2004-02-18
12994 - There's a ChangeLog file that actually reflects the changelog.
12995 - There's a 'torify' wrapper script, with an accompanying
12996 tor-tsocks.conf, that simplifies the process of using tsocks for
12997 tor. It even has a man page.
12998 - The tor binary gets installed to sbin rather than bin now.
12999 - Retry streams where the connected cell hasn't arrived in 15 seconds
13000 - Clean up exit policy handling -- get the default out of the torrc,
13001 so we can update it without forcing each server operator to fix
13003 - Allow imaps and pop3s in default exit policy
13005 - Prevent picking middleman nodes as the last node in the circuit
13008 Changes in version 0.0.2pre20 - 2004-01-30
13010 - We now have a deb package, and it's in debian unstable. Go to
13011 it, apt-getters. :)
13012 - I've split the TotalBandwidth option into BandwidthRate (how many
13013 bytes per second you want to allow, long-term) and
13014 BandwidthBurst (how many bytes you will allow at once before the cap
13015 kicks in). This better token bucket approach lets you, say, set
13016 BandwidthRate to 10KB/s and BandwidthBurst to 10MB, allowing good
13017 performance while not exceeding your monthly bandwidth quota.
13018 - Push out a tls record's worth of data once you've got it, rather
13019 than waiting until you've read everything waiting to be read. This
13020 may improve performance by pipelining better. We'll see.
13021 - Add an AP_CONN_STATE_CONNECTING state, to allow streams to detach
13022 from failed circuits (if they haven't been connected yet) and attach
13024 - Expire old streams that haven't managed to connect. Some day we'll
13025 have them reattach to new circuits instead.
13028 - Fix several memory leaks that were causing servers to become bloated
13030 - Fix a few very rare assert triggers. A few more remain.
13031 - Setuid to User _before_ complaining about running as root.
13034 Changes in version 0.0.2pre19 - 2004-01-07
13036 - Fix deadlock condition in dns farm. We were telling a child to die by
13037 closing the parent's file descriptor to him. But newer children were
13038 inheriting the open file descriptor from the parent, and since they
13039 weren't closing it, the socket never closed, so the child never read
13040 eof, so he never knew to exit. Similarly, dns workers were holding
13041 open other sockets, leading to all sorts of chaos.
13042 - New cleaner daemon() code for forking and backgrounding.
13043 - If you log to a file, it now prints an entry at the top of the
13044 logfile so you know it's working.
13045 - The onionskin challenge length was 30 bytes longer than necessary.
13046 - Started to patch up the spec so it's not quite so out of date.
13049 Changes in version 0.0.2pre18 - 2004-01-02
13051 - Fix endian issues with the 'integrity' field in the relay header.
13052 - Fix a potential bug where connections in state
13053 AP_CONN_STATE_CIRCUIT_WAIT might unexpectedly ask to write.
13056 Changes in version 0.0.2pre17 - 2003-12-30
13058 - Made --debuglogfile (or any second log file, actually) work.
13059 - Resolved an edge case in get_unique_circ_id_by_conn where a smart
13060 adversary could force us into an infinite loop.
13063 - Each onionskin handshake now includes a hash of the computed key,
13064 to prove the server's identity and help perfect forward secrecy.
13065 - Changed cell size from 256 to 512 bytes (working toward compatibility
13067 - Changed cell length to 2 bytes, and moved it to the relay header.
13068 - Implemented end-to-end integrity checking for the payloads of
13070 - Separated streamid from 'recognized' (otherwise circuits will get
13071 messed up when we try to have streams exit from the middle). We
13072 use the integrity-checking to confirm that a cell is addressed to
13074 - Randomize the initial circid and streamid values, so an adversary who
13075 breaks into a node can't learn how many circuits or streams have
13079 Changes in version 0.0.2pre16 - 2003-12-14
13081 - Fixed a bug that made HUP trigger an assert
13082 - Fixed a bug where a circuit that immediately failed wasn't being
13083 counted as a failed circuit in counting retries.
13086 - Now we close the circuit when we get a truncated cell: otherwise we're
13087 open to an anonymity attack where a bad node in the path truncates
13088 the circuit and then we open streams at him.
13089 - Add port ranges to exit policies
13090 - Add a conservative default exit policy
13091 - Warn if you're running tor as root
13092 - on HUP, retry OR connections and close/rebind listeners
13093 - options.EntryNodes: try these nodes first when picking the first node
13094 - options.ExitNodes: if your best choices happen to include any of
13095 your preferred exit nodes, you choose among just those preferred
13097 - options.ExcludedNodes: nodes that are never picked in path building
13100 Changes in version 0.0.2pre15 - 2003-12-03
13101 o Robustness and bugfixes:
13102 - Sometimes clients would cache incorrect DNS resolves, which would
13103 really screw things up.
13104 - An OP that goes offline would slowly leak all its sockets and stop
13106 - A wide variety of bugfixes in exit node selection, exit policy
13107 handling, and processing pending streams when a new circuit is
13109 - Pick nodes for a path only from those the directory says are up
13110 - Choose randomly from all running dirservers, not always the first one
13111 - Increase allowed http header size for directory fetch.
13112 - Stop writing to stderr (if we're daemonized it will be closed).
13113 - Enable -g always, so cores will be more useful to me.
13114 - Switch "-lcrypto -lssl" to "-lssl -lcrypto" for broken distributions.
13117 - Wrote a man page. It lists commonly used options.
13120 - Change default loglevel to warn.
13121 - Make PidFile default to null rather than littering in your CWD.
13122 - OnionRouter config option is now obsolete. Instead it just checks
13124 - Moved to a single unified torrc file for both clients and servers.
13127 Changes in version 0.0.2pre14 - 2003-11-29
13128 o Robustness and bugfixes:
13129 - Force the admin to make the DataDirectory himself
13130 - to get ownership/permissions right
13131 - so clients no longer make a DataDirectory and then never use it
13132 - fix bug where a client who was offline for 45 minutes would never
13133 pull down a directory again
13134 - fix (or at least hide really well) the dns assert bug that was
13135 causing server crashes
13136 - warnings and improved robustness wrt clockskew for certs
13137 - use the native daemon(3) to daemonize, when available
13138 - exit if bind() fails
13139 - exit if neither socksport nor orport is defined
13140 - include our own tor_timegm (Win32 doesn't have its own)
13141 - bugfix for win32 with lots of connections
13142 - fix minor bias in PRNG
13143 - make dirserver more robust to corrupt cached directory
13146 - Wrote the design document (woo)
13148 o Circuit building and exit policies:
13149 - Circuits no longer try to use nodes that the directory has told them
13151 - Exit policies now support bitmasks (18.0.0.0/255.0.0.0) and
13152 bitcounts (18.0.0.0/8).
13153 - Make AP connections standby for a circuit if no suitable circuit
13154 exists, rather than failing
13155 - Circuits choose exit node based on addr/port, exit policies, and
13156 which AP connections are standing by
13157 - Bump min pathlen from 2 to 3
13158 - Relay end cells have a payload to describe why the stream ended.
13159 - If the stream failed because of exit policy, try again with a new
13161 - Clients have a dns cache to remember resolved addresses.
13162 - Notice more quickly when we have no working circuits
13165 - APPort is now called SocksPort
13166 - SocksBindAddress, ORBindAddress, DirBindAddress let you configure
13168 - RecommendedVersions is now a config variable rather than
13169 hardcoded (for dirservers)
13170 - Reloads config on HUP
13171 - Usage info on -h or --help
13172 - If you set User and Group config vars, it'll setu/gid to them.
13174 Changes in version 0.0.2pre13 - 2003-10-19
13175 o General stability:
13176 - SSL_write no longer fails when it returns WANTWRITE and the number
13177 of bytes in the buf has changed by the next SSL_write call.
13178 - Fix segfault fetching directory when network is down
13179 - Fix a variety of minor memory leaks
13180 - Dirservers reload the fingerprints file on HUP, so I don't have
13181 to take down the network when I approve a new router
13182 - Default server config file has explicit Address line to specify fqdn
13185 - Buffers grow and shrink as needed (Cut process size from 20M to 2M)
13186 - Make listener connections not ever alloc bufs
13188 o Autoconf improvements:
13189 - don't clobber an external CFLAGS in ./configure
13190 - Make install now works
13191 - create var/lib/tor on make install
13192 - autocreate a tor.sh initscript to help distribs
13193 - autocreate the torrc and sample-server-torrc with correct paths
13195 o Log files and Daemonizing now work:
13196 - If --DebugLogFile is specified, log to it at -l debug
13197 - If --LogFile is specified, use it instead of commandline
13198 - If --RunAsDaemon is set, tor forks and backgrounds on startup